The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been selected as a study center in the National Children’s Study, according to a National Institutes of Health announcement today, (Oct. 4, 2007).

From modern postcards to a 1570 letter signed by Queen Elizabeth I, items soon on exhibit at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will tell the tales of early English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh.

Rare editions of some of the best-known works of British literature will be on exhibit from Oct. 9 through Dec. 31 in Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Sherryl Kleinman has been selected to receive the 2007 Women’s Advocacy Award from the Carolina Women’s Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A $1 million gift to the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies will allow the center to recruit a rising faculty star in modern Hebrew literature and Israeli culture. 

Ken Burns’ World War II documentary series, “The War,” will begin at 8 p.m. Sunday (Sept. 23) on PBS.

Howard E. Aldrich, Kenan professor and chair of sociology in UNC-Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences, won a mentoring award from the entrepreneurship division of the national Academy of Management.

Rare audio recordings of some of the most important American folk singers of the early 1960's, including Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton and Janice Ian, will become available to the public through a recent grant to the University of … Read more

The life and times of America’s first Jewish baseball star will be the topic of a film screening and discussion Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The event kicks off the fall … Read more

Public relations research firms KDPaine & Partners and CustomScoop are bringing the most advanced media monitoring and analysis techniques to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with their gift of … Read more