Gender-neutral housing at Carolina — first denied by then-Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 and then supported by UNC trustees nine months later — has been struck from housing options on UNC System campuses by its Board of Governors. BOG Chair… read more
Dean Smith will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom later this year. Smith retired in 1997 after 36 years as head coach of Carolina basketball teams that he built into one of the most storied programs in college sports. The Presidential… read more
Beginning with the opening of the N.C. Cancer Hospital on the UNC campus in 2007, the state has given $50 million every year to the University Cancer Research Fund for research in the hospital and in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer… read more
Basketball star P.J. Hairston has been suspended from the team indefinitely by coach Roy Williams ’72 after another run-in with the law. Hairston, who saw charges of marijuana possession and unlicensed driving dropped by a Durham County court… read more
Malinda Maynor Lowery ’02 (MA, ’05 PhD), a Lumbee Indian who has made documentary films on Native American issues and has written about the Lumbee tribe, is the new director of UNC’s highly regarded Southern Oral History… read more
Faculty at UNC secured $777.8 million in overall research funding in fiscal 2013. That total is up nearly $11 million — or 1.4 percent — from $767.1 million the previous year. That funding total comes in contracts and grants awarded by… read more
W. Lowry Caudill ’79 of Durham has been elected chair of the UNC Board of Trustees. Alston Gardner ’77 of Chapel Hill was elected vice chair, and Sallie Shuping-Russell ’77 of Chapel Hill is the board’s new secretary. All were elected on… read more
Happily, the Old Well has not been moved. But across Cameron Avenue in South Building, on both sides of the first floor, new senior University officers are at work — Carolina’s 11th chancellor, Carol Folt, and the University’s executive vice… read more
Charges of marijuana possession and driving without a license against UNC basketball player P.J. Hairston have been dropped, according to a deputy clerk of Durham County Superior Court. Hairston, who led the Carolina men’s basketball team in… read more
The University celebrated its 220th birthday on Oct. 12 with the installation of Carol Folt as its 11th chancellor. As it has done during previous chancellor installation ceremonies, the GAA organized an Alumni Processional on Polk Place on… read more