The president of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity was shot by an officer of the Archdale Police Department after a traffic stop on I-85 southwest of Greensboro Sunday morning in an incident that has left more questions than answers. Courtland… read more
A 23-year-old alumnus who was serving in Afghanistan died Aug. 18 from injuries suffered when his vehicle was destroyed by a roadside bomb. Army Pfc. Morris L. Walker ’08, an Army paratrooper, was one of two U.S. soldiers who died in the… read more
Carolina’s research grants and contracts totaled $716 million in fiscal 2009, the largest amount ever. The tally is up 5.6 percent on the $678 million received last year and more than double the amount from a decade ago. The contracts and grants… read more
Carolina ranks as the fifth best public university for the ninth consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report magazine’s latest “America’s Best Colleges” list. UNC is 28th when considered with private schools – regaining the two… read more
Faculty, advisers and administrators from UNC and N.C. community colleges will convene in Chapel Hill on Sept. 18 to consider how best to support transfer students. Participants plan to exchange information with higher education experts and… read more
The director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center has been named the new director of the Renaissance Computing Institute, the multi-campus research center with its home base in Chapel Hill. Stanley C. Ahalt, who has directed the Ohio center for six… read more
The $60 million in budget reductions enacted at the University in July proved prophetic. By the time North Carolina’s new budget was finished, it was that amount — 10 percent of what UNC gets from the state — that the University was ordered to… read more
Scientists, staff and other employees at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., are hearing a familiar voice back on campus. Francis S. Collins ’77 (MD) was confirmed by the Senate Aug. 7 to return to the nation’s premiere medical… read more
The structure of an entire HIV genome has been decoded for the first time by researchers at UNC. The results have widespread implications for understanding the strategies that viruses, including the one that causes AIDS, use to infect humans. The… read more
The global business consultant Bain & Co. has concluded that UNC has management and organizational inefficiencies that keep it from getting the maximum bang for its bucks in the core missions of teaching and research. Bain, which gave its… read more