The Board of Trustees has honored four recipients with the William Richardson Davie Award, its highest honor. They are: Joan Gillings of Chapel Hill, adviser and philanthropist; Bernadette Gray-Little of Lawrence, Kan., chancellor of the… read more
Peter T. Grauer ’68 of Greenwich, Conn., chair of Bloomberg LP, became the newest member of the Board of Trustees on Nov. 17. Grauer was appointed by Gov. Beverly Perdue to the 13-member board responsible for governing the University. He replaced… read more
A Superior Court judge has dismissed football player Michael McAdoo’s lawsuit against the University and the NCAA, according to The News & Observer of Raleigh. McAdoo, who sat out the 2010 season as part of the NCAA investigation… read more
After three years of heavy state budget cutting, which culminated in a loss of about $100 million to the University last year, students and their families are bracing for significant tuition increases. The Board of Trustees later this week will… read more
One evening on the banks of the Nile River, a group of Carolina alumni was awaiting a sound-and-light show among the ancient temple ruins in Luxor. It occurred to them that, just at that moment, the men’s basketball team was playing Villanova in the… read more
About 80 ROTC cadets and midshipmen will assemble in dress uniforms at 11 a.m. Friday for the annual Veterans Day ceremony at UNC. Veterans and town spokespeople believe that Carolina’s is the only Veterans Day ceremony in Chapel Hill. The public… read more
Carolina has tied for 10th on the U.S. Fulbright program’s list of institutions with the most students and recent graduates receiving Fulbright awards for 2010-11. Reported recently in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the list ties UNC… read more
The athletics department’s original request of a $90 annual increase — an addition to the existing $274.50 fee — was halved in negotiations over two weeks in October. The department had asked for $45 to cover scholarships for out-of-state… read more
The second suspect in the 2008 murder of Student Body President Eve Carson ’08 is scheduled to go on trial Nov. 28 in Orange County. Laurence Alvin Lovette was under age 18 at the time of the crime, so if he were to be convicted of murder in… read more
UNC is reviewing its policies and practices for independent study and directed readings in the wake of issues that surfaced in the department of African and Afro-American studies as part of the investigation into the football program. Karen Gil,… read more