Area Health Education Centers

In 1972 the UNC School of Medicine received federal funding to open Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) as part of an effort to improve health care across North Carolina by providing training and access to information for health care providers in rural areas. In 1974 the program was expanded with s...

Carolina blue

The university's distinctive school color originated only a few years after the university opened. Not long after the first students arrived, they organized two debating groups: the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. The "Di" and "Phi" societies played a large role in campus ...

Fencing

Fencing was a club sport at Carolina as early as the 1930s, when intramural matches were held in Memorial Hall. As interest in the sport grew in the 1960s, the university hired Ron Miller to come to Carolina to start a team. The reputation of the sport may not have been particularly high at the time...

Cyprett's Bridge

After the University of North Carolina received its charter, the board of trustees had to find a location for the university. Wanting a site near the center of the state, they considered several locations before settling on an area within a fifteen-mile radius of Cyprett's Bridge in northern Cha...