Carolina honored three people on Monday with its University Awards for the Advancement of Women. A reception for the winners helped kick off the campus’ Women’s Week 2010. The awards, created in 2006, honor individuals who have mentored or… read more
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Taylor Branch ’68 will speak about his book The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President Feb. 23 in UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library. The free public program, sponsored… read more
Would you pledge to stay awake and on your feet for 24 hours to help a sick child in North Carolina? Carolina students have answered that question with a resounding “yes,” with 1,600 of them taking a 24-hour stand for the kids at the 12th annual UNC… read more
Snow is rare enough in Chapel Hill that it still sparks interest when it falls. Students have always treked to the campus to enjoy random displays of frivolity: snowball fights, snowman construction and cafeteria tray sledding. Photo by David… read more
Two juniors — Caroline Fish of Raleigh and Chase Jones of Greensboro — have been named Eve Carson Scholars. The scholarship will fund half the cost of attendance in their senior years, plus $5,000 each for a summer enrichment… read more
A coal-burning power plant has been a fact of UNC’s life since the 1890s, and coal is responsible for about half of the carbon dioxide the University sends into the atmosphere. As the new green movement begins to take hold, coal is starting to get a… read more
Winston B. Crisp ’92 (JD), who has spent his career at Carolina, has been appointed vice chancellor for student affairs. The Board of Trustees approved the appointment Thursday, effective May 10. Crisp currently serves as assistant vice… read more
An upcoming digital arts and humanities festival — open to the public — will let participants take part in interactive projects that explore the impact of technology on our lives. The five-day festival Feb. 16-20 will feature discussions and… read more
In the end, there was no one left at the Zeiss Optical Co. in Germany who knew as much about the Morehead Planetarium’s 40-year-old analog star projector as the planetarium’s staff — that’s how outdated the behemoth centerpiece of the star theater… read more
Picking Cotton, the true story of an unlikely friendship between a woman and the innocent man she sent to prison, will be the 2010 summer reading book for incoming freshmen. UNC asks all first-year and incoming transfer students to read… read more