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The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce the recipients of the Diversity and Inclusion Grants for the 2020-2021 academic year, as well as their project descriptions.

Fair, a professor of public health studies, was joined by Amanda Bingaman ‘20 and Sarah Alger ‘17 at AIDS 2020, the 23th International AIDS Conference.

The oldest students participating in ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ’s Summer in the Village program were paired with nine ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students to create projects focused on cultivating and understanding empathy.

Participants in the Center for Engaged Learning’s research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency are working virtually this week, July 12-17, during their second summer meeting.

Assistant Professors Brandon Sheridan and Brooks Depro participated as session chair and presenter, respectively, during the virtual economics education conference hosted by University College London and Cornell University.

Sears and Hamel, an associate professor of biology, published an empirical study in a disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal.

Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, and Scott Morrison, associate professor of education, published the article in the peer-reviewed journal Teaching and Teacher Education.

During his final Winter Term session, the journalism and international & global studies double major traveled to northern Brazil to report on the country’s resurgence of leprosy, learning about the infectious disease, the people fighting it, and himself as a journalist.

"Migritude's Progress: Fatou Diome's Twenty-Five Years in Afrique(s)-sur-Rhine," an article by Rosemary Haskell, Professor of English, appeared recently in The Minnesota Review: A Journal of Creative and Critical Writing.

The survey of more than 1,400 North Carolina residents conducted June 24-25 focused on a range of topics related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including its impact on the economy and personal lives.