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
As the eyes of the nation watched, Jerry Blackwell ’84 (’87 JD) took center stage as special prosecutor in a Minneapolis courtroom in late March and did what a good lawyer does best: He told jurors a story. read more
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services asked the UNC System whether it could help with the state’s COVID-19 vaccination plans. Norma Houston ’86 (’89 JD) was tapped to lead the effort. read more
Jerry Blackwell ’84 (’87 JD) usually practices corporate law, but he was tapped to lead the criminal case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with killing George Floyd. read more
Timothy Beatley ’85 (MA) has made the loss of migratory paths and other human-made impacts on birds his life’s work, pondering their well-being since childhood, when he became enchanted by the elegance of avian flight and their lyrical language. read more
Joe Troop ’05 and his Buenos Aires-based “Latingrass” quartet Che Apalache were on the cusp of a breakthrough year at the beginning of 2020. Then the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the entire music business. read more
Skyward seems to be the natural heading for Lindsey Jefferies ’12 — even if she had a rough takeoff. read more
“If we are all products of our systems, how do we make these systems compassionate?” asks Sara Schairer ’99. read more
Mackenzie Ross “Mack” Hollins ’16 Hollins connected kids’ lack of knowledge to their own resistance to reading. To them, reading wasn’t cool. Hollins decided that if anyone could change that attitude, it was a young football pro. read more
When she was a little girl and ’twas the night before Christmas, Elinor Dixon Hawkins ’50 would nearly burst with excitement. “It was my favorite night of the year,” recalled Hawkins, who at age 93 still feels that excitement. read more