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
Former UNC law school Dean Gene Nichol, whose contentious two-and-a-half year tenure as president of the College of William & Mary ended in February, will return to the UNC faculty this summer. Nichol will teach constitutional law, federal… read more
Gene Nichol, former dean of the law school who left two and a half years ago to take the presidency of the College of William & Mary, resigned from that position with little warning this week after he was notified his contract would not be… read more
For Judith W. Wegner’s work in heightening the law school’s engagement with public service, Wegner was honored Friday evening with the General Alumni Association’s Faculty Service Award. read more
Dan Reed, founder of an ambitious Triangle universities consortium known as the Renaissance Computing Institute, has left the University to take a position with Microsoft Research. Reed, who also has been Chancellor’s Eminent Professor and senior… read more
Steve Jones ’74, dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, will step down next summer at the end of a five-year term. “My reason for stepping down is simply to go back to my original plan and enjoy the flexibility of being fully engaged in a… read more
Eight faculty members have been selected as the first class of Faculty Engaged Scholars at the University. In this two-year program, the scholars will learn how to connect their faculty work with the needs of a community, and they will apply their… read more
Noted journalist and policy expert Hodding Carter III, a professor of leadership and public policy at UNC, will deliver Carolina’s December Commencement address. Chancellor James Moeser will preside at the Dec. 16 ceremony at 2 p.m. in the Dean… read more