6.30.23 | Carolina Alumni Leadership
In April, the General Alumni Association Board of Directors named Veronica Flaspoehler ’08 the fifth president of the association. She succeeds Doug Dibbert ’70, who after nearly 41 years at the helm, retired in May. Flaspoehler grew up…
This article was updated at 2:39 p.m., June 29, 2023. The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down admissions programs at UNC and Harvard University that relied in part on racial considerations, saying they violate the 14th Amendment’s… read more
Four UNC faculty members have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2023–2024 academic year. The awards will allow professors Patrick Davison, Anthony Hackney ‘03, Carissa Hessick and Pamela Lothspeich to teach and conduct… read more
The School of Education recently received a $2.27 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund a project to increase the number of school counseling graduates working in rural elementary and middle schools across the state. Helping… read more
A Carolina alumna who is currently at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business has been chosen as the new dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Mary Margaret Frank ’92 (’92 MAC, ’99 PhD), senior associate dean for… read more
The University’s Naval Armory building, scheduled for demolition, has received a boost to save it. The building has been slated to be torn down to make way for modern science facilities. But after pleas from some alumni and politicians not… read more
Journalism students at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media won their fifth consecutive Hearst Journalism Awards national championship on June 7. The title was their 12th since 2002. In individual awards, Hussman students also placed first… read more
A UNC initiative created to assist people in all 100 North Carolina counties is working with the University’s Suicide Prevention Institute to reduce suicides and improve wellbeing. Carolina Across 100, part of the the ncIMPACT Initiative at the… read more
The Carolina Alumni Board of Directors presented on Friday the association’s Distinguished Service Medals to Doug S. Dibbert ’70, former Carolina Alumni president, and Debbie Dibbert, former UNC associate vice chancellor for principal and major… read more
Debbie Dibbert has held some of Carolina’s most powerful jobs. As director of external affairs for UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, she was present when state lawmakers approved a new cancer hospital. For the next decade she raised… read more