'green' chemistry, great mentoring win $500k prize
Chemist Joseph M. DeSimone won the prestigious Lemelson-MIT Prize for his pioneering inventions, entrepreneurship and mentoring. "Joe is clearly one of the most inventive researchers in all of science,” said MIT's Robert S. Langer in nominating DeSimone for the award.
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Holden Thorp’s elevation to Chancellor is fabulous news for Carolina and it presents a new opportunity for the College of Arts and Sciences. With our two previous deans now serving as Chancellor and as Provost, we can be assured that the University’s top leaders share our convictions about the importance and centrality of the College to “the Carolina experience.”
Carolina’s budding poets, essayists, novelists and short-story artists will soon have plentiful opportunities to study with leading literary figures, thanks to a new gift to Creative Writing from alumna Sallie Shuping-Russell.
Southern studies guru John Shelton Reed and fellow pork pro Dale Volberg Reed have teamed up with pig-pushing alum William McKinney to give us the first definitive guide to the people, places and culinary secrets behind the world's best barbecue.
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