Authorities over the weekend arrested a Georgia real estate agent accused of trying to coax a UNC football player to sign a sports contract, widening the number of people implicated in the long-running investigation. Authorities arrested Patrick… read more
UNC women’s basketball head coach Sylvia Hatchell is temporarily stepping away from her on-the-court coaching responsibilities due to a recent diagnosis of leukemia. “I am going to be involved in a treatment plan established by Dr. Pete… read more
‘She’s going to be connected with us’ Hundreds of students flocked to the Student Union on a rainy Sunday to indulge in carnival-style food and shake hands with newly installed Chancellor Carol Folt. The festival also featured… read more
The UNC student whose body was discovered last year at a Carrboro concrete plant was significantly impaired by alcohol when he fell from a piece of equipment, a plunge that caused fatal trauma to his head, neck and torso, according to an autopsy… read more
Last summer, no one knew how many people might sign up for a course under the University’s unusual offer to 46 former students who did not graduate and who took one or more courses in the department of African and Afro-American studies that were… read more
As part of the Oct. 12 University Day ceremony to install Carol L. Folt as the 11th chancellor of the University, five Carolina alumni received Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Awards and another received the Edward Kidder Graham Award. The… read more
A Georgia sports agent has been indicted on 13 counts of athlete agent inducement in connection to UNC’s long-running investigations into its football program. Charges against Terry Shawn Watson, who appeared today in Orange County District… read more
A little more than a year ago, a physicist named Peter Higgs made startling news with what’s now known as the Higgs boson, the idea that a background field permeating all matter was responsible for mass. It was at Carolina in 1965 that Higgs… read more
Jennifer Wiley Thompson ’09, the former tutor who became linked to UNC’s long-running investigations into its football program, has been charged with violating a state law governing contact with sports agents. An indictment was handed up… read more