Structures News

UNC’s Morrison Residence Hall has won the first-ever National Building Competition, sponsored by The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program. The competition, launched in late April, challenged teams from 14 buildings… read more

The University will remain faithful to one of its legendary scientists of the past while also honoring a contemporary giant in the chemistry department. University Day festivities included the dedication of two chemistry buildings in one —… read more

The University has turned down a $14.5 million federal stimulus grant to expand an animal research facility in southwestern Orange County because it would cost about $20 million more to bring the complex up to acceptable standards of wastewater… read more

Wrecking crews began taking down Kenan Field House on June 10 to make way for a $70 million privately funded project that will close in the east end of Kenan Stadium with luxury boxes, an academic support center for athletes and other amenities. read more

UNC has been awarded $14.5 million in federal stimulus funds from the National Institutes of Health to build 30,000 square feet of new buildings at its Bingham Facility, an animal research site in the rural southwestern corner of Orange… read more

In the end, there was no one left at the Zeiss Optical Co. in Germany who knew as much about the Morehead Planetarium’s 40-year-old analog star projector as the planetarium’s staff — that’s how outdated the behemoth centerpiece of the star theater… read more

UNC dedicated the state’s only public cancer hospital on Tuesday, hailing the 315,000-square-foot facility as a long step up in research and patient care in North Carolina. The hospital, which sits among the other hospitals and medical research… read more

The University honored the memory of its fifth chancellor, N. Ferebee Taylor ’42, when it named a South Campus residence hall on Aug. 3. One of five apartment-style buildings built in 2006 and now known as Rams Village was dedicated as… read more

After years of planning and 10 months of stop-and-go negotiations, the UNC Board of Trustees and the Chapel Hill Town Council agreed this week on how to move forward with nearly 1,000 acres envisioned as a satellite campus called Carolina… read more

UNC Health Care has shelved plans to add about 300 beds to the hospital on the UNC campus and instead will build a 100-bed hospital in Hillsborough. The decision represents a priority reversal dictated primarily by the economic downturn. The… read more