Members of the 23 campus chapters of the Interfraternity Council have committed to mandatory training on sexual assault awareness and prevention. The IFC is working through UNC’s One Act program with a goal of having each student go through… read more
Solar energy has long been used as a clean alternative to fossil fuels such as coal and oil, but it could be harnessed only during the day, when the sun’s rays are strongest. Now researchers led by Tom Meyer at the Energy Frontier Research Center… read more
The Round House by Louise Erdrich, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, will be the 2014 summer reading book for incoming students at Carolina. A nine-member selection committee of students, faculty and staff selected the book from five… read more
More than 6,000 candidates from a record first-deadline pool of 16,987 have been offered admission to this fall’s entering class. The pool was 12 percent larger than last year, marking the second year in a row that Carolina has set a record for… read more
Surojit “Surge” Biswas ’13 has received a Churchill Scholarship, valued at $62,000, for 2014-15 to do graduate work at the University of Cambridge in England. Biswas is one of 14 candidates chosen nationwide for the one-year award by… read more
Renovations to Hill Hall will include naming its auditorium for former Chancellor James Moeser and his wife, Susan. Work will center on improvements to Hill Hall’s rotunda and 550-seat auditorium in the century-old building, which… read more
Madeline Levine — a decorated professor who was on the faculty for 36 years and served as interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and twice as a department chair — has written a letter to UNC’s chancellor and provost that backs up… read more
Carolina has reclaimed its No. 1 spot on The Princeton Review’s annual list of the “Best Value Public Colleges.” Last year, UNC was No. 2, behind the University of Virginia, which over the past six years has landed the top spot… read more
Douglas A. Shackelford ’80, who is Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of taxation and associate dean of the MBA@UNC program, will be the next dean of Kenan-Flagler Business School. Chancellor Carol L. Folt and Executive Vice Chancellor… read more
Carolina wants to build a new dorm on one of the last pieces of the campus considered to be a viable building site. The trustees this week authorized housing officials to design a “super suite”-style dorm to house about 276 men and women. It… read more