Carolina students took on a week-long campus-wide game of tag. Video & Editing by Katie Lubinsky read more
Rye Barcott ’01, who co-founded an organization to develop local leaders and alleviate poverty in East Africa’s largest slum, will be on campus this month to deliver the Hillard Gold ’39 Lecture. After the free public lecture, which begins at 7… read more
Three UNC faculty members will speak and lead a public discussion on Thursday, March 24, about the unfolding crisis in Japan. The discussion, “Japan: Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear Crisis,” will include: Jonathan M. Lees, a seismologist and… read more
Carolina hosted a celebration in honor of Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary on Monday in the Pit. UNC’s campus recruiter and returned Peace Corps volunteer, Suzannah Ellis Johnston ’06, and other returned Peace Corps Volunteers were available to… read more
Carolina appears on more than 20 lists of schools, programs and specialty areas newly ranked for 2011 by U.S. News & World Report for the 2012 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” Following is a summary of the new… read more
As you read this column, in Switzerland our older son, Michael ’03, and his wife, Carolyn, are enjoying their special March Madness — the birth of our granddaughter who, for now, we refer to as our Swiss Miss. Should she someday choose to… read more
Leading innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs who make up President Barack Obama’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship has chosen UNC for the site of the group’s first public forum, set for March 15. The 24-member… read more
During his undergraduate years at Oxford University, Oliver Smithies attended a series of lectures by world-renowned chemist Linus Pauling. Now Smithies, a Nobel laureate and the Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of pathology and… read more
Whether the sky on Commencement Sunday morning, May 8, is a bright Carolina blue or a cloudy gray, the place for the ceremony will be the same – Kenan Stadium. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has reversed a policy that had May Commencement… read more
The UNC General Alumni Association has received seven awards for its programs and communications for 2010, including a Grand Award in Overall Alumni Relations Programs, in a competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of… read more