Mary Gwendolyn Burton Caldwell

…a graduate student in the Botany Department in 1938. “[She] thought the world of some of the UNC professors who mentored her in the typically male-dominated field… They would hike…

Bernard Carl Mikula

…and served in the submarine services in the United States Navy during World War II. He earned his Bachelor Degree from the College of William & Mary in Williamburg, Virginia…

Paul Wilson Titman

…1940 Yearbook I went to Chapel Hill and began to work in the atelier of the art department under the leadership of Russell Train Smith, the chairman of the department….

Up Now: Sculpture in the Garden

The 34th annual Sculpture in the Garden opened on Sunday, September 18 and runs until Sunday, December 4. Since 1988, Sculpture in the Garden has united the work of local…

Sandhills Pyxie-Moss Rescue

…bulldozed. Their main target was Sandhills pyxie-moss (Pyxidanthera barbulata var. brevifolia), a rare shrub that — in the entire world — grows only in six counties in the Sandhills of…

Up Now: Sculpture in the Garden

The 35th annual Sculpture in the Garden opens on Sunday, September 17 and runs until Sunday, December 3. Sculpture in the Garden unites the work of local artists with the…

John Lewis Sheldon

…of the carnation rust. Botanical Gazette 40: 225-229. Sheldon, John L. 1905. Concerning the identity of the fungi causing an anthracnose of the sweet-pea and the bitter-rot of the apple….