Chapel Hill is a town in Orange and Durham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its population was 61,960 in the 2020 census,making Chapel Hill the 17th-most populous municipality in the state. Chapel Hill,Durham,and the state capital,Raleigh,make up the corners of the Research Triangle,with a total population of 2,106,463 in 2020.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university in Chapel Hill,North Carolina. It is the flagship of the University of North Carolina system. After being chartered in 1789,the university first began enrolling students in 1795,making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States.
Orange County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census,the population was 148,696. Its county seat is Hillsborough.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is a public research university in Charlotte,North Carolina. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral,66 master's,and 79 bachelor's degree programs through nine colleges. It is classified among "R2:Doctoral Universities –High research activity".
The Confederate Monument,University of North Carolina,commonly known as Silent Sam,is a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier by Canadian sculptor John A. Wilson,which once stood on McCorkle Place of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) from 1913 until it was pulled down by protestors on August 20,2018. Its former location has been described as "the front door" of the university and "a position of honor".
Matthew Francis Doherty is an American former college basketball coach best known for his time as head coach of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team. Prior to accepting the head coaching position at UNC he spent one season as head coach of the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball program.
William Brantley Aycock was an American educator who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 until 1964 and was the retired Kenan Professor of Law at the UNC School of Law. He was born in Lucama,North Carolina in 1915.
On March 3,2006,Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar intentionally hit people with a sport utility vehicle on the campus of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill to "avenge the deaths of Muslims worldwide" and to "punish" the United States government. While no one was killed in the vehicle-ramming attack,nine people were injured.
Rameses is the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels. The anthropomorphic version of him wears a Tar Heels jersey. Two versions of Rameses appear at UNC sporting events. One is a member of the UNC cheerleading team in an anthropomorphic ram costume;the other is a live Dorset Horn sheep named Rameses who attends Carolina football games with his horns painted Carolina blue. There is a third UNC mascot;another anthropomorphic ram,Rameses Jr.,or RJ for short.
Joseph Carlyle "Lyle" Sitterson was an American educator who served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from February 16,1966,to January 31,1972.
Herbert Holden Thorp is an American chemist,professor and entrepreneur. He is a professor of chemistry at George Washington University. He was the tenth chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,assuming the position on July 1,2008,succeeding James Moeser,and,at age 43,was noted as being among the youngest leaders of a university in the United States. At the time of his selection as chancellor,Thorp was the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a Kenan Professor of chemistry at the university. Thorp is a 1986 graduate of UNC;he later earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from California Institute of Technology,and was a postdoctoral associate at Yale University.
Emil J. Kang serves as Program Director for Arts and Cultural Heritage at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation where he leads the Foundation’s grant making program. Kang assumed the role in 2019.
On the morning of March 5,2008,Eve Marie Carson was shot and killed in Chapel Hill,North Carolina,United States where she was a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"Carolina in My Mind" is a song originally written and performed by American singer-songwriter James Taylor. It was Taylor's second single from his 1968 self-titled debut album. Taylor wrote Carolina in My Mind while in England recording for the Beatles' label Apple Records,and the song's themes reflect his homesickness at the time. Released as a single in 1969,the song earned critical praise but not commercial success. It was re-recorded for Taylor's 1976 Greatest Hits album in the version that is most familiar to listeners. It has been a staple of Taylor's concert performances over the decades of his career. Carolina in My Mind is one of the most covered contemporary folk songs of all time,the most famous of which being covers by American singer-songwriter John Denver and American rock music duo the Everly Brothers.
Kevin Guskiewicz is an American academic administrator who is President-Elect of Michigan State University and finished his tenure as the 12th chancellor and 30th chief executive of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on December 15,2023. He gained prominence as a neuroscientist,sports medicine researcher,and Kenan Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is one of the Principal Investigators of the Injury Prevention Research Center,and directs the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center. He is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. On January 1,2016,he became Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill. On February 6,2019,he was announced as interim chancellor,and on December 13,2019,he was named chancellor by the UNC Board of Governors. On December 8,2023 the Michigan State University Board of Trustees unanimously voted to appoint Guskiewicz as the 22nd president of the university. He will begin his term on March 4,2024.
The Unsung Founders Memorial at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a memorial located in McCorkle Place,one of the University's quads. It consists of a black granite tabletop supported by 300 bronze figurines and surrounded by 5 black stone seats. The inscription around the edge of the table reads:
The Class Of 2002 Honors The University's Unsung Founders –The People Of Color,Bond And Free –Who Helped Build The Carolina That We Cherish Today.
Carol Lynn Folt is an American academic administrator who is the 12th president of the University of Southern California. She is also the first female president in the university’s 142-year history. She assumed her duties on July 1,2019. She was previously the 11th chancellor,and the 29th chief executive,of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,the first woman to hold the post. Prior to that,she was provost and interim president of Dartmouth College. On January 14,2019,she announced her resignation as UNC chancellor.
The Yacovelli v. Moeser case was a result of a summer reading program for new students implemented by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002 that was objected to by several groups and was referred to by the media as the UNC-Qur'an Controversy.
Jonathan Howes was an American politician and urban planner. He served as the director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1970 until 1993. Howes began his political career as an elected member of the Chapel Hill Town Council from 1975 to 1987. He was then elected Mayor of Chapel Hill for two consecutive terms from 1987 to 1991. In 1991,North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt appointed Howes as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources,a state cabinet position he held from 1992 to 1997.
