The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is expected to announce this afternoon that Holden Thorpe, dean of its College of Arts and Sciences, will be its new chancellor, according to a report in The News and Observer, a newspaper in Raleigh, N.C.
Mr. Thorpe, 43, is not only a North Carolina native but also an alumnus of the Chapel Hill campus. He has climbed the ranks there, beginning as an assistant professor of chemisattempt in 1993 and becoming chairman of the chemisattempt department before being named dean last summer. If Mr. Thorpe is appointed, he would succeed James C. Moeser, who announced last fall that he would step down at the end of this academic year. —Eric Kelderman