As Hurricane Irene made its way up the Eastern Seaboard last August, hugging the coast from North Carolina to New York before heading inland over New England, it left major flooding in its wake. The storm also allowed Carolina researchers to put years of computer model development to the test by forecasting the storm surge [...]
Read more →The College of Arts and Sciences has completed two reviews launched last fall when questions were raised about some irregularly taught courses in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies. A review of courses taught in the department found 54 questionable classes among 616 offered between summer 2007 and summer 2011. According to the review, [...]
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Brent Lane sits on the Board of Directors of the Lost Colony Foundation as a layperson among eminent historians and archaeological experts. In such company, he said, often his greatest contribution is “to ask the obvious question everybody else is too smart to ask.” One such question has led to the discovery of markings that [...]
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Catherine Marshall, professor of educational leadership and policy in the School of Education, has won the 2012 Mary Turner Lane Award. Established in 1986, the award recognizes people who make outstanding contributions to the lives of women students, faculty, staff and administrators at Carolina. It is named after Mary Turner Lane, founding director of the [...]
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On Sunday morning, Kenan Stadium was a sea of students in their Carolina blue regalia. But by then, many students in Carolina’s professional schools had already turned their tassels. Each year the Office of University Events lays out a schedule of school and departmental ceremonies and receptions, a complicated map of who goes where and [...]
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When alumna Taffye Clayton, Carolina’s new vice provost for diversity and multicultural affairs, graduated in 1990, the diversity issue of the day was a free-standing Black Cultural Center. “There was this great coalition of students advocating for that space,” she said. “And I was a frequent visitor and user of the little cubicle in the [...]
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