Frank Borden Hanes Sr., a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., and a longtime friend and benefactor of the College, passed away on July 17. He was 93.

UNC archaeologist Jodi Magness will be featured on the big screen — literally — in the new IMAX 3-D film, Jerusalem.

A $5.8 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Frontier Awards program will be used by UNC and five partners for a major research project to explore challenges in cyber security in the era of cloud computing.

The College will offer a new master’s degree in global studies, with the first class of students admitted in fall 2014.

Carolina has been named a project site for the Association of American Universities’ (AAU) five-year initiative to improve the quality of undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields at its member institutions.

When veteran journalist Susan Spencer-Wendel (international studies ’88) was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) in summer 2011, she was determined to write her own ending to her life story.

Sociologist Howard Aldrich has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the prestigious Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference for his many contributions to the field.

Anthropology Professor Dale Hutchinson teaches students how to map and recover the elements of a crime scene in his class, Anthropology 423: “Written in Bone: CSI and the Science of Death Investigations from Skeletal Remains.”

I have a friendship that reminds me of the one Carolina alums Susan Spencer-Wendel and Nancy Maas Kinnally share in Susan’s memoir, “Until I Say Goodbye.”

When I was seven, my mother’s beloved grandmother passed away. After a short custody battle, her cast-iron pan came to live with us.