Summer Reading Program

This annual project, directed by the New Student and Family Programs office, introduces incoming students to intellectual life at Carolina. On the day before the fall semester begins, new students join small-group discussions on a selected book that they read during the summer. The late chancellor M...

Lacrosse

Carolina students began playing lacrosse as a club sport in 1937, gathering enough support to elevate it to a varsity sport in 1949. By the 1970s the UNC—Chapel Hill team was competitive at the national level. The team won national championships in 1981, 1982, 1986, and 1991. While the team wa...

Chemistry, Department of

Part of the College of Arts and Sciences, the chemistry department is one of the oldest on campus and has produced a number of academic leaders and major donors to the university in addition to distinguished graduates in the discipline. Chemistry dates its founding to 1818, when UNC hired Denison Ol...

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...