The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded nearly $6 million in grants to promote environmental research at UNC. read more
Carolina for Kibera Inc. began when a Carolina undergraduate looked at the issues of ethnic violence and youth development in Africa and saw hope and opportunity – and then decided to try to make a difference. read more
Alan Shapiro and Lawrence Naumoff ’68, members of UNC’s creative writing faculty, have won 2005 North Carolina Book Awards for fiction and poetry. read more
Four friends of the University were presented this week with the prestigious William Richardson Davie Award by UNC’s Board of Trustees. read more
As the holidays approach and the year comes to an end, some of our readers are anxiously advising their high school senior sons and daughters about college applications. Understandably, some are curious about whether the special provision regarding… read more
The president and founder of Teach For America, Wendy Kopp, will take the stage in May as the University’s 2006 Commencement speaker. read more
Dean and Linnea Smith ’76 (MD) were among six award winners honored recently by UNC for outstanding contributions to improving education, in North Carolina and across the nation. read more
UNC’s newly remodeled Health Sciences Library is hosting an exhibition of original watercolor paintings and pencil drawings by renowned medical illustrator Dr. Frank H. Netter. read more
Youth and human rights activist Malika Sanders will discuss “Principles of Social Justice for a New Generation” in a Nov. 8 lecture at UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. read more
“October has come again,” wrote Thomas Wolfe ’20. read more