In Thorp, UNC-CH has 'a complete package'

The News & Observer

May 10, 2008

CHAPEL HILL - Holden Thorp loves a puzzle. As a teenager, he won $500 in a regional Rubik's Cube tournament, which he promptly blew on records. As a young chemist a decade ago, it was DNA, on which he published extensively and has spun off technology leading to 19 issued or pending patents.

Now 43 and UNC-Chapel Hill's next chancellor, Thorp has a new set of challenges. He will grapple with fundraising, a growing student body, the creation of a new campus, and pledges to keep the doors open to all qualified students, regardless of income. He'll probably work quickly. He solved that Rubik's Cube in about a minute.  Click here for more.