(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.) At a College of Arts & Sciences board… 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.) “I don’t know what I do to run off these… read more
D. Jordan “Jordy” Whichard III ’79 of Greenville was installed as chair of the GAA Board of Directors at the Annual Alumni Luncheon on Saturday, succeeding Eleanor Saunders Morris ’55 of Chapel Hill. Donald W. Curtis ’63 of Raleigh assumed office as… read more
The GAA honored a key administrator and three alumni Saturday for outstanding service to the University and to the association. Recipients of the 2010 Distinguished Service Medals are Brenda W. Kirby, secretary of the University; Barbara… 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
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Taylor Branch ’68 will speak about his book The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President Feb. 23 in UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library. The free public program, sponsored… read more
UNC is turning to an alumnus to serve as a consultant and to review Greek life at the University with an eye toward recommendations about ways to improve the system. In a letter to D. Jordan Whichard III ’79, trustees Chair Robert Winston III… read more
The Board of Trustees has honored four recipients with the William Richardson Davie Award, the board’s highest honor. The trustees on Wednesday honored Fred Eshelman ’72, founder of PPD Inc., of Wilmington; Richard Krasno, executive director of… read more
Five of the six people who received this year’s North Carolina Award have ties to UNC – poet Gerald Barrax ’75 of Raleigh, chemistry Professor Joseph DeSimone of Chapel Hill, Betty Ray McCain ’52 of Wilson, Hugh McColl Jr. ’57 of Charlotte… read more
Scientists, staff and other employees at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., are hearing a familiar voice back on campus. Francis S. Collins ’77 (MD) was confirmed by the Senate Aug. 7 to return to the nation’s premiere medical… read more