UNC chemist Mike Ramsey is among 67 new members and 11 foreign associates elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest professional distinctions awarded to a scientist or engineer. Ramsey is the Minnie N. Goldby…
A senior Morehead-Cain Scholar who is fluent in five foreign languages has been named the University’s newest Luce Scholar. Joël Joseph Hage, who is majoring in global studies with a minor in Arabic, is one of 18 American students to receive… read more
The winner of the 2013 C. Felix Harvey Award will use the money that came with the prize to develop the Bridges 2 Success Scholar Athlete Support Program, a training academy that prepares coaches at middle schools and high schools to support… read more
Out-of-state undergraduate students have another shot at avoiding a tuition hike. A divided UNC System Board of Governors passed a resolution Friday urging the N.C. General Assembly to stop nonresident tuition increases set to take effect at 14… read more
The University announced Friday afternoon that UNC System President Tom Ross ’75 (JD) and Chancellor Carol L. Folt have retained an outside attorney to conduct an independent inquiry of academic irregularities at Carolina based on new information… read more
Members of the 23 campus chapters of the Interfraternity Council have committed to mandatory training on sexual assault awareness and prevention. The IFC is working through UNC’s One Act program with a goal of having each student go through… read more
Solar energy has long been used as a clean alternative to fossil fuels such as coal and oil, but it could be harnessed only during the day, when the sun’s rays are strongest. Now researchers led by Tom Meyer at the Energy Frontier Research Center… read more
The Round House by Louise Erdrich, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated author, will be the 2014 summer reading book for incoming students at Carolina. A nine-member selection committee of students, faculty and staff selected the book from five… read more
More than 6,000 candidates from a record first-deadline pool of 16,987 have been offered admission to this fall’s entering class. The pool was 12 percent larger than last year, marking the second year in a row that Carolina has set a record for… read more
Surojit “Surge” Biswas ’13 has received a Churchill Scholarship, valued at $62,000, for 2014-15 to do graduate work at the University of Cambridge in England. Biswas is one of 14 candidates chosen nationwide for the one-year award by… read more