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
Membership in UNC’s Faculty-Staff Recreation Association, also known as “The Farm,” has been added to the menu of discounts available to Carolina Alumni members. The new membership benefit follows the recent introduction of several other… read more
Even before Sept. 11, 2001, Carl Ernst’s publishers had doubts about asking him to write a book about Islam. When Ernst submitted a manuscript just months after the terrorist attacks, the publishing house decided to drop the project. The reason,… read more
Carolina’s tuition gives it a real bang-for-the-buck edge over many of its peers. Even so, an extra incentive never hurts to recruit some of the brightest students, and the GAA Scholarship does just that. “The scholarships are made with the… read more
Every day, the GAA serves students, but the beginning of the school year is especially packed with programs and opportunities. Nearly 6,000 students are now members of the GAA’s student membership program, representing a record, and a number of… read more
Carolina students are known for traveling the world, so it’s no surprise that most of them move away from Chapel Hill after graduation. Keeping up with where UNC’s nearly 250,000 alumni live is the job of the GAA’s Records Department. About every… read more
This reading list, recommended by Professor Michael Hunt, was compiled to accompany the GAA’s “Think Fast” public forum held July 27, 2006. The making and unmaking of recent U.S. policy (all lively and accessible) James Mann,… read more
Marty Rosenbluth has 20 years of experience as a human rights activist focused on the Middle East, but at a panel discussion on Thursday, he relied on the moms and dads in the audience to explain the crisis in Lebanon. “How many people have… read more
The GAA’s news coverage of the University and the GAA is available as an RSS feed. What is RSS? RSS allows “syndication” of online content, meaning news items are made available to any website or RSS news aggregator in a simple XML… 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