5.29.08 | Sports
John Haus ’83 will not return for a ninth season as head coach of the men’s lacrosse team. The coach’s overall record was 58-52, and his team was 8-6 this spring – winning its first five games but losing four of the next seven. The Tar Heels lost…
In mid-August, Carolina could lose an important part of its history – unless someone buys it first. The ramshackle house at 115 Battle Lane, in the Franklin-Rosemary historic district and at the northeast corner of UNC’s campus, has been condemned… read more
Carolina has its second “named” professional school. The UNC School of Pharmacy has been renamed the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy after Fred Eshelman ’72, founder and chief executive officer of Wilmington-based PPD Inc. The company specializes… read more
The number of students in UNC’s undergraduate honors program will nearly double with a $6 million donation from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. A 50 percent state match makes the total gift worth $9 million. The program will be able to… read more
Chancellor James Moeser said that Walter Royal Davis was one of the first people he visited when he came to Chapel Hill. It’s no wonder – besides being a generous philanthropist, Davis was in an elite class of higher education power brokers in… read more
UNC’s School of Medicine has established a new institute to advance research, training and treatment efforts aimed at aiding children and adults with developmental disabilities. The Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities brings… read more
Randy K. Jones ’79 of Chula Vista, Calif., was installed as chair of the GAA Board of Directors at the Annual Alumni Luncheon on Saturday, succeeding Dwight M. Davidson III ’77 of Greensboro. read more
The University of North Carolina Spring Commencement 2008 Audio Archive Note: Due to rain, Chancellor Moeser amended the program and moved from the national anthem straight to the conferral of degrees. Audio of the entire event is 16… read more
(Editor’s Note: The GAA’s Distinguished Service Medal citations, such as this one, are read to the audience at the Annual Alumni Luncheon and then presented as a keepsake to the recipients.) As a biostatistics professor in the School… read more
(Editor’s Note: The GAA’s Distinguished Service Medal citations, such as this one, are read to the audience at the Annual Alumni Luncheon and then presented as a keepsake to the recipients.) Roger Perry ’71 defies many of the… read more