In the past year, the University has named 54 faculty members to endowed professorships – designations that are created through gifts to the University and that recognize excellence in teaching and research. A key goal of the Carolina First… read more
Men’s basketball Coach Roy Williams ’72 and his wife, Wanda ’72, are serving as honorary co-chairs of an effort to create a $10 million endowment for the Carolina Covenant, the University’s initiative to make a Chapel Hill education possible… read more
The N.C. GlaxoSmithKline Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to UNC and Duke University for a collaborative partnership to address four pressing local and global health-care concerns: quality of care and patient safety, health disparities, global… read more
Health scientists at Carolina have garnered more grants – eight – from the National Institutes of Health’s highly competitive Roadmap program than any other university in the nation. read more
The University, which has been ahead of schedule in its goal in the Carolina First fundraising campaign, raised that goal on Oct. 1 to $2 billion. read more
The College of Arts and Sciences has decided to continue to pursue a gift for a curriculum enhancement in Western civilization — a scaled-back version of the original. read more
For a second year in a row, Carolina has set a record in fundraising, bringing in $192.5 million in gifts and private grants in fiscal year 2005. read more
An often-controversial process that started in fall 2003, when Carolina approached a major donor about a curriculum enhancement in Western civilizations, climaxed in early April with the donor dissatisfied. The Pope family of Raleigh is not likely… read more
The 2005 Dance Marathon raised nearly $184,872 in late February to benefit the N.C. Children’s Hospital. read more
Three of UNC’s most renowned scientists have received National Institutes of Health grants worth about $5 million to establish research centers in obesity, the study of inflammation in human disease, and the use of data management in probing genetic… read more