8.30.22 | Discovery
Environmental health scientists at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health recently published a study showing adult attention spans drop in the hours and days after exposure to fine particulate matter and wildfire smoke. Stephanie…
Carolina religious studies professor Jodi Magness and a team of UNC students have unearthed ancient mosaics in Israel that are the earliest known depictions of the battle between the Israelites and Canaanites as related in the Bible’s book of… read more
Just as Clarence Whitefield ’44 digitized alumni records to more efficiently keep the University connected to alumni, the GAA built its digital communications to make it easier for Tar Heels to stay connected to one another. Andrea Saye ’08,… read more
In his first letter to alumni as “director of alumni affairs” in the September 1970 edition of The Alumni Review, Clarence Whitefield ’44 penned, “I guess I’m one of the luckiest guys in the world.” Just weeks before,… read more
Beth Mayer-Davis, the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of nutrition and medicine, was named dean of The Graduate School, effective Sept. 1. For the past eight years, Mayer-Davis, who is also director of the UNC Nutrition Obesity… read more
Stuart Scott ’87 and Curry Kirkpatrick ’65 were among four inducted this summer into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame. Scott, who died in 2015, was an ESPN sportscaster known for his catchphrases such as “Boo-Yah” and… read more
A permanent memorial honoring James Lewis Cates Jr., a Black man who was stabbed to death 52 years ago in a racially motivated attack outside the Frank Porter Graham Student Union, is planned to be installed this year in the Pit. Cates, 22, a… read more
University officials last month filed a response brief with the U.S. Supreme Court as part of a lawsuit challenging how universities select and educate students, arguing the plaintiff lacks standing in the case. The court plans to hear oral… read more
UNC released in July the details of its settlement with Nikole Hannah-Jones ’03 (MA), who was offered a teaching position last year at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media before she accepted a post at another university. The… read more