UNC’s curriculum in peace, war and defense and the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations plans to host a roundtable discussion titled “Intervention in Syria?: Problems, Prospects and Contexts.” The event…
Provost James W. Dean Jr. and Athletics Director Bubba Cunningham are the leaders of a new group that is working toward assessing and enhancing the ways the University provides academic support to athletes. The Student-Athlete Academic Initiative… read more
Karol Kain Gray is leaving Chapel Hill after 20 months as UNC’s vice chancellor for finance and administration. Gray, who spent 33 years in financial, organizational and management work at Stony Brook University in New York before coming to… read more
A new multidisciplinary clinical research center at the University — funded by a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health — is being created to seek better ways to address the costly public health issue of… read more
Dr. Norman “Ned” Sharpless ’88 will become only the third director of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center in January. Sharpless, who studied math as an undergraduate and received his degree in medicine from UNC in 1993, will… read more
The oldest GAA-sponsored student group, Order of the Bell Tower, has won its second consecutive national award for work the organization does to fulfill its mission as the University’s official student ambassadors. This year’s award — from… read more
30,836 applied for admission 8,238, or 26.7 percent, were admitted 3,960, or 48 percent, are expected to enroll 59.3 percent female, 40.7 percent male 17.7 percent of those enrolling are the first… read more
Among the many rites of autumn is the annual process of determining tuition rates for the following year. At Carolina, that almost always means an increase, but perhaps not this time — at least, not for North Carolina residents. UNC System… read more
Gender-neutral housing at Carolina — first denied by then-Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 and then supported by UNC trustees nine months later — has been struck from housing options on UNC System campuses by its Board of Governors. BOG Chair… read more
Dean Smith will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom later this year. Smith retired in 1997 after 36 years as head coach of Carolina basketball teams that he built into one of the most storied programs in college sports. The Presidential… read more