In the fall of 2009, a graduate student was sexually harassed by her adviser — but the problem didn’t stop there. After UNC’s confusing harassment policy prompted her to seek help, the dean she spoke to was legally required to file a report. Now, a year and a half later, her case has led the University to consider permanent changes in its harassment policy.
Read More »Catherine Dulac and Cori Bargmann were chosen as co-recipients of the 11th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize. The prize is named for UNC School of Medicine professor Edward Perl.
Read More »Russ Harris has been awarded UNC’s 15th annual John Atkinson Ferrell Prize and Lectureship. Harris will deliver a lecture on May 12 at the Carolina Club in the George Watts Hill Alumni Center for his lectureship.
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He’s found them as far away as Norway and as local as the UNC soccer fields. He’s even discovered them down the road in Durham and then taken them to West Africa.
Read More »The University honored its faculty working on the front lines of their fields Thursday night, celebrating their achievements in the context of UNC’s recent focus on innovation. The Carolina Innovations Seminar honored faculty who have been issued patents and developed technologies in the past year. Bruce Carney, executive vice chancellor and provost, was one of the first speakers to recognize the efforts of the inventors and stressed the importance of innovation at the University. “It’s spring, pollen is falling, and awards are starting to fall into people’s hands,” he said.
Read More »Patrick Thomas Akos, a professor in the UNC School of Education, was charged this afternoon on one count of felonious larceny of a motor vehicle and given citations for one count of reckless driving and six counts of hit and run.
Read More »The Environmental Law Institute has awarded UNC alumnus Todd Miller, executive director and founder of the N.C.
Read More »In its April meeting Tuesday, the Faculty Athletics Committee discussed ways to help varsity athletes meet their academic goals.
Read More »Dino S. Cervigni, a professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at UNC-CH, has been selected to receive an Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching by the UNC Board of Governors.
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When Barbara Entwisle was director of the Carolina Population Center, she faced more than $800,000 in cuts during her first two years at the helm.
Read More »Barbara Entwisle, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology, who has been with the University for 26 years, has been appointed as the vice chancellor for research.
Read More »UNC’s Bryan L. Roth, the Michael J. Hooker Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology in the School of Medicine, has received the PhRMA Foundation Award in Excellence in Pharmacology/Toxicology. Much of Roth’s research focuses on trying to understand how central nervous system drugs affect the brain’s neurons. The goal is to investigate existing treatments in order to find new treatments and mitigate side effects, particularly for such problems as schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder and eating disorders.
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Ralph Byrns has a Ph.D. in economics and has worked at nine universities — but many things in life still baffle him.
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In his new book, “Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next,” professor John Kasarda purports that cities should be built around airports, which he calls the “physical Internet.”
Read More »Stanford University’s Woods Institute for Environment has named Greg Characklis, an associate professor of environmental sciences and engineering at UNC, a 2011 Leopold Leadership Fellow.
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Ralph Byrns became an instant hit when he arrived at UNC’s economics department a decade ago. The beloved professor, who is popularly known for his annual “The Economics of Finding True Love” lecture, is currently teaching his last semester at the University, as he plans to move to Arizona in June to live closer to family as his wife combats illness. After being selected as this year’s Carolina Chiron Award recipient, Byrns was tapped to impart his wisdom through the “Last Lecture” at 6:30 p.m.
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Political science professor George Rabinowitz died Friday from a heart attack in Trondheim, Norway at a bus stop. He was 67. Rabinowitz’s legacy spans more than 40 years of teaching political science classes at the University. He was most prominently known outside UNC for a theory about American political behavior that rejected the status quo.
Read More »The council committee on fixed-term faculty has prepared a questionnaire to distribute to all UNC department chairs within the next month. The questionnaire has two aims: to find out if departments are following University policies and to find out if they have implemented guidelines the council has suggested.
Read More »The UNC faculty council passed a resolution Friday to allow fixed-term faculty and retired faculty voting and representation privileges in the council meetings. One amendment will require at least two retired faculty members be present at each faculty council meeting and allow them to speak on behalf of retired faculty.
Read More »George Rabinowitz, a political science professor known for his groundbreaking work in the field of American politics, died this weekend from a heart attack. Evelyne Huber, chairwoman of the political science department, was notified Saturday morning of Rabinowitz’s death in an email from his wife, Stuart Macdonald, said John Stephens, a political science professor. Rabinowitz and his wife were in Trondheim, Norway conducting research.
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