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
Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of chemistry at UNC, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine a U. S. scientist can receive. DeSimone’s election to the… read more
A Carolina faculty member has won the prestigious Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering for the third year in a row. James F. Cahoon, an assistant professor of chemistry, is the latest to receive the award given to researchers early in… read more
Carolina has been selected to help the U.S. once again be first in the world in college graduates. Abigail Panter, senior associate dean for undergraduate education and a psychology professor, will receive $3 million over four years to… read more