Emil Kang, special assistant to the chancellor for the arts and founder of Carolina Performing Arts, is leaving UNC after 14 years to lead arts grant-making for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. read more
The Carolina Alumni Review has received an award for feature writing in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education’s 2019 Circle of Excellence competition. read more
Carolina has a decision to make, courtesy of a new law that allows the state’s 16 public universities to authorize beer and wine sales at campus sports events. read more
For the 21st time in 26 years, the Tar Heels have finished in the top 10 of the Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup standings. read more
The director of track and field and cross country at Stanford University for the past seven years is the new director of Carolina’s program. Under Chris Miltenberg’s leadership, the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches… read more
UNC Health Care is “temporarily pausing the most complex pediatric congenital heart surgeries” while the program is reviewed following a New York Times report about children who died following heart surgeries. read more
Former Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 plans to leave his six-year position as provost of Washington University in St. Louis this summer. read more
Craig Stephen Hicks pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing three Muslim neighbors at a Chapel Hill apartment complex four years ago and received three life sentences. read more
A joint UNC and Washington University School of Medicine research team has received a five-year, $9.5 million grant to further evaluate whether brain imaging can help detect very high risk of autism spectrum disorder in early infancy. read more
Three new members will join the Board of Trustees, chosen by the UNC System Board of Governors, and one current member has been reappointed to a new term. read more