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
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knew as much about the Morehead Planetarium’s 40-year-old analog star projector as the planetarium’s staff — that’s how outdated the behemoth centerpiece of the star theater… read more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