Faculty News

Patricia Parker, director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, has received the 2023 Thomas Jefferson Award. The award, started in 1961 by the Robert Earll McConnell Foundation, honors a UNC faculty member who has best exemplified… read more

UNC leaders announced Oct. 6 the inaugural faculty for the School of Civic Life and Leadership, the creation of which continues to be questioned by some faculty. Sarah Treul Roberts, director of the Program for Public Discourse and a Bowman… read more

A scientist at the has been recognized by TIME magazine for his work in response to the national opioid overdose epidemic. Nabarun Dasgupta ’13 (PhD), who’s also an Innovation Fellow at the Gillings School of Global Public… read more

Within hours of UNC professor Zijie Yan’s tragic death, students, the administration and outside groups organized vigils, moments of silence, a rally and places for hugs. View a gallery of what Carolina Strong looks like. read more

Two feature stories and a timeline concerning the tulip poplar that witnessed the birth of America’s first public university stories by Paul Wachter A Turn for the Better When… read more

Blair LM Kelley, the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, is the new director of the Center for the Study of the American South. Kelley began her role July 1 at CSAS, which studies Southern culture to emphasize the… read more

A team led by UNC professor Jodi Magness uncovered mosaic panels depicting episodes of the biblical prophet Samson as well as Noah’s Ark in a late Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel’s lower Galilee. Magness,… read more

Penny Gordon-Larsen, formerly UNC’s interim vice chancellor for research, has been appointed to the position permanently effective immediately. As the Carla Smith Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition, Gordon-Larsen has served in… read more

Four UNC faculty members have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2023–2024 academic year. The awards will allow professors Patrick Davison, Anthony Hackney ‘03, Carissa Hessick and Pamela Lothspeich to teach and conduct… read more