The Carolina Women’s Leadership Council recently honored two UNC faculty members as outstanding mentors. Professor Janna Dieckmann, an assistant professor of nursing, received the council’s faculty-to-faculty mentoring award, and Professor Andrew… read more
Twenty-two teachers in nine categories are this year’s recipients of UNC’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, the highest campuswide recognition for teaching excellence. The award recipients were recognized during halftime of the UNC-NCSU men’s… read more
In the past year, 35 faculty members have been named to endowed professorships – designations that are created through gifts to the University and that recognize excellence in teaching and research. Gifts for endowed professorships are invested,… read more
The University looked inside its faculty for the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Holden Thorp ’86, a 14-year member of the chemistry department and currently its chair, will assume the deanship July 1, pending approval by the… read more
Housing for UNC faculty and staff is in the works on 63 acres of land on Homestead Road, marking the University’s first attempt to help with lower-cost housing. Carolina Commons will provide 60 condominium units to UNC employees. Roughly 53 of… read more
For his dedication to students and to the University, George Lensing Jr. was recognized Jan. 12 with the GAA’s 2007 Faculty Service Award. Given annually since 1990, the award recognizes faculty members whose service has had a lasting… read more
Two distinguished professors will teach at Carolina and at Duke University next year as part of an ongoing collaboration between the two schools. Harvard professor Peter Gomes, who delivered the 2005 Commencement address at Carolina, and New York… read more
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has awarded the distinction of fellow to three UNC faculty members. Fellows are recognized for their efforts to advance science or its applications. New fellows will be honored on Feb. 17 at… read more
Two UNC faculty members – an epidemiologist studying adverse birth outcomes and a scholar of American cultural engagement with Islam – have been named 2006-07 Fulbright Scholars. Jay Kaufman, an associate professor of epidemiology in UNC’s School… read more
Dr. Richard Goldberg, associate director of clinical research at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and chief of the division of hematology and oncology in the UNC School of Medicine, will be physician-in-chief for the N.C. Cancer Hospital,… read more