Superior Court Judge Howard Manning Jr. ’65, whose most famous ruling – the Leandro public school funding case – secured for all North Carolina children an equal opportunity to receive a sound, basic education, will speak on Friday, Feb. 24 at… read more
How much learning can Carolina professors and students pack into just three weeks? That’s what UNC’s proposed Maymester program aims to find out. In May 2007, UNC hopes to pilot a new academic mini-term that will give students an alternative to… read more
More than 500 spectators, volunteers and hospital employees plan to crowd into UNC’s Fetzer Gym on Feb. 24 to witness more than 850 student dancers from UNC stay on their feet for 24 consecutive hours. The 2006 Dance Marathon will be the… read more
The University came to life Feb. 12, 1795. That day Hinton James arrived as the first student for what are said to have been the first classes held at a state university in America. Two centuries later, the GAA celebrates students this week by… read more
Tens of thousands of pedestrians walk along Chapel Hill roads each day, most without thinking twice about their safety. Between 1997 and 2005, only six pedestrians died in Chapel Hill. But in a four-day stretch, Jan 23-26, two pedestrians and a… read more
In the past year, the University has named 54 faculty members to endowed professorships – designations that are created through gifts to the University and that recognize excellence in teaching and research. A key goal of the Carolina First… read more
Bernadette Gray-Little, since 2004 the dean of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, was named Feb. 8 to succeed Robert Shelton as executive vice chancellor and provost, the University’s top academic officer. Saying he never had seen such unanimity… read more
Men’s basketball Coach Roy Williams ’72 and his wife, Wanda ’72, are serving as honorary co-chairs of an effort to create a $10 million endowment for the Carolina Covenant, the University’s initiative to make a Chapel Hill education possible… read more
The N.C. GlaxoSmithKline Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to UNC and Duke University for a collaborative partnership to address four pressing local and global health-care concerns: quality of care and patient safety, health disparities, global… read more
Twenty-one teachers in nine categories have been honored with the University’s 2006 Teaching Awards, the highest campuswide recognition for teaching excellence. The honorees were recognized during halftime of the Feb. 4 Carolina-Clemson men’s… read more