Taylor Branch ’68, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the three-part history America in the King Years, returns to campus April 6 to speak about “Miracles and Myths from the King Years.” Branch’s visit also will celebrate the opening… read more
The South Campus dorm adjacent to Hinton James will be named for a 19th-century slave whose sideline as a writer of poetry earned him several superlatives and a notable place in Carolina’s past. George Moses Horton was the first African-American… read more
Carolina’s graduation rate is better than all but four of the nation’s public universities. But the four that do a better job happen to be the ones that currently outrank UNC in the most popular national ranking, that of U.S. News & World… read more
As part of its Legislative Reporting Service, UNC’s Institute of Government is offering a new feature: online digests of bills filed in the N.C. General Assembly. This service previously was available only to legislators and their staffs. For… read more
No major corporation goes about its day-to-day business without considering its public image. Daniel J. Edelman and his companies address these concerns every day. Edelman, founder and chairman of Daniel J. Edelman Inc., will discuss the… read more
Two recent UNC graduates, Nicholas Love ’05 and David Chapman ’03, have been awarded 2006 Luce Scholarships to live and learn in Asia – two of 18 scholarships awarded nationwide. Carolina has had a total of 26 Luce Scholars since the program… read more
UNC’s School of Public Health has established a Center for Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care, the first center of its kind in a school of public health. The center will advance and support research and practices that enable mothers and… read more
Nine communications professionals and an educator will be inducted into the N.C. Journalism and Advertising Halls of Fame and the N.C. Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame on April 2. The halls are based in UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass… read more
It’s appropriate that the ceiling in Memorial Hall’s auditorium is Carolina blue – and not just because the venue stands at the heart of the campus. The auditorium now bears the names of two men whose Carolina ties run deep. Memorial Hall’s… read more
Marcie Cohen Ferris, author of Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, has been nominated for this year’s James Beard Foundation Book Award in the “Writings on Food” category. Ferris is one of three nominees for this year’s… read more