Three alumni and a friend arrived on foot at the Old Well on Carolina’s campus Friday, completing a two-week walk from the coast that was inspired by the arrival of Carolina’s first student, Hinton James, more than 200 years ago. Bryan Jones ’06,… read more
Updates | Blog | Athletes Nineteen Tar Heels competed in Beijing in the Games, which opened on Aug. 8. They competed for the U.S. in women’s field hockey, women’s soccer, men’s soccer and women’s track and field. Four Carolina… read more
Baseball Coach Mike Fox ’78, who guided the Tar Heels to a third straight trip to the College World Series this summer, has been named national coach of the year by Baseball America magazine. A two-time American Baseball Coaches… read more
Athletes around the world dreamed of qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in August. For several former and current UNC athletes, that dream came true. As the U.S. Olympic Trials for track and field came to a conclusion, one last Tar… read more
For the first time, the UNC System Board of Governors will be led by a woman. Hannah Dawson Gage ’75 was elected to a two-year term as chair. Gage graduated with a journalism degree and went on to found and, for a time, own Cape Fear Broadcasting… read more
Carolina has its second “named” professional school. The UNC School of Pharmacy has been renamed the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy after Fred Eshelman ’72, founder and chief executive officer of Wilmington-based PPD Inc. The company specializes… read more
Randy K. Jones ’79 of Chula Vista, Calif., was installed as chair of the GAA Board of Directors at the Annual Alumni Luncheon on Saturday, succeeding Dwight M. Davidson III ’77 of Greensboro. 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.) As a biostatistics professor in the School… 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.) Roger Perry ’71 defies many of the… 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.) In the year 2000, a somewhat chaotic,… read more