Supporters of the ailing Campus Y building received a dose of good news July 22 when the Board of Trustees agreed to designate $1.3 million in state funds for repairs. read more
Massive leaks related to age have closed Bowman Gray indoor pool and placed the facility on a wish list for a vital makeover that exceeds the current budget by $200,000. read more
The N.C. General Assembly has approved $180 million in funding for a new clinical cancer hospital to be built in the health care complex on Manning Drive. In a ceremony Thursday at UNC Hospitals, Gov. Mike Easley ’72 signed the bill into law. read more
A new clinical cancer hospital for UNC inched closer to reality in mid-June when the N.C. House of Representatives voted to pay for it in part with money from health trust funds. read more
The University is at a crossroads, says Dick Baddour ’66, director of athletics and chair of the task force that in late May announced its unanimous endorsement of permanent advertising in UNC’s top sports venues, the Smith Center and Kenan Stadium. read more
After nearly 70 years of use, and laden with the footprints of Tar Heel basketball players, Woollen Gym’s floor has been sliced into several hundred pieces in favor of a new surface devoid of the familiar cracks, creaks and dead spots. read more
When the son of a member of the chancellor’s cabinet applied for his freshman dorm space, he skipped over Old West, on historic McCorkle Place; and Spencer, right there on Franklin Street; and he passed on the convenience of the Upper Quad. He went… read more
Even as it moves the center of student life closer to South Campus, the University has tried to banish its four high-rise residence halls from the Manning Drive streetscape, partially hiding them behind four new dorms. read more
The future of the University’s planned research park may not be resolved until the N.C. General Assembly makes a decision on the future of Horace Williams Airport. read more
The parking crunch being as it is, buses that deliver schoolchildren to the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center no longer stay in the parking lot but proceed to a satellite lot to wait until the show’s over. On rainy days, that leaves the kids… read more