A North Carolina death row inmate works with a UNC music professor to produce an album. Media organizations sue to force UNC to release the findings of its seven-month investigation into the School of Civic Life and Leadership. The curator of Coker Arboretum is trying to help plants through the drought and has some advice for your garden, too. A group of people goes to RDU not to catch flights, but to watch them. North Carolina boys may soon be able to play a new official high school sport – volleyball.
A new men’s basketball coach comes to Carolina, joining his daughter, a student athlete, as a Tar Heel. The April Fools’ satire edition of the Daily Tar Heel wasn’t funny to a lot of people on campus and around the country. Several of the newspaper’s staff members have resigned after readers complained the satire was insensitive to marginalized communities. North Carolina has a special reason to celebrate the first mission to carry people to the moon in over 50 years. And you’ve heard about a family man; now UNC has a family ram.
After a Chapel Hill bar was charged in connection with a second fatal car wreck, a former employee speaks out. The firing of Hubert Davis as Carolina’s men’s basketball coach may end the program’s long connection to Dean Smith and usher in a new culture. Artists reimagine noise pollution through an installation in the Coker Arboretum. Triangle residents find community through fixing broken devices. A walking tour around campus marks generations of women’s history. UNC grad and soccer legend Carla Overbeck helped transform women’s sports.
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