2.27.13 | Around Town
University Square — the 12-acre site known for Granville Towers, several restaurants and assorted shops — has received approval from the Chapel Hill Town Council for its planned transformation into an urban-style mix of retail,…
Holden Thorp ’86, who’s been in South Building for six years — counting one as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences — talked with the Carolina Alumni Review’s senior associate editor, David Brown ’75, about his decision to leave… read more
The Carolina faculty’s expertise will be available to online learners around the world as part of a new partnership. Under an agreement announced today, the University will partner with Coursera, an online education provider, to offer noncredit… read more
Two seniors, William Douglas Leimenstoll and Henry Laurence Ross, have earned 2013-14 scholarships from the Henry Luce Foundation in New York. The Luce Scholars Program funds a year of living and learning in East and Southeast Asia for recent… read more
Holden Thorp ’86, who in September told faculty and students that he was eager to get back into the UNC chemistry classroom after he decided to resign as chancellor, is being named provost at Washington University in St. Louis… read more
Chapel Hill police continue to investigate the death of Faith Danielle Hedgepeth, a 19-year-old UNC student whose body was found in her apartment in early September. Early in the investigation, and without releasing details about the cause of… read more
The University’s accreditation agency has notified Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 that UNC is out of compliance with principles of accreditation in the scandal involving academic fraud in the department of African and Afro-American studies. A… read more
UNC’s School of Nursing has been authorized by the UNC System Board of Governors to offer a graduate-level nursing degree, the doctor of nursing practice. Nurses with the advanced degree will be educated to fill critical roles in an increasingly… read more
Over the past five years, the University of Virginia has landed the top spot four times on The Princeton Review’s annual list of the “Best Value Public Colleges.” The only school to displace UVA since 2009 has been Carolina, which… read more
North Carolina’s new governor took office in January with a tough assignment: Figure out how to cut the state’s unemployment rate from about 9 percent, one of the highest state jobless rates in the U.S. Before the month was out, Pat… read more