Patrick Dougherty ’67 used to try to mimic the way birds weave twigs for nests. He couldn’t. But the art that rustled within him — that, he could do. read more
Obsessed with infinity, sculptor Woods Davy ’72 has learned to make natural materials defy natural laws. read more
Carolina appears on multiple lists of schools, degree programs and specialty areas newly ranked in 2015 by U.S. News & World Report for the 2016 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” read more
UNC’s Center for Community Capital has received a $2 million grant from the Ford Foundation to continue its long-term study of lower-income homeownership before, during and after one of the worst economic crises in the nation’s… read more
The $1 million from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center supports the 5-year-old N.C. Science Festival. read more
Jan Boxill, a 27-year veteran of the faculty who served a term as its chair, has resigned from the University, apparently cutting short her appeal of her firing last fall. read more
With four Grand Awards and three additional honors, the GAA and the Carolina Alumni Review are recognized for top programming and magazine journalism. read more
The proposed closing of UNC’s Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity by the UNC System Board of Governors – which drew one of the broadest and loudest protests from the Chapel Hill campus of any issue in years – became reality Friday as the board… read more
North Carolina resident tuition and required fees will rise to $8,334 per year, or 2.8 percent; out-of-state students will pay $33,416, up 0.7 percent. Also, tuition for all graduate students will go up $450. read more
Mary Willingham, whose claims that some athletes arrived at Carolina unprepared for academics helped focus investigations into the athletics-academics scandal, did not win her attempt to get her job back. She did receive an as-yet unspecified… read more