(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.) Good luck to you if you’re one of 12… read more
In his past two years at Carolina, Joel Thomas ’06 helped oversee the transformation of a campus group into a social movement. Three years ago, as a sophomore biology major, Thomas joined the students holding Hunger Lunch events on campus to… read more
The General Alumni Association presented its 2006 Distinguished Service Medals at the Annual Alumni Luncheon on Saturday to four individuals who share a long and storied history of service to the welfare of the University. Outgoing GAA Chair… read more
Jane Brown’s mother taught her that to be part of a community, she would need to work for that community. Brown has been a faculty member at UNC for nearly 30 years, and from the start she saw the campus as her community. read more
A sports journalist and two pioneers in elementary education recently received the GAA’s Distinguished Young Alumni Awards. read more
The UNC General Alumni Association received two awards in the 2005 district-level awards program sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. 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.) Today, Carolina’s journalism school is… 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