2.23.17 | Alumni Recognition
Between Middle East deployments in the 1990s, H.R. McMaster ’94 (MA, ’96 PhD) – newly tapped as President Trump’s national security adviser – spent time in the classrooms and libraries at Carolina, researching how the military brass dealt with…
Adriano Bellotti, who is a student in UNC’s School of Medicine, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which provides full support for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England. read more
A new research initiative at UNC aims to combat opioid addiction problems by reducing barriers to rural physicians. read more
The program is intended to help the state address its widening teacher shortage by providing a new avenue for lateral-entry teachers to gain licensure. North Carolina employs more than 4,300 lateral-entry teachers, according to a 2015 report by the… read more
Seven-time Michelin winner Brandon Sharp ’97 returns to Chapel Hill. read more
The University is helping launch a new alliance that aims to make a college degree possible for more students, regardless of their ability to pay. read more
How LSD causes its powerful effects has long remained a mystery. Now, because of work led by UNC’s Dr. Bryan L. Roth, scientists can begin to parse how the drug sparks such a dramatic reaction in the brain, just as the scientific and medical… read more
Nearly 40,800 students have applied for admission to UNC for this fall. That total is as of Jan. 18 and reflects an increase of 13.7 percent from the previous year. It’s also the second-largest increase in the past 25 years. read more