Nike

Nike has provided shoes, uniforms, and other items for Tar Heel athletic teams since 1993. The switch to Nike was a big change for UNC's basketball teams, which had worn Converse shoes since 1962. The university's relationship with Nike has not been without controversy. When UNC—Chapel...

Utilities

A major theme for the early twentieth-century history of the university and Chapel Hill —as it was for much of the United States —was the development of utilities. Both university and village grew steadily from the 1880s to 1930, adding students, faculty and staff, a new railroad line, a...

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...

Alderman Residence Hall

Located on Raleigh Street behind the university president's house, Alderman was completed in 1937 as a dormitory for women, providing much-needed on-campus housing for the rapidly expanding population of female students. At first known simply as the Graduate Women's Dormitory, the dorm was n...