The Carolina-Duke basketball rivalry graduated years ago from a Tobacco Road brawl to an integral part of the national sports scene. The bitter rivalry has spawned a cottage industry of books, videos and gear cashing in on the enmity of the two… read more
The world, and especially the United States, says UNC Professor James H. Johnson, is undergoing an unprecedented demographic transformation. “If you ignore [the changes], you ignore them at your own peril,” he said, “because there is… read more
In 1936, Carolina became the first major Southern university to go north and play football against a desegregated team. Eleven years later, the University of Virginia became the first major university in the South to host an integrated football… read more
Deborah Crowder ’75, who managed the office of the former department of African and Afro-American studies, started and maintained the department’s practice of offering the “paper classes” that are at the heart of a long-running investigation… read more
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a 469-mile scenic roadway connecting the Shenandoah National Park in western Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in southwestern North Carolina. The parkway, which originated with the New Deal in the… read more
Deborah Crowder ’75, the office manager for UNC’s former department of African and Afro-American studies, managed for roughly 20 years what were called “paper classes” — the central element of Carolina’s long-running academic and… read more
UNC’s pharmacy school has received a $3 million gift from philanthropist and pharmaceutical-industry executive Fred Eshelman ’72. Eshelman’s gift will support the work of the school’s Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug… read more
Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of chemistry at UNC, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine a U. S. scientist can receive. DeSimone’s election to the… read more
If there is any family in the Norfolk area that represents the GAA’s Virginia is for Tar Heels program, it’s the Avery family. Dr. Stanley Avery ’52, who also received a medical degree from UNC in 1961, and his son, Clark Avery ’99,… read more
A Carolina faculty member has won the prestigious Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering for the third year in a row. James F. Cahoon, an assistant professor of chemistry, is the latest to receive the award given to researchers early in… read more