UNC wants to close Horace Williams Airport to make room for Carolina North, a proposed research park that would take up about a quarter of the 1,000-acre Horace Williams tract less than two miles north of the main campus. read more
The search for a new dean for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication is back at square one. read more
Molly Broad has announced her decision to leave her post as president of the UNC System at the end of the 2005-06 academic year. But she won’t be leaving Chapel Hill. read more
Barbara Rosser Hyde ’83 of Memphis, Tenn., has been appointed to a four-year term on the UNC Board of Trustees to begin July 1. read more
Law School Dean Gene Nichol, known for attracting a couple of high-profile experts to the school and for airing his strong views on law and politics in a newspaper column, will leave Chapel Hill to become president of the College of William and Mary. read more
Holden Thorp ’86, who has served as director of UNC’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center since 2001, has been named chairman of the department of chemistry. read more
New deans have been named to head UNC’s schools of public health and dentistry – one selected from Carolina’s faculty and the other recruited from his alma mater. read more
The UNC Board of Trustees has approved a Chapel Hill faculty appointment for UNC System President Molly Broad when she retires, formalizing a verbal promise made when she accepted the presidency of the 16-campus system. read more
Chancellor James Moeser has spent much of the summer traveling throughout North Carolina as part of the first “Carolina Connects” tour, reminding North Carolinians how UNC serves the state at large. read more
Carolina moved a step closer to the possibility of advertising signage in the University’s largest sports stadiums in late July when the Board of Trustees authorized the chancellor to determine the best way to handle the issue of revenue enhancement… read more