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UNC Black Congress hosts town hall to discuss future of Silent Sam

October 29

The UNC Black Congress collaborated with another student organization, MADO, to organize a town hall that allowed students to discuss Silent Sam and its ...

UNC alumnus donates $10 million to center that saved his life

By Suzanne Blake | October 29

The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center treated a patient in 2015. Now, he gave back to the center so it can further cancer research to save more ...

UNC building health center in Asheville to combat Western N.C. health care shortage

By Raymond Chen | October 28

“The purpose of the building is to improve care and health care education for citizens of the western part of the state, where access to health care ...

Spellings discusses education policy with Obama's Secretary of Education John King

By Maydha Devarajan | October 28

Students, academics, community members and political practitioners gathered in Wilson Library’s Pleasants Family Assembly Room on Saturday to discuss ...

CAS offers fives new courses as prospective general education requirements

By Cynthia Dong | October 28

UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences will offer five new “Ideas, Information and Inquiry” courses to first-years and transfer students. They range ...

Meet your big man on campus

By Cam Edson | October 28

Participants in Zeta Tau Alpha's male pageant raised funds for breast cancer education and awareness while competing for the title of Big Man on Campus. ...

On-campus activist groups centered around people of color and queer/transgender advocacy shut down the intersection of Franklin St. and Columbia St. on Mar 29, 2016 in protest of newly passed House Bill 2.

UNC activists respond to Trump administration's proposed definition of gender

By Aislinn Antrim | October 28

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services is considering to strictly define gender as unchangeable at birth under Title IX, a move that has local ...

UNC defeated Georgia Tech 48-20 on Saturday.

Meet your 2018 candidates for Mr. and Miss UNC

By Nathan Wesley | October 28

Mr. and Miss UNC represent two seniors who embody service, scholarship and leadership. Each candidate has a service project that, if elected, will be ...

Lawyer Hugh Stevens presents the DTH's argument in court on Tuesday morning.

N.C. Supreme Court will hear DTH's public records lawsuit against UNC

By Maria Elena Vizcaino | October 26

“That generally, this whole Title IX apparatus is predominantly conducted in secret, which in my view makes it all more important that we find out who ...

UNC President Margaret Spellings speaks about her review at the Spellings Commission on Sept. 26, 2017.

Margaret Spellings to resign as UNC-system President

By Taylor Buck | October 26

Spellings did not indicate what her plans for the future are.

Orange County dedicates October to reducing single-use plastic waste

By Sofia Lesnewski | October 25

A proclamation, issued Oct. 17 by the Orange County Board of County Commissioners, declared October 2018 Reduce Single-Use Plastics Month and March 2019 ...

Before Maya Little's Honor Court trial, activists gathered to support her

By Ellie Heffernan and Elizabeth Moore | October 25

Maya Little, a UNC student found criminally guilty of defacing the public monument Silent Sam began her student-led Honor Court trial this afternoon.

University to receive $65 million through hedge fund partnership for medical research

By Payne Lubbers | October 25

UNC is partnering with hedge fund sponsor Deerfield Management to form Pinnacle Hill, LLC., a company that will focus on drug research.

UNC Student-Farmworker Alliance protests Wendy's on campus

By Cole Villena | October 25

A protest march consisting of UNC students and local community members and farmworkers occurred Thursday afternoon. They were protesting the Wendy's in ...

Silent Sam was located on McCorkle Place in Chapel Hill.

UNC history professors give Silent Sam global context at "Monumental Histories"

By Arabella Saunders | October 25

The history department felt global and historical context would help faculty members, students and members of the local community understand the Silent ...

Diversity fellow Keiji Kunigami continues interdisciplinary mindset at UNC

By Elizabeth Holmes | October 25

André Keiji Kunigami was just chosen as one of UNC’s newest Carolina Postdoctoral Programs for Faculty Diversity fellows. He looks to continue his ...

UNC-system president Margaret Spellings may leave the system soon, according to multiple sources.

UNC-system President Margaret Spellings to leave role, according to News & Observer

By Bailey Aldridge and Rachel Jones | October 25

UNC-system President Margaret Spellings will be leaving her position, according to the News and Observer. The Board of Governors has called an emergency ...

Meet one of your 2018 diversity fellows: Sarah Mills

By Grace Little | October 24

Second-year postdoctoral trainee from the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Sarah Mills is one of the five 2018 diversity fellows from the Carolina ...

A 'social construct': UNC Biology Department releases statement condemning return of Silent Sam

By Evelyn Gandy | October 24

Last week, the UNC Biology Department posted an official statement on their website opposing the return of Silent Sam to McCorkle Place.

Helping Hand Project Club provides prosthetic hands for children in need

By Lindsey Banks | October 24

The Helping Hand Project club is working to provide its first prosthetic piece of the semester to help children with physical disabilities. HHP offers ...