After leading the UNC System for five years, Thomas Ross ’75 (JD) is spending the spring semster at Duke, where he is the first Terry Sanford Distinguished Fellow at the Sanford School of Public Policy. read more
UNC’s Southern Historical Collection will use a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help establish a permanent African-American Collections and Outreach archivist. read more
The cancer drug paclitaxel just got more effective. For the first time, researchers from the University have packaged it in containers derived from a patient’s own immune system, protecting the drug from being destroyed by the body’s defenses… read more
Twenty-four instructors and teaching assistants have been named winners of the 2016 University Teaching Awards. read more
Joy Kasson arrived at UNC in the fall of 1971, directly from a doctoral program and married to another academic. Their field of American studies was only a curriculum at UNC then, and the University’s anti-nepotism rule prevented them from working… read more
It takes more than a little courage and plenty of confidence to stand before the board of trustees for the first time as the newly hired dean of UNC’s School of Pharmacy, as Bob Blouin did in November of 2003, and tell them that his biggest… read more
The GAA Board of Directors presented the awards to Bob Blouin, dean of the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and Joy Kasson, professor emerita in the American studies department. read more
John Choquette ’10 is having his own adventure as writer and publisher, including dressing up as a giant slice of bread. read more
Life often was a struggle for Bayard Wootten, and for many of her subjects, as she pursued early 20th-century photography on her own terms. UPDATE: Wilson Library exhibition featuring her work extended through Feb. 7. read more
The choice for people of the Baha’i faith is endure quietly or leave. They bring an extraordinary commitment to places like Chapel Hill. read more