A medical first: UNC pharmacy researchers are turning skin cells into cancer-hunting stem cells that destroy brain tumors known as glioblastoma — a discovery that can offer, for the first time in more than 30 years, a new and more effective… read more
Terry Magnuson, Sarah Graham Kenan professor and founding chair of the department of genetics at UNC, will assume his new post July 1. read more
The GAA Board of Directors presented the awards to Bob Blouin, dean of the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, and Joy Kasson, professor emerita in the American studies department. read more
Veteran Professor Steve Reznick ’73, facing ALS, is still working to make the world a better place. read more
Gregory W. Brown, a professor of finance and a Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar, has been named director of UNC’s Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at Kenan-Flagler Business School. read more
Bill McDiarmid ’69, who has led the School of Education for seven years, plans to step down as dean on Jan. 1 and return to teaching as an Alumni Distinguished Professor of education. read more
By any measure, Valerie Ashby ’88 (’94 PhD) has been considered a star of Carolina’s faculty with top-level administration potential. Now, Ashby will pursue just that — at Duke. read more
Joseph Haj ’88 (MFA), producing artistic director of UNC’s PlayMakers Repertory Company, has been named the next artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn. read more
Acclaimed researchers in HIV/AIDS and public health and a writer whose works have appeared on the page and stage were honored Friday with the GAA’s Faculty Service Award. The GAA Board of Directors presented the awards to Dr. Myron “Mike”… read more
Karen M. Gil plans to step down as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the end of the academic year to return to teaching in the psychology department. “There is never a ‘best’ time to leave a job that you love,” Gil wrote in… read more