Police think a member of the UNC-Chapel Hill football team was driving at a high rate of speed just behind another student who lost control of her car in a crash that killed a passenger last month. In a criminal summons, police say they think Zachary O’Brien Rice of Lynchburg, Virginia, was traveling just 15 […]
The first Black student to receive an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has died. David Mozart Dansby Jr. graduated from the nation’s oldest public university only 62 years ago, according to our newsgathering partners at ABC 11 in Raleigh. He served as the president of the NAACP Chapter in […]
Last year was a turbulent one for UNC-Chapel Hill, as the university was thrust into the national spotlight on separate occasions over its admissions policy and an on-campus tragedy. But a statistic recently cited by the university’s interim chancellor could offer an early sign that those events and others don’t appear to have deterred prospective […]
The UNC System president and governing board will likely soon have the power to prevent the state’s public universities from moving athletic conferences. A committee of the Board of Governors, which oversees the 16 public universities in the UNC System, voted Wednesday in favor of a policy that requires the chancellors of schools interested in […]
A UNC System Board of Governors committee next week will consider giving the system president and the board the power to prevent universities from changing athletic conferences, according to a meeting agenda. The move comes as conference realignment dominates discussions around college athletics. The ACC voted last year to expand its membership despite objections by […]
Three federal search warrants reveal evidence against a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student accused of murdering a professor on campus in August. Tailei Qi, 34, bought a 9 mm pistol online and visited a shooting range the day before the murder, the warrants state. One witness heard an argument between Qi and Zijie Yan, a professor […]
A UNC-Chapel Hill student will appear on “Jeopardy!” Tuesday night, marking his second time competing on the popular quiz show — both before the age of 20. Rotimi Kukoyi, a 19-year-old sophomore at UNC, will compete in the “Jeopardy!” Second Chance Tournament, which invites back contestants who have previously appeared on the quiz show but […]
Sleep eludes Erin Matson. It’s been three weeks since the University of North Carolina’s most decorated field hockey player-turned-head coach shepherded her players to an NCAA championship victory in her debut season; the 23-year-old is believed to be the youngest ever college coach to win a national title. Still, the interview requests haven’t stopped rolling […]