5.29.09 | University Leadership
Bernadette Gray-Little, UNC’s executive vice chancellor and provost for the past three years, has accepted the chancellorship of the University of Kansas, effective Aug. 15. Gray-Little, a native of Washington, N.C., joined the UNC faculty in…
Five seats on the UNC Board of Trustees will turn over in July. Donald Curtis ’63 of Raleigh, chair and CEO of Curtis Media Group Inc.; Wade Hampton Hargrove ’62, a Raleigh lawyer who also earned his law degree from Carolina in 1965; and Felicia… read more
Kristen M. Swanson, a nationally recognized professor and chair of the family and child nursing department at the University of Washington, will be recommended as dean of UNC’s School of Nursing. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 told the Board of… read more
The Carolina baseball team took the short drive home from Durham with a disappointing 1-2 record in the ACC Tournament last weekend. The two losses couldn’t have been any different, but the end result was the same: many Carolina blue clad fans… read more
Daphne Athas ’43 had planned to continue teaching intermediate fiction next fall, as reported in the Carolina Alumni Review‘s May/June profile, “The Perfectly Placed Modifier.” As she prepared for another summer visit to Greece, she… read more
A UNC program that helps North Carolina high school seniors realize the goal of attending college is expanding with help from a national foundation based in Jacksonville, Fla. The Jessie Ball duPont Fund has created a matching-grant program that… read more
UNC women’s basketball head coach Sylvia Hatchell and Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford ’71 were among six honorees inducted into the 2009 N.C. Sports Hall of Fame Thursday night in Raleigh. “This year’s inductees into the… read more
Cmdr. Charles Keith Springle ’79 was a “kind and gentle person, just the kind of person you want in a social worker,” and he was well-prepared to assist soldiers who were mentally scarred by combat. That’s how former School of Social Work… read more
Twenty-two Carolina undergraduates have been selected as Phillips Ambassadors for summer and fall 2009 study abroad programs in Asia. The scholarship program, designed to broaden awareness of Asia, is offered through study abroad programs in… read more
A renowned anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize winner, an industrialist and philanthropist, the “poet laureate of Southern Jews,” a medical and pharmaceutical leader, a champion of American Indian rights and self-determination, and a… read more