The U.S. economy is well on its way to posting a growth rate in real gross domestic product in 2004 higher than in any other year since 1984, a UNC business expert says.
An anonymous donor has given $3 million to UNC to endow a new professorship in honor of Richard Cole, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication for 25 years. read more
Raising awareness of the health hazards of secondhand smoke is the goal of a new media campaign being undertaken by UNC in partnership with local programs in two North Carolina counties in opposite ends of the state – Buncombe in the west and Chowan… read more
An attempt in the N.C. General Assembly to mandate that UNC System campuses enroll no more than 18 percent of students from out of state stalled in the N.C. House in mid-June when a bill to write the current cap into law was unanimously voted back… read more
A new clinical cancer hospital for UNC inched closer to reality in mid-June when the N.C. House of Representatives voted to pay for it in part with money from health trust funds. read more
For the second time in two years, University researchers have responded to allegations of animal cruelty lodged by an advocacy group and documented by an undercover investigator working as a lab employee. read more
Chancellor James Moeser is traveling across the state this summer to remind North Carolinians that UNC truly is a “university of the people.” read more
An anti-abortion group called Carolina Students for Life had hoped to be part of UNC’s annual Women’s Week, which began March 21, and wanted to bring pro-life speakers to campus to participate in a dialogue with pro-choice speakers as part of the… read more
The University is at a crossroads, says Dick Baddour ’66, director of athletics and chair of the task force that in late May announced its unanimous endorsement of permanent advertising in UNC’s top sports venues, the Smith Center and Kenan Stadium. read more
After nearly 70 years of use, and laden with the footprints of Tar Heel basketball players, Woollen Gym’s floor has been sliced into several hundred pieces in favor of a new surface devoid of the familiar cracks, creaks and dead spots. read more