Structures News

Here’s how the movement to get William Saunders’ name off a classroom building gained momentum and resulted in the trustees’ decision in May. read more

The University has canceled plans to build a new dorm on South Campus — a spike in construction costs that could not be recovered in student rent has rendered it unfeasible. But at the same time, the need for more dorm space has diminished. read more

A decision on whether to rename Saunders could come in late May. The public can comment online — at bot.unc.edu — until April 25. read more

At last the University is ready to say grace and break bread once again with Harry Chase, the oft-overlooked man who ushered it into the company of modern research universities when he was president in the 1920s. The dining hall at Rams Head Center… read more

Sam can stay as long as he explains himself. William Saunders needs to leave. That was the message of the Real Silent Sam Coalition, who attracted about 200 people to a McCorkle Place rally Friday to demand that the name of Saunders — an 1854… read more

Carolina wants to build a new dorm on one of the last pieces of the campus considered to be a viable building site. The trustees this week authorized housing officials to design a “super suite”-style dorm to house about 276 men and women. It… read more

The UNC School of Dentistry opened the doors to a new education and research facility that honors a generous alumnus and friend, Burlington businessman Maurice J. Koury ’48, on April 27. The Koury Oral Sciences Building, which adds 216,500… read more

For 43 years, UNC physicians have flown out of Horace Williams Airport to take their specialties where they were needed in more remote corners of North Carolina. UNC Medical Air Operations formally went to work in 1972 and now has six planes… read more

UNC Health Care has broken ground for a physicians’ office building and a 68-bed hospital in Hillsborough. Expected to be complete by 2015, the hospital will include an 18-bed intensive care unit, six operating rooms, two procedure rooms, an… read more

Cousins Edward Kidder Graham and Frank Porter Graham both lived in a house, by the northeast corner of the campus, that faced demolition in September. Many people would not purchase a house battered with holes, filled with old beehives in the… read more