UNC’s School of Public Health has established a Center for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care, the first center of its kind in a school of public health. The center will advance and support research and practices that enable mothers and… read more
Nine communications professionals and an educator will be inducted into the N.C. Journalism and Advertising Halls of Fame and the N.C. Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame on April 2. The halls are based in UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass… read more
It’s appropriate that the ceiling in Memorial Hall’s auditorium is Carolina blue – and not just because the venue stands at the heart of the campus. The auditorium now bears the names of two men whose Carolina ties run deep. Memorial Hall’s… read more
Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, has been nominated for this year’s James Beard Foundation Book Award in the “Writings on Food” category. Ferris is one of three nominees for this year’s… read more
StoryCorps, a national initiative to document everyday history and the unique stories of America, will be in Chapel Hill and Durham in April, collecting the stories of North Carolina residents as part of the program’s cross-country tour. In… read more
UNC’s Rams Head Center has been selected for one of Food Management magazine’s Best Concept Awards for 2006. The winners are featured in the cover story in the magazine’s March issue. They also will be highlighted at the 2006 Food… read more
Carolina faculty members Joy Kasson and Carla White-Harris have received the University’s first Carolina Women’s Leadership Council Mentoring Awards, presented at the council’s recent annual meeting. The awards are funded by an endowment… read more
The “Big Four ACC Canned Food Drive” has concluded with four North Carolina universities collectively raising $15,809 and 2,623 pounds of physical donations – for the equivalent of 81,669 pounds of food. The amount of food will provide about… read more
Alumni visiting the George Watts Hill Alumni Center seldom investigate the extensive records of the nearly 300,000 former students who have attended Carolina. Within the 50,000 files the GAA maintains on deceased alumni can be found fascinating… read more
The 2005 UNC graduate accused of driving a Jeep SUV through an area near the Pit just before noon on March 3, striking nine people, has sent a letter to The News & Observer of Raleigh saying that he was prepared to spend the rest of his life in… read more