`I love UNC. I love the quad in the spring and the arboretum in the fall. I love the Pit on a sunny day and Graham Memorial Lounge on a rainy one. I love Roy all the time. But what makes UNC truly special is not our beautiful campus, our… read more
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist, a genome scientist, one of Canada’s most powerful women, a celebrated performing artist and a state senator will receive honorary degrees May 11 at UNC’s spring Commencement. The recipients will be: Peter… read more
This fall, the Ackland Art Museum will present the first major exhibition to examine the importance of the year 1958 as a critical tipping point in the evolution of American art. “Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art,” on view Sept. 21… read more
Lawrence Band, who is on the faculty in UNC’s geography department, has been named director of Carolina’s Institute for the Environment. Band succeeds Doug Crawford-Brown, who left the institute earlier this year to become a senior sustainability… read more
As a history professor at UNC for nearly four decades, Hugh Talmage Lefler was renowned in the classroom for being both stimulating and entertaining. In speaking before a class of up to 100 students, Lefler was known for delivering his popular… read more
UNC has been awarded a training fellowship from the Gilead Foundation to provide doctors from the African nation of Malawi with postdoctoral training in internal medicine. Among the poorest nations in the world, Malawi is the site of the UNC… read more
Historian Louis Pérez Jr. has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Pérez is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of history at UNC. His current… read more
The white woolen symbol of Carolina was a picture of calm and gentleness on the hectic Kenan Stadium sideline. His easygoing disposition and slow-to-startle nature while fans screamed and fireworks burst above him made Rameses XVII an exceptional… read more
When Christie Trice spoke at a luncheon in 2004 as a freshman – where Bank of America’s charitable foundation announced a $900,000 gift to the Carolina Covenant – she explained that the Covenant was her future. When she returned to the podium as… read more
Four UNC students have received the UNC Class of 1938 travel fellowships for research abroad this summer. The students were chosen from among 40 students who submitted proposals for projects outside the U.S. Selection is based on the quality of… read more