Four highly promising faculty members at UNC have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty, an honor that recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or… read more
While UNC has shown success in preempting offers from other universities, recession-inspired budget cutting is making it more difficult for Carolina to convince faculty to stay once more lucrative opportunities arise. And at least one expert who… read more
Alumni from opposite ends of North Carolina have been turning out at events hosted by the GAA to welcome UNC’s new chancellor, Carol Folt, to their hometowns. They also have been welcoming Folt, who arrived on campus July 1, to Carolina’s… read more
For the 13th consecutive year, Carolina has been ranked fifth among the nation’s best public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report. California-Berkeley ranked first among national public universities, followed by UCLA… read more
Karol Kain Gray is leaving Chapel Hill after 20 months as UNC’s vice chancellor for finance and administration. Gray, who spent 33 years in financial, organizational and management work at Stony Brook University in New York before coming to… read more
A new multidisciplinary clinical research center at the University — funded by a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health — is being created to seek better ways to address the costly public health issue of… read more
Dean Smith will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom later this year. Smith retired in 1997 after 36 years as head coach of Carolina basketball teams that he built into one of the most storied programs in college sports. The Presidential… read more
An Orange County Superior Court judge has affirmed the life-without-parole sentence for Laurence Alvin Lovette for his role in the murder of Eve Carson ’08. Lovette’s attorneys asked Judge Allen Baddour ’93 to allow him an opportunity for… read more
Nine months after the death of Faith Hedgepeth, little information remains available to the public. Hedgepeth, a junior at UNC, was found dead in her off-campus apartment in Durham on Sept. 7. Police have been investigating the death as a… read more
The University will welcome 25 scholars — all aspiring to careers in the sciences — this fall into the inaugural Chancellor’s Science Scholars Program. The incoming cohort includes 17 scholars from North Carolina. The first-year students… read more