It took Carly Collette ’17 and her crew only minutes to fly an Air Force KC-46 refueling tanker from Burlington to skim the top of Kenan Stadium before the Homecoming game against Wake Forest, but her approach to that moment took five intense… read more
Michelle Shomo Pierce ’00 stands at the head of her classroom, a stack of red cups on the table in front of her. On the whiteboard behind her, she’s drawn a series of arrows. Right. Left. Down. Up. “OK, my arm is a robot. It will only… read more
Ami Vitale ’94, a photographer and filmmaker, and Eileen Mignoni ’09 (MA), a visual journalist, have spent years behind their cameras documenting environmental issues and exploring the intersections of nature, culture, social justice and… read more
A 474-page coffee table tome by Ron Smith ’79 covers the first 70 years of UNC basketball with meticulously researched depth and breadth and full-page glossies. Lennie Rosenbluth ’57 calls it “the Mona Lisa of Tar Heel basketball books.” read more
John Bare ’87 didn’t quite finish Fair-Skinned Brunette With the Porcelain Shine during the span of November’s National Novel Writing Month, but he came close, typing the final period on the day after Christmas. It’s out now, dedicated to… read more
At a career crossroads, Kevin Thomas ’12 eventually realized that Chapel Hill was where he belonged; there, he could make more of a difference. read more
Michelle Fishburne ’84 says she’s not an oral historian, but for six months in 2020, she collected 300 stories from people in 37 states and Washington, D.C., capturing the day-to-day lives of Americans during a time of heightened political,… read more
Two days after graduation, Jack Allison ’66 and his fellow UNC Men’s Glee Club members flew to New York to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, opening for the Dave Clark Five, the superstar British Invasion rock band. For Allison, who made a… read more
B4’s volunteers helped residents see a life beyond detention, such as visiting the UNC campus and creating plans for when they were released. read more
When COVID-19 flared up in China and began spreading as a pandemic, Joanna Hutchins ’94 found herself on the frontier of figuring out how to navigate the world’s new abnormal. She was on a business trip to Singapore when that country and… read more