About 10,000 people came to the Smith Center on Feb. 22, and thousands more watched on TV and online, as Carolina said goodbye to Dean Smith in a UNC-sponsored tribute presided over by Chancellor Carol L. Folt. read more
Joseph Haj ’88 (MFA), producing artistic director of UNC’s PlayMakers Repertory Company, has been named the next artistic director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minn. read more
Clinics run by UNC dental students were operating on a limited basis on Thursday, Feb. 12. A lot of students needed to attend a funeral. read more
Carolina will celebrate the life of Dean Smith during a public memorial service at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, in the Smith Center. The public, fans and all who cared about the coach are invited to attend. read more
Dean Smith, North Carolina’s incomparable basketball coach for 36 years, who mastered the beautiful complexities of a simple game on the court and lived and taught his players the simple truths of a complex humanity away from it, died Saturday. He… read more
Sam can stay as long as he explains himself. William Saunders needs to leave. That was the message of the Real Silent Sam Coalition, who attracted about 200 people to a McCorkle Place rally Friday to demand that the name of Saunders — an 1854… read more
Media and entertainment innovator Jason Kilar ’93 will deliver the 2015 Commencement address on May 10. Kilar is the co-founder and CEO of Vessel and was previously the founding CEO of Hulu. “Jason’s innovations have had a significant… read more
Damon Waitt, the senior director and botanist at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, and one of the country’s most effective advocates for native plants, has been chosen to be the next director of the N.C. read more
The suit against UNC and the NCAA draws on information about the paper classes scheme operated at UNC for 18 years, ending in 2011, in the former department of African and Afro-American studies and from case examples of the NCAA’s interaction with… read more
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in its Nov. 13 letter to the University said the Wainstein report “makes it clear that there was a network of individuals within the academic and athletic community that knew of and referred… read more