Hanes Art Center

The Frank Borden and Barbara Lasater Hanes Art Center is the home of the Department of Art and Art History. Completed in 1982, the building allowed the department to centralize all of its activities. The center includes classrooms, offices, studio spaces, and the Joseph Curtis Sloane Art Library, na...

Swain Hall

Swain Hall was opened in 1914 for use as a cafeteria. Built on the former site of the university president's house, Swain provided a much-needed expansion of dining space for the campus, which had long outgrown the limited seating capacity in Commons Hall. The novelty of the new space appeared t...

Carolina Political Union

Organized in 1936 by students in E. J. Woodhouse's political science class, the Carolina Political Union sought to share information and promote debate about current affairs. The group invited speakers to campus and succeeded in bringing many prominent politicians to Chapel Hill, including Presi...

Computers

The university entered the computer age in 1959 when a nineteen-ton, $2.4 million UNIVAC 1105 arrived on campus. The newly established Computation Center, housed in Phillips Annex, drew national attention. The Census Bureau and the National Science Foundation were early partners, placing the univers...