StoryCorps, a national initiative to document everyday history and the unique stories of America, will be in Chapel Hill and Durham in April, collecting the stories of North Carolina residents as part of the program’s cross-country tour. In… read more
UNC’s Rams Head Center has been selected for one of Food Management magazine’s Best Concept Awards for 2006. The winners are featured in the cover story in the magazine’s March issue. They also will be highlighted at the 2006 Food… read more
Carolina faculty members Joy Kasson and Carla White-Harris have received the University’s first Carolina Women’s Leadership Council Mentoring Awards, presented at the council’s recent annual meeting. The awards are funded by an endowment… read more
The “Big Four ACC Canned Food Drive” has concluded with four North Carolina universities collectively raising $15,809 and 2,623 pounds of physical donations – for the equivalent of 81,669 pounds of food. The amount of food will provide about… read more
Alumni visiting the George Watts Hill Alumni Center seldom investigate the extensive records of the nearly 300,000 former students who have attended Carolina. Within the 50,000 files the GAA maintains on deceased alumni can be found fascinating… read more
The 2005 UNC graduate accused of driving a Jeep SUV through an area near the Pit just before noon on March 3, striking nine people, has sent a letter to The News & Observer of Raleigh saying that he was prepared to spend the rest of his life in… read more
Frank Rich, op-ed columnist and former theater critic at The New York Times, will be on campus to discuss art, culture and politics on March 6 as a Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor in the College of Arts and… read more
Jean Folkerts, professor of honors and of media and public affairs at George Washington University, has been selected to become the next dean of UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The appointment, announced Feb. 24 and effective… read more
A UNC student died and another was in critical condition after the two fell out of a third-floor window in Stacy Residence Hall early Friday morning, Feb. 24, 2006. Sophomore Keith Shawn Smith, 20, a Greensboro native and resident adviser on the… read more
An exhibition honoring the “father” of the University is on display at Wilson Library through June 30. Nearly 50 artifacts, images, books and documents relating to William Richardson Davie can be seen in the library’s North Carolina Collection… read more