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Kizzmekia Corbett

Kizzmekia Corbett was born in Hurdle Mills and raised in Hillsborough, where she attended A.L. Stanback Middle School and graduated from Orange High School, and she earned a UNC School of Medicine doctorate in microbiology and immunology in 2014. Hillsborough's Board of Commissioners proclaimed January 12, 2021 her day for her work on the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.

Source: UNC Health Newsroom: Hillsborough Proclaims January 12 "Dr. Kizzmekia 'Kizzy' Corbett Day"

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Chronicles of the pandemic: Carolina Meadows, 2020-21

2021 · Carolina Meadows

Residents and staff of Carolina Meadows, a retirement community in Chapel Hill, record their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 through poems, stories, memoirs, photographs and interviews. The volume w…

[#MaskUpOCNC posters]

2020 · Orange County Arts Commission

Seven posters from the Orange County Arts Commission's MaskUpOCNC campaign of 2020, made to encourage mask wearing in the county during the COVID-19 outbreak. The set is in color, in English or Spanish, and the headings…

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Toxic campus map

Goldstein, Bob, 1967- · 2020 · Bob Goldstein

Artist's map of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus made by Bob Goldstein in 2020, screen printed in color and folded as a sculptural book in the Turkish map fold. Yellow dots scattered along the camp…

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COVID-19 pandemic reflections : on the nation's first state university & its medical center and on the continuing education of a student of medicine

McLendon, William W. · 2021 · William M. McLendon

William W. McLendon's reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic as it touched the University of North Carolina and its medical center, written at Chapel Hill and last revised on May 23, 2021. McLendon, a physician, frames th…

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Office of University Communications records, 2009-2022

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Office of University Communications · 2009

Photographs and related files from the Office of University Communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009 to 2022, roughly 20,000 items in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40482. The …

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Bob Goldstein prints, 2004-2023

Goldstein, Bob, 1967- · 2004

Prints by Bob Goldstein, born 1967, made between 2004 and 2023, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40360. The headings are for posters in Chapel Hill, for lectures and lecturing, for the COVID-19 pandemic of …

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Archiving a Community In Crisis: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Archives' Carolina Covid-19 Collection

2024 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An account of the Carolina Covid-19 Collection, the documentation effort the University Archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill built around the pandemic that began in 2020. Issued by the university …

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Emerging from the Covid crisis : where do we go from here?

Cohen, Mandy (Mandy K.) · 2022 · Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mandy Cohen, who led the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services during the pandemic years, spoke on what came next at the Department of Public Policy in Chapel Hill on March 23, 2022. Twenty pages with c…

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Carolina COVID-19 archive, 2020-2022

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. University Archives and Record Service · 2020

Born digital material gathered by the University Archives and Records Service at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting the COVID-19 pandemic on campus between 2020 and 2022. About 800 items totalin…

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Installation of Carolina's 12th chancellor : Sunday, October 11, 2020, 3 p.m., Memorial Hall : Kevin Guskiewicz, twelfth chancellor

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 2020 · The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Program for the installation of Kevin Guskiewicz as the twelfth chancellor of UNC Chapel Hill, held in Memorial Hall on Sunday, October 11, 2020, at three in the afternoon. Eight unnumbered pages with color portraits, p…

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  1. Hillsborough proclaims Dr. Kizzmekia "Kizzy" Corbett Day At an online meeting, Mayor Jenn Weaver read the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners' proclamation naming January 12, 2021 for Corbett, a Hillsborough native w…Search the index · UNC Health Newsroom: Hillsborough Proclaims January 12 "Dr. Kizzmekia 'Kizzy' Corbett Day"
  2. Orange County commissioners proclaim Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett Day The Board of County Commissioners unanimously proclaimed Wednesday, January 20, 2021 Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett Day, honoring the county native who grew up in Ce…Search the index · Orange County, NC: Board of Commissioners proclaim Jan. 20 "Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett Day"
  3. Carrboro proclaims Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett Day Carrboro Mayor Lydia Lavelle proclaimed January 26, 2021 Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett Day, after Hillsborough and Orange County had honored the Orange High graduate f…Search the index · Chapelboro: Carrboro Honors Vaccine Developer, Kizzmekia Corbett, With Day of Recognition

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