The University and the UNC Health Care System are monitoring the recommendations of state and federal agencies and public health authorities regarding the Ebola virus outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a Level 3… read more
UNC ranks 32nd among the world’s top 500 research universities, according to the inaugural U.S. News & World Report “Best Global Universities” rankings. The publisher that perennially ranks Carolina the fifth-best public… read more
Lee Scouten is a supervisor in the ticket office at Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, who in addition to being the nation’s third president, founded the University of Virginia. Scouten is a 1983 graduate of UVA, but his… read more
The Carolina-Duke basketball rivalry graduated years ago from a Tobacco Road brawl to an integral part of the national sports scene. The bitter rivalry has spawned a cottage industry of books, videos and gear cashing in on the enmity of the two… read more
The world, and especially the United States, says UNC Professor James H. Johnson, is undergoing an unprecedented demographic transformation. “If you ignore [the changes], you ignore them at your own peril,” he said, “because there is… read more
In 1936, Carolina became the first major Southern university to go north and play football against a desegregated team. Eleven years later, the University of Virginia became the first major university in the South to host an integrated football… read more
Deborah Crowder ’75, who managed the office of the former department of African and Afro-American studies, started and maintained the department’s practice of offering the “paper classes” that are at the heart of a long-running investigation… read more
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a 469-mile scenic roadway connecting the Shenandoah National Park in western Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in southwestern North Carolina. The parkway, which originated with the New Deal in the… read more
Deborah Crowder ’75, the office manager for UNC’s former department of African and Afro-American studies, managed for roughly 20 years what were called “paper classes” — the central element of Carolina’s long-running academic and… read more
UNC’s pharmacy school has received a $3 million gift from philanthropist and pharmaceutical-industry executive Fred Eshelman ’72. Eshelman’s gift will support the work of the school’s Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug… read more