Carolina First

SEPTEMBER 2005

• Donors make possible more than $950,000 in merit scholarships to 149 UNC freshmen
• UNC to digitize Russian emigration resource, with support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Carolina jump-starts $60 million merit-based scholarship drive with $10 million bequest
• William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust supports UNC’s performing arts with $5 million challenge grant
• Re-dedication of transformed Memorial Hall heralds new era of arts at UNC

AUGUST 2005

• UNC dedicates Michael Hooker Research Center, designed to serve growing public health research needs
• Colorado resident receives Wolfe Scholarship; full, four-year award is in creative writing
• Bratcher named development director for new performing arts focus at Carolina
• Gift from estate of School of Government leader will benefit school, Ackland Art Museum

JULY 2005

• UNC’s fund-raising excellence honored for eighth time in 12 years
• Carolina First Campaign breaks $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2005; sets single-year record
• Carolina scientist recognized as one of nation’s top young researchers by W.M. Keck Foundation
• Durham bank executive gives more than $1.5 million to support Kenan-Flagler Business School, scholarships
• Robertson grants to fund service, research more by Duke, UNC collaborators

JUNE 2005

• UNC raising funds for scholarship memorializing Wilmington freshman Harper Beall Williams

MAY 2005

• New season, Memorial Hall renovation herald new era for Carolina performing arts

APRIL 2005

• UNC dedicates new $20 million School of Nursing building addition, which features 'green' design
• Professorship in Durham's name to honor 'Voice of the Tar Heels'
• Six UNC-Chapel Hill employees win prestigious Massey award for service
• Donors make possible more than $950,000 in merit scholarships to 131 UNC freshmen
• Market America's $75,000 gift to benefit UNC's Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative
• UNC, Duke announce winners of Robertson Scholarships

MARCH 2005

• Health Sciences Library celebrates grand opening; new café, collaborative spaces, technology are highlights

FEBRUARY 2005

• Capitol Broadcasting gives WUNC-FM gift of space, presence in Durham

JANUARY 2005

• Three UNC professors receive first Kauffman entrepreneurship fellowships

DECEMBER 2004

• UNC student organizations receive grants for public service projects
• Bank of America Charitable Foundation makes $1 million gift to UNC's Carolina Covenant, banking and finance center
  
  

NOVEMBER 2004

• Former ambassador's gift completes $1.6 million endowment for Latin American studies at UNC
• UNC to mark start of new era for international initiatives with Global Education Center ceremony, other key events
  
  

OCTOBER 2004

• Crown family gift helps establish UNC-Chapel Hill professorship honoring Jewish community leaders Sara and E.J. Evans
• HGTV media executive pledges $300,000 to support communication studies faculty
• Geoffrey Brennan selected as first Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship at UNC, Duke
  

SEPTEMBER 2004

• Carolina Covenant expands to cover low-income students, families at 200% of federal poverty level
• School of Government dedicates Knapp-Sanders Building; renovations include new classrooms, improved library
  

AUGUST 2004

• Pepsi Bottling Ventures commits $1.5 million to Carolina Covenant as part of beverage contract
  

JULY 2004

• Stone Center for Black Culture and History to open after years of effort, fund raising Carolina breaks fund-raising record in 2004
• Gift establishes Jones Fellows program; students to experience China first-hand
  

JUNE 2004

• $3 million gift endows Cole professorship in School of Journalism, Mass Communication
  
  

MAY 2004

• Kauffman Foundation awards $300,000 to UNC for entrepreneurship research boot camp
• $105,000 gift endows summer internships at community newspapers for UNC students
• Carolina's Crumpton scholarship celebrates 10 years of success
• Harris Teeter, Dickson Foundation give $1 million for study abroad fund
• $1 million gift enhances UNC advising program

APRIL 2004

• Jordan Institute for Families raises more than $50,000 at recent gala
• CCB makes inaugural foundation gift, becomes largest contributor to UNC's Carolina Covenant
• Royce Murray Quadrangle in new science complex honors longtime chemistry professor
• Ueltschi grants give UNC students opportunity to learn through service
• Former UNC women's soccer player donates $100,000 to Tar Heel Program

MARCH 2004

• Business school dean makes $100,000 gift to the Morehead Scholarship program
• School of Social Work receives largest individual donation in school's history
• Revson Foundation honors alumnus Eli Evans with gift to Carolina Center for Jewish Studies

