I had hoped to make this a light-hearted column about what’s it been like to be Carolina’s new chancellor. But much has changed since I started this job just a few months ago.
Most obvious is the state of our economy. Our nation faces fiscal challenges as steep as any in decades. We’re not immune on our campus.
Read more »Launched in 2005, the Carolina Family Scholarship provides need-based tuition scholarships to the children of qualifying Carolina employees who wish to attend any of the 16 UNC campuses or community colleges in North Carolina. Now, Carolina hopes to raise the endowment supporting it to $1 million.
Read more »Chapel Hill and Hong Kong are worlds apart—or are they? For UNC senior Adam Boyle, who made the 8,000-mile journey to study at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) during spring and summer of 2008, the two cities and their respective universities help connect students to their futures. Boyle completed an internship at CUHK as a Phillips Ambassadors Program Scholar, focusing on his dual interests of finance and Mandarin Chinese.
Read more »Having dedicated most of his adult life to practicing surgery, teaching and mentoring others, Thomas S. Royster, M.D., ’40 died on Aug. 4, 2008. But the legacy that he and his wife, Caroline H. Royster, established at UNC lives on through the vibrant, interdisciplinary graduate fellowship program they helped establish—the Royster Society of Fellows—as well as the Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Distinguished Professorship to support the society’s director.
Read more »In a rural village 90 minutes from Mexico City is a special place locals refer to simply as la casa—"the house." Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos is a largely self-sufficient facility that is home to nearly 1,000 Mexican orphans. The orphanage grows its own crops, raises livestock and maintains a large orange grove. What it does not have, however, is adequate medical and dental resources.
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