Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Eshelman School of Pharmacy is the only public school of pharmacy in North Carolina and one of the oldest in the nation. It began in 1897 with the hiring of Edward Vernon Howell as a professor of pharmacy. An earlier training program existed from 1880 as part of the first School of Medicine. The pha...

Nobel Prize

Two UNC—Chapel Hill faculty members have been awarded a Nobel Prize: Oliver Smithies, who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2007 for his work on gene modifications using embryonic stem cells, and Aziz Sancar, who won the 2015 Nobel in Chemistry for his work on DNA repair. Smith...

Southern Historical Collection

In the early twentieth century, led by faculty and students in history and social sciences, UNC began to emerge as a center for research on the American South. To support and encourage this work, history professor Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton created the Southern Historical Collection in 1930...

Holi Moli

In 2008 members of the Hindu YUVA (Youth for Unity, Virtues and Action) student group held the first on-campus celebration of the Hindu holiday Holi, the "festival of colors." The event expanded in 2009, bringing in more students for the traditional ceremony, during which participants shower...