With the close of the final deadline for first-year admission for fall 2015, the University has achieved a 10th consecutive record for first-year applications — an increase of 2 percent from a year earlier and up 37 percent from five years… read more
Just try to find some creative, entrepreneurial endeavor not on Bland Simpson’s resume. He’s a teacher, of course, and a good one at that. Since he came onto the faculty at UNC in 1982, he has received the Tanner Award for Excellence in… read more
Jo Anne Earp believes UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health hired her fresh out of Johns Hopkins University not because of her doctorate in behavioral sciences but because the health behavior department chair at the time, Guy Steuart, was… read more
Mike Cohen grew up on the South Side of Chicago, known as a rough part of town — a friend says they didn’t know any differently, they thought that was just how the world was. The perseverance Mike developed during that unforgiving start… read more
The UNC System Board of Governors voted almost unanimously Friday to truncate the tenure of system President Thomas Ross ’75 (JD). Ross, who just began his fifth year at the helm of the 16-campus system, will depart at the beginning of January… read more
Acclaimed researchers in HIV/AIDS and public health and a writer whose works have appeared on the page and stage were honored Friday with the GAA’s Faculty Service Award. The GAA Board of Directors presented the awards to Dr. Myron “Mike”… read more
Reading the 131-page Wainstein report is extremely difficult and sobering for all who respect and care so deeply for our alma mater, and yet, it is very important that we each read and reflect on the entire report before rushing to judgment. read more
The University has retained one of the world’s largest law firms — New York-based Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom — to represent it in what a University-issued statement referred to as “ongoing matters.” David Parker ’80,… read more
U.S. News & World Report has ranked Kenan-Flagler Business School’s MBA@UNC program No. 1 in its first ranking of online MBA programs, tying it with programs at Indiana and Temple universities for the top spot. Kenan-Flagler… read more
The University has taken action to fire longtime faculty member Jan Boxill for her involvement in a paper classes scheme that has been at the center of a long-running saga involving UNC’s former department of African and Afro-American… read more