As you read this column, in Switzerland our older son, Michael ’03, and his wife, Carolyn, are enjoying their special March Madness — the birth of our granddaughter who, for now, we refer to as our Swiss Miss. Should she someday choose to… read more
Leading innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs who make up President Barack Obama’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship has chosen UNC for the site of the group’s first public forum, set for March 15. The 24-member… read more
During his undergraduate years at Oxford University, Oliver Smithies attended a series of lectures by world-renowned chemist Linus Pauling. Now Smithies, a Nobel laureate and the Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of pathology and… read more
Whether the sky on Commencement Sunday morning, May 8, is a bright Carolina blue or a cloudy gray, the place for the ceremony will be the same – Kenan Stadium. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has reversed a policy that had May Commencement… read more
The UNC General Alumni Association has received seven awards for its programs and communications for 2010, including a Grand Award in Overall Alumni Relations Programs, in a competition sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of… read more
Dr. Mel Levine, a best-selling author and authority on treatment of learning disabilities in children who retired as a professor in the School of Medicine in 2006, was found dead on Feb. 17. According to The News & Observer of Raleigh, his wife,… read more
The University is honoring six outstanding employees with the 2010 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, one of the most coveted distinctions Carolina bestows to faculty and staff. The late C. Knox Massey ’25 of Durham created the awards… read more
One of the greatest intercollegiate rivalries on the planet has been put aside to get incoming students at Carolina and Duke on the same page. For the first time, new students at the two campuses will be asked to read the same book as part of the… read more
Despite a chronic shortage of nurses and the graying of the nation’s nursing work force, Carolina finds itself in the budgetary position of having to cut overall undergraduate enrollments by about 25 percent. “The budget challenges have left… read more
A UNC alumnus is one of two people chosen by the University to fill top positions in student affairs. Jonathan Sauls ’94, who also earned his law degree from UNC in 1997, is Carolina’s new dean of students. Sauls had served as interim dean of… read more