Matt Hartman

2 weeks ago | theassemblync.com | Matt Hartman

Before Chris Clemens unexpectedly announced his resignation as UNC-Chapel Hill’s provost on April 3, he was embroiled in a contentious faculty battle over hiring at the university’s new School of Civic Life and Leadership (SCiLL), The Assembly has learned. Several professors have left the school over the past year, with some complaining SCiLL’s leadership inappropriately sidelined them as it hired more faculty.

3 weeks ago | indyweek.com | Matt Hartman

This story originally published online at The Assembly. The Baric Lab doesn’t look like much from the outside. Certainly not like a central node in a once-in-a-generation global event. At one of his laboratories, tucked away in a Gillings School of Public Health building on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, the only sign is taped to the window near a notice about the trash collection schedule.

4 weeks ago | theassemblync.com | Matt Hartman

The Baric Lab doesn’t look like much from the outside. Certainly not like a central node in a once-in-a-generation global event. At one of his laboratories, tucked away in a Gillings School of Public Health building on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, the only sign is taped to the window near a notice about the trash collection schedule. A nameplate nearby is blank, minus a bumper sticker for the unincorporated community of Little Switzerland, a postcard, and a sticker of a bat just below.

1 month ago | indyweek.com | Matt Hartman

This story originally published online at The Assembly. Kevin Howell owes his life to North Carolina State University. Now he will lead it. In a 2023 commencement address to graduates of the university’s College of Textiles—his daughter among them—Howell explained that in 2015, his kidneys failed while he was working for outgoing Chancellor Randy Woodson. A year later, Lindsay Recchie, one of his coworkers and currently Woodson’s interim chief of staff, donated him a kidney.

1 month ago | theassemblync.com | Matt Hartman

Kevin Howell owes his life to North Carolina State University. Now he will lead it. In a 2023 commencement address to graduates of the university’s College of Textiles—his daughter among them—Howell explained that in 2015, his kidneys failed while he was working for outgoing Chancellor Randy Woodson. A year later, Lindsay Recchie, one of his coworkers and currently Woodson’s interim chief of staff, donated him a kidney.