"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...

Genetic Medicine Building

This multidisciplinary research facility opened in 2008 to house scientists and laboratories from the School of Medicine's Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Genetics, and Pharmacology, and from the Eshelman School of Pharmacy's Institute of Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Thera...

Victory Village

After World War II the university experienced a rapid increase in enrollment, especially among married students attending college on the GI Bill. Faced with a housing shortage, the university obtained former army barracks that were no longer needed by the military. These metal, prefabricated houses,...

Hospitals

The North Carolina legislature appropriated funds for a teaching hospital at the university as part of the plan to create a four-year school of medicine at UNC. The hospital opened in 1952 and was named North Carolina Memorial Hospital in honor of North Carolinians who had given their lives in milit...