America's first public university, chartered in 1789, with world leadership in public health, medicine, the liberal arts, and the sciences.
11 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Chancellor
Office of the Chancellor
Thank you for steady leadership of America's first public university, holding its promise of light and liberty open to every North Carolinian.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Office of the Provost
Thank you for bringing a roboticist's systems mind and a teacher's warmth to Carolina's academic mission as provost.
Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Thank you for mapping how our cells repair damaged DNA and keep circadian time, work honored with the Nobel Prize, and for the generous home you built for students far from home.
Yeargan-Bate Eminent Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Epidemiology; Director, Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases
Thank you for HPTN 052, the trial that proved HIV treatment is prevention, one of the great public health results of our lifetime.
William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Department of Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology
Thank you for decades of coronavirus research that prepared the world for a pandemic and helped deliver the antivirals when they were needed most.
Dean Emerita and Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita
Department of Health Behavior
Thank you for pioneering evidence-based cancer communication and for the years of decanal leadership that made Gillings a model public school of public health.
Carl W. Ernst Distinguished Professor of History
Department of History
Thank you for Native Nations, a thousand-year history of Indigenous power in North America honored with the Pulitzer Prize, and for teaching early America whole.
Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Thank you for the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, science showing how moments of joy, gratitude, and love compound into flourishing lives.
John P. Barker Distinguished Professor of Music; Founding Director, Next Level Cultural Diplomacy Program
Department of Music
Thank you for taking hip hop around the world through Next Level and for scholarship that treats the DJ as the artist they truly are.
Royce Murray Distinguished Term Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Thank you for new polymers that pull PFAS from drinking water and for chemistry that makes fluorinated plastics finally recyclable.
Boyd C. Tinsley Distinguished Professor
School of Law
Thank you for your unflinching writing on poverty in North Carolina and for teaching constitutional law as if the poorest citizens count fully.
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A celebration of the faculty and academic leaders of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, assembled entirely from public information as an act of credit and gratitude. It is not a claim of endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or partnership by anyone featured or by the university. Every person is real and publicly documented, with a cited source of truth on their card; we never invent a person or a claim, and we prize accuracy over speed. Anyone featured can ask to be updated or removed at any time. Names and marks belong to their owners.