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UNC-Chapel Hill Cheerleading

In 1914, Frank Porter Graham was the first student to organize cheerleading at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


2011 Atlantic Coast Conference football season

In an unexpected turn of events, on July 27, 2011, UNC chancellor Holden Thorp announced that the UNC Board of Trustees decided to dismiss Butch Davis as the head coach of the football team.

2011 North Carolina Tar Heels football team

On July 27, 2011, UNC chancellor Holden Thorp announced that the UNC Board of Trustees decided to dismiss Butch Davis as the head coach of the football team.

Andrea Pino

Following the media coverage of the UNC complaint, Pino and Clark connected with sexual assault survivors from institutions across the country, formed a national network of activists and began assisting others in filing Title IX and Clery Act complaints against their institutions.

In response, Pino approached UNC alumna, Annie E. Clark, who also was allegedly mistreated, and began to research Title IX, a federal legislation which grants students the right to an education without sex discrimination, and the Clery Act which grants protections for sexual assault victims on college campuses.

Atg1

ULK1 and ULK2 (unc-51-like kinase) have been reported to have an additional function in neuronal development, e.g. outgrowth regulation of mouse neurons.

Ballou High School

Marvin Austin (2007), college football defensive tackle at UNC Chapel Hill, taken by the New York Giants in the 2nd round of the 2011 NFL Draft.

Boshamer Stadium

The entrance courtyard of the rebuilt stadium is named for the Steinbrenner family, as the result of a $1 million donation by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, whose daughter graduated from UNC.

Carolina–Duke rivalry

UNC was led by future Team USA legends Kristine Lilly and Mia Hamm.

D. G. Martin

G. Martin is the host of UNC-TV’s “North Carolina Bookwatch,” a retired lawyer, politician, and university administrator.

Detva

This factory, called Podpolianske strojárne Detva (PPS) at that time, produced UNC machinery, aka "Universal" on Western European markets.

Donald H. Baucom

Baucom lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he is the Richard Lee Simpson Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UNC.

Ibiblio

In November 1994 it started the first internet radio stream by rebroadcasting WXYC, the UNC student-run radio station.

Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit

These consortium members included the three commercial partners GE Corporate R&D, Kitware, Inc., and MathSoft (the company name is now Insightful); and the three academic partners University of North Carolina (UNC), University of Tennessee (UT), and University of Pennsylvania (UPenn).

James Helme Sutcliffe

The March was first performed in 1967 at the installation of Dean W. Colvard as UNC Charlotte's first chancellor.

Jeff Saturday

He received a scholarship offer from the University of North Carolina partly because of Gartrell's friendship with UNC's then-defensive coordinator Carl Torbush.

Joel Barnes

In college, he interned at KMGH-TV in Denver, and was an avid storm chaser throughout college, as well as, the treasurer of the American Meteorology Society at UNC.

John Thibaut

The research group which he headed at UNC was regularly attended by Harry Upshaw, Jack Brehm, Kurt Back, and Edward E. Jones.

Joseph DeSimone

He is the Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University and of Chemistry at UNC.

Korean Armistice Agreement

It was signed by U.S. Army Lieutenant General William Harrison, Jr. representing the United Nations Command (UNC), North Korean General Nam Il representing the North Korean People's Army, and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army.

Larry Fedora

However, on December 5, one of UNC's early recruits, Jordan Fieulleteau, told The News & Observer and Inside Carolina that Fedora had assured him he would not leave UNC.

Marvin Sanders

UNC Head Football Coach John Bunting was fired halfway through the 2006 season, and replaced by Butch Davis for 2007.

Mick Mixon

He was formerly a color analyst for the UNC Tar Heel Sports Network, where he was teamed with "The Voice of the Tar Heels", Woody Durham beginning in 1989.

Mike Shildt

Shildt played college baseball for University of North Carolina (UNC) Asheville Bulldogs.

Mir-48

Along with mir-241, mir-48 is found in the lin-58 allele between the genes hum-5 and unc-76.

Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar SUV attack

UNC Chancellor James Moeser described him as "totally a loner, introverted, and into himself".

National Team Unity

Later that year a rift with UNC leader Basdeo Panday led Maharaj, together with Oropouche Member of Parliament Trevor Sudama and Naparima MP Ralph Maraj, to leave the party.

Neptune High School

Ed Radwanski (born 1963), former professional soccer player, 1985 US National team, Head Coach UNC-G Women's soccer team.

North Carolina Learning Object Repository

NCLOR participants include the 58 colleges from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS), University of North Carolina (UNC ) System, North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities (36 private institutions), the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI), and North Carolina Virtual Public School (NCVPS).

Potomac Valley Athletic Conference

Despite its low profile, the PVAC has sent athletes to many high profile Division I schools such as UNC, University of Louisville, Davidson, Navy, and Elon College.

Renaissance Computing Institute

RENCI comprises a virtual organization that includes the three Triangle area campuses and East Carolina University, UNC Asheville, UNC Charlotte, and UNC’s Coastal Studies Institute.

Simon Pierre Tchoungui

The participants decided to "reinforce national unity" by merging their parties into one, the Cameroon National Union (In French: Union Nationale Camerounaise - UNC).

On 24 March 1984 the UNC became the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (In French, Rassemblement démocratique du Peuple Camerounais - RDPC).

South's Oldest Rivalry

UNC's sole victory against Virginia during Curry's time as a Tar Heel came when he was a senior in 2001, when he also split time at quarterback (with freshman Darian Durant).

Statesville Christian School

The students gained admission to some of the region’s most selective colleges including Davidson College, Wake Forest University, UNC-Chapel Hill, The Citadel, Cedarville University, Wheaton University, North Carolina State, Baylor University and a number of other outstanding colleges and universities, like Liberty University and Texas Christian University.

Steven Zeisel

Steven H. Zeisel, M.D., PhD is a Kenan Distinguished University Professor in Nutrition and Pediatrics; former Chairman, Department of Nutrition; Director Nutrition Research Institute, Director UNC Human Clinical Nutrition Research Center, Director UNC Center for Excellence in Children’s Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Thomas Wolfe

UNC-Chapel Hill presents the annual Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture each October at the time of Wolfe's birthday to a contemporary writer, with past recipients including Roy Blount, Jr., Robert Morgan, and Pat Conroy.

Tony Shaver

After graduating from UNC, Shaver accepted the head coach's job at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia.

Unc-5

When testing the effect of unc-5::intron::unc-5 transgene on a mislocalization defect in UNC-5 mutant animals at 25°C a significant rescue of the mislocalization defect was observed.

During embryonic development only one splice variant is detected while there are two in the adult model.

Inhibitory factors such as UNC-5 play essential roles in the formation and maintenance of synaptic components.

United National Congress

In April 2005 the UNC was further weakened when Pointe-à-Pierre MP Gillian Lucky and San Juan MP Fuad Khan declared themselves to be "independent UNC members" and relocated to the Opposition backbenches.

Walter R. Davis

He has also been awarded the William Richardson Davie Award from the UNC-Chapel Hill board of trustees, and in 2004 was the inaugural recipient of the Light on the Hill Award.

Walter W. Arndt

in Comparative Literature from UNC, Chapel Hill, Arndt was well known for his metric translations, which included versions of Goethe's Faust, Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, a number of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, as well as works by Busch, Morgenstern, and others.

William Alexander Levy

Also at NYU, he had as an instructor of English famed writer Thomas Wolfe, whose The Party at Jack's (UNC-Chapel Hill, 1995, pp. 41–42) shows remarkable writing on architecture, perhaps related to his strong association with the school and its students, whom he considered among his best.

William Brantley Aycock

A 1948 graduate of the UNC School of Law, Aycock was first in his class and editor-in-chief of the North Carolina Law Review.

Wilson Caldwell

The UNC class of 1891 had a monument placed on his grave, a large sandstone obelisk once used to honor University president Joseph Caldwell.


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