6.27.12 | Sports
Led by the men’s soccer national championship and field hockey’s second consecutive national runner-up finish, Carolina placed eighth in the final Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup standings for 2011-12. The competition measures success in…
Peter D. Hans ’91, has been elected to a two-year term as chair of the UNC System Board of Governors. Hans, whose term begins July 1, is completing his second term as the board’s vice chair. Cary businessman Frank Grainger was elected vice… read more
Service projects by the GAA’s Carolina Clubs to support military families last Veterans Day in conjunction with the Carrier Classic basketball game have received national recognition. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education awarded… read more
The summer campers didn’t arrive with beach towels and flip-flops, but they did bring every bit of energy and excitement that you would expect for a summer adventure. About three dozen luggage-toting participants for the Alumni Summer College… read more
Last summer, 18 UNC football players and one former player made up the entire enrollment of an African and Afro-American studies class that, according to a report by The News & Observer of Raleigh, was opened for enrollment on the day… read more
Is the legendary Lost Colony found? A map, more than 420 years old, spans from the Chesapeake Bay on the north to Cape Lookout on the south, and shows Indian villages and small details of the coastline. Brent Lane ’81 (’90 MBA) has had a print… read more
Concurrent with its probe of the department of African and Afro-American studies, the University did a general study of policies and practices in independent studies courses across the College of Arts and Sciences. It found no misconduct in the… read more
UNC has added more than 100 acres of environmentally sensitive land to the 367-acre Mason Farm Biological Reserve. The land lies south of the N.C. Botanical Garden — which administers the reserve as both a natural area and biological field… read more
UNC’s School of Medicine and Kenan-Flagler Business School are partnering to launch a dual-degree program offering medical students the opportunity to earn doctor of medicine and master’s of business administration degrees in five years. Unlike… read more