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UNC men's basketball completes comeback against No. 18 UCLA, 76-74, in the CBS Sports Classic

| December 21

Faculty and Administration

American Academy of Arts and Sciences recognizes Hall

By From staff and wire reports | April 20

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall has been elected as a fellow in prestigious national honor society the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hall is a historian ...

Faculty sign off on new lectureship, English class

By Katia Martinez | April 17

On Friday McKay Coble saw the approval of a master lecturer position that would come in addition to the lecturer and senior lecturer positions that are ...

Yankaskas settles appeal, agrees to retire from UNC

April 17

The University reached a settlement last week with Bonnie Yankaskas, ending an 18-month standoff in which the embattled cancer researcher appealed a salary ...

Yankaskas drops appeal, agrees to retire from UNC this year

April 15

Bonnie Yankaskas, a highly regarded UNC cancer researcher, settled her dispute with the University today, agreeing to dismiss her appeal, provide the ...

Executive Group emphasizes social media use for future

By From staff and wire reports | April 15

Students recommended that social media play a larger role in the University’s emergency response policy at a meeting Thursday of the Executive Group, ...

Ceremony honors faculty, teaching assistants and staff

By From staff and wire reports | April 13

Ceremony honors faculty, teaching assistants and staff UNC students honored three faculty members, six teaching assistants and one staff member at the ...

UNC’s harassment policy to be rewritten

By Melissa Abbey | April 13

In the fall of 2009, a graduate student was sexually harassed by her adviser — but the problem didn’t stop there. After UNC’s confusing harassment ...

Dulac and Bargmann win Perl Prize for neuroscience

By From staff and wire reports | April 13

Catherine Dulac and Cori Bargmann were chosen as co-recipients of the 11th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize. The prize is named for UNC School of Medicine ...

Harris chosen as 15th Ferrell Prize winner and lecturer

By From staff and wire reports | April 13

Russ Harris has been awarded UNC’s 15th annual John Atkinson Ferrell Prize and Lectureship. Harris will deliver a lecture on May 12 at the Carolina ...

Photo: UNC professor involves students in filmmaking process

Film professor involves students in documentary process

By Jacqueline Kantor | April 11

He’s found them as far away as Norway and as local as the UNC soccer fields. He’s even discovered them down the road in Durham and then taken them ...

UNC faculty honored for achievements in innovation

By Nicole Comparato | April 8

The University honored its faculty working on the front lines of their fields Thursday night, celebrating their achievements in the context of UNC’s ...

Education professor faces felonious larceny charge

By From staff and wire reports | April 7

Patrick Thomas Akos, a professor in the UNC School of Education, was charged this afternoon on one count of felonious larceny of a motor vehicle and given ...

UNC’s Miller recognized with National Wetlands Award

By From staff and wire reports | April 7

The Environmental Law Institute has awarded UNC alumnus Todd Miller, executive director and founder of the N.C.

Faculty athletics reviews athlete academic options

By From staff and wire reports | April 6

In its April meeting Tuesday, the Faculty Athletics Committee discussed ways to help varsity athletes meet their academic goals.

Cervigni honored for excellence in teaching by Board

By From staff and wire reports | March 30

Dino S. Cervigni, a professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at UNC-CH, has been selected to receive an Annual Award for Excellence ...

Entwisle to continue research

By Will Doran | March 28

When Barbara Entwisle was director of the Carolina Population Center, she faced more than $800,000 in cuts during her first two years at the helm.

Barbara Entwisle named V.C. for Research on Friday

By From staff and wire reports | March 27

Barbara Entwisle, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, who has been with the University for 26 years, has been appointed as the vice chancellor ...

Medical school professor Roth wins pharmacy award

By From staff and wire reports | March 24

UNC’s Bryan L. Roth, the Michael J. Hooker Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine, has received the PhRMA Foundation Award ...

Ralph Byrns, this year's winner of The Carolina Chiron Award for Excellence in Teaching, spoke in Gerrard Hall. His talk was part of the "Last Lecture" series which was introduced to UNC in 2008. Byrn's Lecture, entitled "Mysteries and Puzzles, Form and Substance" gave advice about life and encouraged people to value the important things in life-- namely relationships.
Byrns teaches economics at UNC and will be leaving next year for Arizona, but said he has loved his time at UNC.

Ralph Byrns says goodbye in 'last lecture'

By Jeanna Smialek | March 23

Ralph Byrns has a Ph.D. in economics and has worked at nine universities — but many things in life still baffle him.

Dr. John D. Kasarda, author of "Aerotropolis" and Director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, has published more than 100 articles and nine books on airport cities, aviation infrastructure, and economic development. He coined the term 'aerotropolis,' which stresses placing airports in the center with cities growing around them. Recently, he was cited in Times Magazine's article on '10 Ideas that will Change the World.'

UNC professor’s ‘aerotropolis’ vision goes worldwide

By Kristina Kinard | March 23

In his new book, “Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next,” professor John Kasarda purports that cities should be built around airports, which he ...