UNC’s School of Public Health has established a Center for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care, the first center of its kind in a school of public health. The center will advance and support research and practices that enable mothers and… read more
Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, has been nominated for this year’s James Beard Foundation Book Award in the “Writings on Food” category. Ferris is one of three nominees for this year’s… read more
Carolina faculty members Joy Kasson and Carla White-Harris have received the University’s first Carolina Women’s Leadership Council Mentoring Awards, presented at the council’s recent annual meeting. The awards are funded by an endowment… read more
Jean Folkerts, professor of honors and of media and public affairs at George Washington University, has been selected to become the next dean of UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The appointment, announced Feb. 24 and effective… read more
In the past year, the University has named 54 faculty members to endowed professorships – designations that are created through gifts to the University and that recognize excellence in teaching and research. A key goal of the Carolina First… read more
Bernadette Gray-Little, since 2004 the dean of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, was named Feb. 8 to succeed Robert Shelton as executive vice chancellor and provost, the University’s top academic officer. Saying he never had seen such unanimity… read more
Twenty-one teachers in nine categories have been honored with the University’s 2006 Teaching Awards, the highest campuswide recognition for teaching excellence. The honorees were recognized during halftime of the Feb. 4 Carolina-Clemson men’s… read more
Jane Brown’s mother taught her that to be part of a community, she would need to work for that community. Brown has been a faculty member at UNC for nearly 30 years, and from the start she saw the campus as her community. read more
Working half a world away from each other, two teams of medical scientists have identified what they believe is a simple, effective and inexpensive treatment to reduce lung problems associated with cystic fibrosis, the leading fatal genetic illness… read more
Alan Shapiro and Lawrence Naumoff ’68, members of UNC’s creative writing faculty, have won 2005 North Carolina Book Awards for fiction and poetry. read more