From the back seat of his parents’ car, traveling north along Route 17 from Elizabeth City to Norfolk, eight-year-old Bland Simpson stares westward into the gloom of the Great Dismal Swamp. A placid canal skirts the road, and beyond there’s an ever-present curtain of loblolly pine, red maple and cypress trees. “Don’t ever go in…
After forty years of improving the health of North Carolina’s citizens, AHEC is just hitting its stride. The North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program, based at Carolina, sends out hundreds of faculty members to towns across the state to teach, to care for patients and to look for ways to improve how each…
When asked to picture where he will be five years from now – or even 10 years from now – the answer for Josh Wilkes is simple: “investment banking.” The 2007 Carolina graduate and Carolina Covenant Scholar will earn his MBA from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School in May 2013. He will work for Wells Fargo…
When Raymond Sawyer graduates from Carolina in May, it will be the end of an era – at least for UNC’s Marching Tar Heel band and the Sawyer family. For the past 17 years, a Sawyer has played and marched in the band. “It’s one of the longest-running continuous memberships by one family I think…
In an upper room of University United Methodist Church, Melodie Tun, a second-grader from Morris Grove Elementary, and Carolina student Katie Morris have been working on stage presence. As Morris plays Adele’s “Skyfall” and Taylor Swift’s “22” on the piano, Tun sets her shoulders, takes a deep breath and reaches for the high notes. This…
As she grieved the loss of a friend, UNC’s Renee Alexander Craft discovered the way to honor her friend’s memory. “I’m a writer and I fell back on my craft.”
Ed Samulski has a thing for Monarch butterflies. Not as a collector, but as a chemist with a crazy idea about how he might harness their hidden power. “If you were to ask me, ‘What is the blackest thing you’ve ever seen?’ I would say, ‘the black on a Monarch butterfly,’” he said. “It is…
In her 1984 hit song, Tina Turner asks, “What’s love got to do with it?” suggesting it’s nothing but a “second-hand emotion.” Apologies to Tina, but Barbara Fredrickson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Carolina and author of the new book Love 2.0, disagrees: Love is not a second-hand emotion, but an essential ingredient to…
In August 2002 the First Broad River had turned to puddles. Only a small pond kept the City of Shelby from running out of water. City manager Grant Goings asked neighboring Kings Mountain for water, but Kings Mountain was already selling all it could spare to Bessemer City. Goings, though, knew that Bessemer City’s water…
In just over a year, Carolina has gone from having almost no space to incubate student or faculty ventures to a growing number of incubation spots. In fact, the University is thinking about how it can work on and off campus to help aspiring entrepreneurs build exciting ventures. Startups on campus are just the beginning…
This past December, Tar Heels everywhere turned their eyes to the UNC…