Karol Kain Gray is leaving Chapel Hill after 20 months as UNC’s vice chancellor for finance and administration. Gray, who spent 33 years in financial, organizational and management work at Stony Brook University in New York before coming to… read more
A new multidisciplinary clinical research center at the University — funded by a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health — is being created to seek better ways to address the costly public health issue of… read more
Dean Smith will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom later this year. Smith retired in 1997 after 36 years as head coach of Carolina basketball teams that he built into one of the most storied programs in college sports. The Presidential… read more
An Orange County Superior Court judge has affirmed the life-without-parole sentence for Laurence Alvin Lovette for his role in the murder of Eve Carson ’08. Lovette’s attorneys asked Judge Allen Baddour ’93 to allow him an opportunity for… read more
Nine months after the death of Faith Hedgepeth, little information remains available to the public. Hedgepeth, a junior at UNC, was found dead in her off-campus apartment in Durham on Sept. 7. Police have been investigating the death as a… read more
The University will welcome 25 scholars — all aspiring to careers in the sciences — this fall into the inaugural Chancellor’s Science Scholars Program. The incoming cohort includes 17 scholars from North Carolina. The first-year students… read more
James Moeser, chancellor emeritus and professor of music at Carolina, will become interim chancellor of The University of North Carolina School of the Arts on Aug. 1. Moeser, who led UNC from 2000 to 2008, will succeed John Mauceri, who announced… read more
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
Declining enrollment at an innovative satellite program of UNC’s pharmacy school has led to the program’s suspension. The Elizabeth City State University branch of UNC’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy has seen low numbers of applicants in… read more
Davie Hall opened in 1908 in an idyllic setting next to the 5-year-old Arboretum. By 1926, it needed an addition, and in 1967, it suffered the demolition of its oldest portion, replaced by what is acknowledged as one of the least-attractive… read more