1.31.13 | In Class, University News
Home, the latest novel by Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, will be the 2013 summer reading book for incoming students at Carolina. A nine-member selection committee of students, faculty and staff selected…
Carolina has offered admission to this fall’s entering class to 5,393 candidates who applied by the first of two admission deadlines. The admitted students were chosen from a record first-deadline pool of 15,169 — an increase of 15 percent… read more
Despite a substantial increase in the number of people suffering the debilitating and often deadly effects of heart failure, treatments for the condition have not advanced significantly for at least 10 years. An analysis by researchers at UNC’s… read more
A pioneering computer science professor and a former law school dean who helped the campus navigate turbulent times were honored Friday with the GAA’s Faculty Service Award. The GAA Board of Directors presented the awards to Fred Brooks… read more
Thank Fred Brooks that your emails don’t shout in all caps. In the process of helping to create the landmark System 360 mainframe computer, at IBM, he changed the standard character size from six bits to eight, thus enabling lowercase… read more
Those who know Dick Phillips well call him “fearless.” Not because as a soldier in World War II he parachuted over the Rhine River in March of 1945 and battled the Germans on the ground. Not because as dean of the law school from 1964 to 1974 he… read more
My parents had five sons in eight years, and we seemed to do everything together. We had only two bedrooms when the youngest of my four younger brothers was born, and all five of us were in two bunk beds with a crib in between. During the two and a… read more
Social scientist Dan Ariely ’94 (MA, ’96 PhD), the author of three New York Times best-selling books, will be the keynote speaker for Carolina’s 2013 doctoral hooding ceremony. The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. May 11 at the… read more
Larry Conrad, Carolina’s vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer for the past five years, is leaving in February to take the same position at California-Berkeley. Conrad has led Carolina’s multifaceted… read more
A “reconstituted” search committee has been announced by Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 to help select the University’s next executive vice chancellor and provost. Some members of the original committee subsequently were named to the committee… read more