Four ambitious and highly promising professors in diverse fields have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at Carolina. They are Thomas Hofweber, an associate professor of… read more
Award-winning Southern author and English scholar Reynolds Price will deliver a free public lecture Oct. 3 at the University. Price will receive the University’s 2007 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual Thomas Wolfe Lecture at 7:30 p.m. read more
The Society of Professional Journalists has honored retired Professor Chuck Stone of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication with the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given for a lifetime of contribution and service… read more
Godfrey Cheshire ’73 has been recognized with this year’s John L. Haber Award, given in collaboration with the New York Carolina Club, the UNC department of dramatic art, Carolina Performing Arts and the GAA. It was presented at this year’s annual… read more
Marissa Heyl ’07 stood in her online journalism class and announced to everyone that she was starting a student magazine. Among all the magazine racks that dot the campus, not a single publication put issues of social justice on the cover, and she… read more
Eight communications professionals will be inducted into the N.C. Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations halls of fame and the N.C. Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame on April 1. The halls are based in UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass… read more
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
Five longtime supporters of UNC are the 2006 recipients of the William Richardson Davie Award. They are Alan Dickson of Charlotte; Leonard Herring ’48 of North Wilkesboro; Jim Hynes ’62 of Charlotte; Allen Morgan ’65 of Memphis, Tenn.; and U.S. read more
James Taylor and the N.C. Symphony performed Taylor’s widely beloved – and UNC’s unofficial anthem – Carolina in My Mind before a capacity crowd in Memorial Hall on Sunday. The event marked Chancellor James Moeser’s presentation to… read more
A chemist forging new research methods, a music historian bringing 16th-century theater to bear on the present, a pharmacologist who discovered a group of protein regulators and a scholar bringing to light the social implications of medical policy… read more