An entertaining look at the history of the city and regional planning department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will be the focus of an event Nov. 14 at 5:30 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. The department, in … Read more

Civil rights pioneer Julian Bond will deliver the 2013 Charleston Lecture in Southern Affairs Nov. 19 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bond will discuss “Civil Rights, Then and Now” at 7 p.m. in the theater of … Read more

Treasures from libraries and archives across North Carolina will soon be at the fingertips of researchers worldwide.

Holden Thorp, provost at Washington University in St. Louis, will discuss the state of the humanities in American higher education at a free talk Nov. 3 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thorp, who became the Washington … Read more

Mary Junck, chair of the board of directors of The Associated Press, will headline a Women in Media Leadership series talk Oct. 29 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The UNC alumna and chair, president and chief … Read more

Jarrett J. Krosoczka, award winning author and illustrator of children’s books, will be the featured speaker for the 2013 Susan Steinfirst Memorial Lecture in Children’s Literature on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hosted by … Read more

A free summit at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Oct. 15 will focus on women’s issues in the state, including health care, education and the economy. “Ms. Behaving: How N.C. Women Make History” will be held … Read more

Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Organization for Autism Research have released a multimedia manual that provides strategies for secondary school teachers whose classrooms include growing numbers of … Read more

North Carolina poet and novelist Ron Rash will receive the 2013 Thomas Wolfe Prize and deliver the annual lecture Oct. 2 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public talk will be at 7:30 p.m. in … Read more

LEARN NC, an outreach arm of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Education, has been chosen to create lesson plans and other teaching materials for middle school and high school students learning about World War I. … Read more