The co-founder of the Robertson Scholars program that pays for selected students to take classes at UNC and Duke died June 8 in New York. Josephine Tucker “Josie” Robertson was 67. She and her husband, Julian Hart Robertson Jr. ’55, donated… read more
The Morehead-Cain Foundation is endowing a new merit scholarship at Carolina in honor of Eve Carson ’08. The Chapel Hill-based foundation has given $400,000 to UNC to establish the Eve Marie Carson Carolina Way Scholarship, which will cover… read more
UNC has been awarded $14.5 million in federal stimulus funds from the National Institutes of Health to build 30,000 square feet of new buildings at its Bingham Facility, an animal research site in the rural southwestern corner of Orange… read more
Carolina has received a $5 million gift from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust to support the recruitment of outstanding young faculty. The gift also has spurred a $500,000 commitment from an anonymous donor for the same purpose, said… read more
Asserting that no one should die from cervical cancer, public health researchers at the University are leading a multistate initiative to prevent — or even eradicate — the disease. The Cervical Cancer-Free Initiative is a multi-year project… read more
Researchers at Carolina have secured backing for several projects funded by a new, highly competitive federal grant program that aims to tackle high impact scientific and health challenges. The National Institutes of Health’s Challenge Grants… read more
UNC is one of 12 centers chosen to be part of a large-scale, collaborative effort by the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute to systematically characterize the genomic changes that occur in cancer. The… read more
Carolina’s research grants and contracts totaled $716 million in fiscal 2009, the largest amount ever. The tally is up 5.6 percent on the $678 million received last year and more than double the amount from a decade ago. The contracts and grants… read more
UNC’s fundraising efforts brought in $271.25 million in gifts in fiscal year 2009. The total represented the second-highest year in history for this type of support, which accounts for money that is immediately available to the University. In… read more
For the 10th time in the past 17 years, a national organization that supports educational advancement efforts has honored UNC for its fundraising success. No other university, public or private, can match that record. UNC has received a 2009… read more