James W. Dean Jr., senior associate dean for academic affairs in the Kenan-Flagler Business School, has been recommended to the UNC trustees as the next dean of the school. If approved, his appointment would take affect Aug. 1, succeeding Steve… read more
Bruce W. Carney, senior associate dean for the sciences and Samuel Baron Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy at UNC, has been appointed interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1. He will succeed Holden Thorp… read more
UNC’s School of Medicine has established a new institute to advance research, training and treatment efforts aimed at aiding children and adults with developmental disabilities. The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities brings… read more
Holden Thorp ’86, a popular teacher whose intellect, charisma and leadership abilities were spotted very early in his career, will be UNC’s 10th chancellor. The Kenan Professor of chemistry rose at Carolina about as fast as he could move his… read more
Lawrence Band, who is on the faculty in UNC’s geography department, has been named director of Carolina’s Institute for the Environment. Band succeeds Doug Crawford-Brown, who left the institute earlier this year to become a senior sustainability… read more
Historian Louis Pérez Jr. has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Pérez is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of history at UNC. His current… read more
Steven W. Matson, professor and chair of UNC’s department of biology, will become dean of the Graduate School effective July 1. A member of the faculty since 1983, Matson is widely respected for his teaching, mentoring and research in the field… read more
G. Williamson McDiarmid ’69, Boeing Professor of teacher education at the University of Washington at Seattle, has been appointed as the new dean at the School of Education. The appointment, which has been approved by the UNC Board of Trustees,… read more
Working with the Burmese immigrant community in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, partnering with the Special Olympics of Orange County, developing a statewide consortium of future K-12 teachers who take the practice of service-learning into public schools… read more
Carolina has honored a student, a professor and a staff member with the University Awards for the Advancement of Women. The award recognizes women who have mentored or supported their peers on campus, elevated the status of women or improved… read more