Rameses XXI, left, stands with his successor Otis (now Rameses XXII) at the Hogan's Magnolia View Farm in November 2020.(UNC/Jon Gardiner '98)
2.10.21 | In Memoriam
Rameses XXI, whose retirement as Carolina’s live mascot for nine years was announced last fall, has died.
Justin Donaton ’99 has never been to the site of the World Trade Center, where his UNC lacrosse teammate Ryan Kohart ’98 died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Even when he occasionally flies into New York, he closes his eyes to avoid… read more
The UNC General Alumni Association on Wednesday will hold its annual memorial service for the six alumni who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. read more
Craig Stephen Hicks pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing three Muslim neighbors at a Chapel Hill apartment complex four years ago and received three life sentences. read more
Dick Spangler believed that no matter where a person may start in life, he or she could grow to unimagined heights with the support of a community that valued equality in education. read more
The beloved and iconic Hall of Fame voice of Carolina basketball and football for 40 years died peacefully at home from complications from primary progressive aphasia. read more
On paper he was an unlikely choice, but Paul Hardin never doubted that he was destined to be Carolina’s bicentennial chancellor. read more
The annual ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial Garden featured updates on the families those lost left behind. read more
Paul Hardin III, the steadfast lawyer and Methodist bishop’s son who steered UNC and three other campuses as they grew through tumultuous and historic times, has died. He was 86. read more
Oliver Smithies, the University’s first full-time faculty member to win a Nobel Prize and a world-renowned giant in the field of gene targeting, died Tuesday at UNC Hospitals after a short illness. He was 91. Smithies, the School of… read more