The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched an Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases to extend and enhance ongoing research efforts to improve the lives of people around the world.

Media representatives are invited to cover two University Day events – a traditional campus-wide convocation and the public dedication ceremony for the FedEx Global Education Center Building – on Friday (Oct. 12) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Read more

Dr. Oliver Smithies, Excellence professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is a co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

Oliver Smithies, Ph.D., Excellence professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, is the first full-time Carolina faculty member to win a Nobel Prize. His award, for medicine or physiology, … Read more

Media representatives are invited to interview Oliver Smithies, Ph.D., co-recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine and Excellence professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Smithies … Read more

One new faculty member and one alumni representative have been named to serve on the Chancellor’s Search Committee at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Joel Lawrence Fleishman, a triple-degree holder from Carolina and founding director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, will discuss “Ethics, Self-Interest and the Public Good” Oct. 11 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A team of 18 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill journalism students and faculty are giving each athlete a moment in the spotlight of this year’s Special Olympics World Games, which began in China Tuesday (Oct. 2) and runs … Read more

Thursday (Oct. 4) 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Room 2603 in School of Government’s Knapp-Sanders Building UNC-Chapel Hill

Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene will deliver a lecture titled “On the Radar Screen: Seven Big Trends Facing Local Governments” at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 3)  at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Government. The lecture, … Read more