November 2015

The Margaret and Paul A. Johnston Professorships were established in 1987 by a bequest of more than $10 million from Paul A. Johnston’s estate. The series of professorships in the College of Arts and Sciences honors retired faculty members. The number of professorships varies, as does the academic disciplines to which they are assigned. Johnston […]

  In this remarkable photo taken in September 1949 aboard the French Liner SS De Grasse, a young Carolina graduate at the beginning of his distinguished academic career sits in the front row.  Roy C. Moose ’49 (Ph.D. ’65), is third from the right in the light-colored suit, and was on his way to study

Bernard Boyd was more than just a professor of religious studies at UNC. Boyd, who served as the James A. Gray Professor of Biblical Studies at UNC from 1950 until his death in 1975, was an inspiration to those around him, using his love of English and biblical literature to bring the sacred scriptures of

In 1988, Archie Green and his wife, Louanne, established the Archie Green Fund for Occupational Folklife Studies. The fund combines Green’s love of folklore and Carolina. A leader in the field of folklore, Green established the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in 1976 and contributed to the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC

The following article includes excerpts from a College of Arts and Sciences’ website feature, posted April 21, 2009. In 1989, the Blyden and Roberta Jackson Graduate Fellowship Fund was established in the College of Arts and Sciences by friends and colleagues of the couple, who were instrumental in advancing Carolina’s early African-American faculty to tenure-track