2.26.10 | Student Achievement, University Awards
The University has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. UNC is one of only six colleges and universities in the country to receive the award, the…
Several hundred people from across campus gathered just south of the Campus Y on Thursday afternoon to remember Eve Carson ’08, Carolina’s former student body president who was killed two years ago this week. The event marked the dedication… read more
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., who led efforts to quell the 2008 financial crisis, will visit Carolina on March 22. On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System, the title of… read more
After 24 straight hours on their feet for the kids, the UNC Dance Marathon announced Saturday evening that it raised $421,851.32 to benefit the children and families of N.C. Children’s Hospital. The total — representative of the student group’s… read more
Ralph Frasier ’59, one of the first black undergraduates at Carolina, is returning to campus for the first time in 52 years. Frasier and two other black students challenged North Carolina’s “separate but equal” admissions policy in the 1950s and… read more
Tuition increases for undergraduates and graduate students, approved by UNC’s trustees last fall, have been approved by the UNC System Board of Governors. The BOG voted Friday to increase tuition 5.2 percent for all undergraduate students and 3.7… read more
Asserting that no one should die from cervical cancer, public health researchers at the University are leading a multistate initiative to prevent — or even eradicate — the disease. The Cervical Cancer-Free Initiative is a multi-year project… read more
UNC ranks sixth on the Peace Corps’ Top 25 list of large schools producing Peace Corps volunteers, with 78 alumni currently serving. Since the Peace Corps’ inception, 1,092 Carolina alumni have served in the Peace Corps. Peace Corps Director… read more
Wives of soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to be diagnosed with depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and other mental health conditions than women whose husbands are not deployed, according to a new study by researchers at… read more
Erskine Bowles ’67, who took office as president of the UNC System in January 2006, announced on Feb. 12 that he plans to retire. Bowles, who will turn 65 on Aug. 8, told the UNC System Board of Governors that he would continue to serve through… read more