If an insect can be born, live and die in three weeks, then the average Carolina student should be able to complete a course in the same amount of time. “My friend in the laboratory says the life cycle of a flea is three weeks,” said Bobbi Owen,… read more
More than four tons of food were kicked to the curb last year through UNC’s dining services operation, deepening a six-year profit deficit of about $1 million. “The last two years we have lost money, but it can be associated with the Rams Head,”… read more
Housing for UNC faculty and staff is in the works on 63 acres of land on Homestead Road, marking the University’s first attempt to help with lower-cost housing. Carolina Commons will provide 60 condominium units to UNC employees. Roughly 53 of… read more
The two-year renovation of Morrison Residence Hall is coming to a close, and it is expected to reopen in August with a distinctly environmental flair. The 10-story brick high-rise on South Campus, known to many for its 1960s architecture and lack… read more
After appealing a peer judicial board’s decision to suspend the group, Sigma Chi fraternity now looks ahead to the new year with a lighter sentence. In November, the fraternity plead guilty to six hazing charges, and was found guilty of a… read more
After enduring months of mental competency tests and deliberation with his public defender, the UNC alumnus who drove an SUV through the heart of UNC’s campus last year will plead not guilty on all counts. Mohammad Taheri-Azar ’05, who turned… read more
Against a backdrop of some 200 protesting students, the UNC Board of Trustees in January approved tuition increases of $250 for North Carolinians and $1,250 for out-of-state students for the 2007-08 academic year. The increase, approved by the… read more
A nonfiction account of the relationship between a nun and two death-row convicts, their families and individuals on either side of the death-penalty debate has been selected as this year’s summer reading program book. The Death of Innocents:… read more
About 2,700 applicants for fall 2007 admission to Carolina were notified mistakenly on January 23 that they had been accepted. In fact, decisions on these applications have not been made, and the students were not expecting decisions until March… read more
Carolina’s African studies center has received a federal grant designating it as one of 11 National Resource Centers in the specialty. The Department of Education award – about $220,000 annually for four years – will allow the UNC center to… read more