Miller Hall

Opened as 1942, Miller was one of several new buildings constructed for the U.S. Navy pre-flight school on campus during World War II. Miller housed navy cadets and later UNC students before being converted to office space in 1950. In 2010 the building was demolished to facilitate repairs to undergr...

Dormitories

The university's first dorm was its first building. When Hinton James arrived on campus in 1795, Old East was the only building on campus. It was not long before the number of students outgrew the available space, even with six people in each room. Many of the earliest buildings have housed stud...

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...

Integration

Under Jim Crow laws from 1900 to 1951, North Carolina's public schools at all levels were segregated institutions with separate schools for whites, African Americans, and Native Americans. In the 1930s university administrators successfully fought the entry of African Americans to graduate progr...