Jerry Lucido, vice provost for admissions and enrollment management, has accepted the same position at the University of Southern California, and Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Nancy Suttenfield is leaving to become Wake Forest… read more
No major corporation goes about its day-to-day business without considering its public image. Daniel J. Edelman and his companies address these concerns every day. Edelman, founder and chairman of Daniel J. Edelman Inc., will discuss the… read more
The 2005 UNC graduate accused of driving a Jeep SUV through an area near the Pit just before noon on March 3, striking nine people, has sent a letter to The News & Observer of Raleigh saying that he was prepared to spend the rest of his life in… read more
Frank Rich, op-ed columnist and former theater critic at The New York Times, will be on campus to discuss art, culture and politics on March 6 as a Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor in the College of Arts and… read more
Superior Court Judge Howard Manning Jr. ’65, whose most famous ruling – the Leandro public school funding case – secured for all North Carolina children an equal opportunity to receive a sound, basic education, will speak on Friday, Feb. 24 at… read more
Holocaust expert Deborah Lipstadt will headline the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies’ spring lecture series at UNC with a talk on April 10. read more
After a national competition in undergraduate education that drew more than 675 proposals, the Ford Foundation has selected UNC as one of 27 higher education institutions to receive $100,000 grants for projects that promote academic freedom and… read more
Joan Didion, author of the best-selling memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, will speak on campus on Feb. 28. The book recently won the 2005 National Book Award for nonfiction. read more
Bob Woodward, best-selling author and assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, will kick off the spring season of Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Dean’s Speaker Series on Jan. 17. read more
Hoping to spur discussions about free speech, filmmaker and UNC communication studies Professor Gorham Kindem will present a special screening of his award-winning new documentary Beyond the Wall at the Varsity Theater in Chapel Hill Sunday, Dec. 4… read more