May 9, 2008

U. of North Carolina Hires One of Its Own as Chancellor of Its Flagship Campus

By Eric Kelderman

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, the university system's Board of Governors announced on Thursday. He will earn an annual salary of $420,000, about $29,000 more than

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