Faculty News

UNC faculty members who applied for — and won — an $867,000 Department of Homeland Security grant to develop communication strategies to counter recruitment efforts of violent extremist groups are mystified that the award was canceled. read more

The University has selected Elaine L. Westbrooks as its new University librarian and vice provost for University Libraries. read more

Dr. Ned Sharpless ’88, director of UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center since 2014, is expected to be the next head of the National Cancer Institute. read more

The GAA Board of Directors presented the awards to chemistry professor Joseph DeSimone and UNC School of Government Dean Michael Smith ’78 (JD). 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. read more

Historian William Leuchtenburg dislikes being asked to make predictions. But he does not shy from what he sees as the truth. 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. Smithies, the School of… read more

Award-winning faculty member and author Paul Cuadros, who teaches in UNC’s School of Media and Journalism, will be the featured speaker at winter Commencement. 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. read more