Malinda Maynor Lowery ’02 (MA, ’05 PhD), a Lumbee Indian who has made documentary films on Native American issues and has written about the Lumbee tribe, is the new director of UNC’s highly regarded Southern Oral History… read more
Faculty at UNC secured $777.8 million in overall research funding in fiscal 2013. That total is up nearly $11 million — or 1.4 percent — from $767.1 million the previous year. That funding total comes in contracts and grants awarded by… read more
W. Lowry Caudill ’79 of Durham has been elected chair of the UNC Board of Trustees. Alston Gardner ’77 of Chapel Hill was elected vice chair, and Sallie Shuping-Russell ’77 of Chapel Hill is the board’s new secretary. All were elected on… read more
Happily, the Old Well has not been moved. But across Cameron Avenue in South Building, on both sides of the first floor, new senior University officers are at work — Carolina’s 11th chancellor, Carol Folt, and the University’s executive vice… read more
Charges of marijuana possession and driving without a license against UNC basketball player P.J. Hairston have been dropped, according to a deputy clerk of Durham County Superior Court. Hairston, who led the Carolina men’s basketball team in… read more
The University celebrated its 220th birthday on Oct. 12 with the installation of Carol Folt as its 11th chancellor. As it has done during previous chancellor installation ceremonies, the GAA organized an Alumni Processional on Polk Place on… read more
NCAA championships by women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse and five other top-10 national finishes led Carolina to eighth place in the final 2012-13 Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup standings, UNC’s fifth consecutive top-10 performance. The… read more
UNC has been named a project site for the Association of American Universities’ five-year initiative to improve the quality of undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields at its member… read more
Very little went right for North Carolina Friday night in the College World Series against UCLA, but that didn’t stop the Tar Heels from fighting until the end of the game that became the end of their season. UCLA got good pitching and a few… read more
Hobbs Johnson — those were the first words out of UNC coach Mike Fox’s mouth at the post-game press conference Thursday night at the College World Series. And this left-hander, not N.C. State’s much-publicized left-hander Carlos Rodon, was… read more