A sports journalist and two pioneers in elementary education recently received the GAA’s Distinguished Young Alumni Awards. read more
After a three-year renovation that cost about $18 million, 74-year-old Memorial Hall reopened in September with a gala weekend whose organizers hope will plant the seeds of a performing arts revival at Carolina. read more
For the first time in three years, University Day ceremonies were held in Memorial Hall, now newly refurbished after a three-year, nearly $18 million transformation. read more
Four alumni recently were elected to the UNC System Board of Governors by the N.C. House of Representatives, and four others were re-elected. Phillip R. Dixon ’74 (JD), an attorney from Greenville; Fred G. Mills ’64, president of Mills… 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.) When Duke and Carolina graduates pick up… read more
Back in 1966, Jessie Rehder, then the head of Carolina’s writing program, appointed a 34-year-old writer to fill in as a lecturer for one semester. The young woman didn’t have a college degree, but she’d published two novels and a book of short… 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 boy in Greensboro, Richard Tyrone… read more
Time and service to Carolina’s welfare were common threads among the recipients of the UNC General Alumni Association’s 2005 Distinguished Service Medals. read more
Kevin Martin ’89 has been chosen by President Bush to chair the Federal Communications Commission. Martin, a former Carolina student body president who has served on the FCC for four years, replaces Michael K. Powell, who retired. read more
Three alumni and a former chancellor – Harvey E. Beech ’52 (LLB), William B. Harrison Jr. ’66, Charles McKimmon Winston Sr. ’53 and Paul Hardin – are the 2004 recipients of the William Richardson Davie Award. read more