Giving News and Notes

Seven UNC students were selected as recipients of the 2015 Burch Fellowship to pursue unique and self-initiated proposed experiences anywhere off UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus. The Burch Fellows Program was established in 1993 by a gift from UNC alumnus Lucius E.

UNC and the Dental Foundation of North Carolina (DFNC) have established a new memorial award. The Deah Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha Memorial Award, in memory of the late Deah Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha, will be presented for the first time

UNC’s Southern Folklife Collection is receiving thousands of hours of recordings from concerts played at McCabe’s Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, California. Venue owner Bob Riskin is making the donation so the SFC can preserve the recordings by creating and

UNC has received a grant of $986,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This grant will help the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library advance digitization of rare audio, video and motion picture

The Carolina College Advising Corps, based in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at UNC, will expand to Dare County for the 2015-2016 year. The Corps aims to help low-income, first-generation and under-represented students attend college by placing UNC graduates in

UNC’s School of Government has received a gift of $100,000 from Prudential Financial, Inc. for continued funding of initiatives that support the school’s work assisting North Carolina local elected officials as they lead and govern their communities. This contribution will