The GAA honored an administrator who oversees financial aid and three alumni on Saturday for outstanding service to the University and to the association. Recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Service Medals are Shirley Ort, associate provost… read more
Six employees have been selected by Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 to receive 2012 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, one of the most coveted distinctions the University gives faculty and staff. The late C. Knox Massey ’25 of Durham… read more
Kel Landis ’79 of Raleigh has been named the newest member of the Board of Trustees. Landis was appointed to the 13-member board responsible for governing the University by Gov. Beverly Perdue. Landis, who will fill the seat left vacant by the… read more
Amy Locklear Hertel ’97, of the Lumbee and Coharie tribes of North Carolina, will become director of the American Indian Center at UNC on May 1. The American Indian Center at Carolina is one of few centers on the East Coast to focus solely on… read more
Peter T. Grauer ’68 of Greenwich, Conn., chair of Bloomberg LP, became the newest member of the Board of Trustees on Nov. 17. Grauer was appointed by Gov. Beverly Perdue to the 13-member board responsible for governing the University. He replaced… read more
The Carolina Alumni Review has earned a Silver Award in the most recent Best Articles of the Year category of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s national awards program. Beth McNichol ’95 wrote the winning entry,… read more
Wade H. Hargrove ’62 of Raleigh was elected chair of the UNC Board of Trustees on Wednesday. Hargrove, a corporate and national media lawyer and partner with Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP, was appointed to the 13-member… read more
Jones Angell ’01, who has been host and color analyst for the Tar Heel Sports Network the past six years, will call radio play-by-play for Carolina football and men’s basketball broadcasts beginning in the 2011-12 season. Angell takes… read more
Nationwide, only two doctoral candidates received dissertation fellowships this year from the Morris K. and Stewart L. Udall Foundation of Tucson, Ariz. Lauren Patterson ’07 (MA) of UNC was one of them. The West Lafayette, Ind., native will… read more
(Editor’s Note: The GAA’s Distinguished Service Medal citations, such as this one, are read to the audience at the Annual Alumni Luncheon and then presented as a keepsake to the recipients.) It must feel odd to Erskine Bowles ’67 to… read more