UNC has received a $61 million National Institutes of Health grant intended to help speed how scientific discoveries directly benefit patients in communities across North Carolina. UNC is among 14 academic health centers in 11 states to join the… read more
The number of students in UNC’s undergraduate honors program will nearly double with a $6 million donation from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. A 50 percent state match makes the total gift worth $9 million. The program will be able to… read more
UNC has been awarded a training fellowship from the Gilead Foundation to provide doctors from the African nation of Malawi with postdoctoral training in internal medicine. Among the poorest nations in the world, Malawi is the site of the UNC… read more
In the 1950s, as a young social services worker in some of North Carolina’s most rural communities, Melvarene Adair ’51 didn’t fully grasp the important role she was playing in so many families’ lives. Back then, she spent much of her time making… read more
A $1.5 million distinguished professorship in Jewish studies will be named in honor of Stuart E. Eizenstat ’64, lead negotiator for Holocaust reparation agreements and deputy secretary of the treasury during the Clinton administration. The… read more
On the heels of his recent $9 million gift to UNC’s School of Pharmacy, Fred Eshelman ’72 has contributed another $1 million to support the school’s Educational Renaissance initiatives, which attracted $1 million in matching funds from the Pharmacy… read more
The Carolina First Campaign raised $2.38 billion in what UNC officials are calling the fifth-largest completed campaign in U.S. higher education and the largest completed fundraising drive at a university in the South. read more
The children of a Klan-fighting journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize have established a $1 million professorship in his honor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The W. Horace Carter Distinguished Professorship was created by… read more
Trustees of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust announced Monday a gift of $1 million to help endow scholarships and the operating budget of the University’s women’s soccer program. The endowment is being made in honor of Braxton Schell ’48, a… read more
Carolina raised more money for athletics from private donors — $51 million — than any other school in the country last year, according to research by The Chronicle of Higher Education. But University officials say UNC is an… read more