The UNC student whose body was discovered last year at a Carrboro concrete plant was significantly impaired by alcohol when he fell from a piece of equipment, a plunge that caused fatal trauma to his head, neck and torso, according to an autopsy… read more
Last summer, no one knew how many people might sign up for a course under the University’s unusual offer to 46 former students who did not graduate and who took one or more courses in the department of African and Afro-American studies that were… read more
As part of the Oct. 12 University Day ceremony to install Carol L. Folt as the 11th chancellor of the University, five Carolina alumni received Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Awards and another received the Edward Kidder Graham Award. The… read more
A Georgia sports agent has been indicted on 13 counts of athlete agent inducement in connection to UNC’s long-running investigations into its football program. Charges against Terry Shawn Watson, who appeared today in Orange County District… read more
A little more than a year ago, a physicist named Peter Higgs made startling news with what’s now known as the Higgs boson, the idea that a background field permeating all matter was responsible for mass. It was at Carolina in 1965 that Higgs… read more
Jennifer Wiley Thompson ’09, the former tutor who became linked to UNC’s long-running investigations into its football program, has been charged with violating a state law governing contact with sports agents. An indictment was handed up… read more
Four highly promising faculty members at UNC have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty, an honor that recognizes the achievements of outstanding junior tenure-track faculty or… read more
While UNC has shown success in preempting offers from other universities, recession-inspired budget cutting is making it more difficult for Carolina to convince faculty to stay once more lucrative opportunities arise. And at least one expert who… read more
Sixty years ago, scientists could electrically stimulate a region of a mouse’s brain causing the mouse to eat, whether hungry or not. Now researchers from UNC’s School of Medicine have pinpointed the precise cellular connections responsible for… read more
David Routh ’82 — a veteran corporate executive with extensive connections to philanthropy on campus as a former staff member and as a volunteer — has been named UNC’s new vice chancellor for development. Chancellor Carol Folt… read more