This year’s Earth Day, April 22, is dawning more than a week early at UNC, with various groups around campus joining forces to create a schedule packed with interesting and informative environmental activities. Events will kick off on Monday,… read more
Working with the Burmese immigrant community in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, partnering with the Special Olympics of Orange County, developing a statewide consortium of future K-12 teachers who take the practice of service-learning into public schools… read more
Carolina is honoring the contributions of Burlington businessman Maurice John Koury ’48 today as it re-names a South Campus residence hall in his honor. Since its completion in 2002, the four-story, state-of-the-art building has been known as… read more
Two Carolina students have won prestigious scholarships for postgraduate study, and a third has earned one of the nation’s top merit awards for undergraduate study. Michael Tarrant, a senior, has been awarded a Luce Scholarship to live and learn… read more
Dr. Mel Levine, a best-selling author and authority on treatment of learning disabilities in children who retired as a professor in the School of Medicine in 2006, has asked the N.C. Medical Board to render his medical license inactive after being… read more
The Kenan-Flagler Business School has launched a business accelerator to speed the growth of firms with environmental and social objectives. The UNC Business Accelerator for Sustainable Entrepreneurship, or BASE, aims to connect entrepreneurs to… read more
Nobel Prize co-recipient Oliver Smithies will give a free public talk about “Reflections on a Lifetime of Science” at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Smithies, an Excellence Professor of pathology and… read more
On the morning of March 5, the University’s campuswide alert system, developed last year in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech, was used for the first time to notify people on campus that a young woman had been found shot to death at about 5… read more
Area fans are invited to cheer together for the men’s basketball team Saturday, viewing the NCAA semifinals broadcast from the Alamodome in San Antonio on the Tar Heels’ home court, the Dean E. Smith Center. The UNC Department of Athletics,… read more
A $1.5 million distinguished professorship in Jewish studies will be named in honor of Stuart E. Eizenstat ’64, lead negotiator for Holocaust reparation agreements and deputy secretary of the treasury during the Clinton administration. The… read more