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
The School of Education recently received a $2.27 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund a project to increase the number of school counseling graduates working in rural elementary and middle schools across the state. Helping… read more
A Carolina alumna who is currently at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business has been chosen as the new dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Mary Margaret Frank ’92 (’92 MAC, ’99 PhD), senior associate dean for… read more
This article was updated Feb. 21, 2023. The Faculty Council passed a resolution Feb. 17 that asked the UNC Board of Trustees and the administration to take “no further action” on the School of Civic Life and Leadership, which would… read more
Aimee Wall ’97 (JD, ’98 MPH), senior associate dean and professor of public law and government at the School of Government, has been named dean of the school. She will begin her new role on Feb. 27. She replaces Mike Smith ’78 (JD), who… read more
by Laurie D. Willis ’86 UNC’s chancellor and provost have asked the school’s General Education Oversight Committee to take the lead on development of the controversial School of Civic Life and Leadership the UNC Board of Trustees… read more