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Original Minds

Meet the people who make us who we are

Por UNC Asheville

05 de February de 2020

What's your original?

UNC Asheville's Original Minds series highlights our students, faculty and staff as they connect curiosity and critical thinking, courage and challenge, imagination and impact, and opportunity and responsibility in their work at North Carolina's designated public liberal arts and sciences university. Follow along with #OriginalMinds.

Rick Chess, Professor of English

Leslie '20

Serena '20

Horace Vanderbilt '20

Isaiah Green '21

Laura Meadows, Assistant Professor of Mass Communications

Abbie '21

Olivia '20

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