Letter… Take a Chance on Me The cover story in the September/October issue of the Review is available online to Carolina Alumni members. The complete digital edition of the Review also is… read more
Four ambitious and highly promising professors in diverse fields have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at Carolina. They are Thomas Hofweber, an associate professor of… read more
The Society of Professional Journalists has honored retired Professor Chuck Stone of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication with the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given for a lifetime of contribution and service… read more
Carolina posted a 72 percent success rate in keeping faculty members who were recruitment targets of other universities in the last year – the highest in five years. In the 2006-07 academic year, 87 faculty members received offers from other… read more
Jan Johnson Yopp ’70, senior associate dean and Walter Spearman Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been appointed dean of the Summer School beginning January 2008. A faculty member in the journalism school since… read more
A history professor at the University of Oklahoma who has directed that university’s Native American Studies program has been hired as the director of the American Indian Center at UNC. Clara Sue Kidwell, who was selected after a nationwide search,… read more
Four UNC professors and the chancellor have been elected 2007 fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and another professor has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to Chancellor James Moeser, new arts and… read more
Thomas James, dean of UNC’s School of Education for four years, is closing the book on Carolina and starting a new chapter in his career at Columbia University. James will take over as provost at Columbia University’s Teachers College, named the… read more
Acting on a proposal created last year by former Provost Dick Richardson, the UNC Employee Forum has asked for $100 million from the Carolina First capital campaign to set up an endowment that would provide free tuition for children of UNC faculty… read more
faculty members have been selected to receive UNC’s 2007 distinguished professorships, which are among the highest campuswide recognitions of excellence. Honorees come from the College of Arts and Sciences and the schools of law, medicine and… read more