For immediate use: Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014   Mark Katz, professor and chair of the department of music and adjunct professor of communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named director of the Institute … Read more

For immediate use: Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014   The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks first among the nation’s public universities in The Princeton Review’s list of the 2014 “Best Value Colleges.”   The Princeton Review ranks schools … Read more

For immediate use: Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014   The chair of the chemistry department and a Nobel Prize-winning genetics researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were honored with the General Alumni Association’s Faculty Service Award.   … Read more

For immediate use: Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014   Tonight, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was notified that The News & Observer has filed a lawsuit seeking student academic records.   The newspaper is seeking a redacted copy … Read more

For immediate use: Thursday, January 23, 2014   Lester Brown, founder and president of Earth Policy Institute, will deliver a free public lecture, “Peak Water: What Happens to Our Food Supply When the Wells Go Dry?,” Feb. 4 at the … Read more

For immediate use:  Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014   The 10 winners of the 2014 Social Innovation Challenge at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a two-year residency in CUBE, Carolina’s social innovation incubator at the Campus Y. … Read more

For the past two weeks, there has been intense media coverage of research conducted by a UNC employee on literacy rates among student-athletes. These reports contained numerous errors and misrepresentations with regard to the IRB status of this research. The … Read more

For Immediate Use: Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014   Douglas A. Shackelford, Meade H. Willis Distinguished Professor of Taxation and associate dean of the MBA@UNC Program, will be recommended to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees … Read more

For immediate use: Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014   The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will test its emergency sirens on Tuesday, Jan. 28, between 2 and 3 p.m. as part of Alert Carolina, a campus-wide safety awareness campaign. … Read more

Friday, Jan. 17, 2014   Details: In a regular meeting of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council, Chancellor Carol L. Folt and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost James W. Dean, Jr. shared their initial findings from … Read more