The secretary of the faculty at the University has been honored with the GAA’s 2011 Faculty Service Award. Joseph S. Ferrell ’60 also is a professor of public law and government in the School of Government. The award, established in 1990… read more
What was happening in the South 150 years ago on any given date during the Civil War? A website posting just that, every day for four years, is planned by the University Library. The site will be among numerous library activities commemorating… read more
Six UNC faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The association, the world’s largest general scientific society, elects fellows to recognize their efforts toward advancing science… read more
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has called E.O. Wilson one of his heroes. When he was director of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center in 2004, Thorp brought the famous biodiversity scholar to the George Watts Hill Alumni Center, and Wilson… read more
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine ranks Carolina as the best value in American public higher education for a “remarkable” 10th time in a row. Kiplinger’s started ranking the best values in public universities in 1998;… read more
Cousins Edward Kidder Graham and Frank Porter Graham both lived in a house, by the northeast corner of the campus, that faced demolition in September. Many people would not purchase a house battered with holes, filled with old beehives in the… read more
The School of Law is preparing to offer foreign lawyers an opportunity to improve their knowledge of U.S. law and legal process through a one-year master of laws degree program. Michael L. Corrado, Arch T. Allen Distinguished Professor of law,… read more
The state’s most famous indigenous art form — objects created from clay — is being celebrated throughout this winter at the Ackland Art Museum. “Tradition in Clay: Two Centuries of Classic North Carolina Pots” includes more than 100… read more
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord reminded 2,330 December graduates that they always will be surrounded by invisible, intangible, odorless and often inaudible ideas — ideas about who they are, what they can accomplish, what is a problem, and what might be a… read more
Bland Simpson ’70, an English professor at Carolina, has received the 2010 Hardee-Rives Award for the Dramatic Arts from the N.C. Literary and Historical Association. The author and Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of English… read more