President Spellings releases statement on NCAA decision to return championship events to NC

Chapel Hill, NC – UNC President Margaret Spellings issued the following statement on NCAA championship events returning to North Carolina: “We’re pleased the NCAA is bringing championship play back to North Carolina and we eagerly await the return of these games. These events are great opportunities to showcase remarkable student athletes, provide an arena for …

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President Spellings releases statement on NCAA decision to return championship events to NC

“We’re pleased the NCAA is bringing championship play back to North Carolina and we eagerly await the return of these games. These events are great opportunities to showcase remarkable student athletes, provide an arena for fans to celebrate our state’s proud tradition of collegiate sports, and spur economic activity across our communities and the state. …

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IDEALL Opportunity

Joint speech program between UNCG, WCU gives students a way to earn their doctorate Summer McMurry runs a full-time business she started in Asheville in addition to being a wife and mother of three children. Pursuing her doctorate, without a nearby program, wasn’t an option for her –until now. McMurry is one of three doctoral …

A Living Exhibit

Unique partnership puts UNC system professors, students on display at Museum of Natural Sciences For Jim Johnson, it’s one thing to discuss paleontology with his eighth grade science class at Lucas Middle School in Durham. It’s quite another for him to show his students actual paleontologists at work. On a field trip to the North …

Margaret Spellings’ Statement on the Repeal of HB 2

UNC President Margaret Spellings has offered the following statement on the repeal of HB 2: “This is a good day for the state and a positive step forward—specifically for the students, faculty, and staff of the University of North Carolina—and we applaud our elected officials for the bipartisan manner in which they brokered this compromise. …

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Professor Mullen’s Impact

The State of Black Asheville Research Spurs Buncombe County Commissioners into Action Ten years after research into The State of Black Asheville began, that ongoing UNC Asheville student research project has made headlines, coming from the classroom into the community and prompting significant new funding by Buncombe County for community programs addressing the needs of …

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Full STEAM Ahead

UNC Asheville’s new maker space combines efforts of engineering, arts students It would be easy to consider the University of North Carolina at Asheville’s first-ever team competing at the SAE College Design Series an underdog. But operating out of the newly opened STEAM Studio, a 12,000 square-foot maker space located in downtown Asheville that opened …

UNC Board of Governors announces 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award Winners

CHAPEL HILL, NC – The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has selected some of the University’s most outstanding faculty to receive its 2017 Awards for Excellence in Teaching. The 17 recipients, who represent all 16 of North Carolina’s public universities and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, were nominated by special …

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