University Leadership News

In opening remarks last week at a conference studying the role of slavery on university campuses worldwide, UNC Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz said he’s proud of work being done by a University commission that has recommended removing names from… read more

Aimee Wall ’97 (JD, ’98 MPH), senior associate dean and professor of public law and government at the School of Government, has been named dean of the school. She will begin her new role on Feb. 27. She replaces Mike Smith ’78 (JD), who… read more

María R. Estorino has been appointed vice provost for University Libraries and University librarian. Estorino, who had been had been serving as interim vice provost and librarian since May, joined the University Libraries in 2017 as associate… read more

The University this week named Jennifer Conrad, the Dalton McMichael Distinguished Professor of finance, as interim dean for the Kenan-Flagler Business School, following the abrupt resignation of Doug Shackelford ’80 on Sept. 16. Conrad has… read more

David Routh ’82, vice chancellor for development and the chief architect behind the University’s record $4.25 billion — and counting — Campaign for Carolina, said he will retire at the end of this year when the fundraising effort is… read more

Beth Mayer-Davis, the Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of nutrition and medicine, was named dean of The Graduate School, effective Sept. 1. For the past eight years, Mayer-Davis, who is also director of the UNC Nutrition Obesity… read more

Stanley C. Ahalt has been appointed inaugural dean of Carolina’s new School of Data Science and Society, which launches this fall and will use data to solve problems and help improve lives in North Carolina and across the globe. The school,… read more

The University accepted on March 10 the resignation of Terry Magnuson as UNC’s vice chancellor for research. He will remain on the faculty at the School of Medicine. The resignation is the result of a report posted March 8 by the Office of… read more

The associate provost and director in the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid had been serving in the interim role since November 2020. read more