The University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
(Photographs copyright 2022 by Dan Routh)
Warm Day on Campus
Category: UNC
The Old Well
A 74° F New Year’s Day at the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
(Photograph copyright 2022 by Dan Routh)
Nothing Could Be Finer
I had to be in Chapel Hill to shoot a job (it’s just a short drive through the country from my home), and on the way to lunch, we took a few moments to walk through the arboretum and the main quad at the University of North Carolina. UNC is one of the prettiest university campuses in the country and is especially so in the Spring. I thought the Japanese Maples and the Florida Azaleas were particularly nice. Oh to be an undergrad again!
(Photographs copyright 2012 by Dan Routh)
Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel
(photograph copyright 2009 by Dan Routh)
Photograph for a promotional ad from the Reading Room of Wilson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a beautiful room filled with rare books.
Nobel Prize
(image copyright 2008 by Dan Routh)
Recently I had the pleasure of photographing Dr. Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine. Dr. Smithies shared the prize with a UK scientist “for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells.” Smithies has been at UNC for 19 years and is the first full-time UNC faculty member to win a Nobel Prize.
At age 73, Dr. Smithies is also an avid pilot. He owns a Grob 109B motorglider that he often flies out of the Chapel Hill Airport. It’s sort of like a Piper or Cessna with really long wings. You can fly it like a small plane, or if the conditions are right, cut the engine and use it to soar. Dr. Smithies told me, “It’s not a great sailplane, nor is it a great airplane, but it is a lot of fun.”
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