11.30.07 | Faculty, Innovation and Technology
Dan Reed, founder of an ambitious Triangle universities consortium known as the Renaissance Computing Institute, has left the University to take a position with Microsoft Research. Reed, who also has been Chancellor’s Eminent Professor and senior…
The UNC field hockey team won its fifth national championship in November with a 3-0 victory over Penn State at College Park, Md. The team finished its season undefeated with 24 wins. Karen Shelton, who has coached the Heels since 1981, has… read more
The final Commencement speaker of the James Moeser administration is, like Moeser, a musical artist. Soprano Jessye Norman, one of America’s most celebrated performers, will address the class of 2008 on May 11 in Kenan Stadium. Moeser met… read more
On the eve of the Duke game, which would give Carolina four football victories in Coach Butch Davis’ first season, Davis was given an eighth year on his contract and a $291,000-per-year raise. The athletics department’s action requires approval of… read more
In-state undergraduates are getting a break from tuition increase next year, while out-of-state undergraduates and graduate students both will see their costs go up. Nonresident undergraduate tuition now will top the $20,000-a-year mark. The Board… read more
Chancellor James Moeser’s announcement that he will step down June 30 as Carolina’s ninth chancellor has prompted many to speculate about what the Chancellor Search Committee will focus on in choosing finalists to recommend to the UNC Board of… read more
Four friends of the University have been presented with the prestigious William Richardson Davie Award by UNC’s Board of Trustees. This year’s honorees are Joe Hackney ’67 of Chapel Hill; Mike Overlock ’68 of Greenwich, Conn.; Ken Thompson ’73 of… read more
The children of a Klan-fighting journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize have established a $1 million professorship in his honor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The W. Horace Carter Distinguished Professorship was created by… read more
North Carolina’s growing African-American population contributes more than $44.7 billion to the state’s economy through its purchases and taxes — $22,272 per black resident — while costing the state budget $4.5 billion — or $2,498 per black… read more
UNC, Duke University, N.C. State University are joining with RTI International to form a consortium to focus on the subject of energy. The Research Triangle Energy Consortium aims to combine the participants’ research strengths in finding ways to… read more