Amir Barzin ’06 and other Carolina health experts were handed the seemingly impossible job of containing the coronavirus on campus. Here’s how they did it. by Janine Latus It was February 2020, and infectious disease experts… read more
Bluebird Flies In Chef Brandon Sharp brought his Michelin-star talent to Chapel Hill in spring of 2019 with an eclectic menu in his neighborhood restaurant Hawthorne & Wood. In July, he opened a new dining concept, Bluebird, a French bistro… read more
Chavi Khanna Koneru ’05 (’09 JD) found her voice at Carolina, and for the past six years she has been helping other North Carolinians of Asian descent find their voices, too. “UNC is the place where the multiple facets of my own… read more
When Kya Johnson ’01 asked her parents for a go-kart for her 10th birthday, they told her to put together a pitch explaining why they should invest in her dream. Luckily, entrepreneurism and trailblazing ran in the family: Her father, Kenneth… read more
Mary Hill-Wagner ’06 (PhD) didn’t have a typical childhood. Her mother, Sarah Gordon, had 11 children by seven different men, was known to carry a gun and sometimes plotted to murder someone within earshot of her children. She worked… read more
The jury trial is a staple of American culture, from Norman Rockwell paintings and 12 Angry Men to the O.J. Simpson trial and Court TV. But real life is nothing like Law & Order, because the majority of criminal defendants… read more
David Routh ’82, vice chancellor for development and the chief architect behind the University’s record $4.25 billion — and counting — Campaign for Carolina, said he will retire at the end of this year when the fundraising effort is… read more
Environmental health scientists at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health recently published a study showing adult attention spans drop in the hours and days after exposure to fine particulate matter and wildfire smoke. Stephanie… read more
Carolina religious studies professor Jodi Magness and a team of UNC students have unearthed ancient mosaics in Israel that are the earliest known depictions of the battle between the Israelites and Canaanites as related in the Bible’s book of… read more
Just as Clarence Whitefield ’44 digitized alumni records to more efficiently keep the University connected to alumni, the GAA built its digital communications to make it easier for Tar Heels to stay connected to one another. Andrea Saye ’08,… read more