7.24.14 | UNC’s History, University Development
The University attracted $297.5 million in private gifts and grants in fiscal 2014. The total marked the second-best year in UNC history and was 9 percent higher than the $272.8 million raised in 2013. Commitments also rose 9 percent, to $310…
A UNC professor has died after being mugged in a residential area near campus Wednesday afternoon. Feng Liu, a research professor in UNC’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy, sustained severe head wounds in the attack on West University Drive in… read more
The University will begin offering scholarship athletes who have left Carolina with uncompleted degrees the chance to come back at any time and continue their studies under the financial terms of their scholarships. For a full-scholarship… read more
Researchers from UNC’s School of Medicine, working with scores of institutions from around the world, have helped identify more than 100 locations in the human genome associated with the risk of developing schizophrenia. Findings from the… read more
When my Chicago-born, Michigan-bred and Boston-educated wife joined me for our first UNC away football pregame, she eagerly filled her plate, but as she passed by the North Carolina barbecue, a Carolina alumna in line next to her advised: “As the… read more
Kenan-Flagler Business School has long offered one of the nation’s top-ranked master of accounting programs. Starting next summer, the school plans to also make the program available online. “Demand for hiring our MAC graduates has never… read more
Orange County District Attorney James Woodall ’82 (AB, ’85 JD) has dropped the criminal charge against Julius Nyang’oro because of Nyang’oro’s cooperation with the current investigation into academic fraud at UNC, including in the… read more
The Energy Frontier Research Center for Solar Fuels at UNC has received $10.8 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Basic Energy Sciences to advance emerging solar energy technologies and to turn these technologies into devices… read more
Mary Willingham, the former learning specialist whose controversial research suggested a number of Carolina athletes were ill-prepared for academic success in college, claims in a lawsuit filed this week that she was subjected to a hostile work… read more
Excavations led by a Carolina faculty member have revealed stunning new mosaics decorating the floor of a fifth-century synagogue at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel’s Lower Galilee. Since 2012, three well-preserved mosaics have… read more