The 194 graduating Public Service Scholars at Carolina were recognized for their achievements at a ceremony during Commencement weekend. Each received a Carolina blue and white cord to wear at Commencement. The Public Service Scholars… read more
Literary luminaries, eminent educators and a prominent businessman will receive honorary degrees from Carolina during the May 8 Commencement ceremony. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 will preside at the ceremony at 9:30 a.m. in Kenan Stadium, which… read more
Whether the sky on Commencement Sunday morning, May 8, is a bright Carolina blue or a cloudy gray, the place for the ceremony will be the same – Kenan Stadium. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has reversed a policy that had May Commencement… read more
Alexander Julian ’70 was determined that his son Will was not going to graduate in May wearing an aqua gown. Julian, noted for his clothing line Colours and for putting argyle on the Tar Heels’ basketball uniform, knows something… read more
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has called E.O. Wilson one of his heroes. When he was director of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center in 2004, Thorp brought the famous biodiversity scholar to the George Watts Hill Alumni Center, and Wilson… read more
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord reminded 2,330 December graduates that they always will be surrounded by invisible, intangible, odorless and often inaudible ideas — ideas about who they are, what they can accomplish, what is a problem, and what might be a… read more
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of philosophy, will speak at UNC’s December Commencement. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 will preside at the Dec. 19 ceremony at 2 p.m. in the Dean E. Smith Center on Bowles… read more
The University of North Carolina Spring Commencement 2010 Audio Archive Note: All audio clips are presented in MP3 format. Presiding Holden Thorp ’86, Chancellor The University of North Carolina National… read more
Cancer researcher Dr. Lisa Carey told graduates at UNC’s December Commencement they likely won’t have trouble being successful in life, because they’ve already proved they can succeed. “And people who succeed tend to do it over and over again,”… read more
John Grisham, an iconic figure in American popular fiction writing, will be the May 2010 Commencement speaker. A lawyer who started writing thrillers in his spare time and now is the author of 23 novels, including The Firm and… read more