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Fu Pei-mei cooks on her cooking show in the 1980s

The Joy of Chinese Cooking

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Michelle T. King’s research on culinary nationalism and Chinese cuisine lands at the intersection of gender, food, and transnational Chinese identities. Her newest book project explores these topics ...

Taking a Bite Out of Meat Allergies

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Food allergies have long baffled scientists — much is still to be learned about how they develop and why certain people are more susceptible than others. Researchers at UNC may be able to answer ...
On the left, red frosting spells out the word "muted" on speckled table; on the right, a loaf of bread is dusted with flour, making a design of a raised fist inside the female symbol

Food Fights

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Food is so much more than what we eat, nourishing us beyond our bodies. This sentiment lies at the core of PhD student K.C. Hysmith’s research. She studies the deeply ingrained cultural meaning of ...
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Local Ink, Inc.

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For nearly a century, the University of North Carolina Press has been shining a spotlight on its home state and region. Conceived by its founders as an incentive for university faculty to engage in ...

Forging a Legacy

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Over its 110-year history, journalism at Carolina has evolved from a single course in the Department of English into the internationally renowned UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. While ...
a graphic of five red hands making fists in the air; the middle hand holds a key

The Formula for Reform

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Jessica Smith is a professor within the UNC School of Government and director of the Criminal Justice Innovation Lab. Her decades-long career at Carolina has evolved alongside the state’s criminal ...
Research technician Katherine Sholtis completes HIV assays

Expecting the Unexpected

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After Myron Cohen watched the first patient at UNC Hospitals die from AIDS in 1982, he knew it was a disease to be reckoned with. He spent the next 40 years helping to recruit the most promising ...
A bird's eye view of the United States, with a hurricane moving over the Caribbean toward the eastern U.S.

An Active Storm Season

June 1 marked the start of the 2020 hurricane season — and it’s slated to be an active one. In this Q&A, UNC researcher Rick Luettich talks about this year’s above-average hurricane forecast, ...
two Karen women stand on each side of a fence; both laugh and one puts her hand on the other's shoulder

For the Love of Language

Since 1984, over 100,000 Karen refugees have fled their homeland of Myanmar to escape civil war. Since then, more than 40,000 have resettled in the U.S., and more than 5,000 live in North Carolina. ...
UNC Opera students sit on a bed and sing as part of the Fall 2019 production of Scipio's Dream

Crescendos of Creativity

Give Marc Callahan an opera and, in return, you’ll get an explosion of color, empathy, and sound — and a bit of mid-century flare snuck in for good measure. As the director of UNC Opera, Callahan ...
African drummers blowing their bongos on the street.

Sounding the Alarm

Racial discrimination is not only a matter of sight — sound can also be racialized. Petal Samuel’s research traces colonial bans on drums and horns included in slave codes to modern-day noise ...

Moments of Clarity

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In the past, cochlear implants were employed in people with severe hearing loss, improving their ability to hear the conversations around them. But now, studies show that these devices offer ...