The UNC Board of Governors has conferred the O. Max Gardner Award, its highest faculty honor, on two distinguished professors, one from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and and the other from Western Carolina University. Recent Nobel Prize winner Dr. Aziz Sancar, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at …
Asheville attorney W. Louis Bissette, Jr., a partner and former president of the McGuire, Wood & Bissette law firm, will serve another two years as chair of the UNC Board of Governors, the policy-making body of the 17-campus University of North Carolina. His new term begins July 1. In addition, Asheville financial manager Roger Aiken …
UNC President Emeritus Thomas W. Ross is the 2016 recipient of the University Award, the highest honor given by the Board of Governors of the 17-campus University of North Carolina. Read More
The University of North Carolina system has retained Jones Day and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (WilmerHale), two nationally renowned law firms, to provide legal services to the University and the UNC Board of Governors in connection with a lawsuit filed earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Justice. Read More
Growing up in Peekskill, New York, David Shapiro often could be found with his favorite companion, his pet dog Buddy, who seemed undeterred by that young boy’s often debilitating stutter. Like other people with the fluency disorder, the boy spoke without hesitation when talking with his pet or when alone. Today, as an acclaimed speech-language …
Andrew P. Kelly, a resident scholar in education policy studies and director of the Center on Higher Education Reform at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), has been named to the newly created post of senior vice president for strategy and policy of the 17-campus University of North Carolina.
The instructions were simple. Claudia Pagliaro’s students had to create a language-based project for their future deaf and hard of hearing students using the UNCG School of Education’s SELF Design Studio. The students didn’t receive much direction, but that was the point. “I want them to go into the SELF Design Studio and try things. …
Dr. Cecil P. Staton, interim president of Valdosta State University in Georgia and vice chancellor for extended education for the University System of Georgia, has been elected chancellor of East Carolina University by the Board of Governors of the 17-campus University of North Carolina. UNC President Margaret Spellings placed Staton’s name in nomination today (April …
Brian Sickora, president and chief executive officer of WSKG Public Media in Binghamton, New York, has been named director and general manager of UNC-TV, the 12-station public television network licensed to the University of North Carolina system. The appointment was announced today (April 27) by the UNC Board of Governors during a special called meeting …
On March 31, 2016, Jose V. Sartarelli was officially installed as the sixth chancellor and ninth leader of the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Faculty, staff and students joined members of the Wilmington community for the historic event on Hoggard Lawn – in all, a gathering of nearly 2,000 people. A native of Brazil, Sartarelli …