Bernadette Gray-Little, since 2004 the dean of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, was named Feb. 8 to succeed Robert Shelton as executive vice chancellor and provost, the University’s top academic officer. Saying he never had seen such unanimity… read more
Men’s basketball Coach Roy Williams ’72 and his wife, Wanda ’72, are serving as honorary co-chairs of an effort to create a $10 million endowment for the Carolina Covenant, the University’s initiative to make a Chapel Hill education possible… read more
The N.C. GlaxoSmithKline Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to UNC and Duke University for a collaborative partnership to address four pressing local and global health-care concerns: quality of care and patient safety, health disparities, global… read more
Twenty-one teachers in nine categories have been honored with the University’s 2006 Teaching Awards, the highest campuswide recognition for teaching excellence. The honorees were recognized during halftime of the Feb. 4 Carolina-Clemson men’s… read more
The UNC School of Nursing is holding an artisan fundraiser on Tuesday, Feb. 7, to raise money to send volunteers from the School of Nursing and the School of Public Health to participate in the Gulf Coast hurricane relief effort during Spring… read more
Feb. 1 marks the start of the annual “Beat Hunger, Beat Duke” competition, which raises money and collects cans of food to assist needy families in North Carolina. At Carolina the competition is sponsored by the Campus Y and receives promotional… read more
The Peace Corps’ latest ranking of college graduates who are serving as volunteers shows Carolina has moved up three spots, to No. 11, on the top 25 list for large schools. A total of 59 UNC alumni currently serve as volunteers, and 921 have served… read more
UNC’s summer reading program book selection committee has made The Namesake, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, its choice for incoming undergraduates to read and discuss. read more
The Arizona Board of Regents has selected UNC’s Provost Robert N. Shelton as the next president of the University of Arizona. Shelton, who has been Carolina’s executive vice chancellor and provost since 1999, was selected over three other finalists… read more
Annual tuition will go up $250 for in-state undergraduates and $1,100 for those from outside North Carolina next fall following approval by by the UNC System Board of Governors. The BOG, which approved all tuition change requests across the 16… read more