Researchers at UNC and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have synthetically reconstructed the bat variant of the SARS coronavirus that caused the SARS epidemic of 2003. The scientists say designing and synthesizing the virus is a major step… read more
“Alumni should be reassured that we will not grow unless the resources are provided that will be essential if we are to retain and enhance the quality of educational experience for all Carolina students.” This sentence concluded my column… read more
Aisha Ihab Saad of Cary has trekked the Amazon region, hiked the Rockies and the Himalayas, and climbed a volcano in Peru. Elisabeth “Lisette” Yorke has conducted AIDS research in Thailand and Cambodia, been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and… read more
The UNC trustees have agreed unanimously to raise tuition $240 for in-state undergraduates — the maximum allowable under a 6.5 percent cap imposed by the UNC System Board of Governors — for the 2009-10 school year. The campus pulse on… read more
The law school’s Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, created in 2005 and originally led by former U.S. Sen. John R. Edwards ’77 (JD), is now directed by Gene Nichol, former dean of the school. Nichol has succeeded Marion Crain, who left the… read more
Five alumni have been presented with the William Richardson Davie Award, the highest honor bestowed by UNC’s Board of Trustees. This year’s honorees are Vaughn and Nancy Bryson, both 1960 graduates, of Vero Beach, Fla.; Peter T. Grauer ’68 of… read more
John Keats penned some of the most quoted lines in English poetry: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”; “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.” On Thursday, the poet who would “sooner fail than not be among the greatest” took… read more
Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has recommended a $240 tuition increase for N.C. resident undergraduates for the 2009-10 school year, the maximum allowed under a 6.5 percent cap imposed by the UNC System Board of Governors. In a letter to the Board… read more
An alumna who dedicated her life to education has left UNC’s School of Information and Library Science more than $1 million for student scholarships. Jane Iris Crutchfield ’55 bequeathed the gift when she died in December 2006 at age 92 after… read more
If scientists knew exactly what a breast cancer cell needed to spread, then they could stop the most deadly part of the disease: metastasis. New research from UNC’s School of Medicine takes a step in that direction. The UNC researchers reduced… read more