UNC is focused on excellence, and that includes environmental friendliness.
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With an armful of Orangeades from the Colonial Drug Store across Franklin Street, Marc Pons walked around his dad’s store as a kid on hot summer days, handing out the refreshing drinks.
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Winder Hughes didn’t set out to release a game-changing app — it just happened that way.
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Krave is a bar that serves indigenous roots and teas located at 105 W. Main St. in Carrboro next to Club Nova Thrift Shop. Customers keep coming back for the relaxed and friendly atmosphere and drinks, featuring both kava and kratom plants.
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As UNC students, there are certain things you need to know when preparing to live off campus. Forgetting to cover one of your bases can at best give you a headache and at worst lead to a lawsuit. Follow these tips from HeelsHousing.com to optimize your off-campus experience and avoid getting stuck in unpleasant situations.
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MidiCi Italian Kitchen, a restaurant that aims to serve a slice of human connection with its pies, is currently hiring. MidiCi Chapel Hill will provide employee training, starting July 6, with a mandatory orientation called "Friends Day" on July 5.
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On Thursday at 12:15 p.m. in the Carolina Union, Tyler Fleming, editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel, and Mike Allen, co-founder and executive editor of Axios, will lead a conversation on the future of work and kick off Axios' Smarter Faster Revolution.
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When talented, passionate people gather together, whether they be tennis players, biologists, or musicians, competition often ensues along with a pressure to perform perfectly or present their best. Dr. Richard Luby, an accomplished musician and master teacher at UNC-Chapel Hill, dreamed to create something different—an environment in which musicians might work and grow together.
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For UNC juniors and seniors considering graduate school, three letters are looming large in their minds: G-R-E. But the test isn't something to dread. The Economist magazine has a full online test-prep center that students can try for free for seven days, and UNC Learning Center provides resources to students. Four UNC students who have recently taken the test or are preparing to take it, offered their perspectives and tips for conquering the GRE.
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Carolina Brewery, one of the Triangle's first craft breweries, is celebrating its 22nd anniversary Feb.
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Granville Towers Room Draft selection process helps residents not only find their community, but keep it. Cheekily modeled after the NFL Draft, it allows returning students to pick out their room for the upcoming year by physically placing a pin on a poster of Granville’s layout to “draft” their room choice.
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Bull City Escape is part of a growing trend of entertainment rooms that challenge the brain as well as group dynamics. The business engages its customers by locking them in a room for 60 minutes — the only way out is to find and solve a sequence of clues that leads you to the final combination. The concept started out with online games, then moved to real life entertainment rooms across the country, creating a network of interactive and immersive environments for groups to bond together.
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For students in recovery, deciding where to live can be a tough choice. Being surrounded by a supportive community that understands what you are going through is important, said Frank Allison, program coordinator of Recovery Initiatives for the Carolina Recovery Program.
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In 2012, Josh Lineberger was working in the food-service industry, watching the way his customers interacted with each other. Today, he has an app inspired by what he saw in those days, an app development company that supports it and a plan to expand it beyond the Charlotte region.
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There are two more opportunities for you to enjoy free Music on the Porch concerts at the The Center for the Study of the American South this fall.
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Shane Phillips is a graduate student in the School of Social Work. He is working towards a certificate in substance use and addiction studies.
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Author Kate McGaughey knows Chapel Hill. As a former UNC associate provost, she lived here, frequenting local staples like The Carolina Inn, TOPO, Carolina Coffee Shop and many Franklin Street stores that now appear in her books. Her first self-published mystery novel, “Feel the Heat,” was sold nationwide. This week, she has published her second novel with a Chapel Hill setting, called “Hear The Bells.”
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