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
Dr. Mel Levine, a best-selling author and authority on treatment of learning disabilities in children who retired as a professor in the School of Medicine in 2006, has asked the N.C. Medical Board to render his medical license inactive after being… read more
Nobel Prize co-recipient Oliver Smithies will give a free public talk about “Reflections on a Lifetime of Science” at UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Smithies, an Excellence Professor of pathology and… read more
National and American Book Award winner Alice McDermott, author of six novels, will give a free public reading at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 in Hill Hall at UNC. McDermott, the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the humanities in writing seminars at Johns… read more
Gene Nichol, former dean of the law school who left two and a half years ago to take the presidency of the College of William & Mary, resigned from that position with little warning this week after he was notified his contract would not be… read more
Actor, activist and author Ruby Dee will deliver the keynote lecture for UNC’s 27th annual Martin Luther King Birthday Celebration at 7 p.m. Jan. 22 in Memorial Hall. read more
Jewish music, Zionist ideology and Jewish merchants in the post-Civil War South are among topics to be explored in a spring lecture series at Carolina. UNC’s Carolina Center for Jewish Studies will present the free public lectures, all at 7:30… read more
A statewide anti-smoking campaign reached significantly more youths across North Carolina between 2006 and 2007, and most youngsters are paying attention to the message, according to an evaluation by researchers in UNC’s School of Medicine. The… read more
North Carolina’s growing African-American population contributes more than $44.7 billion to the state’s economy through its purchases and taxes — $22,272 per black resident — while costing the state budget $4.5 billion — or $2,498 per black… read more
Participants in and witnesses to desegregation protests that rocked Chapel Hill in the 1960s will speak in a free public program at 5:45 p.m. Nov. 8 in UNC’s Wilson Library. They will recall their experiences and celebrate republication of John… read more