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Preparation for teaching assistants varies across departments

By Lindsay Barth | December 2

Often the pressure put on undergraduate students to navigate academia can be influenced by the interactions between the student and the teacher ...

Q&A with Matthew Andrews, sports and American history professor

By Ziyad Habash | December 1

Matthew Andrews is a UNC sports historian who studies the links between athletics and American culture and history. He earned his doctorate from Chapel ...

Medical Examiner and Assistant Professor Vincent Moylan sits in the presentation room in Brinhous-Bullitt Building on Sunday.

NC medical examiners search for the answers to the questions death leaves behind

By Liz Bell | November 30

Dr. Kim Janssen doesn’t do scary movies. She hates watching bad things happen and can’t stand to see someone suffer.

Faculty Athletics Committee talks Mizzou at listening session

By Belle Hillenburg | November 19

Only two faculty members attended the Faculty Athletics Committee’s listening session Wednesday, but the committee still led a discussion about the ...

Board of Governors to release closed meeting vote totals on chancellors' raises

By Grant Masini | November 13

The UNC-system Board of Governors gathered at 2 p.m. today for a previously unscheduled meeting. For 45 minutes, the board discussed salary increases ...

Professor Betsy Sleath, the chair of the Division of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy in the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has always know she wanted to write fiction as a hobby. After taking three creative writing courses at UNC, she wrote her book, Pelican Island Pharmacy, over the course of a year.

UNC pharmacy professor writes what she knows

By Kacey Rigsby | November 8

After 15 years of fiction-writing dreams, Betsy Sleath finally published her first book, “Pelican Island Pharmacy.”

Committee on women's status talks lactation rooms, fixed-term contracts

By Dylan Tastet | November 4

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UNC English professor pioneers research on Homer

By Jenni Ciesielski | November 4

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Joel and Melissa Hudley, professors in the UNC geology department, met when they were doing their masters at Birmingham University, and have been married for eleven years.

Scholarly Sweethearts: The Hudleys have a rock-solid marriage

By Christine Bang | November 2

The Hudleys are a couple who fit together like pieces in a puzzle, or if you’re a geologist, plates of the Earth’s crust.

Faculty Council talk Spellings, Student Stores at October meeting

By Ashlen Renner | October 30

“She hasn’t had the chance to come on campus, but I’ve already begun to have conversations with her about our university, what we do, who we are, ...

Aziz Sancar stands in the home he owns and runs for students from Turkey to adjust to life at UNC on Wednesday Oct. 28

UNC's Nobel Prize winner celebrates Turkish roots

By Katie Reeder | October 29

When Aziz Sancar’s wife woke him up at 5 a.m. on Oct. 7, he feared something terrible had happened to one of his family members in Turkey.

Professors Robin Cunningham and Linda Green sit outside of Hanes Hall. Cunningham, a lecturer in the Department of Statistics & Operations Research, and Green, a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, have been married for 25 years.

‘Greenham’ has a ‘math nerd romance’

By Christine Bang | October 26

What is the solution when you add one mathematician and one statistician together? Greenham.

Computer science majors outpace department’s budget, faculty

By Wei Zhou | October 26

The computer science department at UNC is using one of the largest classrooms on campus, but students still complain they can’t get into classes they ...

Orientation and layoff facilitation positions aren't new

By Liz Bell | October 13

When geography professor Altha Cravey heard the University is looking for two full-time “orientation/layoff coordinators,” she was shocked.

UNC professor given Nobel Prize in Chemistry

By Victoria Mirian | October 7

Aziz Sancar, a UNC biochemistry and biophysics professor and researcher, earned the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday morning.

Dr. Kim Barrett (front), Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of California, San Diego, is one of the five candidates for Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences visited campus Tuesday for a public interview. Executive Vise Provost and Chief International Officer, Ronald Strauss (background) introduced her and lead the Q&A portion of the interview.

New dean candidate emphasizes diversity

By Felicia Bailey | September 30

For O.J. McGhee, hearing that there was still room for the University to grow diversity-wise rang especially true.

First Amendment Day keynote addresses online harassment

By Liz Bell | September 30

When Danielle Citron first shared her ideas about regulating online cyberbullying and harassment years ago, she was told she was going to break the internet. ...

Scandal reforms introduce syllabus requirements

By Sophie Golden | September 29

When information about an academic scandal lasting nearly two decades started surfacing in 2010, the University began making changes. One reform was new, ...

UNC faculty addresses Student Stores privatization

By Jonathan Ponciano | September 28

The Faculty Executive Committee wants the University to ensure the wishes of UNC Student Stores’ employees are honored if the privatization moves forward. ...

Faculty Council says new athletics committee will have Faculty Athletics ties

By Jane Wester | September 25

Friday’s Faculty Council meeting ended with applause for the unanimous approval of a resolution supporting academic freedom and English professor Neel ...