UNC-system happenings Aug. 26, 2016
UNC-Pembroke provost to retire in 2017
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UNC-Pembroke provost to retire in 2017
A Texas federal court’s decision Sunday challenged the U.S. Department of Education’s interpretation that Title IX includes gender identity in its protections against discrimination based upon sex, raising concerns for transgender students.
Ninety-six percent of the crimes 16- and 17-year-olds commit in North Carolina are non-violent. Eighty percent of those crimes are misdemeanors. Yet 100 percent of these teenagers are tried as adults.
Duke Energy and North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality postponed a hearing so they could continue negotiations over a $6.6 million fine the department has levied against Duke Energy.
The Donald Trump campaign recently hired a new state director for North Carolina amid a string of changes three months before the November election.
Graduate assistants at private universities now have the right to collectively organize thanks to a ruling from the National Labor Relations Board Tuesday classifying them as university employees.
Zika hasn’t been locally acquired in North Carolina yet, and researchers across the state are working hard to keep it that way.
David McNelis, a joint research professor at UNC, is a proponent of using nuclear energy as much as possible. He recently wrote an op-ed in the (Raleigh) News & Observer explaining the dangers of overlooking nuclear energy.
A little-known former North Carolina legislator has surged ahead in the polls over incumbent Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., for his seat in the U.S. Senate.
When Elizabeth Forbes, director of the prisoner advocacy group NC-CURE, received a call from a family whose incarcerated son was planning to commit suicide, she immediately contacted the prison he was housed in: Rivers Correctional Institution, a private prison in Winton, North Carolina.
When Samuel Flippen was executed in the early hours of Aug. 18, 2006, by lethal injection, he locked eyes with his parents and mouthed, “I love you.”
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned North Carolina’s voter-identification law Friday, acknowledging the state’s history of racial and voting discrimination.
During former North Carolina governor Jim Hunt's time in office, the state experienced the largest period of economic growth in its history, bolstering its investment in world class public higher education and modernizing the state's economy.
North Carolina voters will have more than a “yes-or-no” option when casting ballots in the state Supreme Court primary this June, after the state’s highest court split its vote 3-3 in early May over the constitutionality of a new voting law.
For years, many North Carolina municipalities, including Asheville, Chapel Hill and Carrboro, have supported what has come to be known as "sanctuary city" policies, which instruct law enforcement not to question immigration status, and to take a more lenient stance on deportation. The rationale is typically that those law enforcement personnel would then be freer to focus on more pressing matters such as violent crimes.
Researchers at North Carolina State University recommend multimodal learning in higher education.
Erik Myers (left), founder of Mystery Brewing, and Keil Jansen, brewmaster of Ponysaurus Brewing Company, are joining with breweries to make a new beer.
Joaquin Carcano is a transgender UNC-Chapel Hill employee who is partking in a lawsuit against House Bill 2.
Fayetteville State University could face a name change by the state legislature.
Appalachian State starts electric bike research initiative