Carr Building

Opened in 1900 as a dormitory, the Carr Building was funded in its entirety by Julian Shakespeare Carr, an alumnus and frequent donor to the university. The dorm was built with all the modern (for 1900) conveniences, including electricity and indoor plumbing. It housed students through the 1970s and...

Peabody Hall

Peabody Hall has always served as the home for the School of Education. It opened in 1913 and received a major renovation and expansion in 1960. It is named for philanthropist George Peabody, who established the Peabody Education Fund, after the Civil War to support teacher training, primarily in th...

Internet

The university entered the age of networked computing as early as 1966 as a partner in the Triangle University Computation Center in Research Triangle Park, which linked computers at UNC—Chapel Hill, N.C. State, and Duke. In 1984 the university joined a computer network sponsored by the Associ...

Blue Jeans Day

In the 1980s and early 1990s, as part of Gay Awareness Week on campus, the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association announced "Blue Jeans Day." On that day all gay and lesbian students and their allies were encouraged to wear jeans. In response, according to a 1983 Daily Tar Heel editorial, larg...