For immediate release: Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt on Thursday will attend an event at the White House hosted by the President and First Lady focused on new actions that … Read more

For immediate use: Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014   Felicia A. Washington has been appointed the new vice chancellor for workforce strategy, equity and engagement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An experienced Charlotte attorney in issues involving … Read more

A memorial service for the late Louis D. Rubin, a professor emeritus of English, will be held Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the Genome Sciences Building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.   … Read more

For Immediate Use: Monday, Jan. 13, 2014

 Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received a State Implementation Grant of $900,000 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human … Read more

For immediate release: Monday, Jan. 13, 2014     Heart attack survivors of different races and genders are about equally likely to be on medications that reduce the risk of another heart attack and other potentially life-threatening cardiovascular problems. But, … Read more

By April Dudash UNC-Chapel Hill is fighting back after a CNN report released Tuesday stated that some former UNC student-athletes didn’t know how to read or write, and that many on the basketball and football teams couldn’t read beyond an … Read more

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks as the number one value in American public higher education for the 13th consecutive time, according to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Since 1998 Kiplinger’s has periodically ranked public universities based on … Read more

Carolina officials are investigating a data breach that risked unauthorized online access to personal information concerning some current and former employees, vendors and students. It is believed that more than 6,000 people are affected.   On Nov. 11, an information … Read more

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the Medical College of Wisconsin found that a new kind of gene therapy led to a dramatic decline in bleeding events in dogs with naturally occurring hemophilia A, a serious and costly … Read more

A study by Russ Mumper, PhD, shows a significant improvement in learning outcomes after “flipping” his Basic Pharmaceutics II classroom. The results are the subject of “The Post-Lecture Classroom: How Will Students Fare?” published by The Atlantic magazine online September … Read more