The Morehead Planetarium and Science Center will launch its new show, Destination: Space, with a weekend of activities from Sept. 28-Oct. 1, including live appearances by a moonwalker and a current NASA astronaut. The public is invited to… read more
Education reformer Diane Ravitch will discuss “The Past and Future of No Child Left Behind” in delivering UNC’s 2006-07 Frank Porter Graham Lecture. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in Memorial… read more
Carolina’s School of Information and Library Science invites the community to the launch of its 75th anniversary celebration next week. “Illuminating the Past, Imagining the Future!” will be the theme of the anniversary year, starting with a free… read more
Carolina, which just set a new record in attracting research grants and contracts, has set an even higher bar for pulling in research funding. In his annual State of the University address last week, Chancellor James Moeser said, “We should never… read more
A 1982 alumnus who works as a correspondent for CBS News will lead an upcoming discussion at Carolina about growing up in a Jewish community in Robeson County. Drew Levinson ’82, who was raised in Fairmont, has been based in New York since… read more
Former Tar Heel soccer player Melissa Jennings ’00 may yet have her day in court. Less than two months after a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a judgment shielding women’s soccer coach Anson Dorrance ’74 from a… read more
For decades, researchers have tried to understand why breast cancer in younger black women is such a significant public health problem. Black women have fewer breast cancers than white women, but their mortality is worse. Black women under the… read more
Just some soap, shampoo – a candy bar, even – from someone back home can bring a smile to the face of a soldier who comes under fire every day, or a note that says, “We’re thinking about you.” Over the past six months, a growing network of people… read more
Professor Philip F. Gura has been named the 2006-07 Mellon Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the American Antiquarian Society, one of the nation’s largest libraries for the study of early American culture. The independent research library,… read more
As have thousands of immigrants and their supporters – from Atlanta to Los Angeles – members of the student-run Carolina Hispanic Association mirrored advocates across the nation on April 10 as they led students and community members in a rally for… read more