Monty Cook ’86, who left his job as senior vice president and editor at The Baltimore Sun last spring to head an innovative online news project in UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, resigned from the school Tuesday after… read more
Chris Roush — regarded as “the expert in business journalism” in the U.S. and beyond — of UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named the 2010 N.C. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement… read more
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor of philosophy, will speak at UNC’s December Commencement. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 will preside at the Dec. 19 ceremony at 2 p.m. in the Dean E. Smith Center on Bowles… read more
The peers of longtime UNC faculty member and administrator Jack Evans have honored him with the prestigious 2010 Thomas Jefferson Award. Evans, executive director of Carolina North and the Phillip Hettleman Professor of business administration in… read more
Jean Folkerts, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will step down from the position next July. “While I’ve enjoyed nearly every minute of the last five years, it’s also been a demanding job,” she told a faculty… read more
Each year, four of Carolina’s top up-and-coming faculty are chosen as recipients of the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. This year’s professors, representing diverse fields,… read more
Warren A. Nord ’78 (PhD) — the founding director of UNC’s Program in the Humanities and Human Values who also was a proponent of religion as an essential part of high school and college studies — has died. He was 63. Nord, who died June 19, ran… read more
Barely six months ago, UNC was ahead of the curve on hiring and retaining faculty in an extremely difficult economic climate. While hiring had slowed dramatically at many schools, Carolina was hiring at about 80 percent of normal and was winning… read more
Tony Waldrop ’74 — a triple Carolina alumnus and UNC’s vice chancellor for research and economic development – is leaving Chapel Hill for the University of Central Florida. He will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at the… read more
The University was unsuccessful in hiring the finalist for dean of the dental school, and former Dean John Stamm will take over as interim dean May 25 while the search continues for a permanent dean. Dean John Williams last summer announced his… read more