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New gift from the Craver family
Vicki ’92 and David Craver ’92 have made a transformative commitment to establish the Craver Family Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences.
Lights on the Hill
Lights on the Hill, a new monthly website feature highlighting College people who are putting service at the forefront, was launched in January.
Researchers launch resource for pandemic recovery
The Carolina Tracker project is a website offering day-to-day information on how North Carolinians’ lives have changed since the onset of the pandemic.
Carolina Away research course
Carmen Huerta-Bapat is helping students get involved in research on campus with the new course “Contemporary World Problems.”
Depression and anxiety among students worsen during pandemic
First-year college students are reporting symptoms of depression and anxiety significantly more often than they were before the coronavirus pandemic, according to a UNC study.
Carolina alumni named Rhodes Scholars
Peter Andringa and Sarah Mackenzie are Carolina’s 50th and 51st Rhodes Scholars.
$38.2 million NIH grants will support study of adolescent-to-adult health
The Carolina Population Center has received two grants that together will fund a new wave of Add Health.
Three College professors named AAAS fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has tapped three College faculty members as fellows.
Lecture draws parallels between post-Reconstruction and today
Henry Louis Gates Jr. was the spring 2021 Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor.
#Throwback: Wolfe’s wing alights anew
The Thomas Wolfe memorial was relocated to near New East in 1972. Thirty-four years later, it was placed in a memorial courtyard near Greenlaw Hall.
A doctor’s love of ancient medicine leads to gift for classics department
When Maury Hanson died at age 100 last spring, he bequeathed an unrestricted planned gift to the department of classics and to University Libraries.
‘We’re here to champion each student’s individual story’
Chloe Russell (B.A. journalism and mass communication ’07) was named associate dean for academic advising in September.
New gift endows speaker series promoting constructive public discourse
$8 million gift to fund Abbey Speaker Series in the UNC Program for Public Discourse.
Inside This Issue
Science Without Silos: Collaboration begets innovation. Also inside: Studying oceans apart; An entrepreneurial mindset; Next acts. View a reader-friendly flipbook.
Letter From the Dean
On March 1, 2020, I was named dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, after serving a year as interim dean. I had no idea how radically the world would shift before the month was even over.
Give to Carolina
When Maury Hanson died at age 100 last spring, he bequeathed an unrestricted planned gift to the department of classics and to University Libraries.
"It was a very pleasant surprise," said Donald Haggis, professor and chair of the classics department. “This comes as a welcome gift for a number of reasons.”
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