Matson is the most statistically dominant college field hockey player at any level over the last decade, and her individual success has been a key part in why the Tar Heels have won so many important games during her time at UNC. She has been a part of three national championships and won four straight ACC titles at UNC.
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Since the start of the year, Chapel Hill has been rocked by uncharacteristic violence — 2022 has seen five homicides so far.
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In recent weeks, the University has found detectable levels of lead in the drinking fountains and sinks of eight UNC buildings — including Fordham, Hamilton, Manning, Phillips, Carrington and Isaac M. Taylor Halls, along with South Building and Wilson Library. UNC testing has found that samples in seven out of the eight buildings exceeded the threshold of 15 parts per billion (ppb), the amount set by the EPA requiring water systems to take action. “If you don't test for lead, you're not going to find it,” Elizabeth Kamai, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Southern California who has previously studied children's lead exposure in North Carolina, said.
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Through four games as the starter, redshirt first-year quarterback Drake Maye is off to a better statistical start than any quarterback in UNC history.
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"Inflation – it’s why your blue cups at He's Not are more expensive. I’m going to tell you what’s happening with runaway inflation, what the federal funds rate has to do with it and how to capitalize off of contractionary policy."
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The Chapel Hill Public Library is celebrating Banned Books Week through a partnership with Chapel Hill Community Arts & Culture for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. This year the week will be from Sept. 18 to Sept. 24. The week was first celebrated 40 years ago in 1982.
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The potential for conference realignment, driven by increased financial benefits from football and men's basketball TV contacts, would have significant impacts for Olympic sports and local rivalries. If North Carolina chooses to leave the ACC, the program would likely reap the rewards of larger TV deals, and some players could profit from bigger NIL agreements. Despite this, it will be the athletes who will have to deal with the potential consequences of what comes with realignment — the positive, the negative and the unknown.
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The Town of Chapel Hill recently added green paint and bollards to select bike lanes around the area to increase safety for all road patrons. The Town also added bike lanes in areas that lacked them previously, including East Main Street and West Franklin Sreet.
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As North Carolina students return to classes for the new school year, schools across the state are working to ensure their safety through a variety of security and preventative measures. For some North Carolina counties, this means installing body scanners at school entry points or introducing portable detectors for large gatherings. Other programs, including the Say Something Anonymous Reporting System and Crisis Go apps, help students anonymously report threats and quickly connect them to their school’s administrative and security teams.
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UNC students and community members can now receive the flu and Pfizer COVID-19 bivalent booster shots at several locations on campus. Those with health insurance are encouraged to bring their insurance cards, according to UNC flu vaccination website.
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In August, the Biden Administration announced plans to cancel up to $20,000 of student loan debt for some borrowers, including that of current college students. Factors that determine whether or not a student qualifies for forgiveness include when they took out a loan, how much money their parents make and the type of aid they receive while in college. According to the Department of Education, even some students who paid off their federal loans previously are eligible for a refund.
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Campuses across the UNC System do not always establish an atmosphere that promotes free expression, according to a recent report produced by UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Greensboro professors.
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Over 14,000 cases of monkeypox have been identified in the United States. Compared to other states, North Carolina is ranked 15th in monkeypox infections, according to Aug. 18 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "If there is a case that comes in through our local health departments, they are required to then report that to us so we can work with them to do follow-up: to provide treatment and materials and also do contact tracing," said Dr. Susan Kansagra, the NCDHHS assistant secretary for public health.
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Stanley C. Ahalt will serve as the new dean of the School of Data Science and Society, which is set to launch this fall, according to a campus-wide email on Thursday.
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Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University has changed how they communicate case tracking and data to the UNC community.
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This year marks 60 years since desegregation began in CHCCS. But even now, across the district’s 20 schools, white students access more opportunity and face less discipline than Black students, according to a Daily Tar Heel analysis of the most recently available federal, state and local data. Statewide, white children were 3.7 times more likely to be in a gifted program than their Black peers. At East Chapel Hill High School during the 2019-20 school year, white students were 4.3 times more likely to be enrolled in at least one Advanced Placement class than Black students. For nine of the 10 schools that reported short-term suspension rates for white and Black students, Black students were at least 11 times more likely to be suspended than white students.
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The Daily Tar Heel is tracking COVID-19 cases and tests among students using data reported by UNC.
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Chapel Hill's population grew by almost 5,000 over the past decade, the result of a boom in racial and ethnic diversity. Since 2010, North Carolina has gained more than 900,000 residents, a 9.5 percent increase that puts the state's total population at 10.4 million. A majority of the state's new residents are people of color, according to census data released Thursday. These numbers will be the basis for how political representation is allotted statewide for the next 10 years.
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Although rural counties have a lower population density than urban ones, they still faced periods of critical community spread. From September through November, nearly twice as many new cases were reported in rural counties than urban and suburban ones, according to the NCDHHS.
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Student reporters have watched, investigated and preserved this history-making year in the pages of the DTH —from the cancellation of study abroad programs in Italy to quarantine memes to the summer’s protests for racial justice and the University’s fall reopening.
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