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6 unusual facts about University of North Carolina


1944 college football season

#2 North Carolina Pre-Flight was tied by Virginia, 13-13.

Bernard Glueck, Sr.

After retiring in 1947, Glueck continued to work for the Veterans Administration, the University of North Carolina, and John Umstead Hospital in Butner, North Carolina.

Biltmore Farms

In addition to his involvement with Biltmore Farms promoting the sustainable growth of Western North Carolina, Cecil has served as Chairman of Mission Health System and Hospital, Vice-Chair of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and Secretary of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

Chink Crossin

Crossin was offered scholarships by many schools, including Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina, but he elected to attend the University of Pennsylvania.

Henry C. Pearson

His correspondence with Heaney, and his comprehensive collection of Heaney books, manuscripts and memorabilia, is now housed at the University of North Carolina.

Jeffery W. Kelly

Kelly received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986) and performed post-doctoral research at The Rockefeller University (1986–89).


2009 NBA draft

The University of North Carolina's Tar Heels had the most players selected in the draft; three players were selected in the first round and one was selected in the second round.

A Hero A Fake

The band continued to perform at regional shows until guitarist Eric Morgan and vocalist Justin Brown moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to attend University of North Carolina in September 2005.

A.C. Flora High School

The A.C. Flora Baseball team has produced college players for the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, University of North Carolina, University of Tennessee, College of Charleston, and many other schools.

Arundinaria

Most recently, in 2006 researchers from Iowa State University and the University of North Carolina recognised and described a third species, Arundinaria appalachiana Triplett, Weakley & L.G. Clark.

Bertram Colgrave

On his retirement from Durham University in 1954, he held visiting professorships at the University of North Carolina, University of Texas, University of Kansas, University of Colorado and Mount Holyoke College.

Chad Holbrook

Holbrook attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill from 1990 to 1993, receiving second-team All-ACC honors as a senior.

Chi Alpha Omega

The fraternity's growth continued in Fall 1994 when Gamma Chapter was founded at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Chris Carrieri

After a successful high school career at North Stafford High School in Stafford, Virginia, Carrieri played college soccer at the University of North Carolina, where he was hugely successful.

Drosera falconeri

Isotype specimens, those that are duplicates of the holotype, were distributed to several herbaria, including those at the University of North Carolina, the New York Botanical Garden, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, and the Queensland Herbarium.

Fachhochschule Flensburg

Oversea partners are the University of North Carolina, the North-West University in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa and the Polytechnic of Namibia in Windhoek.

Harry F. Weyher Jr.

Born in Wilson, North Carolina, Weyher attended the University of North Carolina.

Isaac M. Taylor

Isaac Montrose Taylor (June 15, 1921 – November 3, 1996) was the dean of the Medical School of the University of North Carolina from 1964 until 1971, and the father of James Taylor, the singer and guitarist, and four other children, Alex, Livingston, Hugh, and Kate.

James Holshouser

His accomplishments in office included consolidation of the University of North Carolina system under a Board of Governors, capital improvement funding for the community college system, statewide enrollment for kindergarten and establishment of health clinics in rural areas not served by local physicians.

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.

Joe Quigg

Quigg, a 6'9 center out of St. Francis Prep in New York City, came to the University of North Carolina through coach Frank McGuire's "underground railroad" of players from New York to Chapel Hill.

John E. Ivey, Jr.

He then studied sociology at the University of North Carolina under Howard Odum, earning his Ph.D. from that institution in 1944.

John L. McMillan

Born on a farm near Mullins, he was educated at Mullins High School, the University of North Carolina, as well as the University of South Carolina Law School and National Law School in Washington, D.C. He was selected to represent the United States Congress at the Interparliamentary Union in London in 1960, and in Tokyo in 1961.

Jonathan Linton

Prior to entering the NFL, Linton played high-school football at Catasauqua High School in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania and college football at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Kannapolis, North Carolina

David H. Murdock, owner of real estate company Castle & Cooke, Inc. and former CEO of Dole Food Company, Inc., and Molly Corbett Broad, President of the 16-campus University of North Carolina system, unveiled plans on September 12, 2005 for the North Carolina Research Campus, an economic revitalization project that encompasses the site of the former Cannon Mills plant and entire downtown area of Kannapolis, North Carolina.

Kate Taylor

Kate was born in Boston and grew up with her four brothers in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where her father was Dean of the medical school at the University of North Carolina.

Lars Vatten

Vatten was born in Trondheim, Norway, studied Medicine at the University of Tromsø (MD in 1980) and received a Master of Public Health in 1988 from the University of North Carolina.

Lewis C. Merletti

His son Matt plays Safety for the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill football team.

NCBioImpact

Training programs are located at two universities in the University of North Carolina System and the North Carolina Community College System.

Nick Gilliam

Gilliam began his collegiate career at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he played for the North Carolina Tar Heels men's golf team for a single semester.

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).

North Carolina's 4th congressional district

The presence of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke University, as well as a large African-American population in Durham County help contribute to the liberal nature of the 4th district.

Norwood Teague

Teague graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1988 with a degree in political science, and earned a master's degree in sports administration from Ohio University in 1992.

Pamela Matson

She completed her M.S. from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at the University of Indiana, her PhD in Forest Ecology from Oregon State University, and did postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina.

