Carolina’s Chad Flack did it again. For the third year in a row, he won an NCAA Tournament game with a home run. In the bottom of the eighth Saturday night, the senior whacked a 3-2 pitch over the bleachers in left field to give the Tar Heels… read more
Carolina was the only team in the College World Series that hadn’t recorded a home run. “Was” is the key word as junior catcher Tim Federowicz blasted a grand slam home run in the ninth inning to break a tie with Louisiana State University… read more
Bruce W. Carney, senior associate dean for the sciences and Samuel Baron Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy at UNC, has been appointed interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1. He will succeed Holden Thorp… read more
UNC could not hold on to a 3-1 lead, going scoreless over the past five innings, as underdog Fresno State upset the Tar Heels 5-3 in their second game of the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., on Tuesday. “Fresno State certainly outplayed us,… read more
Biology and biochemistry major Sung Taek Kim and chemistry major Katie Deigan have been tapped as the first Beckman Scholars at Carolina. The students will each receive $16,000 to support their undergraduate research. They will also receive… read more
Scientists looking for evidence of life on Mars have turned to technology invented by UNC researchers to help with their mission. A team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has created a device for use on the European… read more
For the first time, the UNC System Board of Governors will be led by a woman. Hannah Dawson Gage ’75 was elected to a two-year term as chair. Gage graduated with a journalism degree and went on to found and, for a time, own Cape Fear Broadcasting… read more
The Tar Heels rapped out 17 hits and scored in four of the first five innings to defeat Louisiana State University 8-4 in their first game of the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. The Heels advance in the winner’s bracket to play Fresno State… read more
The University is about to own another piece of Franklin Street – a big one. Through the UNC at Chapel Hill Foundation Inc., it will acquire the 12-acre site that contains University Square and Granville Towers. The move gives UNC substantial… read more
UNC Hospitals plans to ask the state for permission, and some of the money, to expand not far from the site of the original N.C. Memorial Hospital on the campus. It wants to add a 321-bed tower just south of the main tower built in 1975 to… read more