FEBRUARY 2004

• Progress Energy Foundation awards $215,000 for UNC educational, environmental programs
• Carolina announces Dunn as senior associate vice chancellor for development
• Thacker estate endows sports communication internship
• Gift from Gladys Hall Coates estate to benefit Wilson Library’s N.C. Collection
• Coach Williams pledges support, makes TV appearance to promote Carolina Covenant for low-income students

JANUARY 2004

• Carolina honors Duke's Keohane with visiting professorship
• Massey Awards for UNC employees to increase in numbers, dollars
• Pfizer Inc provides major support for seminar series at campuswide Program on Health Outcomes
• International library group honors Kilgour with $100,000 donation to UNC school
  

DECEMBER 2003

• Vick gives $100,000 to create award for innovation in journalism-mass communication teaching
• Reed named to first Kenan Eminent Professorship, will direct new interdisciplinary Institute for Renaissance Computing
• UNC is among eight universities nationwide to receive prestigious entrepreneurship grant
• Patricia F. Waller fund to support lecture, possibly future professorship
  

NOVEMBER 2003

• McClatchy gives $40,000 to Carolina for scholarship honoring Potts, former CEO
• Trustees honor four with Davie Award in recognition of extraordinary service
• Avid country music fan Earle donates lifelong collection of recordings to UNC
• New Global Scholars Program offers unique living-learning experience
  

OCTOBER 2003

• UNC science award to honor outstanding N.C. middle, high school students
• UNC awards scholarships for academic merit
• Donors make possible more than $1.1 million in merit scholarships to 139 UNC freshmen
• UNC awards Johnston scholarships to freshmen, nursing students
• UNC faculty members named to distinguished professorships
• UNC-Chapel Hill breaks new ground in college accessibility
• Bayer fellowship grant to support graduate fellows in coagulation research
  

SEPTEMBER 2003

• Retired special agent creates scholarship fund for children, grandchildren of agents
• LabCorp’s gift helps establish professorship to honor Grisham
• Renowned journalists Kalb, Rosenberg to be inaugural Kyser visiting professionals
• $500,000 fund aids extracurricular endeavors by journalism-mass communication students
• Four faculty members honored with university’s Hettleman Prize
• Carolina receives $2 million gift from Wachovia Foundation
  

AUGUST 2003

• Poston wins Thomas Wolfe Scholarship, full, four-year award in creative writing
• Campus landmark stages a renaissance (Chapel Hill News)
• Memorial fund to honor UNC pioneering neuroscientist, scholar, mentor
  

JULY 2003

• Gatorade, UNC create partnership to combat childhood obesity epidemic
• Carolina receives CASE/Wealth ID Award for educational fund raising
• Brysons commit $5 million to establish clinical genetics research center at UNC

JUNE 2003

• Heels go Hollywood in internships that often lead to jobs in show biz
• Fellowships support undergraduates’ summer research at home, abroad

MAY 2003

• In memory of Samantha: a $2.5 million gift for the study of SIDS
• Carolina First Campaign reaches $1 billion

APRIL 2003

• Seed grants to support research on ovarian cancer, melanoma, other cancers
• Alumni donations improve lives of many UNC students
• Collection of rare Russian materials, possibly at more than 20,000 items, now at UNC

MARCH 2003

• Overlock named co-chair of Carolina First Campaign

FEBRUARY 2003

• Eshelman commits $20 million to UNC, largest gift ever to a U.S. pharmacy school
• UNC researchers awarded $4 million to study factors affecting osteoarthritis
• School receives grant to examine factors that may influence infant overfeeding and weight gain
• Distinguished professorship honors two Southern studies experts at UNC

JANUARY 2003

• School of Public Health, GlaxoSmithKline to create Center for Excellence in Pharmacoepidemiology
• UNC friends seeking memorial to honor the late Sen. Wellstone

DECEMBER 2002

• Historical society creates endowment to honor longtime UNC library couple
• School of Public Health receives funding to develop computer-based education for prenatal patients
• Bioinformatics Building dedicated today
• NIH awards UNC $2.5 million for gene microarray services

NOVEMBER 2002

• UNC alumnus creates scholarship fund to honor Doug Clark’s memory
• With GlaxoSmithKline Foundation funding, UNC launches program focusing on health disparities
• BB&T Charitable Foundation makes million-dollar gift to philosophy

