While Mexico fans are known for their boisterous support of El Trí, the Turkish community is also very passionate about their team – and has a strong contingency in the Triangle largely because of the Sancar Turkish Cultural & Community Center.
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Construction is underway for the Sancar Scholar Residence, which will provide accommodations for visiting Turkish scholars and students.
Read MoreThe Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously approved a plan brought forward by Aziz and Gwen Sancar to create a Turkish Cultural Center at 1609 E. Franklin Street. The building would offer a place to celebrate Turkish culture and...
Read MoreThe Turkish Cultural Center proposed by UNC’s Aziz and Gwen Sancar could be approved on Monday night. The project has been the subject of complaints from some of the neighbors to the property along East Franklin Street between...
Read MoreFewer than 2,000 researchers have ever been inducted into the National Academy of Medicine.
Read MoreAfter winning the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the 2015 Nobel Prize in chemistry and now UNC’s Oliver Max Gardner Award, Dr. Aziz Sancar said he tries to stay humble. “I prayed to the almighty God to protect me from...
Read MoreThe UNC Board of Governors awarded UNC Chapel Hill’s Dr. Aziz Sancar and Western Carolina University’s Professor David A. Shapiro with the highest faculty honor. The O. Max Gardner Award, named after a North Carolina governor,...
Read MoreA larger-than-expected crowd of faculty members and students gathered at Davis Library in the heart of the UNC campus on Wednesday to hear from the university’s two Nobel Prize winners – Dr. Oliver Smithies and Dr. Aziz Sancar....
Read MoreAziz Sancar, the UNC professor who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year, is under contract with the Nobel Foundation to donate the entire share of his award money to the Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation of Chapel Hill,...
Read MoreA UNC researcher has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Aziz Sancar was one of three recipients of the award from the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, announced on Wednesday. Sancar spoke with WCHL’s Blake Hodge about...
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