The road to an award-winning Wagyu beef sandwich ends in Chapel Hill. Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop opened in May on East Franklin Street after retrofitting the space formerly occupied by Waffle House and, even earlier, the legendary Pepper’s… read more
Professors are worried less about students using AI to cheat and more about how it should be used. By Mark Derewicz (a real human) A flawed, sarcastic human spent time talking to smarter humans and contextualizing facts and… read more
Carolina just happens to have a few good teams in a sport you may have never heard of. by Mark Derewicz The ball sails over the goal, booming off a wall in Fetzer Gym. Six men scurry back on defense, while six players on the opposing team… read more
Two feature stories and a timeline concerning the tulip poplar that witnessed the birth of America’s first public university stories by Paul Wachter A Turn for the Better When… read more
This article was updated at 2:39 p.m., June 29, 2023. The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down admissions programs at UNC and Harvard University that relied in part on racial considerations, saying they violate the 14th Amendment’s… read more
After three years of uncertainty, chef Garret Fleming and his sister Eleanor Lacy, a dessert baker extraordinaire, have finally found a permanent home. Fleming and Lacy had barely installed the pig smoker at their first Chapel Hill restaurant, Big… read more
Susan King, former dean of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, discussed loyalty, courage and leadership in her Last Lecture to about 150 seniors outside the Morehead Planetarium in April. “I’ve always felt that the students at… read more
Derb Carter ’75, a behind-the-scenes hero of the environmental movement, has spent decades fighting to protect the natural world. by Melba Newsome Kemp Burdette is one of North Carolina’s best-known naturalists and environmentalists. He also… read more
A writer who honed his craft while running the cash register at a Franklin-Street fixture looks back as it celebrates its centennial. by T. Edward Nickens ’83 I wish I could remember her full name. read more
In 1972, while browsing in a small antique shop in Hillsborough, John Short ’71 happened upon a bronze mask of Abraham Lincoln. It was made from a plaster mold created a few months before the 16th president’s assassination. Still, it’s… read more