Kerr Hall

Kerr Hall was dedicated in 2002 as a teaching and research building at the School of Pharmacy. The building is named for School of Pharmacy alumnus Banks Kerr, who donated $2 million toward its construction. After graduating from UNC, Kerr opened a drugstore in Raleigh, the beginning of a successful...

McCorkle Place

McCorkle Place, the forested quad stretching from Franklin Street to Cameron Avenue, is the center of the university's original campus. This space holds some of the university's iconic emblems and monuments, including Old East, the Old Well, the Davie Poplar, Caldwell Monument, Unsung Founde...

Bricks

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries all of the walkways on campus were covered in gravel (or, to be more precise, Chapel Hill grit). In the mid-1940s, inspired by the brick walkways at Colonial Williamsburg, the university announced a plan to create Williamsburg-style brick walks...

Morehead-Cain Scholarship

In 1951 the Morehead Foundation, which was created by alumnus and donor John Motley Morehead, announced a $2 million endowment to support student scholarships. The Morehead Scholarships were modeled after the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University. The initial criteria for the scholarships, as est...