Faculty News

A professor who translates research into real-world innovations and a dean who champions nonpartisan service to the state’s leaders were honored Friday with the GAA’s Faculty Service Award. The GAA Board of Directors presented the read more...

Few, if any, historians have looked as deeply into the American presidency — and conveyed it with such flair — as Carolina treasure William Leuchtenburg. by Jack Betts ’68 Bill Leuchtenburg did an odd thing read more...

‘It appears as though the country can suddenly be swept by crazes in a way that I don’t recall having happened in the past and that are 
more characteristic of countries that have eventually moved read more...

Oliver Smithies, the University’s first full-time faculty member to win a Nobel Prize and a world-renowned giant in the field of gene targeting, died Tuesday at UNC Hospitals after a short illness. He was 91. read more...

Paul Cuadros, associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism, has been selected to be the featured speaker at UNC’s winter Commencement ceremony. Paul Cuadros Cuadros, who joined the University’s faculty in 2006, is read more...

The University Committee on Teaching Awards is seeking nominations from alumni, students, faculty and staff members for several campuswide awards that will honor professors and graduate teaching assistants in a variety of categories. The committee, read more...

These two sea creatures often find themselves at odds. But Niels Lindquist and David Cessna want the same thing — an oyster industry that works. Adapted from an article for Endeavors, UNC’s online research magazine, by Mary Lide Parker read more...

Joseph DeSimone’s scientific career has revolved around creating technology with real-world applications. With every innovation — the engineering of a drug-eluding heart stent, the creation of new 3-D printing methods, revolutionizing the development of next-generation read more...

Kelly Hogan ’01 (PhD) took some troubling statistics on student success and turned them into a new college classroom at Carolina: less talk, more action and deeper learning. by Beth McNichol ’95 A striking fact read more...