Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has launched a new blog – holden.unc.edu – and is using it to share insights and images from his current tour of North Carolina. Thorp began posting his impressions on Monday from a visit to Tom Herndon’s authentic… read more
The University will mark its 215th birthday as it installs Holden Thorp ’86 as its 10th chancellor on University Day, Oct. 12. read more
Updated Oct. 8, 2008Posted Sept. 29, 2008Read letters from readers or submit a letter to car@unc.edu. Thorp Tours State’s Schools, Meeting Alumni New UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has traveled across… read more
UNC’s newly renamed Gillings School of Global Public Health has established a new Gillings Innovation Lab to track and map tropical infectious diseases such as malaria, using state-of-the-art molecular and demographic methods. Better information… read more
Tony Award-winning theater and film star Billy Crudup ’90 will receive this year’s PlayMaker Distinguished Achievement Award on Nov. 1 at the 21st annual PlayMakers Ball. The ball, held at The Carolina Inn, is the annual fundraising gala for… read more
With Halloween mere weeks away, students are gearing up for another big celebration of one of the great Chapel Hill traditions. But this year, downtown Franklin Street will look different from years past if changes made by town officials and police… read more
UNC’s School of Government and Appalachian State University in Boone have created the N.C. Local Government Service Corps, a three-year initiative to assist economically distressed communities in the state. The pilot phase of the corps will… read more
Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and renowned South African anti-apartheid campaigner, will deliver UNC’s 2009 Commencement address. Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 will preside at the ceremony that is set for May 10 at 9:30 a.m. in… read more
UNC’s research grants and contracts totaled $678.2 million in fiscal 2008 – up 11 percent from the record-setting $610 million received the previous year and more than double the amount from a decade ago. More than half of the 2008 total – about… read more
Four highly promising professors in diverse fields have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at the University. They are Jason D. Lieb ’94, an associate professor of biology;… read more