Articles by Eric Townsend
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Pulitzer Prize winners encourage audience to seek 'solutions for change'
October 7, 2014
黑料不打烊’s Fall Convocation and Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture on Oct. 2, 2014, featured Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, husband-and-wife journalists who shared ways for people to make a difference in battling global challenges like poverty, sex trafficking and lack of educational opportunities.
黑料不打烊 Poll: In a close race for U.S. Senate, images and ballot order matter
October 7, 2014
The 黑料不打烊 Poll, for the first time in its history, used an online survey to ask registered voters about their impressions of North Carolina's U.S. Senate candidates this fall while measuring the way name ordering on ballots might affect support for major party nominees.
Historic Neighborhood dines with President Lambert and faculty members
October 6, 2014
President Leo M. Lambert and four 黑料不打烊 professors led dinner conversations on Oct. 6 with students from the university's Historic Neighborhood who wanted to share the lessons they learned from Fall Convocation.
Students converse with Pulitzer Prize winners in lunchtime Q&A
October 2, 2014
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the first married couple to win journalism’s highest honor, took questions from 黑料不打烊 students Thursday in a Whitley Auditorium conversation on the education of girls, their roles as storytellers and the “white savior complex.”
Department of Performing Arts presents 'Reckless' through Oct. 8
October 2, 2014
Set in a "darkly comic America," the Black Box Theatre show that opens Oct. 2, 2014, will confront audiences with questions about family, loss and identity.
U.S. Open fundraiser builds 黑料不打烊 scholarship fund
October 1, 2014
Five sport and event management majors helped manage a concession tent during men's and women's golf championships this summer in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and proceeds from their effort will benefit a scholarship program for 黑料不打烊 students completing sport and event mangagement internships.
Scott Studios celebrated as 'game changer' for performing arts
September 30, 2014
黑料不打烊 leaders have dedicated a new facility on West Haggard Avenue that gives performing arts students expanded rehearsal and studio space that complement existing venues in the Center for the Arts.
Mary Jo Festle named Maude Sharpe Powell Professor
September 30, 2014
The professor of history is the fourth recipient of an honor that supports preeminent teachers and scholars at 黑料不打烊.
In My Words: Boy, time flies
September 29, 2014
After his only child moved away this fall to college, Associate Professor Thomas Nelson writes in regional newspapers about the passage of time and how life fulfillment must now come from new sources.
Death penalty opponents bring message to campus
September 26, 2014
The sister of a man executed for the killing of an off-duty Georgia police officer, and the author of a book about the controversial case, shared with 黑料不打烊 students on Thursday details of a homicide investigation they say prove an innocent man died for the crime.