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Digg it- Christopher Timothy "Kit" Brown of Boy Scout Troop 39 in Chapel Hill achieved the rank of Eagle Scout on Sept. 26. For his Eagle service project, he led the effort to move and reconstruct garden structures at Mary Scroggs Elementary School and create more playground space.He is a senior at Chapel Hill High School and has lived in Chapel Hill since 1996. His parents are Sue DeWalt Brown and Chris Brown. He began Scouting during the fall of his fifth grade year when he joined the Beaver Patrol of Troop 39. He has served the troop as assistant patrol leader, patrol leader, troop guide, and assistant senior patrol leader. He is a member of the Order of the Arrow. He traveled to the Kandersteg International Scout Camp in 2005.During the summer of 2007, he biked across the country with members of troops 39 and 845. The WaBu Cycle Tour raised more than $18,000 for the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at UNC-Chapel Hill.
- Beau Long has received the Congressional Award Gold Medal. It is the highest award for youth presented by the U.S. Congress based on achievements in public service, personal development, physical fitness and expedition/exploration.
- Jodi Magness, a religious studies professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, has won the Archaeological Institute of America's Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. The institute presents the award annually to an individual who has demonstrated excellence in the teaching of archaeology and has developed innovative teaching methods or interdisciplinary curricula. Magness is the Kenan Distinguished professor for teaching excellence in early Judaism in the College of Arts and Sciences.
- William Leuchtenburg of Chapel Hill has received the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor the state can bestow. He was cited for literature. He is a professor emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill and the author of a dozen books on 20th-century American history.
- Arturo Escobar, a Kenan Distinguished professor of anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill, has received a Fulbright Scholar grant to research and lecture at the National University of San Martin in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Escobar's work will focus on alternative development in Latin America and assessing recent transformations in development there.
