9.29.10 | Higher Education, Research
Multiple doctoral programs at Carolina spanning the sciences, arts and humanities, medicine, social sciences and public health are highly rated in a long-awaited new assessment conducted by the National Research Council. The rankings are part of…
The University has ordered 800 bed rails to meet anticipated demand after a student’s mother died following a fall from a lofted campus bed while staying in her daughter’s room just before the start of the semester. By mid-September, more… read more
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $13.6 million grant to UNC’s Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence for research to improve the diagnosis and treatment of cancer through advances in nanotechnology. The… read more
Demario James Atwater received a life prison sentence in Federal District Court in Winston-Salem Thursday for the killing of former Student Body President Eve Carson ’08, who was shot to death two months before she was to graduate in… read more
The NCAA ruled Wednesday that two Carolina football players will be suspended from games and must repay benefits they received from a professional sports agent and from contact with a former UNC football player, which was determined to be a… read more
Ben Jones ’50 remembers being the first patron to walk through the door when Ted Danziger opened the Rathskeller for business in September 1948. And he intends to be first in line when Diane Fountain ’80 reopens the underground… read more
Fall fraternity rush was over early this year in a calculated twist on the traditional rush calendar. Student fraternity leaders moved fall rush to the beginning of the year in part to end what has been a period of underground drinking and… read more
Carolina received $268.1 million in gifts in fiscal 2010 from a total of more than 73,500 donors. In commitments for the year, which ended June 30, UNC secured $292 million. Commitments include pledges as well as gifts. The commitments total… read more
Carolina’s research grants and contracts totaled $803 million in fiscal 2010, the largest amount in campus history. The figure is a 12.2 percent increase from the $716 million received last year. The contracts and grants come primarily from… read more
“Low tuition without high quality education is no bargain for anyone.” That was the perspective that UNC System President Erskine Bowles ’67 shared in July with the UNC System Board of Governors when he urged approval of additional tuition… read more