9.27.07 | Students, University Development
A $5 million gift will increase the number of first-year students in UNC’s honors program by 30 percent and recognize the contributions of two alumni by creating five professorships in their names. The gift, from an anonymous donor, qualifies for…
Senior marshals representing the class of 2008 have voted unanimously to give to Carolina for Kibera as the students’ parting gift to the University. Carolina for Kibera is an international, nongovernmental organization based in the Kibera slum… read more
Joel Lawrence Fleishman ’55, founding director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, will deliver the inaugural Thomas Willis Lambeth Lecture in Public Policy on Oct. 11 in Chapel Hill. Fleishman, who holds three degrees… read more
Nelson Schwab III ’67, immediate past chair of the Board of Trustees, is chairing the search committee to recommend a successor to Chancellor James Moeser. Board Chair Roger Perry ’71 and Trustee Karol Mason ’79, the board’s vice chair, are… read more
The annual State of the University speech included an unexpected challenge: Find a new chancellor. An emotional James Moeser told a large gathering of Carolina’s leaders on Wednesday that he would transfer the reins on June 30, 2008. His… read more
Leonard W. Wood ’72 (MBA) has committed $4 million to the Center for Real Estate Development (CRED) at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Wood, formerly a principal of Trammell Crow Residential, is a founding member of Wood Partners LLC, an Atlanta… read more
Six UNC freshmen are joining the ranks of 25 students before them who have received a scholarship from the GAA, giving them yet another reason to love Carolina. The GAA Scholars program has awarded each student a $1,500 renewable grant, up from… read more
Linda Pace ’77 drove her 14-year-old son, Gerald, to Chapel Hill from their home in Atlanta so he would hear what she’d been telling him all along: Grades count. So do SAT scores. Get involved and challenge yourself in high school. And pay attention… read more
Some great inventions are birthed at a bar, their futures scribbled on cocktail napkins. Multi-pixel X-ray technology, the first substantial technological change in X-rays in more than a century, was born over a greasy Philly cheesesteak… read more
Four ambitious and highly promising professors in diverse fields have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at Carolina. They are Thomas Hofweber, an associate professor of… read more