“We will stop using coal on campus by 2020.” The chancellor’s announcement on Tuesday was bold, considering questions remaining about supplies of alternative fuels and the cost and practicality of converting UNC’s coal-dependent cogeneration… read more
UNC administrators acknowledged that they were unprepared for disruptive protesters a year ago when former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado brought a message to the campus that was against illegal immigration and in favor of a pro-Western… read more
Demario James Atwater pleaded guilty to carjacking, kidnapping and weapons charges in federal court Monday, according to The News & Observer of Raleigh. The plea arrangement leaves Atwater, 23, facing life in prison without the… read more
A proposed UNC research facility in the Galapagos Islands has had to find a new home amid political and environmental concerns in Ecuador. UNC and its collaborator in Ecuador, Universidad de San Francisco de Quito, had planned the Galapagos… read more
Karen Parker ’65, the first black female undergraduate to attend Carolina, will be on campus next week as the first speaker in the Carolina Association of Black Journalists’ lecture series. Parker, who is a former member of the GAA Board of… read more
Trees at Carolina are the subject of an exhibit that guides visitors across campus and back through time. “Noble Trees, Traveled Paths: The Carolina Landscape Since 1793” will be on view in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library… read more
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., who led efforts to quell the 2008 financial crisis, will visit Carolina on March 22. On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System, the title of… read more
Ralph Frasier ’59, one of the first black undergraduates at Carolina, is returning to campus for the first time in 52 years. Frasier and two other black students challenged North Carolina’s “separate but equal” admissions policy in the 1950s and… read more
Wives of soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to be diagnosed with depression, anxiety, sleep disorders and other mental health conditions than women whose husbands are not deployed, according to a new study by researchers at… read more
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Taylor Branch ’68 will speak about his book The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President Feb. 23 in UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library. The free public program, sponsored… read more