A $5 million gift from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust will launch an extensive renovation of the music department’s Hill Hall. Work will center on improvements to Hill Hall’s rotunda and 550-seat auditorium in the century-old… read more
Outgoing Chancellor Holden Thorp ’86 has been honored with the establishment of an endowment at the Carolina Center for Public Service to name and support the center’s Faculty Engaged Scholars program. “This endowment is an especially… read more
The trustees of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust announced a gift of $1 million to the UNC School of Law in memory of William C. Friday ’48 (LLB), who died Oct. 12. The trustees designated the gift for support of student… read more
Former Carolina football star Julius Peppers ’02 has donated $250,000 to the GAA’s Light on the Hill Society Scholarship fund that supports African-American students. Peppers already had donated $100,000 to the fund in 2009. The… read more
Carolina received $287.4 million in gifts from private donors in fiscal 2012. The total marked the University’s second-best year in history and topped the previous fiscal year’s total of $277 million — then the second-highest total — by 4… read more
A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is expected to expand digital humanities in a transformative way at Carolina, including the hiring of new faculty and the support of graduate students in this emerging field. The $1.39 million grant… read more
UNC has added more than 100 acres of environmentally sensitive land to the 367-acre Mason Farm Biological Reserve. The land lies south of the N.C. Botanical Garden — which administers the reserve as both a natural area and biological field… read more
Six UNC students have received UNC Class of 1938 travel fellowships for research abroad this summer. The students were chosen from 37 applicants who submitted proposals for projects outside the United States. Selection is based on the quality of… read more
Dr. Hugh A. “Chip” McAllister Jr. ’66 (MD) of Houston has made a $10 million commitment to Carolina that will include a collection of nearly 50 works of art for the Ackland Art Museum and expand an endowment dedicated to heart disease research at… read more
When Carolina lost 47 faculty members to raids from other universities last year, almost half of them took more than just their expertise. Millions of dollars in research grants walked out the door with them. Twenty-two researchers who had been… read more