(Editor’s Note: The GAA’s Distinguished Service Medal citations, such as this one, are read to the audience at the Annual Alumni Luncheon and then presented as a keepsake to the recipients.) At an Association of American Universities… read more
(Editor’s Note: The GAA’s Distinguished Service Medal citations, such as this one, are read to the audience at the Annual Alumni Luncheon and then presented as a keepsake to the recipients.) Where some of us live life as pencils, Kay… read more
(Editor’s Note: The GAA’s Distinguished Service Medal citations, such as this one, are read to the audience at the Annual Alumni Luncheon and then presented as a keepsake to the recipients.) Together, Mary Ann Massey ’59 and her… read more
Twenty years ago at the dedication of the George Watts Hill Alumni Center, I noted that when we first began work on the center our younger son, Brian ’05, was not yet born. By the dedication, Brian was 10 years old. That span of time marked a… read more
The GAA has honored the chancellor and his wife and two other couples who have supported a broad range of campus initiatives for their outstanding service to the University and to the association. Recipients of the 2013 Distinguished Service… read more
The University has created a 21-member task force to review and enhance its policies and procedures for handling student-on-student complaints of harassment, sexual misconduct or discrimination. Ann Penn, the University’s Equal Opportunity/ADA… read more
Three professors with expertise in public policy, social work and government at UNC have been awarded the 2013 Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy. The recipients are Daniel Gitterman, associate professor of public policy;… read more
Five honorary degrees were given at this year’s Commencement on May 12. The recipients were: Bernard Flatow ’41, longtime promoter of Latin American cultural exchange, of Martinez, Ga., who received a doctor of laws degree; Joel… read more
After years of scientific uncertainty and speculation, researchers at UNC can show exactly how trees help create one of society’s predominant environmental and health concerns: air pollution. It has long been known that trees produce and emit… read more
Kerry Steven Bloom, the Thad L. Beyle Distinguished Professor of biology at the University, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for… read more