9.29.08
Updated Oct. 8, 2008Posted Sept. 29, 2008Read letters from readers or submit a letter to car@unc.edu. Thorp Tours State’s Schools, Meeting Alumni New UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has traveled across…
UNC’s newly renamed Gillings School of Global Public Health has established a new Gillings Innovation Lab to track and map tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, using state-of-the-art molecular and demographic methods. Better information… read more
Tony Award-winning theater and film star Billy Crudup ’90 will receive this year’s PlayMaker Distinguished Achievement Award on Nov. 1 at the 21st annual PlayMakers Ball. The ball, held at The Carolina Inn, is the annual fundraising gala for… read more
With Halloween mere weeks away, students are gearing up for another big celebration of one of the great Chapel Hill traditions. But this year, downtown Franklin Street will look different from years past if changes made by town officials and police… read more
UNC’s School of Government and Appalachian State University in Boone have created the N.C. Local Government Service Corps, a three-year initiative to assist economically distressed communities in the state. The pilot phase of the corps will… read more
Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and renowned South African anti-apartheid campaigner, will deliver UNC’s 2009 Commencement address. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 will preside at the ceremony that is set for May 10 at 9:30 a.m. in… read more
UNC’s research grants and contracts totaled $678.2 million in fiscal 2008 – up 11 percent from the record-setting $610 million received the previous year and more than double the amount from a decade ago. More than half of the 2008 total – about… read more
Four highly promising professors in diverse fields have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at the University. They are Jason D. Lieb ’94, an associate professor of biology;… read more
UNC recently honored 39 freshmen and 16 nursing students with its most prestigious need-based merit awards, the annual James M. Johnston Scholarships. The freshmen scholarships are renewable for three more years of study. Among the freshmen, 32… read more
Brian D. Strahl, associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine, is among the first recipients of a new award for innovative, potentially revolutionary research. The grants, the first made under a new National… read more