Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz on July 19 apologized to UNC Board of Governors members for failing to notify them before he publicly announced plans to offer free tuition to students who meet certain income criteria. Some board members sharply… read more
Blair LM Kelley, the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, is the new director of the Center for the Study of the American South. Kelley began her role July 1 at CSAS, which studies Southern culture to emphasize the… read more
UNC, in partnership with Duke University, has been awarded up to $50 million from the Food and Drug Administration to establish a center that will work with FDA scientists to conduct research that will better inform and support the agency’s… read more
A team led by UNC professor Jodi Magness uncovered mosaic panels depicting episodes of the biblical prophet Samson as well as Noah’s Ark in a late Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel’s lower Galilee. Magness,… read more
Following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmative action could no longer be used in university admissions, UNC is taking steps to expand student access. Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz stated in an announcement on July 7 that Carolina will… read more
UNC students can begin taking courses toward a master’s of applied data science degree in January 2024. This new, primarily online degree is in partnership with the Graduate School, the Office of Digital and Lifelong Learning and 2U, a… read more
Penny Gordon-Larsen, formerly UNC’s interim vice chancellor for research, has been appointed to the position permanently effective immediately. As the Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition, Gordon-Larsen has served in… read more
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… read more
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