Nine scientists from the University have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. The Carolina researchers are among 702 new fellows chosen for this honor,… read more
Two notable UNC scientists — Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 and Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies — have been named charter fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, a nonprofit organization that recognizes investigators who translate their… read more
An international research collaboration — led by scientists at UNC’s School of Medicine and the University of Dundee in Scotland — have developed a way to efficiently and effectively make designer drugs that hit multiple protein targets at… read more
Two professors in the School of Medicine have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, considered one of the nation’s highest honors for those in the fields of health and medicine. Myron S. Cohen, J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professor of… read more
Four highly promising professors in diverse fields have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. Recipients are Evan S. Dellon ’07 (MPH), assistant professor of medicine and an… read more
A team of scientists with The Cancer Genome Atlas program — including a large group from Carolina — has reported finding some of the genetic causes of the most common forms of breast cancer, resulting from the program’s genetic… read more
Basketball Coach Roy Williams ’72 underwent a robotic surgical procedure at UNC Hospitals Wednesday morning to remove a tumor from his right kidney. Dr. Eric Wallen, professor of urology at UNC, and co-surgeon Dr. Mathew Raynor led the surgical… read more
On the day Holden Thorp ’86 announced he would leave the chancellorship to someone else next spring, and again on the day after, there was a strong sentiment on the campus that he should reconsider. The chair of the trustees, the Faculty Executive… read more
Two autism researchers in UNC’s School of Medicine have each been awarded $12.6 million grants in the latest round of funding from the National Institutes of Health’s Autism Centers of Excellence research program. UNC, which was ranked No. 2… read more
A new report of a special subcommittee of UNC’s Faculty Executive Committee makes it clear there are deep concerns in the faculty about how thoroughly athletes — especially those in the revenue-producing sports of basketball and football —… read more