University of North Carolina Chapel Hill News

Heaven welcomed Loretta Kathleen Albright Muckley on July 22, 2014. She passed away at St. Paul University Hospital, UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

Hayleigh Tasha Stewart of Huntersville, N.C., and Pinaki Santra of Elkins were married April 26. The ceremony was at 5 p.m. at Governor Thomas Bennett House in Charleston, S.C. The bride's godmother, Franza Giffen, officiated.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has endured bad publicity for its problems with athletes and academics.

The Local Government Federal Credit Union recently announced that Emily Harrison is the recipient of an LGFCU scholarship award.

CDC announced today the formation of an external laboratory safety workgroup of the Advisory Committee to the Director of CDC.

Clara Murphy Bond Bell of Windsor and Edenhouse in Bertie County, North Carolina died Monday, July 21. The oldest of four children of Mary Elizabeth Murphy and Walter Holland Bond, she was born August 9, 1925.

What if a bunch of scientists were somehow able to clone Marilyn Monroe? Suppose they were able to program her brain with everything about the former Norma Jean Baker.

Ellen de Graffenreid, senior vice president for communications at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., has been named vice chancellor of marketing and communications at MU, effective Sept.

The 2014 season will be Mike Berardino's second as Twins beat writer for the Pioneer Press.

A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor has been identified as the victim in a brutal robbery that cost him his life.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today announced the launch of an enhanced degree-completion program that honors former student-athletes' scholarships for life.

Professor J. Michael Ramsey and his team from delivered a total of 12 presentations at this year's HPLC and ASMS conferences touting new performance breakthroughs in HPMS.

The National Research Council warns that U.S. coasts are at risk of flooding and storm damage, thanks to climate change.

Chapel Hill leaders don't have a final budget from state lawmakers yet, but they're taking steps to prepare for state cuts in fiscal year 2015.

A powerful drug combo may not be as effective against cystic fibrosis as previously thought.

Advocate staff photo by Brenden Neville State and federal scientists and officials inspect a recently formed marsh island, part of a freshwater diversion project to counteract coastal erosion, during a tour for federal and state coastal restoration representatives hosted by Plaquemines Parish on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, in Venice, LA.

Dr. Gary L. Wirt was selected as the 13th president of Goldey-Beacom College by its Board of Trustees at their June meeting.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York and host of the US television show Cosmos , is arguably one of the best-known scientists in the United States - a success all the more notable given that he is an African American in a field dominated by white men.

The U.S. economic recovery has been an uneven one. Overall, the recent numbers look great.

A basic knowledge of copyright law is crucial to working effectively with authors on such issues as transfers of copyright, terms of copyright, terminations and ownership.