‘We must stop treating our experiences in school as if they happen in a vacuum.’ Donovan Livingston ’09 has returned to Carolina’s campus several times to speak and mentor students, but he says his Sept. 16 visit… read more
Earth, she’s seen — from top to bottom. Now Zena Cardman ’10 wants to show NASA what a microbiologist brings to a place like Mars. read more
Tony nominee Max von Essen ’96 shares his struggles to help others through theirs. read more
Librarian Brooke Andrade ’02 earns her ‘rock-star’ status with research tenacity. read more
From the basalt lava fields of Hawaii to the vast white expanse of Antarctica, Zena Cardman ’10 has ventured to some of Earth’s most unique and remote places. read more
Novelist Melanie Rio ’14 plays with Shakespearean themes for her literary debut. read more
The president’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster ’94 (MA, ’96 PhD), impressed his Chapel Hill teachers as a warrior and as an intellectual. They’re certain he’ll need both skill sets in the White House. read more
His contrarian youth and self-discoveries at Carolina prepared Preston Smith to excel at work in which being liked isn’t always the most important thing. read more
Unbeaten college basketball teams are rare. The 1957 Tar Heels knew they were good, and Lennie Rosenbluth ’57 recalls how they got that way. read more
Bob Young ’57 made plays on Carolina’s first national championship team in men’s basketball. These days, he believes in the power of poetry. read more