Thank Fred Brooks that your emails don’t shout in all caps. In the process of helping to create the landmark System 360 mainframe computer, at IBM, he changed the standard character size from six bits to eight, thus enabling lowercase… read more
Those who know Dick Phillips well call him “fearless.” Not because as a soldier in World War II he parachuted over the Rhine River in March of 1945 and battled the Germans on the ground. Not because as dean of the law school from 1964 to 1974 he… read more
My parents had five sons in eight years, and we seemed to do everything together. We had only two bedrooms when the youngest of my four younger brothers was born, and all five of us were in two bunk beds with a crib in between. During the two and a… read more
Social scientist Dan Ariely ’94 (MA, ’96 PhD), the author of three New York Times best-selling books, will be the keynote speaker for Carolina’s 2013 doctoral hooding ceremony. The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. May 11 at the… read more
Larry Conrad, Carolina’s vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer for the past five years, is leaving in February to take the same position at California-Berkeley. Conrad has led Carolina’s multifaceted… read more
A “reconstituted” search committee has been announced by Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 to help select the University’s next executive vice chancellor and provost. Some members of the original committee subsequently were named to the committee… read more
Nine scientists from the University have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. The Carolina researchers are among 702 new fellows chosen for this honor,… read more
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and UNC’s School of Medicine are collaborating to create a physician assistant master’s degree program designed for returning military veterans with input from the U.S. Army Special Operations Command… read more
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has cited Carolina’s “stellar academics” at a bargain price in naming UNC — for the 12th time in a row — as the No. 1 value in American public higher education. In the new rankings,… read more
Myron S. Cohen, an acclaimed physician and researcher who has spent the past three decades studying the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, spoke to Carolina’s December graduates on Dec. 16. Cohen joined the UNC faculty in 1980 — the… read more