Tarrson Hall

Adjacent to Brauer Hall, Tarrson opened in 2000 to serve as a teaching facility for the School of Dentistry. The building is named for E. B. "Bud" Tarrson, an executive in a Chicago company that sold dental hygiene products. Tarrson donated to dental schools around the country. Even though h...

Carmichael Arena

With basketball growing in popularity following the 1957 national championship, UNC decided in the early 1960s to build a new arena. Completed in 1965, Carmichael Auditorium, as it was then named, was the home of the Tar Heel basketball team for more than twenty years. Originally seating 8,000 fans ...

"Southern Part of Heaven

"Southern Part of Heaven" is often used as a nickname for Chapel Hill. The term comes from William Meade Prince's fond memoir of growing up in Chapel Hill, The Southern Part of Heaven, first published in 1950. In the book Prince recalls a local resident who, on his deathbed, asked the mi...

Tar Heels

UNC—Chapel Hill's unique "Tar Heels" nickname is also the nickname for a resident of the state, as well as for the state itself. The term traces back to the eighteenth century, when North Carolina, with its plentiful pine trees, was a major producer of tar and turpentine for the na...