OCTOBER 2002

• Three campuses receive $1.5 million to create joint health disparities research center
• Federal grant funds Conte Center for schizophrenia research
• UNC announces goal of $1.8 billion for Carolina First campaign
• Institute to expand programming with extra space in new Hyde Hall
• UNC awards nearly $400,000 in scholarships to students with merit and financial need
• School of Dentistry awarded $1.35-million grant to combat North Carolina’s dentist shortage

SEPTEMBER 2002

• A first for Carolina First: $180 million in 2002 breaks record for university fund raising
• Dowd Foundation’s $1 million gift honors 'Pepper' Dowd of Charlotte
• UNC honors four distinguished faculty members with Hettleman Prize
• Drive launched to fund Kyser Distinguished Visiting Professorship

AUGUST 2002

• U.S. comptroller general to give first Deil S. Wright lecture
• UNC students to immerse selves in South African culture, studies

JULY 2002

• Carolina’s undergraduate library to re-open Aug. 19 after renovations
• Program on Aging receives grant to help train providers to care for older population

JUNE 2002

• Sandelowski to serve as School of Nursing’s first Boshamer distinguished professor
• Kenan-Flager’s Center for Sustainable Enterprise receives $100,000 Dupont gift
• UNC wins grant to implement recognition for student service
• Cole recognized for longtime service as dean, faculty member with Kerr professorship
• UNC’s Burch Fellows pursue their dreams around the world

MAY 2002

• Eight UNC students awarded Class of ’38 travel scholarships

APRIL 2002

• School of Nursing to break ground on 69,350-square-foot addition
• Seniors choose artist Do-Ho Suh to design Unsung Founders Memorial
• UNC’s Memorial Hall takes a bow with curtain closing gala

MARCH 2002

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation announces $1 million gift to School of Public Health
• Palmer to serve as School of Nursing’s first Umphlet distinguished professor
  
• Leading Southern culture expert, former NEH chair, to join faculty

FEBRUARY 2002

• UNC honors 20 recipients of campuswide teaching awards
• UNC wins grant to preserve, make public tapes by Seeger, Dylan, other folk singers
  
• Public health’s first Daniel A. Okun distinguished professorship awarded to Dr. Philip Singer

JANUARY 2002

• UNC gets $530,000 to create 3-D, digital rare book library
• Carolina’s Asian Studies Program receives major boost from the Freeman Foundation
• Scholarship established to honor top advertising executive Maurer

NOVEMBER 2001

• Carolina Panthers cornerback gives to alma mater for Stone Center
  
• International studies to benefit from $10 million gift by alumnus

OCTOBER 2001

• Faculty member and his wife pledge $2.5 million for professorship, fellowships, scholarships
• Carolina, Nike extend agreement for eight years
• Kenan Charitable Trust to establish new professorships as part of $27 million gift   BACKGROUNDER: (Highlights of Kenan family support for UNC)

SEPTEMBER 2001

• UNC postpones Oct. 12 campaign kickoff event
• Carolina Scholars Award honors W. Roger Soles
• New study to compare digital, film mammography in massive $26.3 million effort to save women’s lives

AUGUST 2001

• Robertson Scholars program funds bus service connecting UNC and Duke
• Private grant to fund first comprehensive survey on American teens and religion
• Acclaimed fiction writer named to Doris Betts Chair at UNC
• Leading Latin scholar named to distinguished professorship
• W.M. Keck Foundation awards $1 million for nanoscience initiatives

JULY 2001

• $2.5-million grant to enable collaboration on reducing minority cancer deaths, increasing minority researchers
• Frank Hanes Sr. gives $2 million for creative writing scholarship

JUNE 2001

• Health professionals receive excellence awards at ceremony
• Research team receives supplemental grant to study behavior-incontinence link

MAY 2001

• NIH grant allows UNC to join national group seeking to prevent birth problems
• Dell awards grants to UNC-CH faculty
• UNC, Duke select 30 top students for first Robertson Scholars class

APRIL 2001

• Burch Fellows pursue academic dreams through independent study
• Atlanta technology executive supports Stone Center with $500,000 gift
• Hammond chair in childhood cancer established at Lineberger center
• UNC to hold ground-breaking ceremony for Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center April 26
• Eight UNC students awarded Class of ’38 travel scholarships
• Library exhibit to honor poet Heaney, artist Pearson
• Sixty schools join prestigious Morehead Award competition

MARCH 2001

• Latin American Institute receives $800,000 for visiting scholars, boosting study abroad
• Morrow receives Bell Award
• UNC General Alumni Association Presents $500,000Gift at UNC-Duke Halftime
• Hike in NIH research funding places UNC 13th among private, public universities nationwide
• $1 million journalism professorship to honor Jim, Hallie Parker

