Bob Scott, who received an honorary degree from UNC in 1970, had two family businesses: dairy farming and politics. “My dad had a fondness for saying that a man could never really expect to go to heaven unless he was a Democrat, a Presbyterian… read more
Paul F. Sharp, who served as Carolina’s chancellor for 17 months in the mid-1960s, died Feb. 19 at his home in Norman, Okla. He was 91. His brief chancellorship included work to repeal Speaker Ban Law. Sharp followed Bill Aycock ’37 in the… read more
Handwritten letters from presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Another by poet Langston Hughes. These and more materials seldom seen by the public will be on view Feb. 17 in a tour of Wilson Library. The library will open… read more
Phil Ford ’78 passed the UNC all-time career scoring record on to Tyler Hansbrough during a break in the Evansville game. Hansbrough’s 20-point performance gave him 2,302 career points. Tyler Hansbrough Statistics Through the… read more
John Keats penned some of the most quoted lines in English poetry: “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”; “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.” On Thursday, the poet who would “sooner fail than not be among the greatest” took… read more
Three alumni and a friend arrived on foot at the Old Well on Carolina’s campus Friday, completing a two-week walk from the coast that was inspired by the arrival of Carolina’s first student, Hinton James, more than 200 years ago. Bryan Jones ’06,… read more
Recorded interviews and performances by Southern traditional musicians including Ralph Stanley, Doc Watson and Elizabeth Cotton will be available free next year to library visitors at Carolina. Staff at UNC’s Wilson Library also soon will… read more
In mid-August, Carolina could lose an important part of its history – unless someone buys it first. The ramshackle house at 115 Battle Lane, in the Franklin-Rosemary historic district and at the northeast corner of UNC’s campus, has been condemned… read more
Chancellor James Moeser said that Walter Royal Davis was one of the first people he visited when he came to Chapel Hill. It’s no wonder – besides being a generous philanthropist, Davis was in an elite class of higher education power brokers in… read more
As a history professor at UNC for nearly four decades, Hugh Talmage Lefler was renowned in the classroom for being both stimulating and entertaining. In speaking before a class of up to 100 students, Lefler was known for delivering his popular… read more