Over the past five years, the University of Virginia has landed the top spot four times on The Princeton Review’s annual list of the “Best Value Public Colleges.” The only school to displace UVA since 2009 has been Carolina, which… read more
North Carolina’s new governor took office in January with a tough assignment: Figure out how to cut the state’s unemployment rate from about 9 percent, one of the highest state jobless rates in the U.S. Before the month was out, Pat… read more
A UNC System Board of Governors panel investigating incidents of academic fraud at UNC has come to essentially the same conclusions as others who have looked into the matter. In a 36-page report released Thursday, the panel of BOG members adopted… read more
Twenty-four instructors in 18 departments or schools have received the 2013 University Teaching Awards, the highest campuswide recognition for teaching excellence. The winners were recognized during halftime of the Carolina-Virginia Tech men’s… read more
The N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled that Laurence Alvin Lovette will be resentenced for his part in the murder of Eve Carson ’08 in March 2008, The News & Observer of Raleigh has reported. According to the report, the court ruled… read more
Anyone who awaited the Martin Report with a fear of damaging new revelations in Carolina’s yearlong academic scandal can be assumed to be having happier holidays (depending on point of view) — the four-month investigation turned up very little… read more
Home, the latest novel by Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, will be the 2013 summer reading book for incoming students at Carolina. A nine-member selection committee of students, faculty and staff selected… read more
Carolina has offered admission to this fall’s entering class to 5,393 candidates who applied by the first of two admission deadlines. The admitted students were chosen from a record first-deadline pool of 15,169 — an increase of 15 percent… read more
Despite a substantial increase in the number of people suffering the debilitating and often deadly effects of heart failure, treatments for the condition have not advanced significantly for at least 10 years. An analysis by researchers at UNC’s… read more
A pioneering computer science professor and a former law school dean who helped the campus navigate turbulent times were honored Friday with the GAA’s Faculty Service Award. The GAA Board of Directors presented the awards to Fred Brooks… read more