UNC’s research grants and contracts totaled $678.2 million in fiscal 2008 – up 11 percent from the record-setting $610 million received the previous year and more than double the amount from a decade ago. More than half of the 2008 total – about… read more
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded the Carolina Population Center up to $181 million to continue its MEASURE Evaluation project, evaluating health, poverty and gender programs worldwide. The award is the largest ever… read more
A University spin-off company has been awarded a $2 million grant to commercialize a new technology to improve radiation treatment of prostate cancer. The grant from the National Cancer Institute, as part of its Small Business Innovation Research… 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
For the ninth time in the past 16 years, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education has honored the University for its fundraising success. That total is a distinction shared by only one other university: Stanford. The UNC General… read more
A $2 million capstone gift completes the goal of doubling the number of students invited to Carolina’s honors program. The gift from the Hyde Family Foundations of Memphis, Tenn., will add faculty to teach honors courses and qualifies for a $1… read more
Carolina’s fundraising efforts brought in $300.3 million in gifts in fiscal year 2008, breaking the $300 million mark for the first time in school history. The total represented the fifth straight record-setting year for this type of support,… read more
The National Center for Research Resources, a part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $2 million High-End Instrumentation grant to UNC’s School of Medicine. The grant is one of 20 such awards to research institutions nationwide… read more
The first major private gift made during the tenure of Holden Thorp ’86 as Carolina’s chancellor will enable creative writing students to study with some of the nation’s most notable writers. The gift from Sallie Shuping-Russell ’77 of Chapel… read more
For the first time, the UNC System Board of Governors will be led by a woman. Hannah Dawson Gage ’75 was elected to a two-year term as chair. Gage graduated with a journalism degree and went on to found and, for a time, own Cape Fear Broadcasting… read more