8.29.08 | Issues
The global significance of 1968 and 1969 will be a topic of reflection during the 2008-09 academic year at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. Fall programs will begin Sept. 11 with “The Time is Nigh: Organize, Mobilize,…
Noted journalist and policy expert Hodding Carter III, a professor of leadership and public policy at UNC, will deliver the second annual Thomas Willis Lambeth Lecture in Public Policy on Sept. 16. Carter will speak at 5:30 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. read more
Mohammed Taheri-Azar ’05 has been sentenced to between 26 and 33 years in prison for driving an SUV into a crowd of people at the Pit in March 2006. He pleaded guilty to nine counts of attempted first-degree murder in the incident in which nine… read more
Beginning Sept. 2, UNC’s Department of Public Safety will issue citations to anyone caught violating the University’s no-smoking policy. This announcement came in an e-mail to the campus community from Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86, who said that… read more
Ronald Strauss, a member of the dental school faculty for 34 years, will be the new executive associate provost. Strauss, whose research has delved into how health problems affect society – including dental health and HIV/AIDS – has worked in the… read more
If you watch Carolina’s ups and downs in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings, you may have noticed by now that there aren’t any. For the eighth straight year, UNC ranks fifth among the nation’s best public universities,… read more
David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne Jr. of The Washington Post will discuss the 2008 presidential campaign at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at UNC. Brooks and Dionne come to UNC as the Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting… read more
Three alumni and a friend arrived on foot at the Old Well on Carolina’s campus Friday, completing a two-week walk from the coast that was inspired by the arrival of Carolina’s first student, Hinton James, more than 200 years ago. Bryan Jones ’06,… read more
As Chris Fordham was stepping down as chancellor in 1988, Tom Lambeth ’57 paid tribute to him and his wife, Barbara, at the GAA Board of Directors’ spring meeting. Lambeth, a longtime trustee and former chair of the Board of Trustees, was then the… read more
Christopher C. Fordham III ’47, chancellor from 1980 to 1988 and the only medical doctor to serve in the post, died early Thursday at UNC Hospitals. A longtime Chapel Hill resident, he was 81. Fordham presided over a major revision of the… read more