Quintiles

Quintiles was founded in 1982 by Dennis Gillings, Ph.D., CBE, then a professor of biostatistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

R. G. Armstrong

Armstrong initially enrolled at Howard College, now Samford University in Homewood, Alabama, where he became interested in acting, and then transferred to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Robert Whittaker

s under Whittaker include Walter Westman, Robert Peet (now at University of North Carolina), Susan Bratton (now at Baylor University), Thomas Wentworth (now at North Carolina State University), Owen Sholes (now at Assumption College), Mark Wilson (now at Oregon State University), Linda Olsvig-Whittaker (now at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority) and Kerry Woods (now at Bennington College).

Samuel F. Patterson

Other offices Patterson held included president of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, clerk of the Superior Court, justice of the peace, Indian commissioner, trustee of the University of North Carolina, and various positions with the Masons.

Samuel Mendelsohn

In 1883 he received the honorary degree of doctor of law from the University of North Carolina.

Stephen Gilson

Gilson has received invitations to keynote at national and international conferences on disability studies and distinguished lectures at University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Smith College, NYU, University of North Carolina, Ono Academic College, Research Institute for Health and Medical Professions, and others.

Syed Mahmood Naqvi

He also established linkages with some leading geochemists outside the country and, among many other projects, led, with John A. Rogers of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a highly-praised Indo-US collaborative programme on Precambrians of South India.

Three in the Attic

Much of Three in the Attic was filmed at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

U.S. Route 52 in North Carolina

Also in attendance were: Griffith’s wife Cindi Griffith, Governor Mike Easley, former University of North Carolina President William C. Friday, Grandfather Mountain developer Hugh Morton, as well as many more State and local officials.

W. H. Clatworthy

Clatworthy worked at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Wayne State University in Detroit, the University of North Carolina, Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Pittsburgh and with the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C.

William Garvelink

Garvelink was born in Holland, Michigan and graduated from Calvin College (B.A.) in 1971 and the University of Minnesota (M.A.); along with post-graduate studies at the University of North Carolina in Latin American history, but ran out of money before earning his Ph.D.

Zebulon Baird Vance

At the age of twenty-one, he wrote to the President of the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, former Governor David L. Swain, and asked for a loan so that he could attend law school.


see also

Abbey Court Apartments

Hall of Fame American football player Lawrence Taylor lived at Abbey Court (then known as Old Well) while he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1970s.

Ackland

Ackland Art Museum, museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Association of Real Estate Taxpayers

David T. Beito, Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance during the Great Depression (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).

Austin College

Larry Fedora, head football coach at University of North Carolina

Berthold Ullman

He joined the faculty at Chicago and also taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Iowa State University He taught at the University of Chicago from 1925 until 1944 before moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming Kenan professor of Latin and department chair.

Brookhart

Maurice Brookhart, Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina

Eric Muller

Eric L. Muller (born 1962), law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Frank Lazarus

Lazarus has participated as a professional archaeologist in excavations in Nemea, Greece, as part of a 1977 University of California expedition and in Tel Beer Sheba, Israel, as part of a 1972 Tel Aviv University/University of North Carolina joint expedition.

George Barclay

George T. Barclay (1910–1997), head football coach at Washington and Lee University (1949–1951) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1953–1955)

High Point Panthers

HPU's men's basketball coach is Scott Cherry, who was a member of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels' 1993 NCAA Championship team.

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).

J. Carlyle Sitterson

Student leaders and faculty members of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill led a campus movement in opposition to the law which climaxed with the invitation of speakers Herbert Aptheker (an avowed communist) and Frank Wilkinson (an outspoken critic of the House Un-American Activities Committee).

James Helme Sutcliffe

Academic Festival March, 1965, Alma Mater of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, first performed 1967 at the installation of the first chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Dean W. Colvard.

Jonathan Marks

Jonathan M. Marks (born 1955), biological anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Kappa Alpha

Kuklos Adelphon, known as "Old Kappa Alpha", an American college Greek-letter fraternity, founded 1812 at the University of North Carolina.

Lamar Stringfield

The Lamar Stringfield papers at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill included Stringfield's correspondence with Robert Russell Bennett, Percy Goetschius, Edwin Franko Goldman, Morton Gould, Paul Green, Thor Johnson, Geoffrey O'Hara, Winfred Overholser, Jan Peerce, John Powell, Howard Richardson, Arthur Shepherd, and Leopold Stokowski in addition to many of his works.

Mary von Schrader Jarrell

They moved around the country some in accordance with the various teaching jobs and positions of Randall Jarrell until finally settling down in Greensboro, North Carolina where Jarrell held his final position at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Burt).

Oberlander

Jonathan Oberlander, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Oliver Smithies

Smithies is the first full professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill to receive a Nobel Prize.

Orlo Epps

Julius I. Foust Building, also known as the Main Building at the State Normal and Industrial School for White Girls (later renamed University of North Carolina at Greensboro), 1000 W. Spring Garden St.

Refuge: Stories of the Selfhelp Home

The film is narrated by historians, including Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Robert Chapman

Robert Hett Chapman (1771–1833), president of the University of North Carolina

Smith Center

Dean Smith Center, an arena at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Zebulon Baird Vance

A portrait of Vance hangs in the Dialectic Chamber of The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.