Nobel Prize co-recipient Oliver Smithies will give a free public talk about “Reflections on a Lifetime of Science” at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Smithies, an Excellence Professor of pathology and… read more
On the morning of March 5, the University’s campuswide alert system, developed last year in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech, was used for the first time to notify people on campus that a young woman had been found shot to death at about 5… read more
Area fans are invited to cheer together for the men’s basketball team Saturday, viewing the NCAA semifinals broadcast from the Alamodome in San Antonio on the Tar Heels’ home court, the Dean E. Smith Center. The UNC Department of Athletics,… read more
A $1.5 million distinguished professorship in Jewish studies will be named in honor of Stuart E. Eizenstat ’64, lead negotiator for Holocaust reparation agreements and deputy secretary of the treasury during the Clinton administration. The… read more
UNC appears on multiple lists of schools, programs and specialty areas newly ranked in 2008 by U.S. News & World Report magazine for its 2009 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” Following is a summary of newly ranked UNC… read more
Two Carolina students have won prestigious scholarships for postgraduate study. Michael Tarrant, a senior, has been awarded a Luce Scholarship to live and learn in Asia – one of 18 awarded nationwide. Junior Danielle Maria Allen has earned the… read more
UNC programs in public health, medicine and business again were ranked highly in U.S. News & World Report‘s annual evaluation of U.S. graduate schools. Following is a summary of newly ranked UNC schools and programs, as well as… read more
He coached basketball for just two years at Carolina but took a team to the national finals. As a college player and coach he had a 5-0 record against UNC. And he provided a key link in the chain of events that brought the young Dean Smith… read more
Carolina has honored a student, a professor and a staff member with the University Awards for the Advancement of Women. The award recognizes women who have mentored or supported their peers on campus, elevated the status of women or improved… read more
Former UNC law school Dean Gene Nichol, whose contentious two-and-a-half year tenure as president of the College of William & Mary ended in February, will return to the UNC faculty this summer. Nichol will teach constitutional law, federal… read more