North Carolina’s Hispanic population grew faster than any other state’s between 1990 and 2000. Now the transformation that has crept to the very walls of UNC also is taking hold inside the University with the inauguration last fall of the first… read more
Airport Road, the northern artery that dives down just past Horace Williams Airport and then climbs up to Franklin Street and the campus, will be renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. read more
The UNC System Board of Governors has approved a budget request to the N.C. General Assembly that includes almost $787 million in new spending over the next two years. read more
UNC police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide at the James T. Hedrick Building on Friday Center Drive about three miles from the main campus. read more
Carolina’s record of never having missed a women’s soccer Final Four came to an end when Santa Clara defeated the Tar Heels 1-0 in the third round of the NCAA tournament. read more
Following Carolina’s 40-17 win over Duke, football Coach John Bunting ’72 was given a two-year extension on his contract, which now reaches to 2009. Chancellor James Moeser announced the extension, pending approval of the trustees, in the locker… read more
UNC tuition has room to grow, according to a pricing study released in November, but only if University grants and financial aid keep pace with the rising cost of attendance. read more
Three alumni and a former chancellor – Harvey E. Beech ’52 (LLB), William B. Harrison Jr. ’66, Charles McKimmon Winston Sr. ’53 and Paul Hardin – are the 2004 recipients of the William Richardson Davie Award. read more
Rachel Mazyck ’02, now studying at Harvard, has won a 2005 Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England. read more
In his annual State of the University address in September, Chancellor James Moeser announced that, in consultation with the Board of Trustees and his administrative colleagues, he had developed a set of University priorities: Create the… read more