Carolina Alumni Awards News

Debbie Dibbert has held some of Carolina’s most powerful jobs. As director of external affairs for UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, she was present when state lawmakers approved a new cancer hospital. For the next decade she raised… read more

You have to walk fast to keep up with Doug Dibbert ’70. He has places to go and long legs to get him there. Keeping up is a constant challenge, companions say. And not just with his speed. Dibbert, in his nearly 41 years at the helm 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.) Karen Shelton channeled her fiercely… 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.) Think of planting a garden after it… read more

Two faculty members were recognized Friday, Jan. 13 with the GAA’s 2023 Faculty Service Award. The GAA Board of Directors presented the award to: Anita Brown-Graham ’91 (JD), Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Professor of Public Law and… read more

Before Anthony Charles ’09 (MPH) picks up a scalpel in a sparse operating room in Malawi, he asks everyone gathered around the table to introduce themselves and tell what role they’ll play in the surgical procedure he’s about to… read more

Anita Brown-Graham ’91 (JD) got kicked out of preschool for refusing to take naps and has been going full tilt ever since. Most recently, Brown-Graham, the Gladys Hall Coates Distinguished Professor of public law and government at the… read more

The General Alumni Association Board of Directors presented on Friday, Oct. 1 its 2022 Distinguished Young Alumnus Award to Markita Landry ’06. Landry is an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of… read more

As an award-winning scientist, Markita Landry ’06 wrestles with nanosensors and DNA in her lab at the University of California Berkeley. As a teenager, she wrestled with other student athletes on a mat at Green Hope High School in Cary. The… read more