6.26.15 | Sports
Carolina had the fifth-best collegiate athletics program in the country in 2014-15, by the standards of the Learfield Directors’ Cup. It is the Tar Heels’ highest finish since 2009 and their 18th top-10 finish in the award’s 22-year history.
The University has been awarded $20 million over five years to lead a new Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence, which includes collaboration with more than a dozen partner universities to address the challenges facing communities across the U.S. read more
The University and the United States Basketball Writers Association are creating an award to honor the late Dean Smith. The Dean Smith Award will be presented annually by the USBWA to an individual in college basketball who embodies the spirit… read more
Carolina’s Southern Folklife Collection, based in in Wilson Library, is receiving thousands of hours of recordings from concerts played at a guitar shop in Southern California. Collection staffers plan to preserve the recordings by creating and… read more
The University and the Dental Foundation of North Carolina are establishing a new memorial award in memory of two of three Muslim-American students who were shot to death in February. read more
While upholding the Speaker Ban Law, Chancellor William B. Aycock ’37 (MA, ’48 JD) spoke out passionately against it. This speech was given in October 1963 to the UNC Board of Trustees. read more
While upholding the Speaker Ban Law, Chancellor William B. Aycock ’37 (MA, ’48 JD) spoke out passionately against it. This speech was given in November 1963 to the Greensboro Bar Association. read more
While upholding the Speaker Ban Law, Chancellor William B. Aycock ’37 (MA, ’48 JD) spoke out passionately against it. This speech was given in January 1964 to the Watauga Club in Raleigh. read more
While upholding the Speaker Ban Law, Chancellor William B. Aycock ’37 (MA, ’48 JD) spoke out passionately against it. This speech was given in September 1965 to the Speaker Ban Law Study Commission. read more
William Brantley Aycock ’37 (MA, ’48 JD), who began his career as a high school history teacher and became a distinguished professor and chancellor of the University during a period of tremendous growth and social and political upheaval, died… read more