November 2015

The Howard W. Odum Professorship in Sociology was created in 1977, two years after the establishment of the Arts and Sciences Foundation. The original gift was donated anonymously by a former colleague of Odum, who founded the University’s department of sociology. The donor stipulated that the recipient be “an individual with imagination and vision, one […]

  From its earliest days, the Arts and Sciences Foundation recognized the importance of incorporating computer technology into the daily workings of the College.  These photos appeared in the 1986 Foundations for Excellence campaign report and show Foundation Board members learning how computers could be used in the College. The following excerpt from the Foundation’s

In 1997, Rick Dees ’72, one of America’s leading radio entertainers and host of the longest continually running hit music countdown in the world, established an annual media production award in the department of communication. The Rick Dees Student Production Fund provides awards to multiple students each year, paying for such production expenses as talent

  How does a university support its accomplished faculty? “The gift that we may appreciate the most is the gift of time,” says UNC music professor and jazz studies director Jim Ketch. That’s certainly one of the aims of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities through its Faculty Fellows Program. In 1992, Ketch became

In 1999, Mary Turner Lane established the Mary Turner Lane Award in Women’s Studies, an annual award honoring a senior women’s studies major or minor who has made an outstanding contribution to research on women’s issues. Lane created the fund to encourage and further academic research in women’s studies. Lane was the founding director of