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Sandbagged: The Undoing of a Quarter Century of NC Coastal Conservation

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Apr 11, 2012

Keeping a Dialect Alive on Ocracoke

Professor Walt Wolfram has taken students to the Outer Banks for spring break for 20 years. The annual expedition at first involved conducting research on the Outer Banks brogue. Now the trip aims to teach young Ocracokers about a tongue rarely spoken by anyone but the elderly. Wolfram says coming back to teach each year brings linguistic insights gleaned from Ocracoke back home.

Sep 26, 2011

Interactive Art Exhibit Features CHASS Faculty, Students

Tunnel Vision will be on display. A cutting-edge interactive art exhibition is opening at Raleigh’s Contemporary Art Museum, and faculty and students from the college’s interdisciplinary Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM) doctoral program are among the artists. ID:ENTITY is a group exhibition that explores the complex dichotomy between the public and private versions of…

Sep 9, 2011

MFA Student Wins Second Nebula Award

On writing, MFA student Kij Johnson has one piece of advice: “Don’t be afraid of it—you just have to go do it.”  If her determination and dedication to writing are any indication, she takes her own advice seriously. Johnson (MFA candidate, 2012), who did not start writing until she was 25, is the winner of…

Jul 12, 2011

Sandbagged: The Undoing of a Quarter Century of NC Coastal Conservation

Recent CHASS grad Gary Lazorick (MS, Technical Communication, ’11)has been studying coastal erosion and the shifting sands of policies that have environmentalists and developers at odds. Read his article in Coastal Care.