A subpoena that led to the downfall of an American president will have a new home at UNC, thanks to a donation by Raleigh lawyer Rufus Edmisten ’63. Edmisten, deputy chief counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee chaired by Sen. Sam Ervin… read more
What appears to be the UNC academic record of football star Julius Peppers ’02 surfaced on a UNC website late last week and was publicized by The News & Observer of Raleigh as part of its coverage of the football and academic scandals… read more
A state Superior Court judge has ruled that former football coach Butch Davis must make public the records of business calls made on his personal cell phone. Judge Howard Manning Jr. ’65, who previously had said only lawyers representing a… read more
The University has filed an amicus “friend of the court” brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a case involving the consideration of race in college admissions. UNC is one of the first of about 10… read more
Yearbooks from 14 of the 17 UNC System institutions — plus 37 other schools — are now archived together online, thanks to a project based at Wilson Library. The N.C. Digital Heritage Center has scanned and posted the yearbooks as part of the… read more
A new report of a special subcommittee of UNC’s Faculty Executive Committee makes it clear there are deep concerns in the faculty about how thoroughly athletes — especially those in the revenue-producing sports of basketball and football —… read more
Following two years of dramatic rise in the number of faculty members lost due to failed attempts to keep them out of the hands of other schools, Carolina had a big improvement last year in keeping professors at home. In 2009-10, in the early… read more
Carolina received $287.4 million in gifts from private donors in fiscal 2012. The total marked the University’s second-best year in history and topped the previous fiscal year’s total of $277 million — then the second-highest total — by 4… read more
UNC Hospitals is among four in the nation that have been recognized for leadership and innovation in quality improvement and safety. It was one of two finalists for the American Hospital Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize in a review by a… read more
UNC’s Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise has appointed Joseph M. DeSimone as its new director. DeSimone is the Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of chemistry at UNC and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of chemical… read more