The global significance of 1968 and 1969 will be a topic of reflection during the 2008-09 academic year at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History. Fall programs will begin Sept. 11 with “The Time is Nigh: Organize, Mobilize,… read more
Noted journalist and policy expert Hodding Carter III, a professor of leadership and public policy at UNC, will deliver the second annual Thomas Willis Lambeth Lecture in Public Policy on Sept. 16. Carter will speak at 5:30 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. read more
Beginning Sept. 2, UNC’s Department of Public Safety will issue citations to anyone caught violating the University’s no-smoking policy. This announcement came in an e-mail to the campus community from Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86, who said that… read more
David Brooks of The New York Times and E.J. Dionne Jr. of The Washington Post will discuss the 2008 presidential campaign at 7 p.m. Sept. 9 at UNC. Brooks and Dionne come to UNC as the Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting… read more
Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall ’82 has asked for and received permission to seek the death penalty for one of the men accused in the murder of Eve Carson ’08. According to The News & Observer of Raleigh, Demario Atwater… read more
Search warrants and the autopsy report on slain Student Body President Eve Carson ’08 indicated that she was taken from her home by her alleged assailants and was shot at least five times with two different weapons, according to published… read more
Chapel Hill and UNC officials have identified a property off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard has been as the site for a new homeless shelter. The University is in the process of buying 13-plus acres of land from Duke Energy, a portion of which -… read more
Four panelists will lead a discussion about “Men’s Health Disparities: Implications for Research and Intervention” as part of the upcoming 14th annual Summer Public Health Research Institute and Videoconference on Minority Health, scheduled to be… read more
UNC has been awarded a training fellowship from the Gilead Foundation to provide doctors from the African nation of Malawi with postdoctoral training in internal medicine. Among the poorest nations in the world, Malawi is the site of the UNC… read more
This year’s Earth Day, April 22, is dawning more than a week early at UNC, with various groups around campus joining forces to create a schedule packed with interesting and informative environmental activities. Events will kick off on Monday,… read more