Teach For America ranked UNC sixth among large schools on its 2010 list of colleges and universities contributing the most graduating seniors to its ranks. Carolina contributed 55 graduates to the teaching corps. The University of Texas at… read more
A multi-day celebration of science and technology in North Carolina, being organized by UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center, will take place in venues across the state in September, marking the first-ever statewide science festival in… read more
Hundreds of well-wishers turned out on July 13 to greet Bill Friday ’48 (LLB) and his wife, Ida ’47 (MPH), as Friday marked his 90th birthday. Video produced by Samantha Ryan. read more
Few names, personalities and records of achievement are more closely associated with the University than that of Dean Smith. For some months, there has been a conversation in the UNC community about the 79-year-old Smith’s health. The… read more
NCAA investigators have come to Chapel Hill to talk with athletes — members of the football team and their involvement with sports agents, according to multiple news sources. The UNC athletics department has not identified the nature of the… read more
Juanita Kreps — who transitioned from heading UNC’s University Woman’s Club in the early 1960s to become the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of Commerce — has died in Durham. She was 89. Kreps, who died on July 5, served as vice… read more
Warren A. Nord ’78 (PhD) — the founding director of UNC’s Program in the Humanities and Human Values who also was a proponent of religion as an essential part of high school and college studies — has died. He was 63. Nord, who died June 19, ran… read more
Described by colleagues and constituents as a trailblazer for women, especially in politics, Bertha “B” Holt ’41 of Burlington has died. She was 93. Holt, who died June 18, was active in area Democratic politics when she was appointed in 1975 to… read more
The University has tacked on another $750 annual tuition increase, effective this fall, in an effort to keep academic programs viable in the face of a reduction in state funding of about 5 percent. This comes on top of increases approved in… read more
The Eshelman School of Pharmacy at UNC will begin enrolling students in a new satellite pharmacy education program based at UNC-Asheville in the fall of 2011. It will be the school’s second satellite campus — it opened a satellite at Elizabeth… read more