FEBRUARY 2001

• Edwards named Thomas M. Belk Distinguished Professor of Management
• Carolina announces $245 million public-private investment in genomics
• John T. Kerr III to establish professorship at School of Journalism and Mass Communication

JANUARY 2001

• First Gillings Professorship awarded to biostatistician Danyu Lin
• Federal nanotechnology grant to connect ‘virtual viruses’ and public school students
• Eastman Chemical donates patents to Carolina, N.C. State
• Federal grant helps UNC-CH health affairs schools address minority clinician shortage
• Library's historical Web site gets sixth grant, enabling new concentration on North Carolina

DECEMBER 2000

• UNC-CH to launch CDC-funded Center for Public Health Preparedness
• STIR program receives grant to promote self-advocacy in 10 other states
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards $15.1 million to treat African sleeping sickness, leishmaniasis
• Feds give $16 million to UNC-CH scientists studying waste site problems

NOVEMBER 2000

• Procter & Gamble donates potentially lucrative water softening technology patents to university
• Novo Nordisk establishes professorship to honor renowned hematology researcher
• New grants fund projects to boost intellectual climate

OCTOBER 2000

• Mlyn to direct Robertson Scholars Program at UNC, Duke
• Sixty-nine outstanding high school seniors win Morehead Awards to UNC-CH
• Heavners co-chairing Memorial Hall drive
• UNC cancer center selects Lineberger Fellows
• Knight Foundation grants $84,000 to School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• UNC-CH to lead $34 million effort to see if girls can become more fit
• UNC-CH is awarded grant to run national Public Health Leadership Institute
• UNC-CH awarded $5-million grant to explore disease that inflames blood vessels

SEPTEMBER 2000

• 70 North Carolina students are finalists for Morehead Scholarships at UNC-CH
• Four honored with 2000 Hettleman Award
• Red Hat Center, UNC-CH join forces with $4 million gift to launch ibiblio.org

AUGUST 2000

• UNC-CH wins contract to create the first Cystic Fibrosis National Bioinformatics Center
• Bond wins merit scholarship to UNC-CH worth $12,000
• Student wins scholarship to UNC-CH for academic merit
• Davidson wins scholarship to UNC-CH for academic merit
• American Institute for Cancer Research gift creates new professorship in School of Public Health

JULY 2000

• Four UNC-CH freshmen named Winstead Carolina Scholars
• 18 rising freshmen win UNC-CH scholarships
• Bumgardner Scholarship established in School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Cisco honors late chancellor with graduate fellowship
• Fiscal year 2000: A great year for Carolina!

JUNE 2000

• Scholarship fund aims to promote giving among dental community, students
• Carolina receives Circle of Excellence fund-raising award
• New York couple gives $24 million to Duke and UNC-CH to create unique collaborative scholarship program

MAY 2000

• From humble lives comes $1.5 million for education
• UNC-CH, Duke University collaboration rewarded with federal grants
• Ackland Art Museum awarded grant to display Asian Art
• Former UNC-CH researcher honors late wife with $1-million donation
• Trio of top market experts part of a board helping Carolina grow private endowment

APRIL 2000

• Burch Fellows to explore world outside Carolina
• Two faculty members win Thomas Jefferson Award
• $1 million Michael Hooker professorship established
• Class of '38 travel scholarships awarded to eight UNC-CH students
• UNC-CH, Glaxo Wellcome partnership launches traveling science lab
• Gift to honor coin collector benefits N.C. Collection

MARCH 2000

• Charles Kuralt Learning Center to open March 31
• Distinguished professorship to stress training for children's dental care
• Downtown group's cancer awareness event to benefit Lineberger center
• Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation gift supports UNC-CH led welfare reform study

FEBRUARY 2000

• Health outcomes program receives $1.5 million in support from Glaxo Wellcome Foundation
• UNC-CH library acquires 5 millionth volume
• Jazz vocalists to perform Feb. 19 fund-raiser for BCC
• Frey gift enables landscape painters' exhibit and lectures

JANUARY 2000

• Dental students to care for underserved patients in clinics statewide through grant
• CNN broadcasters to share inside look at TV news
• National prize in neuroscience endowed by UNC-CH professor

