Can’t Get This
From the Well
From Masik
Collegiate
Fragrances comes
Carolina’s own
perfume and cologne
— 60 bucks a bottle,
bearing the interlocking “NC” and evoking
… hmm. One sampler
said, “Very floral.”
The company’s president and CEO says
different “signature
scents” are being
created for individual
universities. Carolina
is one of the first
two created — the
other is a fragrance
for Penn State —
and UNC’s is intended
to convey Southern
charm and romance.
Coming soon: Auburn,
LSU and the universities of Alabama,
Florida, Georgia and
Tennessee.
Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Winner,
to Speak at Commencement
Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace to drop its system of racial segregation.
Prize and renowned South African anti- He also served as the first black Anglican Arch-apartheid campaigner, will deliver UNC’s bishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and chaired the
2009 Commencement address. country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission as
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’ 86 will preside at the the nation began its process of rebuilding following
ceremony that is set for May 10 at 9: 30 a.m. in the end of apartheid.
Kenan Stadium. Tutu continues to work globally to advocate for
“Archbishop Tutu is one of the world’s greatest democracy, freedom and human rights, as well as for
humanitarians,” Thorp said. “Our world desperately campaigns to fight AIDS, poverty and racism. He has
needs the compassion and understanding that he served on several U.N. panels and is chair of the
exemplifies. I can’t imagine a finer, more qualified per- Elders, a group of world leaders that counts former
son to inspire our graduates and their families. Having U.S. President Carter, former U.N. Secretary-General
him speak at Carolina’s Commencement will be a Kofi Annan and Myanmar pro-democracy activist
slam dunk for our graduates.” Aung San Suu Kyi among its
Thorp chose Tutu in consul- founding members.
tation with the University’s In awarding him the Nobel
Commencement Speaker Selec- Peace Prize in 1984, the Nobel
tion Committee, which is made Committee cited Tutu’s “role as
up of an equal number of stu- a unifying leader figure in the
dents and faculty. campaign to resolve the problem
Tutu and Nelson Mandela of apartheid in South Africa.”
are widely credited as the cen- Tutu also has been named a
tral figures in the fight to end grand officer of the Légion
apartheid in South Africa. A rig- d’honneur by France, was
orous advocate of nonviolence, awarded the Order of Merit
Tutu rose to worldwide promi- Grand Cross by Germany and is
nence in the 1980s, leading a recipient of the Gandhi Peace
both popular protests within Prize. He has received numerous
South Africa and helping cham- honorary doctorates and fellow-pion international efforts to Desmond Tutu ships and been visiting professor
pressure the then-government at several universities.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNC Research Funding Up 11 Percent to $678 Million
UNC’s research grants and tive numbers among UNC’s top “This year’s remarkable per-contracts totaled $678.2 peers were available, anecdotal formance by the faculty has far
million in fiscal 2008 — evidence suggested the 2008 per- exceeded our expectations given
up 11 percent from the record- formance ranks among the best the past year’s federal funding
setting $610 million received the anywhere for a public university trends. And it shows strong poten-previous year and more than dou- this year. tial for future growth as we con-ble the amount from a decade “Carolina faculty are outper- tinue to expand our research
ago. forming the market for research facilities as part of the University’s
More than half of the 2008 grants,” Chancellor Holden Thorp capital construction program.”
total — about $356 million — ’ 86 said. Results from top-performing
reflected a 13 percent gain in “We have both a greater num- University units this year include:
grants and contracts awarded by ber of awards and a greater aver- School of Pharmacy: up
the National Institutes of Health. age size,” said Tony Waldrop ’ 74, 26 percent to $16.5 million.
This also came at a time when vice chancellor for research and School of Social Work: up
the agency’s funding has grown economic development. “That’s 26 percent to $12 million.
stagnant. The NIH traditionally is significant, because the jump in School of Medicine: up
the University’s largest source of total funding was not attributable 19 percent to $356.8 million.
research grants. to one or two exceptionally large College of Arts and Sciences:
