Heavy Rainfall Aids Drought Situation

After a downpour brought more than 6 inches of rain to the area, local reservoirs made significant gains in the amount of water in their banks. University ...

BOG Prevents Salary Boosts For Faculty

The UNC-system Board of Governors voted Friday to prohibit system campuses from using tuition increases to fund merit-based salary increases for faculty ...

UNC, NIH to Study Living-Donor Liver Transplants

Because of a shortage of cadaveric liver donations, UNC researchers will study living-donor liver transplants as a possible alternative as part of a National ...

Murder-Suicide Shocks N.C. State

RALEIGH -- Two N.C. State University graduate students died Saturday evening in an apparent murder-suicide on the tennis courts in the center of campus. Lili ...

Council Discusses Faculty Salaries

Members of the Faculty Council debated Friday whether tuition money allotted for faculty raises should be distributed across the board or based on merit. ...

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Field Hockey Falters in Weekend Pair

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- The North Carolina field hockey team outshot Virginia 15-1 Sunday, but that one shot was all the Cavaliers needed to pull off ...

Railroad Earth

Carrboro ArtsCenter Thursday, Oct. 10 Four Stars The recipe for good bluegrass calls for more than just a banjo and a little bit of rhythm. To generate ...

Waldrop Moves Beyond Running Into Academia

Today, the NCAA record holder in the indoor mile doesn't even consider himself a runner anymore. In 1974, Tony Waldrop, then a senior at North Carolina, ...

Bush Deals Labor a Fatal Blow

Rumors of the death of organized labor are not greatly exaggerated. It is dead, kaput. On Tuesday in San Francisco, with much ado, the Federal District ...

Bowles, Dole Plan to Increase Aid

Both of the candidates in North Carolina's closely watched U.S. Senate race say the federal government has a role in ensuring all students have access ...

Technology in the Classroom

Since it opened in 1999, Mary Scroggs Elementary School in Chapel Hill has made significant steps to bring the benefits of technology to its students ...

Female Student Assaulted in Duke Residence Hall Bathroom

A female Duke University student was attacked early Wednesday morning in the bathroom of her West Campus residence hall -- the second attempted assault ...

Group Funds Binge-Drinking Study

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is funding a $3.2 million study to reduce binge drinking among college students. Robert DuRant, ...

Keeping Everything Going Smoothly

When people listen to the University Day speaker tomorrow, they probably will be focusing on the words being said and not the work that goes on behind ...

Pit Preacher Spreads Gospel of Popularity, Not True Religion

While walking in front of Lenoir on Tuesday, I saw a crowd of people gathered around the Pit. I automatically assumed that Gary Birdsong, the Pit Preacher ...

University Day to Celebrate UNC's Distinguished Founders

This past week, researchers delved into the wealth of information found in the Wilson Library. Schoolchildren took buses to the Morehead Planetarium ...

Swing Music to Rock Carrboro

Swing lovers, magic enthusiasts and anyone who thought the 1940s was a good decade -- cancel your Saturday night plans immediately. Nashville's John ...

Carolina First Aims for $1.8B Goal

Carolina First Campaign officials today will kick off the public phase of the second-largest fund-raising campaign ever at a public university with an ...