Linda Pace ’77 drove her 14-year-old son, Gerald, to Chapel Hill from their home in Atlanta so he would hear what she’d been telling him all along: Grades count. So do SAT scores. Get involved and challenge yourself in high school. And pay attention… read more
Some great inventions are birthed at a bar, their futures scribbled on cocktail napkins. Multi-pixel X-ray technology, the first substantial technological change in X-rays in more than a century, was born over a greasy Philly cheesesteak… read more
Four ambitious and highly promising professors in diverse fields have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at Carolina. They are Thomas Hofweber, an associate professor of… read more
Award-winning Southern author and English scholar Reynolds Price will deliver a free public lecture Oct. 3 at the University. Price will receive the University’s 2007 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual Thomas Wolfe Lecture at 7:30 p.m. read more
The Society of Professional Journalists has honored retired Professor Chuck Stone of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication with the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given for a lifetime of contribution and service… read more
Michael Hunt, the Everett H. Emerson Professor of history, will be the keynote speaker at the 214th annual University Day celebration Oct. 12 in Memorial Hall. The FedExGlobalEducationCenter will be formally dedicated at 4 p.m. the same day. The… read more
More than half of UNC’s law school classes have been relocated since the building was evacuated Friday, Aug. 31, due to what appeared to be a structural collapse. Classes in the building, which dates to 1968, were evacuated that morning… read more
The UNC men’s rugby club, found guilty of violating the Sports Club Council alcohol policy, was placed on suspension shortly after the start of the semester. The team, a sport club and not a varsity team, was banned from practicing and competing… read more
The Marlboro Man will have to ride a careful trail across the UNC campus to comply with a near-complete ban on smoking that takes effect Jan. 1. Having first banned smoking in classroom and administrative buildings, then in residence halls and their… read more
They were, in the words of class Treasurer T.J. Abrams ’05, “already experiencing change and uncertainty.” They were three weeks into their freshman year when the attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania suddenly replaced their… read more