The General Alumni Association Board of Directors presented on Friday, Oct. 1 its 2022 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award to Markita Landry ’06. Landry is an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of… read more
As an award-winning scientist, Markita Landry ’06 wrestles with nanosensors and DNA in her lab at the University of California Berkeley. As a teenager, she wrestled with other student athletes on a mat at Green Hope High School in Cary. The… read more
A $25 million gift from William “Bill” Starling ’75 and his wife, Dana, will be used to create the UNC Suicide Prevention Institute while working to implement suicide prevention strategies at UNC and across North Carolina. The institute… read more
Carolina students for the most part don’t believe their professors push political agendas or try to censor them in the classroom, but they say they do fear negative reactions from their classmates if they voice an opinion, according to a… read more
The University this week named Jennifer Conrad, the Dalton McMichael Distinguished Professor of finance, as interim dean for the Kenan-Flagler Business School, following the abrupt resignation of Doug Shackelford ’80 on Sept. 16. Conrad has… read more
The UNC Faculty Council passed a resolution Sept. 9 asking University administrators and the Board of Trustees to affirm faculty members’ right to speak publicly about issues related to their research as long as they do not indicate they are… read more
You’ve probably seen the stellar images from the James Webb Space Telescope. It was named for a Carolina alumnus who helped set America on a course to become the world’s technological and economic leader. by… read more
Hoping to meet an increasing demand from students, Carolina launches its School of Data Science and Society By Eric Johnson ’08 Data is everywhere at Carolina. Political scientists use sophisticated algorithms to analyze… read more
The Carolina Coffee Shop has been a Chapel Hill staple for generations of Tar Heels and town residents, and after 100 years, the institution is looking toward the future with Carolina alumni at the helm. “Carolina Coffee Shop has been a… read more
Some of the many ways the GAA works to inform and involve Carolina’s 355,000-plus living alumni are reflected in the statistics on this page. Our volunteers and staff have long understood the GAA is fundamentally in the relationship… read more