The University has selected recipients of the 2010 teaching awards, the highest campuswide recognition for teaching excellence. The Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching go to five faculty members and carry a $7,500 stipend. This… read more
A Superior Court judge in Randolph County has ruled that the videotape from a police car’s dashboard camera capturing the last moments of a UNC student’s life will remain sealed. Judge Bradford Long concluded his decision Friday by writing that… read more
The number of cancer patients is predicted to double over the next 25 years. This is simple demographics — the baby boomers are aging. Simultaneously, remarkable breakthroughs in our understanding of these diseases and the difficult quest to… read more
The University has narrowed the search for its next provost to three candidates who will visit Chapel Hill beginning this month and will give public lectures. A fourth candidate who had been scheduled to be on campus this week has withdrawn from… read more
Carolina’s season-long celebration of 100 years of men’s basketball is about more than remembering special players and coaches. It’s about more than recalling remarkable comebacks, disappointing losses and exciting victories. Carolina fans are… read more
UNC is turning to an alumnus to serve as a consultant and to review Greek life at the University with an eye toward recommendations about ways to improve the system. In a letter to D. Jordan Whichard III ’79, trustees Chair Robert Winston III… read more
The director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has been honored with the GAA’s Faculty Service Award. Dr. H. Shelton “Shelley” Earp III ’70 (MD) also is a professor of pharmacology and medicine and Lineberger Professor of… read more
Actor and producer Danny Glover will give the 29th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture on Jan. 21 at Carolina. The free public talk at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall will be preceded by a candlelight vigil starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Old… read more
If they retired awards such as this, it would be about time to start thinking about that. But you have to earn the top ranking in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s survey of the best values in public higher education, and Carolina has… read more
What is it about sports that use nets around here? Two more national champions and a third team among the last four standing – that’s the short of it for soccer and field hockey in the fall of 2009. Stanford was unbeaten and had allowed just… read more