The UNC Board of Trustees last week elected John Preyer ’90 as chairman and Malcolm Turner ’93 as vice chairman. Preyer, who had served as vice chair for the past two years, succeeds outgoing Chairman Dave Boliek Jr. ’90, an attorney… read more
Shelton “Shelley” Earp ’70 (MD, ’72 MS) plans to step down as director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in June 2024, University leaders announced this week. Earp, who has served as director since 2018, was the… read more
They came in the thousands to honor the memory of Zijie Yan, a brilliant, soft-spoken faculty member and nanoscience researcher killed in a campus shooting on Aug. 28. At a vigil held Aug. 30 at the Smith Center, the Carolina community came… read more
This article was updated at 3:26 p.m., Sept. 6, 2023. Just six days into the start of the fall semester, a UNC PhD student shot and killed an associate professor in the department of applied physical sciences on campus. No one else was… read more
The Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, housed in Kenan-Flagler Business School, will launch the Luther Hodges Scholars Program this fall. This undergraduate excellence program is aimed at addressing the most pressing issues facing business… read more
UNC’s Board of Trustees last week passed an antidiscrimination resolution aimed at more broadly applying the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down the use of race-based admissions programs at UNC. Originally drafted by board member… read more
Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz on July 19 apologized to UNC Board of Governors members for failing to notify them before he publicly announced plans to offer free tuition to students who meet certain income criteria. Some board members sharply… read more
Blair LM Kelley, the Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, is the new director of the Center for the Study of the American South. Kelley began her role July 1 at CSAS, which studies Southern culture to emphasize the… read more
UNC, in partnership with Duke University, has been awarded up to $50 million from the Food and Drug Administration to establish a center that will work with FDA scientists to conduct research that will better inform and support the agency’s… read more
A team led by UNC professor Jodi Magness uncovered mosaic panels depicting episodes of the biblical prophet Samson as well as Noah’s Ark in a late Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel’s lower Galilee. Magness,… read more