Under a brilliant blue sky and surrounded by the colors of autumn, several hundred people gathered at the Carolina Alumni Memorial in Memory of Those Lost in Military Service on Thursday for the campus’ annual Veterans Day ceremony. ROTC… read more
ROTC cadets and midshipmen will assemble in dress uniforms at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 for the annual Veterans Day ceremony at Carolina. The free public ceremony will be outdoors at the Carolina Alumni Memorial in Memory of Those Lost in Military Service,… read more
For the first year since a 2007 pledge to achieve climate neutrality by midcentury, the University has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions. Emissions in 2009 were 20 percent lower than the previous year, reflecting the compounding effects of… read more
The Eshelman School of Pharmacy at UNC will begin enrolling students in a new satellite pharmacy education program based at UNC-Asheville in the fall of 2011. It will be the school’s second satellite campus — it opened a satellite at Elizabeth… read more
The UNC-based College Sport Research Institute is hosting its second annual Tee Off for Tar Heels Benefit Golf Tournament in October to help support the University. The event is being planned, organized and managed by UNC sport administration… read more
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