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UNC awards six honorary degrees at Spring commencement

Carolina Campus Community Garden celebrates one-year anniversary

Multiple UNC graduate programs ranked by U.S. News & World Report

National leaders in innovation hold first NACIE public forum at UNC

UNC awards six honorary degrees at Spring Commencement

UNC awarded honorary degrees to a group that included literary luminaries, eminent educators and a prominent businessman during the May 8 Commencement ceremony.
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Mary Sue Coleman



This year’s honorary degree recipients are:

-Timothy Burnett, '62 UNC graduate and president of Bessemer Improvement Company, a commercial and industrial real estate firm, of Greensboro;
-Mary Sue Coleman, '69 UNC graduate (Ph.D.) and president of the University of Michigan, of Ann Arbor, Mich.;
-Ernest Gaines, considered one of the premier American writers of the second half of the 20th century, of Oscar, La.;
-John Grisham, the author of 25 books, including numerous legal thrillers, of Charlottesville, Va;
-Dwight T. Pitcaithley, currently professor of history at New Mexico State University and former chief historian of the U.S. National Park Service, of La Cruces, N.M.; and
-Edward O. Wilson, of Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University professor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction and this year’s Commencement speaker.

More: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4497/107/
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Campus Community Garden celebrates one-year anniversary

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Peter White (left) director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, presents a bunch of kale to Chancellor Holden Thorp at the Community Garden first-year anniversary celebration.

Dan Sears

What started as a vacant patch of University property in spring 2010 has been brought to abundant life by more than 175 volunteers and 1,500 hours of work to become the Carolina Campus Community Garden (CCCG).

From March to November of 2010, more than 2,500 pounds of organic produce were harvested and distributed weekly to the University’s lowest paid employees.

More: http://gazette.unc.edu/online-only.html#2

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Multiple UNC graduate programs ranked by U.S. News & World Report

UNC appears on more than 20 lists of schools, programs and specialty areas recently ranked for 2011 by U.S. News and World Report for the 2012 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” The magazine published its rankings in March.

More: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4386/68/

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National leaders in innovation host first public forum at UNC

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Chancellor Holden Thorp (left) listens to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke. At right is Steve Case, chairman of Revolution and The Case Foundation.

Dan Sears

The UNC community had a rare glimpse into the work of a group of President Barack Obama’s advisers on economic policy when they convened March 15 at the Kenan-Flagler Business School for their first meeting outside Washington, D.C.

About 400 local entrepreneurs, members of the campus community and others interested in innovation came to listen to – and question – U. S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, Gov. Beverly Perdue and the members of the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE). Chancellor Holden Thorp is a NACIE member.

For more information about the March 15 event, visit http://gazette.unc.edu/archives2/11mar30/file.1.html

For more information about NACIE, visit http://www.eda.gov/NACIE
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