1.31.14 | Academics and Athletics, Issues
Madeline Levine — a decorated professor who was on the faculty for 36 years and served as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and twice as a department chair — has written a letter to UNC’s chancellor and provost that backs up…
Carolina has reclaimed its No. 1 spot on The Princeton Review’s annual list of the “Best Value Public Colleges.” Last year, UNC was No. 2, behind the University of Virginia, which over the past six years has landed the top spot… read more
Douglas A. Shackelford ’80, who is Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of taxation and associate dean of the MBA@UNC program, will be the next dean of Kenan-Flagler Business School. Chancellor Carol L. Folt and Executive Vice Chancellor… read more
Carolina wants to build a new dorm on one of the last pieces of the campus considered to be a viable building site. The trustees this week authorized housing officials to design a “super suite”-style dorm to house about 276 men and women. It… read more
UNC’s chancellor, provost and admissions director stood before a Faculty Council meeting in mid-January and took turns breaking apart the research that academic adviser Mary Willingham had used to assert that many Carolina athletes were… read more
Professor Valerie Ashby ’88 stopped conducting chemistry courses once she became chemistry department chair in 2012. However, she hasn’t stopped teaching. She’s still educating people — she has that gift — but those who learn from her go… read more
The day Oliver Smithies learned he had received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2007, UNC medical school quickly threw a party in the atrium of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to celebrate. Oliver spoke briefly, then… read more
The chair of the chemistry department and a Nobel Prize-winning genetics researcher at UNC were honored Friday with the GAA’s Faculty Service Award. The GAA Board of Directors presented the awards to chemistry professor Valerie Ashby ’88… read more
Chancellor Carol Folt emailed the campus community on Thursday following near-daily national media reports related to the long-running academic scandal that spun off the NCAA’s investigation into UNC’s football program. Folt’s message noted… read more
Carol Folt is the third of Carolina’s 11 chancellors in the past 68 years not to be a North Carolinian, a UNC graduate or both. (The other two were Paul Sharp, who served in 1964-66 and James Moeser, who served from 2000 to 2008.) Just as I… read more