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
The quiet talk in the halls of UNC’s genetics labs that’s been going on for years turned out to be accurate. Oliver Smithies, who has labored at the tedious task of genetics research for more than 50 years, was honored Monday with the 2007 Nobel… read more
Oliver Smithies took some time out Sunday to fly his motor glider (he also spent some time in the lab, not an atypical weekend activity). It was an uneventful day, as the winds were light and he couldn’t gain altitude. The “up-current,” as he… read more
The quiet talk in the halls of UNC’s genetics labs that’s been going on for years turned out to be accurate. Oliver Smithies, who has labored at the tedious task of genetics research for more than 50 years, was honored Oct. 8 with the 2007 Nobel… read more