Disabled student fights for visibility at UNCAt her graduation ceremony next year, Katie Savage will stand in Kenan Stadium — where, at age 14, she started rebuilding her life. In ninth...
Tuesday December 3, 2013
UNC fraternity suspended over possible hazingA fraternity at the UNC is under investigation for possible hazing. In a statement posted Monday on its website, the Alpha-Alpha Chapter of Chi Phi...
Wednesday November 27, 2013
Legends of the Popular Poplar of McCorkle PlaceThe National Society Daughters of the American Revolution chapter in Chapel Hill bears the name Davie Popular Chapter, taking its name from a living legacy...
Tuesday November 26, 2013
Photo: John F. Kennedy at University Day, 1961President John F. Kennedy speaks onstage on University Day, October 12, 1961, at Kenan Stadium. The dignitaries seated behind Kennedy include then-governor Terry Sanford ('39,...
Friday November 22, 2013
Daily Tar Heel alumni recall the death of a presidentWhen shots rang out in Dealey Plaza on Nov. 22, 1963, the ringing didn’t stop in Dallas. That afternoon, journalists across the nation — and...
Friday November 22, 2013
Runners honor Eve Carson in 5KAs hundreds of students and community members raced across campus Saturday, they carried Eve Carson’s legacy with them the whole way. The sixth annual Eve...
Wednesday November 20, 2013
Former professor Louis Rubin rememberedLouis Rubin’s tenure at UNC lasted more than two decades, but in the realm of Southern literature, his colleagues say his legacy will live on...
Tuesday November 19, 2013
Writer, editor, publisher, UNC professor Louis Rubin diesRubin, who died at a retirement community in Fearrington Village in Chatham County three days before his 90th birthday, was widely recognized not only for...
Monday November 18, 2013
UNC Crowned Champion of One of World's Largest Business Case CompetitionsThe University of North Carolina's Master of Business Administration (MBA) students have beaten more than 650 teams to be champions of Cerebration 2013, one of...
Sunday November 17, 2013
The Cost of a ScandalSince June 2010, UNC has spent more than $5.03 million on three scandals - academic, athletic and sexual assault - that have afflicted the community...
Thursday November 14, 2013
Stuart Scott's Battle with CancerWhen they told me I had cancer, I was shocked. But I went straight into battle mode. Every morning I'd wake up and have an...
Wednesday November 13, 2013
The Story Behind “Go Heels Go America!”From Tar Heel fans and Carolina alumni serving overseas, patriotic celebrations at sporting events in Chapel Hill, t-shirts in the student stores and sorority cocktails,...
Tuesday November 12, 2013
In Memorial to Carolina's War DeadThe Carolina Alumni Memorial in Memory of Those Lost in Military Service, on Cameron Avenue between Phillips and Memorial halls, was dedicated in April 2007...
Monday November 11, 2013
Time capsule at UNC gives glimpse of 1988So what was life like at the University of North Carolina 25 years ago? A glimpse of that was discovered on the UNC campus Friday,...
Sunday November 10, 2013
UNC Alumni to Unearth Time Capsule FridayInspired 25 years ago by the popular film “Back to the Future,” the class of 1988 is going back to the past on Friday. UNC...
Thursday November 7, 2013
Boy Who Heard For 1st Time Due To UNC Doctors TalksThis summer we told you the story of three-year-old Grayson Clamp, the first child in the U.S. to receive an auditory brain stem implant, and...
Monday November 4, 2013
Halloween Draws Larger Crowd Than 2012, No ArrestsIt’s the one time of year when super heroes , rock stars, ghosts and goblins alike descend on Chapel Hill and roam Franklin St...
Friday November 1, 2013
Reducing The Halloween Crowd On Franklin StreetFranklin Street is well-known in the Triangle as a Halloween hotspot; but police try to downsize the party more and more each year. The most...
Thursday October 31, 2013
Chapel Hill’s ‘Squeaky’ Morgan diesA beloved Chapel Hill figure and former Ramshead Rathskeller waiter died last week — evoking memories for longtime town residents. John “Squeaky” Morgan died Sunday,...
Thursday October 24, 2013
UNC Alum, NCAA “Abolitionist” Taylor Branch’s Civil Rights Campaign Keeps Picking Up AlliesIn the midst of yet another mostly congenial and prosaic debate about college athletes and the concept of amateurism, Taylor Branch could feel the frustration...
Wednesday October 23, 2013
UNC ranked 5th among happiest collegesTo measure how well the nation’s schools are doing, we considered full-time freshman retention rate according to the National Center for Education Statistics for 25%...
Monday October 21, 2013
UNC sports medicine researcher Kevin Guskiewicz named an innovative 'Game Changer' by Time magazineThrough his research on sport-related concussions, Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz is literally changing the game — from innovative sideline tests in football to the study of...
Saturday October 19, 2013
UNC alum, Fayetteville native Candice Woodcock Cody eliminated from "Survivor"This isn't how it was supposed to end. Candice Woodcock Cody, a Fayetteville native, hasn't had the best time on "Survivor: Blood vs. Water." On...
Thursday October 17, 2013
UNC professor James Leloudis: For more than two centuries, ‘public’ has been Carolina’s guide starAt a lecture in anticipation of University Day, James Leloudis asked the assembled group to repeat after him: “Carolina is America’s first public university.” In...
Saturday October 12, 2013
Peter Higgs’ Nobel-Winning Research Started at UNCA little more than a year ago, a physicist named Peter Higgs made startling news with what’s now known as the Higgs boson, the idea...
Wednesday October 9, 2013
Autopsy: UNC freshman who fell to death had elevated alcohol levelA UNC freshman who fell to his death last year at a Carrboro concrete plant had an alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit...
Tuesday October 8, 2013
Sarah Dessen reflects on being a best-selling author and Tar HeelChapel Hill author Sarah Dessen was just like any other UNC student when she was here: she biked across campus, had a part-time job and,...
Monday October 7, 2013
UNC honored with clean water accessibility award at Clinton Global InitiatveThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was recognized with a Procter & Gamble Sustainability Partner Award for its work bringing clean drinking water...
Sunday October 6, 2013
Police ask SBI for more help in Faith Hedgepeth killingPolice contacted the State Bureau of Investigation last week for more help investigating the death of UNC junior Faith Hedgepeth in her off-campus apartment a...
Thursday October 3, 2013
UNC's pickup basketball culture thrivesUNC alumnus Dan Costello has been playing pickup basketball in Woollen Gym — a court dating back to the 1930s — for 10 years. “Woollen...
Tuesday October 1, 2013