Barbara Rosser Hyde ’83 of Memphis, Tenn., has been appointed to a four-year term on the UNC Board of Trustees to begin July 1. read more
Law School Dean Gene Nichol, known for attracting a couple of high-profile experts to the school and for airing his strong views on law and politics in a newspaper column, will leave Chapel Hill to become president of the College of William and Mary. read more
Holden Thorp ’86, who has served as director of UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center since 2001, has been named chairman of the department of chemistry. read more
New deans have been named to head UNC’s schools of public health and dentistry – one selected from Carolina’s faculty and the other recruited from his alma mater. read more
The UNC Board of Trustees has approved a Chapel Hill faculty appointment for UNC System President Molly Broad when she retires, formalizing a verbal promise made when she accepted the presidency of the 16-campus system. read more
Chancellor James Moeser has spent much of the summer traveling throughout North Carolina as part of the first “Carolina Connects” tour, reminding North Carolinians how UNC serves the state at large. read more
Carolina moved a step closer to the possibility of advertising signage in the University’s largest sports stadiums in late July when the Board of Trustees authorized the chancellor to determine the best way to handle the issue of revenue enhancement… read more
Paul Solomon has been named interim dean of UNC’s School of Information and Library Science, effective July 1. Solomon, who has been at SILS since 1991 and has been one of the school’s associate deans, will serve during a search for a new dean. read more
Chancellor James Moeser is traveling across the state this summer to remind North Carolinians that UNC truly is a “university of the people.” read more
An administrator experienced in working with students at several Northeastern universities has been tapped to be UNC’s new vice chancellor for student affairs. read more