The structure of an entire HIV genome has been decoded for the first time by researchers at UNC. The results have widespread implications for understanding the strategies that viruses, including the one that causes AIDS, use to infect humans. The… read more
The global business consultant Bain & Co. has concluded that UNC has management and organizational inefficiencies that keep it from getting the maximum bang for its bucks in the core missions of teaching and research. Bain, which gave its… read more
UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication has launched an experimental multimedia news Web site that explores U.S. energy use and its relationship to the country’s demographics. “Powering a Nation” is Carolina’s contribution to the News21… read more
More than 100 authors will appear at this year’s N.C. Literary Festival, which will be held on the Carolina campus Sept. 10-13. Two dozen authors already had been named to be part of the free public festival, and in late July another 78 writers… read more
The University honored the memory of its fifth chancellor, N. Ferebee Taylor ’42, when it named a South Campus residence hall on Aug. 3. One of five apartment-style buildings built in 2006 and now known as Rams Village was dedicated as… read more
Robert W. Winston III ’84 of Raleigh, chief executive officer of Winston Hospitality Inc., has been elected chair of the UNC Board of Trustees. Trustees on July 23 elected two other current members as new officers for one-year terms on the… read more
UNC’s fundraising efforts brought in $271.25 million in gifts in fiscal year 2009. The total represented the second-highest year in history for this type of support, which accounts for money that is immediately available to the University. In… read more
For the 10th time in the past 17 years, a national organization that supports educational advancement efforts has honored UNC for its fundraising success. No other university, public or private, can match that record. UNC has received a 2009… read more
Too often we wait until a colleague retires or departs to take on new challenges before we publicly acknowledge what we’ve long observed about their remarkable contributions. Happily, the recent renewal of his contract for an additional three years… read more
A young elementary school teacher, widowed in the 1940s and with a 2-year-old daughter, Mary Turner Lane could have stayed in New Bern and continued to teach. Instead, she chose to come to UNC, where she earned her master’s in education in 1953… read more