3.29.10 | Celebrations, University Leadership
Alumni, Friends Embrace Fayetteville’s Native Son A few hundred people gathered at the Cape Fear Regional Theatre to honor newly appointed Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 in his home town of Fayetteville.
Carolina has received a $5 million gift from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust to support the recruitment of outstanding young faculty. The gift also has spurred a $500,000 commitment from an anonymous donor for the same purpose, said… read more
Karen Parker ’65, the first black female undergraduate to attend Carolina, will be on campus next week as the first speaker in the Carolina Association of Black Journalists’ lecture series. Parker, who is a former member of the GAA Board of… read more
Trees at Carolina are the subject of an exhibit that guides visitors across campus and back through time. “Noble Trees, Traveled Paths: The Carolina Landscape Since 1793” will be on view in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library… read more
Bruce Carney, who has been interim executive vice chancellor and provost since last August, has had “interim” removed from the title. The Board of Trustees approved his appointment to the position by Chancellor Holden Thorp in March. Carney, a… read more
On the occasion of becoming the UNC System’s fourth president, Erskine Bowles ’67 recounted in an interview for the January/February 2006 Carolina Alumni Review that his father, Hargrove “Skipper” Bowles ’41, in accepting a major award,… read more
Career prospects looked pretty bleak for Dan Pollitt in 1957. He had landed a job teaching law at the University of Arkansas not two years earlier, then came the order that to continue on the payroll he would need to sign a disclaimer swearing he… read more
The GAA’s alumni relations programs and the Carolina Alumni Review have been recognized with three awards in the 2009-10 Southeastern District competition of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and two GAA… read more
As part of its project to digitize the special collections of its library, UNC has made the earliest copies of the GAA’s alumni magazine, founded in 1912 as the Alumni Review, available online. All issues of the Alumni Review… read more