The University has created a new full-time Title IX Coordinator position and hired Christi Hurt, director of the Carolina Women’s Center, to serve in the post on an interim basis, Chancellor Holden Thorp said this week. The University will start a national search for a candidate to fill the role permanently, Thorp said in an…
Watch Chancellor-Elect Carol Folt talk with the UNC campus community during a welcome reception in her honor on Friday, April 12. The FedEx Global Education Center was packed with students, staff and faculty who were eager to hear Folt and spend some time with her. Folt, interim president of Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth Professor…
On a fast-paced day at Carolina, see how the campus community greeted Chancellor-Elect Folt on the Storify “#WelcomeCarol to Carolina.”
Students, staff and faculty are invited to meet Carolina’s Chancellor-Elect Carol L. Folt at a 4 p.m. reception today in the atrium of the FedEx Global Education Center. The University of North Carolina’s Board of Governors voted to elect Folt to be UNC-Chapel Hill’s 11th Chancellor on Friday. Visit www.unc.edu to watch video, view photos…
The 15th annual Graduate Student Recognition Celebration on April 10 recognized students who receive prestigious fellowships and awards while their work contributes significantly to Carolina’s mission and to a variety of fields of study. Forty-one students received Impact Awards. The awards are privately funded through the generous support of The Graduate School’s Graduate Education Advancement…
The CUBE at the Campus Y, a campus hub for social innovation, is hosting a video-based social innovation idea competition open to all undergraduate and graduate students at Carolina. Participants have until April 15 to submit a 1-minute video that outlines the problem they want to address, why they believe the idea is important and…
Los Pleneros de la 21 (LP21), a Spanish Harlem-based ensemble that performs traditional Afro-Puerto Rican music and dance, will perform in the Stone Center Auditorium on April 20 at 7 p.m. LP21′s two-day residency at UNC will include two free workshops on Friday, April 19 and conclude with a performance on April 20. The program…
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp has been named chair of a new National Research Council committee tasked with establishing and promoting a culture of safety in academic laboratory research. Thorp is among 13 academic and industry leaders who will review laboratory practices and attitudes, then make recommendations that would improve the safety performance of U.S.…
Six employees have been selected by Chancellor Holden Thorp to receive a 2013 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award, one of the most coveted distinctions the University gives faculty and staff. The late C. Knox Massey of Durham created the awards in 1980 to recognize “unusual, meritorious or superior contributions” by University employees. In 1984,…
A new series of lectures on brain research by four presenters following a popular 2012 What’s the Big Idea? series on the same topic will offered by UNC’s William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education, beginning April 11. The April 11 lecture “Stroke 101″ by David Huang, Director of UNC Healthcare Comprehensive Stroke Center,…
