Jerry Blackwell ’84 (’87 JD) usually practices corporate law, but he was tapped to lead the criminal case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with killing George Floyd. read more
A basketball fiend during his Carolina days, Jeff Taylor ’88 has lived in Europe for 23 years as an international basketball commentator, play-by-play analyst and columnist for the International Basketball Federation. read more
Dr. Ned Sharpless ’88, the former director of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, is set to become acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. read more
Journalist Quincy Sharpe Mills, UNC class of 1907, heeded his own call urging newspaper readers to serve in what was then called The Great War. read more
As writer Bekah Brunstetter ’04 shows throughout her funny and moving play, The Cake, reconciling traditional roots with progressive values in a polarized world is wrenching work. read more
Mike Wiley ’04 (MFA) often plays more than two dozen characters in a single performance, with no costume changes and few props. read more
Martha Gunter Caldwell ’39, who turned 100 in April, graduated from UNC at a time when few women attended college. read more
Only 40 when he took over as dean of NYU’s business school, Peter Henry ’91 had well-formed ideas about teaching economics and a determination to diversify. read more
Tom Goldstein ’92 couldn’t get in Carolina law. Now he can’t get enough of the action in the U.S. Supreme Court nor of publicly sharing his expertise and observations. read more
Catilin Doyle ’06, UNC’s first Thomas Wolfe Scholar, won the seventh annual Frost Farm Prize for metrical poetry with her composition ‘Wish.’ read more