UNC sports medicine researcher Kevin Guskiewicz, one of the country’s leading experts on concussions, has been named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago awarded Guskiewicz a MacArthur Fellowship,… read more
Susan King, vice president for external affairs for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will be the next dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The appointment, effective Jan. 1, was approved this month by the UNC Board of… read more
This year more than 240,000 men will be diagnosed with new cases of prostate cancer and more than 33,000 men will die from the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute. With that statistic in mind, Joe DeSimone, a chemistry professor at… read more
Karol Kain Gray, vice president for finance and administration at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, N.Y., has been recommended to become Carolina’s new vice chancellor for finance and administration. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86… read more
John Clark, general manager of WRAL.com, the web presence of the Raleigh TV station, is the new executive director of the Reese Felts Digital News Project, at reesenews.org, a student-led experimental venture in digital newsgathering, dissemination… read more
The search committee for a new dean for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication has sent its review of the candidates to the chancellor, and an interim dean has been appointed. Senior Associate Dean Dulcie Straughan ’87 (PhD) will serve… read more
Three young scholars at UNC have received prominent awards from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy to support their research. Erik J. Alexanian, an assistant professor of chemistry, and Jason L. Metcalfe, an… read more
Jan Boxill, a senior lecturer in the philosophy department, has been elected to a three-year term as chair of the faculty. Boxill came to UNC in 1985. Her specialty areas are social and political philosophy and feminist theory. She has served in… read more
History Professor Jacquelyn Dowd Hall has been elected as a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Hall, the Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of history in… read more
Barbara Entwisle, Kenan Distinguished Professor of sociology who has been a leading researcher at UNC for 26 years, has been appointed the vice chancellor for research. The appointment, effective today, was approved Thursday by the Board of… read more