China, Japan, Singapore and Thailand will host eight UNC undergraduates next semester who will study abroad on Phillips Ambassadors scholarships. The scholarship combines an award for study in Asia with an academic course that puts the experience… read more
Nancy Howard Sitterson ’42 — who was UNC’s first lady, a “town treasure” and a volunteer and supporter for many local organizations — died Nov. 29 in Chapel Hill. She was 91. Sitterson moved permanently to Chapel Hill in 1945, the… read more
Seniors Laurence Deschamps-Laporte and Steven Paul Shorkey Jr. have won Rhodes Scholarships, the world’s oldest and best known awards for graduate study. Deschamps-Laporte, 22, of RepEntigny, Quebec, Canada, is one of 11 winners being chosen in… read more
UNC’s Board of Trustees agreed Thursday with a recommendation by Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 to raise tuition 6.5 percent, the maximum allowed by the UNC System Board of Governors. The increase would be the same for both in-state and… read more
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 told the UNC trustees Thursday that the NCAA investigation of the football program appears to be nearing its end. Lengthy presentations to the trustees by Thorp, Athletics Director Dick Baddour ’66 and Coach Butch… read more
Monty Cook ’86, who left his job as senior vice president and editor at The Baltimore Sun last spring to head an innovative online news project in UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, resigned from the school Tuesday after… read more
Chris Roush — regarded as “the expert in business journalism” in the U.S. and beyond — of UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named the 2010 N.C. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement… read more
Carolina is tied for 10th among top research universities in the number of students and recent graduates receiving Fulbright grants. With 15 students teaching, conducting research and studying abroad this year on Fulbright U.S. Student Program… read more
The UNC trustees presented four individuals with the William Richardson Davie Award, the board’s highest honor, on Nov. 17. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 and the trustees honored state Sen. Linda Garrou ’67 of Winston-Salem, Quintiles… read more
The dispositions of all the UNC football players named in connection with the NCAA’s and the University’s investigation apparently are settled with the announcement this week that the athletics governing body has ruled two players permanently… read more