8.27.09 | Celebrations, Public Service
The N.C. Literary Festival, set for Sept. 10-13 at UNC, has announced the days, times and places that 100 authors will read, perform or speak. The free public festival is organized and sponsored by the libraries of UNC and N.C. State and Duke…
Each year, four of Carolina’s top up-and-coming faculty are chosen as recipients of the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. This year’s professors, representing diverse fields, are: Dr. Ned… read more
The president of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity was shot by an officer of the Archdale Police Department after a traffic stop on I-85 southwest of Greensboro Sunday morning in an incident that has left more questions than answers. Courtland… read more
A 23-year-old alumnus who was serving in Afghanistan died Aug. 18 from injuries suffered when his vehicle was destroyed by a roadside bomb. Army Pfc. Morris L. Walker ’08, an Army paratrooper, was one of two U.S. soldiers who died in the… read more
Carolina’s research grants and contracts totaled $716 million in fiscal 2009, the largest amount ever. The tally is up 5.6 percent on the $678 million received last year and more than double the amount from a decade ago. The contracts and grants… read more
Carolina ranks as the fifth best public university for the ninth consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report magazine’s latest “America’s Best Colleges” list. UNC is 28th when considered with private schools – regaining the two… read more
Faculty, advisers and administrators from UNC and N.C. community colleges will convene in Chapel Hill on Sept. 18 to consider how best to support transfer students. Participants plan to exchange information with higher education experts and… read more
The director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center has been named the new director of the Renaissance Computing Institute, the multi-campus research center with its home base in Chapel Hill. Stanley C. Ahalt, who has directed the Ohio center for six… read more
The $60 million in budget reductions enacted at the University in July proved prophetic. By the time North Carolina’s new budget was finished, it was that amount — 10 percent of what UNC gets from the state — that the University was ordered to… read more
Scientists, staff and other employees at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., are hearing a familiar voice back on campus. Francis S. Collins ’77 (MD) was confirmed by the Senate Aug. 7 to return to the nation’s premiere medical… read more