Carolina Alumni Review News

They’re the most promising cancer assassins to come along in your lifetime, but their mission is far from complete. Where others shied away, UNC rolled out the red carpet for CAR-T therapy’s custom fighter cells. read more

Whitney Brown ’10 grew up playing by the rules. Then she imagined the useful art a perfectionist might create if she bent them. read more

When we look at a painting, what commands our attention? Denise Murrell ’76 has exposed a viewpoint the art world didn’t know it was missing. By Mary E. Miller Early one evening in June, a crowd gathers in a side entrance to Musée… read more

To a woman dealing with pregnancy and child-raising while addicted and abused, life can feel like an avalanche. In 1993, Carolina began building a model solution to a public health crisis. read more

Want to debate history, politics or scholarship? Kevin Kruse ’94 is happy to tweet you. And he’s good for a little rough stuff, if need be. read more

Watson Brown ’74 (MA) works to photograph what’s left of a land once rich with tobacco money, to capture the plantations and barns, the abandoned pickups and falling-down tenant shacks of eastern North Carolina before they disappear. read more

As boyfriend Alex Honnold prepared to take on El Capitan in 2017, Sanni McCandless ’14, struggled to preserve her own identity. read more

With his calculating abilities, majors in math and physics, and his athletic skills, as well as a master’s in industrial design, Mark Hemphill ’10 made a natural career choice — devising courses to knock ninjas off balance. read more

Mack Brown learned the intricacies of recruiting the way most coaches do — the hard way. Those lessons never have been more important than now. read more