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Colleagues and students of the lauded UNC creative writing professor Doris Betts share their fondest memories.

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Cows graze at the Chapel Hill Creamery, which has been making award-winning cheese since 2001. (Photo by Grace Joyal)

North Carolina is a leader in the Southeast with 40 licensed cheese makers across the state. Many are located in Orange County.

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We’re about two weeks from graduation, and there are a lot of seniors who still haven’t found jobs. For UNC graduates pursuing an acting career though, that’s just kind of how it works. Aspiring actors usually move to some of the most expensive cities in the country even if they don’t know how they’ll get paid once they get there. Carolina Connection’s Ashley Gunsteens explains.

President Obama gets a rousing welcome at UNC, but will he get support from young voters in November? UNC remembers beloved professor Doris Betts. Graduating drama students try to hit it big in New York. Local creameries churn out unique cheeses.

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The Presidential limousine passed by UNC's Old Well during President Obama's visit to campus. (Photo by Melissa Abbey / ReeseNews)

This week was not the first time that UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp has met President Obama. Thorp was part of a White House conference on college affordability in December. Chancellor Thorp spoke with Carolina Connection’s Michael Tomsic about what the president’s visit means for the university and about the challenges of this past school year.

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President Obama speaks to a young audience at UNC. (Photo by Carter McCall / ReeseNews)

President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to come to UNC in almost twenty years this week. He got a rock star’s welcome from the roughly eight thousand people who packed Carmichael Arena, where the president spoke about the growing cost of higher education.

Carolina Connection’s Michael Tomsic describes the scene on campus, and John Caison reports on the president’s challenge to get young people as excited for the 2012 election as they were back in 2008, when people younger than 30 turned out in near-record numbers nationwide, and exit polls showed 66 percent of them voted for then-Senator Obama.

UNC prepares for a Presidential visit. New students will be required to take a quiz about cheating. A community garden helps feed UNC staff members. Tar Heel baseball players shave their heads for a good cause.

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An anti-bullying video the UNC athletic department posted on youtube this week has been averaging more than a thousand new views each day. It’s meant to encourage teenagers who are victims of bullying because they’re lesbian, gay, transgender or bisexual, and the more than 30 UNC student-athletes in it have a simple message:

“I’m a Tar Heel, and I want to tell you it gets better,” Meghan Lyons says in the video. She’s a junior on the UNC field hockey team. She and Dave Lohse, the UNC associate athletic communications director who brought the idea to the athletic department, talked to Carolina Connection’s Michael Tomsic about the video. It was inspired by the national “It Gets Better Project.”

Here’s UNC’s video:  UNC Athletics – It Gets Better

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More football players suffered severe brain injuries last year than any year since the mid-1980s. That’s according to a recent report by UNC’s National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. It tracks the number and severity of brain injuries in football every year, and it’s never found more than it did last year, both among high school players and if you add up the numbers from youth football to the pros.

UNC Exercise and Sports Science professor Fred Mueller is the report’s lead author. He spoke with Carolina Connection’s Michael Tomsic about how serious the problem is and what can be done about it.

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This fall, all new students at UNC will get a crash course in cheating. The university will require first-year and transfer students to go through a tutorial about plagiarism and other Honor Code violations, and then pass a quiz on what they learned. The Honor Court spent this whole school year constructing the new tutorial.