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Over the past 100 years, North Carolina authors scholars and chefs, photographers and naturalists have found a place to celebrate their communities and tell their stories at UNC Press. These are the titles that helped shape the people’s press. ....
The UNC School of Social Work has witnessed significant growth and achievement during its more than 100 years as one of the nation’s leading schools of social work. ....
E-Mail Based at the Carolina Population Center, Add Health is the nation s largest most comprehensive long-term study of adolescents from across the country. The study began with more than 20,000 adolescents surveyed in 1994-95. Since then, data have been collected about their educational experiences, employment, children and parenting, genetics and health. The new grants will enable researchers to follow the group into their 40s, and better understand how early life - during adolescence and young adulthood - matters for health and well-being in middle age and beyond. UNC-Chapel Hill professor Kathleen Mullan Harris directed Add Health from 2004-2021 and this year UNC-Chapel Hill professors Robert Hummer and Allison Aiello assume leadership. ....
A room on the first floor of the building that houses Carolina’s sociology department has an especially meaningful decorative touch. This room’s crowded “wall of fame” features framed portraits of each sociology faculty member who has served as the president of the discipline’s most prestigious organizations, including the American Sociological Association, the Southern Sociological Society and the Population Association of America. “It fills the length of one wall,” said Charles Kurzman, Philip Stadter Distinguished Professor of Sociology. “It’s very impressive.” As often as national organizations tap sociology faculty members as leaders, the University turns to the department to head centers and institutes, serve as administrators and lead campus-wide initiatives, Kurzman added. “I don’t know of any department that has a broad array of University leadership roles as our department does.” ....