11.30.20 | Coronavirus
Carolina will begin a more rigorous testing program for the COVID-19 virus as students return to town and the campus in January.
Carolina researchers are probing convalescent plasma’s effectiveness against COVID-19. read more
Dr. Scott De Rossi, who became dean of UNC’s Adams School of Dentistry in January 2017, is stepping down as of Jan. 15 and returning to the faculty. read more
Two alumni from the class of 2020, Peter Andringa and Sarah Mackenzie, have won Rhodes Scholarships, the world’s oldest and best-known awards for graduate study, based at the University of Oxford in England. read more
The University has announced it plans to share publicly more information about numbers of and disposition of violations of its community standards for behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. read more
A new study published in the journal Science confirms that SARS-CoV-2 has mutated in a way that’s enabled it to spread quickly around the world, but the spike mutation also may make the virus more susceptible to a vaccine. read more
Dr. Camille Ehre’s COVID-19 images piqued her interest in how infectious diseases behave in the lungs. Now she is looking at how the virus affects asthmatics, diabetics and cystic fibrosis patients. read more
Phillip Clay ’68, David Pardue ’69, Steve ’78 and Debbie Vetter ’78 and Joan Huntley ’62 are this year’s recipients of the annual William Richardson Davie Award, the UNC trustees’ highest honor for service to the University or society. read more
Tuition will go up 2 percent — $684 for out-of-state undergraduates — and $566 for nonresident graduate students in fall 2021 if the UNC System Board of Governors approves actions take Thursday by the UNC trustees. read more
Mackenzie Ross “Mack” Hollins ’16 Hollins connected kids’ lack of knowledge to their own resistance to reading. To them, reading wasn’t cool. Hollins decided that if anyone could change that attitude, it was a young football pro. read more