An $8 million gift from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust will create 16 full music scholarships for Carolina undergraduates and complete funding for a new music building, to be called the Kenan Music Building. The gift, the largest ever… read more
Tony Brown, whose leadership courses have inspired scores of Duke University undergraduates to launch community service projects in Durham and elsewhere, will be the new leader of the Robertson Scholars Program. Brown succeeds Eric Mlyn, who has… read more
Two distinguished professors will teach at Carolina and at Duke University next year as part of an ongoing collaboration between the two schools. Harvard professor Peter Gomes, who delivered the 2005 Commencement address at Carolina, and New York… read more
From salvaging sweet potatoes left after the harvest to using puppets to teach dental health, students at Carolina have created a range of service projects with the help of Seagraves Service Grants. The Carolina Center for Public Service recently… read more
The SmartCommute Challenge, a program of the Environmental Protection Agency, has presented UNC’s public safety department and the University with a regional Super Achiever Award for efforts to promote commuting by bus, carpool, vanpool and other… read more
A new scholarship has been created at the School of Nursing in memory of Pamela McClure Wichmann ’99 (MSN), a 40-year veteran nurse who died in October. Wichmann was a nurse practitioner at Kernersville Family Practice in Kernersville, where she… read more
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has classified UNC as a “community-engaged university” in recognition of Carolina’s continual collaboration with the community and its commitment to fostering community service among students,… read more
Duke University may open its classes to some students from Carolina, but there’s no home for rival Tar Heels in Krzyzewskiville. That’s the verdict of Duke student leaders, according to the Associated Press, as well as reluctant administrators… read more
Kenan Professor Emeritus George Brown Tindall ’48 (MA, ’51 PhD) was often called a pioneer, both for his early advocacy of equal rights and for his insightful, inclusive research on the history of the South. Before retiring in 1990, the long-time… read more
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code flew off the shelves. Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ had people flocking to the box office. While all this media attention on the Bible and its teachings is music to a religion professor’s… read more