The Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, housed in Kenan-Flagler Business School, will launch the Luther Hodges Scholars Program this fall. This undergraduate excellence program is aimed at addressing the most pressing issues facing business… read more
Jim Blaine ’00 and Jennifer Halsey Evans ’94 have been appointed to the UNC Board of Trustees. Blaine, who was nominated by the North Carolina Senate, was chief of staff from 2011 to 2018 for Senate leader Phil Berger when Berger was Senate… read more
Former UNC women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell, who led the Tar Heels to their only national championship in 1994, was honored this month with a bench in the Championship Coaches Legacy Garden in Springfield, Massachusetts. Hatchell is a… read more
Gov. Roy Cooper ’79 (’82 JD) has asked the NCAA to grant eligibility to a UNC football transfer the association has deemed ineligible to play this season. Cooper wrote a letter to NCAA President Charlie Baker supporting wide receiver Devontez… read more
Former N.C. Sen. Patrick Ballantine ’87 was sworn in as a member of the UNC Board of Trustees July 26. N.C. Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. administered the oath of office to Ballantine, who served in the N.C. Senate from 1994 to 2004. read more
UNC’s Board of Trustees last week passed an antidiscrimination resolution aimed at more broadly applying the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down the use of race-based admissions programs at UNC. Originally drafted by board member… read more
The road to an award-winning Wagyu beef sandwich ends in Chapel Hill. Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop opened in May on East Franklin Street after retrofitting the space formerly occupied by Waffle House and, even earlier, the legendary Pepper’s… read more
Professors are worried less about students using AI to cheat and more about how it should be used. By Mark Derewicz (a real human) A flawed, sarcastic human spent time talking to smarter humans and contextualizing facts and… read more
Carolina just happens to have a few good teams in a sport you may have never heard of. by Mark Derewicz The ball sails over the goal, booming off a wall in Fetzer Gym. Six men scurry back on defense, while six players on the opposing team… read more
Two feature stories and a timeline concerning the tulip poplar that witnessed the birth of America’s first public university stories by Paul Wachter A Turn for the Better When… read more