UNC’s Institute for the Arts and Humanities will expand its Academic Leadership Program – which prepares faculty for academic, intellectual and institutional leadership roles at Carolina and provides ongoing support for faculty who have assumed such… read more
The University has received a $21.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop effective, inexpensive drugs to treat late-stage African sleeping sickness and visceral leishmaniasis — diseases that infect and kill… read more
Early last year, the University asked the John William Pope Foundation for $4.8 million for a major curriculum enhancement in Western civilization. In the end, after more than two years of wrangling between the faculty and administration over… read more
UNC’s total amount of research grants and contracts in fiscal year 2006 grew to a new high of $593 million. The total represents a 2.4 percent increase from fiscal 2005’s $579 million, and it’s more than twice the amount the University received… read more
Carolina raised a record $241.2 million in private gifts in fiscal 2006, the first time that the University in a single year has raised more than $200 million in cash and other assets that is immediately available. UNC has set three consecutive… read more
The individual stories of more than 500 Southerners, describing their personal experiences of history, will be heard around the world, thanks to a federal grant to the University. The $505,232 award from the Institute of Museum and Library… read more
GlaxoSmithKline is giving $99,200 to the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center for the center’s next Star Theater show – “Destination: Space.” It is the largest single gift for planetarium show production in the facility’s 57-year history. The… read more
The new $39 million global education building under construction on the western edge of the campus will be named for FedEx Corp. in recognition of a $5 million gift from the company announced Tuesday. Its name will be the FedEx Global Education… read more
The University has received a $22.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a pivotal clinical trial of a promising new oral drug for treating African sleeping sickness. African sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis,… read more
George Steinbrenner, principal owner of the New York Yankees, and the Steinbrenner family have pledged $1 million to name the courtyard at the entrance to Boshamer Stadium. The Tar Heels have played home baseball games at Boshamer Stadium since… read more