The UNC System Board of Governors is seeking suggestions and nominations as it searches for a successor to Erskine Bowles ’67 as the next president of the UNC System. Bowles announced in February that he plans to retire. Bowles, who will turn 65… read more
“We will stop using coal on campus by 2020.” The chancellor’s announcement on Tuesday was bold, considering questions remaining about supplies of alternative fuels and the cost and practicality of converting UNC’s coal-dependent cogeneration… read more
Erskine Bowles ’67, who took office as president of the UNC System in January 2006, announced on Feb. 12 that he plans to retire. Bowles, who will turn 65 on Aug. 8, told the UNC System Board of Governors that he would continue to serve through… read more
A coal-burning power plant has been a fact of UNC’s life since the 1890s, and coal is responsible for about half of the carbon dioxide the University sends into the atmosphere. As the new green movement begins to take hold, coal is starting to get a… read more
Picking Cotton, the true story of an unlikely friendship between a woman and the innocent man she sent to prison, will be the 2010 summer reading book for incoming freshmen. UNC asks all first-year and incoming transfer students to read… read more
Humorist, writer and National Public Radio panelist Roy Blount Jr. will speak Oct. 6 at Carolina. Blount will receive UNC’s 2009 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the free annual Thomas Wolfe Lecture at 7:30 p.m. in Carroll Hall… read more
Almost one out of every three visitors to UNC Campus Health Services earlier this month exhibited flu-like symptoms. Close to 700 students have called or visited the student health service with influenza-like symptoms since the beginning of the… read more
The Carolina Covenant program has helped almost 1,800 academically prepared students from low-income homes pay for college since its inception in 2004. Now five years later, and in a more pressing economic time, there are hard numbers to back up… read more
Freshmen entering UNC next fall will be asked to read A Home on the Field before they arrive. This year’s selection in the Summer Reading Program was written by a UNC faculty member and explores class and ethnic conflict through the story… read more
The law school’s Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, created in 2005 and originally led by former U.S. Sen. John R. Edwards ’77 (JD), is now directed by Gene Nichol, former dean of the school. Nichol has succeeded Marion Crain, who left the… read more