10.31.22 | Admissions, Issues
Today before the nation’s highest court, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz will defend the University’s inclusion of race as one factor in determining admission at UNC. Guskiewicz and University attorneys will appear before the U.S. Supreme Court to…
The University reported last week it had found lead in the drinking water in five additional buildings on campus, including in two residence halls. The UNC Department of Environment, Health and Safety found lead in the drinking water in Spencer… read more
Two professors in the UNC School of Social Work will direct a new, federally funded Behavioral Health Workforce Research Center in partnership with the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. The new Behavioral Health Workforce… read more
University Day, the annual celebration commemorating Oct. 12, 1793, when the cornerstone was laid for UNC’s first building, Old East, was held amid much fanfare this year. During the ceremony, held in Memorial Hall, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz… read more
Carolina will host next year’s World Anti-Bullying Forum, the organization’s first biennial event held outside of Europe. Dorothy Espelage, the William C. Friday Distinguished Professor of education and considered one of the foremost experts… read more
Douglas S. Dibbert ’70, who as president has guided UNC’s General Alumni Association for more than 40 years and transformed it into one of the strongest, most respected alumni associations in the country, is retiring. Dibbert announced his… read more
The General Alumni Association Board of Directors presented on Friday, Oct. 1 its 2022 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award to Markita Landry ’06. Landry is an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of… read more
As an award-winning scientist, Markita Landry ’06 wrestles with nanosensors and DNA in her lab at the University of California Berkeley. As a teenager, she wrestled with other student athletes on a mat at Green Hope High School in Cary. The… read more
A $25 million gift from William “Bill” Starling ’75 and his wife, Dana, will be used to create the UNC Suicide Prevention Institute while working to implement suicide prevention strategies at UNC and across North Carolina. The institute… read more