Athletics

According to historian Kemp Plummer Battle, early students in Chapel Hill had little interest in athletics, choosing to spend their free time taking walks and carriage rides, hunting, and playing music. In cooler weather some students played a game called "bandy," a sort of predecessor to fi...

Abernethy Hall

Located on South Columbia Street across from Fraternity Court, Abernethy Hall was originally built as a campus infirmary. Completed in 1907, the building was expanded in the 1930s to house additional beds and serve as a teaching facility for students in the medical school. Known for decades as the I...

Gore Cogeneration Facility

Located near the intersection of West Cameron Avenue and Merritt Mill Road, the so-called Cogen Facility is the fourth power plant at UNC—Chapel Hill, completed in 1992. The plant, which is coal powered, provides about 20 percent of campus electricity needs, including the hospitals. It also ge...

Fedex Global Education Center

UNC—Chapel Hill emphasized its growing focus on international studies and programs with the opening of the FedEx Global Education Center in 2007. The modern building at the corner of McCauley Street and Pittsboro Street houses many of the university's centers with an international focus, o...