UNC’s research grants and contracts totaled $678.2 million in fiscal 2008 – up 11 percent from the record-setting $610 million received the previous year and more than double the amount from a decade ago. More than half of the 2008 total – about… read more
Four highly promising professors in diverse fields have been awarded the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at the University. They are Jason D. Lieb ’94, an associate professor of biology;… read more
UNC recently honored 39 freshmen and 16 nursing students with its most prestigious need-based merit awards, the annual James M. Johnston Scholarships. The freshmen scholarships are renewable for three more years of study. Among the freshmen, 32… read more
Brian D. Strahl, associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the UNC School of Medicine, is among the first recipients of a new award for innovative, potentially revolutionary research. The grants, the first made under a new National… read more
The late Charles Kuralt ’55, after noting that as editor of The Daily Tar Heel he once wrote an editorial critical of big-time college sports, observed in the GAA’s award-winning sound/slide show On the Road in Chapel Hill that… read more
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded the Carolina Population Center up to $181 million to continue its MEASURE Evaluation project, evaluating health, poverty and gender programs worldwide. The award is the largest ever… read more
Poet, novelist and nonfiction writer Robert Morgan ’65, author of Gap Creek and Boone: A Biography, will give a free public talk on campus Oct. 2. Morgan – a prolific writer who is Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell… read more
A University spin-off company has been awarded a $2 million grant to commercialize a new technology to improve radiation treatment of prostate cancer. The grant from the National Cancer Institute, as part of its Small Business Innovation Research… read more
Something besides airplanes is finally off the ground at Carolina North. The UNC trustees have unanimously approved the design of the first building for the satellite campus that has been more than a decade in the planning. The Innovation… read more
A UNC tennis star withdrew from school in August after being charged with two felony counts of hit-and-run following a drunken driving incident on Aug. 17, two days before the start of fall classes. Christopher Harrison Kearney, 20, was driving… read more