10.25.16 | Academics and Athletics
The National Collegiate Athletic Association has signaled that its case against the University concerning long-running athletics-academics fraud issues will not go down quietly, as some had surmised after UNC asserted that the athletics governing…
The $21 million AURORA Study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and based at UNC, will employ the efforts of 19 institutions and more than 40 scientists. read more
Award-winning faculty member and author Paul Cuadros, who teaches in UNC’s School of Media and Journalism, will be the featured speaker at winter Commencement. read more
The University has selected the chair of the oral health and diagnostic sciences department at Augusta University’s Dental College of Georgia as its new dean of the School of Dentistry. read more
“It’s not where we start; it’s the miles we travel. I don’t know that this was the truth that Hinton James was seeking, but it seems to me it’s at the heart of the place he found, or at least the place we have become and are becoming.” -… read more
On the heels of a record-breaking fundraising year, the University has accepted a $20 million match challenge in support of need- and merit-based scholarships. read more
Carolina marked its 223rd birthday on Tuesday with the debut of an initiative to name grants and fellowships to honor 21 people who represent important firsts in the University’s history. read more
The celebration of Carolina’s 223rd birthday is available via livestream on unc.edu. Stephen Farmer delivered this year’s University Day keynote address, titled “The Miles We Travel.” read more
The eight faculty researchers awarded National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development awards represent the most winners in a single year for the University. read more
The University has been named to the 2015 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The honor roll recognizes U.S. colleges and universities that support exemplary community… read more