DECEMBER 1999

• Medical school to create genetics center with new $2.6 million Hughes grant

NOVEMBER 1999

• University benefactors, Hooker among 1999 William R. Davie Award recipients
• Fund established to help dentistry's maxillofacial division
• Alcoa donates N.C. archaeological specimens
• Smile Train funds international fellowship at dental school
• Longtime professor celebrates semi-retirement with gift to establish endowed professorship

OCTOBER 1999

• $500,000 bequest honors Chapel Hill dentist, provides scholarships for dentistry students
• UNC-CH law school will dedicate new building at weekend celebration
• Bill Friday to lend a hand to Johnston Center's undergraduate focus at UNC-CH
• Civic education throughout state gets boost in funding
• Park Foundation pledges $5.7 million for School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Grant to help low-income moms, newborns through nurse home-visiting

SEPTEMBER 1999

• Fulton, Shaffer to co-chair University fund-raising campaign
• Carolina receives $28.6 million bequest -- single largest gift in university's history
• UNC Health Care part of new national program to improve care for children
• University Day to mark dedication of undergraduate excellence center
• duPont gift to help Institute of Government serve nonprofit, government agencies
• U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala to kick off UNC-CH's new public service center Sept. 24

AUGUST 1999

• Johnson named William Rand Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor
• SILS Interaction Design Laboratory receives $50,000 Smallwood grant

JULY 1999

• Carolina receives Circle of Excellence fund-raising award
• Gift names study room in UNC-CH dental school

JUNE 1999

• Late N.C. couple bequeath $2.4 million to benefit UNC-CH pediatrics department
• PlayMakers receives prestigious Shubert Foundation grant
• UNC-CH alumni couple's $1 million will help scholarships, business school
• Donors bring journalism school $110,000 closer to covering Carroll Hall renovation
• Phillips gift honoring Cameron seeds innovative financial services institute

APRIL 1999

• Katherine Everett estate gives $14 million to UNC and Duke law schools
• Retired professor gives $100,000 for Black Cultural Center building
• Doughton establishes scholarship honoring North Carolina's first printer
• Knight Foundation gives $500,000 to UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Walkers may register through April 17 for Black Cultural Center walk

MARCH 1999

• Hayes Plantation Library to call UNC's North Carolina Collection home
• Gift to UNC-CH dental school honors hygienist
• Fisher bequest creates new scholarship for UNC-CH journalism students
• Random House endows UNC-CH scholarship fund in memory of alumna Wanda Chappell

FEBRUARY 1999

• Jim and Isabel Harrell endow professorship in family dentistry
• Stallings Oil owner endows professorship in dentistry
• Kuralt collection to be unveiled Feb. 25 at UNC-CH library

JANUARY 1999

• Grandchildren honor Dr. Garrison with UNC-CH scholarship in his name
• New technology will put UNC-CH Health Sciences Library at patient bedsides
• Long-time supporter of botany studies leaves part of estate to UNC-CH Herbarium

DECEMBER 1998

• Million-dollar gift creates School of Public Health professorship, recognizes achievements of health-outcomes pioneer
• Star Trek screenwriter, UNC-CH alumnus launches plan for new program with gift
• UNC tops Duke in donations -- Duke Phonathon students sing Carolina's praises
• Family of Dr. Carl W. Gottschalk donates rare book collection to UNC-CH libraries

NOVEMBER 1998

• Royster Society of Fellows multi-year awards enable UNC-CH to attract nation's top graduate students
• House party to celebrate upcoming library renovation
• Family of John M. Gibson pledges $100,000 to School of Journalism and Mass Comm.
• Gift to create seminars on learning disabilities

OCTOBER 1998

• Marsicos donate $500,000 for equity fund Kenan-Flagler MBA students will manage
• Knight Foundation grant continues copy-editing fellowship at UNC-CH
• Pharmacy school to honor past, look toward future, at groundbreaking ceremony Oct. 12

SEPTEMBER 1998

• UNC-CH continues to break records in private giving

JULY 1998

• Winston-Salem's Thomas Jack Lynch bequeaths $3.4 million to preserve UNC-CH library materials
• Fellowship honors Durham banker and civic leader

JUNE 1998

• Felix Allen creates fund for scholarships to UNC-CH for Franklin County students
• Distinguished professorship will honor Doris Betts
• Charlie and Margaret Nelson give journalism school more than $70,000

MAY 1998

• Need-based scholarships to receive boost through $4.4 million Cavin bequest
• Students raise more than $8,500 in Black Cultural Center walk