Kenan Professors

Kenan family members have supported the University of North Carolina since its beginning. The family and its related philanthropies are the among the largest donors to the university. Arguably this support has had its greatest influence in the endowed professorships that bear the surname. The first ...

New East

With enrollment increasing in the 1850s, the university built two new dorms to house the additional students. They were placed on either side of the east and west buildings and were called New East and New West. As New East was on a downhill slope, architect William Percival designed it with an addi...

Battle Park

Battle Park is the wooded area on the east side of campus extending from the Forest Theatre and encompassing the Order of the Gimghoul's Hippol Castle. The park is named for former university president Kemp Plummer Battle, who was fond of walking in the woods and who forged many of the trails th...

Eve Carson Memorial Garden

Dedicated in 2010 in memory of students who have died while enrolled, the garden is named for Eve Carson, student body president when she was murdered in March 2008. The space is on Polk Place behind the Campus Y. It features a seating area and a curved marble slab inscribed with a quote from Carson...