Chapel Hill Dean Is Named the University's Chancellor

An award-winning chemistry professor with a strong background in fund raising and long ties to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named that flagship institution's next chancellor.

H. Holden Thorp, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Chapel Hill, will take over July 1 for the departing chancellor, James C. Moeser. He will earn an annual salary of $420,000, about $29,000 more than what Mr. Moeser is paid.

Mr. Thorp, 43, is a North Carolina native and

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