Three UNC faculty members will speak and lead a public discussion on Thursday, March 24, about the unfolding crisis in Japan. The discussion, “Japan: Earthquake, Tsunami, Nuclear Crisis,” will include: Jonathan M. Lees, a seismologist and… read more
Dr. Mel Levine, a best-selling author and authority on treatment of learning disabilities in children who retired as a professor in the School of Medicine in 2006, was found dead on Feb. 17. According to The News & Observer of Raleigh, his wife,… read more
The University is honoring six outstanding employees with the 2010 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, one of the most coveted distinctions Carolina bestows to faculty and staff. The late C. Knox Massey ’25 of Durham created the awards… read more
A UNC alumnus is one of two people chosen by the University to fill top positions in student affairs. Jonathan Sauls ’94, who also earned his law degree from UNC in 1997, is Carolina’s new dean of students. Sauls had served as interim dean of… read more
A widely recognized dental health expert and researcher at the University of California at San Francisco’s dental school will be the next dean of UNC’s School of Dentistry. Dr. Jane A. Weintraub, who was on UNC’s faculty for seven years in… read more
The secretary of the faculty at the University has been honored with the GAA’s 2011 Faculty Service Award. Joseph S. Ferrell ’60 also is a professor of public law and government in the School of Government. The award, established in 1990… read more
Six UNC faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The association, the world’s largest general scientific society, elects fellows to recognize their efforts toward advancing science… read more
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord reminded 2,330 December graduates that they always will be surrounded by invisible, intangible, odorless and often inaudible ideas — ideas about who they are, what they can accomplish, what is a problem, and what might be a… read more
Bland Simpson ’70, an English professor at Carolina, has received the 2010 Hardee-Rives Award for the Dramatic Arts from the N.C. Literary and Historical Association. The author and Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor of English… read more
Michael McFee ’76, a poet and professor in Carolina’s English and comparative literature department, has received one of this year’s North Carolina book awards, the R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award for Literary Achievement. The honor, which… read more