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
With the close of the final deadline for first-year admission for fall 2015, the University has achieved a 10th consecutive record for first-year applications — an increase of 2 percent from a year earlier and up 37 percent from five years… read more
Just try to find some creative, entrepreneurial endeavor not on Bland Simpson’s resume. He’s a teacher, of course, and a good one at that. Since he came onto the faculty at UNC in 1982, he has received the Tanner Award for Excellence in… read more
Jo Anne Earp believes UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health hired her fresh out of Johns Hopkins University not because of her doctorate in behavioral sciences but because the health behavior department chair at the time, Guy Steuart, was… read more