UNC’s total amount of research grants and contracts in fiscal year 2006 grew to a new high of $593 million. The total represents a 2.4 percent increase from fiscal 2005’s $579 million, and it’s more than twice the amount the University received… read more
A 1982 alumnus who works as a correspondent for CBS News will lead an upcoming discussion at Carolina about growing up in a Jewish community in Robeson County. Drew Levinson ’82, who was raised in Fairmont, has been based in New York since… read more
Recently discovered photographs of musicians Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk will be among 30 to be displayed on campus beginning Aug. 31. “The Untamed World: Photographs by Robert Bolton, 1964-1969” will open Aug. read more
These facts on the entering freshman class are estimates from the UNC Office of Undergraduate Admissions, based on information as of Aug. 18: 19,696 students applied; 6,732, or 34.2 percent, were accepted; 3,819, or 56.7 percent, are expected… read more
After years of debate about the fate of West House – a 1,141-square-foot structure that had straddled the parking lots behind Swain Hall and Hill Hall – the building is being torn down to make way for the University’s new Arts Common The… read more
For the sixth consecutive year, Carolina ranks as the nation’s fifth-best public university, according to U.S. News and World Report. The magazine’s annual rankings also placed UNC as a leader among public universities in promoting in… read more
This year, seniors will be encouraged to choose as their class gift something a little less tangible. Rather than giving to a physical gift to the University, seniors will be able to select an area of campus to support financially. There are more… read more
There was a time when the Campus Y and its front courtyard were the best place on campus to meet friends, exchange ideas and try out unpolished folk songs. Before South Campus dormitories shifted the center of campus in that direction, Lenoir… read more
A campus contract worker died at midday on Aug. 9 while working in Kenan Stadium, according to UNC police. Leland S. Williams, 31, of Burlington and his co-workers of Kemco of Burlington Inc. were replacing light fixtures and bulbs on banks of… read more
Dr. Etta Pisano, a professor in the departments of radiology and biomedical engineering and vice dean of UNC’s School of Medicine, is one of seven recipients of a new award presented by Ladies’ Home Journal. The Health Breakthrough award… read more