On the day that a weeks-long snap of frigid weather gave way to a sunny day suitable for an outdoor celebration, the people who helped Carolina to its $2 billion capital campaign goal 10 months ahead of schedule gathered in late February to toast… read more
The Morehead Scholars Program, for 56 years the most prestigious entity associated with the University, is now the Morehead-Cain Scholars Program – the result of a $100 million gift that will greatly expand what the program can do for UNC’s academic… read more
Carolina’s African studies center has received a federal grant designating it as one of 11 National Resource Centers in the specialty. The Department of Education award – about $220,000 annually for four years – will allow the UNC center to… read more
An $8 million gift from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust will create 16 full music scholarships for Carolina undergraduates and complete funding for a new music building, to be called the Kenan Music Building. The gift, the largest ever… read more
Two distinguished professors will teach at Carolina and at Duke University next year as part of an ongoing collaboration between the two schools. Harvard professor Peter Gomes, who delivered the 2005 Commencement address at Carolina, and New York… read more
From salvaging sweet potatoes left after the harvest to using puppets to teach dental health, students at Carolina have created a range of service projects with the help of Seagraves Service Grants. The Carolina Center for Public Service recently… read more
A new scholarship has been created at the School of Nursing in memory of Pamela McClure Wichmann ’99 (MSN), a 40-year veteran nurse who died in October. Wichmann was a nurse practitioner at Kernersville Family Practice in Kernersville, where she… read more
The University’s Foundation Investment Fund reached $1.48 billion in fiscal year 2006, after recording a 19.2 percent net investment return, the third highest in the past 20 years. This brings the University’s overall endowment to $1.68… read more
Up to 50 undergraduates each year will be able to spend a semester or summer session studying in Asia with a new scholarship endowment in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Phillips Ambassadors Program, the creation of Earl N. “Phil” Phillips… read more
Carolina received nearly $300 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal 2005, placing UNC 15th overall and first among public universities in the South. The $296.6 million total, an all-time high, was a 2.3 percent… read more