His contrarian youth and self-discoveries at Carolina prepared Preston Smith to excel at work in which being liked isn’t always the most important thing. read more
The University has met funding setbacks with innovation in the quest to maintain the promise of covering 100 percent of need for low-income students. read more
When the Zika virus presented an unexpected public health crisis, one UNC researcher was unusually well-prepared to try to unravel its mysteries. read more
A couple years into its fourth decade, the store is closing in late July, and shop cats Elmo and Red will be getting a new home. read more
North Carolina’s state motto well describes generations of North Carolinians. It especially captures the exemplary life of service and leadership provided by Anne Wilmoth Cates ’53. read more
Tuition will go up $138 for North Carolina resident undergraduates enrolling in the University next fall; for out-of-state residents the hike will be $639. Mandatory fees will go up slightly, raising the total to $9,005 per year from the current… read more
A national research network led by the UNC School of Medicine has found that many toddlers diagnosed with autism when they were 2 years old had a substantially greater amount of fluid surrounding the brain when they were 6 and 12 months old, before… read more
Researchers at the University have found that up to 90 percent of predatory fish are gone from Caribbean coral reefs, straining the ocean ecosystem and coastal economy. The good news? They identified reefs, known as supersites, which can support… read more
Between Middle East deployments in the 1990s, H.R. McMaster ’94 (MA, ’96 PhD) – newly tapped as President Trump’s national security adviser – spent time in the classrooms and libraries at Carolina, researching how the military brass dealt with… read more
Adriano Bellotti, who is a student in UNC’s School of Medicine, has been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which provides full support for graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England. read more