EDITOR’S NOTE: After months of preparing to return to campus, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz made a wrenching decision this week to shift the University back to remote instruction. With Entrepreneur in Residence Buck Goldstein, Guskiewicz teaches a graduate seminar called The American Professoriate. These are his reflections after the first day of class. By… READ MORE
Guskiewicz: Faculty ‘solving the grand challenges of our time’
CHAPEL HILL – Viruses are Carolina’s thing. Whether it’s pioneering work in HIV by Dr. Mike Cohen or development of the drug remdesivir by Dr. Ralph Baric to treat COVID-19, the university has a focus – and a reputation – for taking on some of the world’s nastiest infections. While professors teach the next generation, UNC Chapel… READ MORE
Guskiewicz: ‘We can do this safely’
CHAPEL HILL – Some of the plans are still coming together. But UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz says he’s confident students can safely return to campus this fall. “Most people are eager to get back,” Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video from a Zoom interview. “We’ll only do that if it is safe… READ MORE
Guskiewicz: Researcher, listener, conciliator
CHAPEL HILL – When he named Kevin Guskiewicz as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last week, UNC System Interim President Bill Roper named a nationally recognized concussion researcher, a listener and a conciliator. “Kevin Guskiewicz possesses the leadership qualities needed to take Carolina forward: strength, poise, humility, vision, the strong… READ MORE
Guskiewicz shares concerns about Silent Sam settlement
After listening to faculty and students, then-Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz of UNC-Chapel Hill sent the following letter to UNC Interim President Bill Roper and UNC Board of Governors Chair Randy Ramsey regarding the campus climate and concerns about the legal settlement of the Confederate Monument. December 11, 2019 President William RoperRandy Ramsey, Chair – UNC… READ MORE
2019 Davie Awards: Teresa Williams, Kel Landis, Art Pope
CHAPEL HILL (Nov. 19, 2019) – Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees presented the board’s highest honor this week to three individuals who exemplify dedication, commitment and service to the University. The three recipients of the 2019 William Richardson Davie Award are Teresa Holland Williams of… READ MORE
Carolina faculty roll out to explore NC
CHAPEL HILL – You don’t normally picture professors from UNC-Chapel Hill in Kinston. Or Eden. Or Rocky Mount. Or Cherokee. Or North Wilkesboro. Or Lumberton. But those are just some of the places they visited Oct. 16-18 on the Tar Heel Bus Tour, an effort launched in 1997 by the late Chancellor Michael Hooker. Interim… READ MORE
Low stone walls at Carolina
CHAPEL HILL – When Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz looks at the stone walls that surround UNC Chapel Hill’s campus, he doesn’t see barriers. He sees something easy to climb. Sure, there are distinct disciplines at Carolina. But in those low stone walls, Guskiewicz says in the accompanying video, he also sees a symbol of the… READ MORE
RTI’s research impact
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Together, UNC Chapel Hill, NC State University, Duke University and RTI International do $3.5 billion worth of research every year. “The opportunity that’s available to the four entities is to come together, to work collaboratively, and to try to attack really big problems in the world,” Wayne Holden, RTI International’s President and… READ MORE
RTI’s Nestor Ramirez finds himself at Chapel Hill
CHAPEL HILL – It was during a visit to UNC-Chapel Hill during his senior year in high school that it started to sink in with Nestor Ramirez. “It was like, ‘Here’s what the buildings look like, and here’s what the dorms look like,’” Ramirez, now a research education analyst at RTI International who designs student surveys,… READ MORE
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