6.29.05 | Sports, Student Achievement
Carolina finished ninth in the Directors’ Cup, the all-sport competition sponsored by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics and formerly known as the Sears Cup.
A political action committee, established three years ago to benefit Carolina, has launched a website and letter-writing campaign asking University supporters to push for three state legislative proposals. read more
Shelby Foote ’39, a novelist and historian who gained literary celebrity in the early 1990s with Ken Burns’ PBS documentary series The Civil War, died June 27 in Memphis, Tenn. He was 88. read more
Carolina will hold classes on Labor Day this year – for what appears will be the first time in more than three decades. read more
In the past two decades, UNC has become one of the top U.S. public universities in research support, with $577.6 million in sponsored research funding for the fiscal year ending in June 2004. That support – from federal government, other government… read more
In a merchandising sales slump through early 2005, UNC had lost its reign as the university with the best-selling athletic licensing products to the University of Michigan, according to the Collegiate Licensing Co. read more
UNC wants to close Horace Williams Airport to make room for Carolina North, a proposed research park that would take up about a quarter of the 1,000-acre Horace Williams tract less than two miles north of the main campus. read more
Of the estimated 4,625 Carolina students who were awarded degrees during Commencement ceremonies in May, 12 new alumni brought to a close one of the most distinctive educational experiences in America. read more
Jean Almand Kitchin ’70 of Scotland Neck, president and chief executive officer of Almand’s Drug Stores, was installed as chair of the GAA Board of Directors at the Annual Alumni Luncheon on May 14, succeeding Anthony Harrington ’63 of Easton, Md. read more
The question of whether on certain issues North Carolina’s two research universities should be considered apart from the 16-campus UNC System has resurfaced with the N.C. Senate’s approval of a provision to enable Carolina and N.C. State to set… read more