Chapel Hill Police Department

After attending the Chapel Hill Citizen’s Police Academy, a three-day event (two week-night sessions and one weekend day) to give Chapel Hillians an opportunity to learn more about our police department, I definitely have a much better appreciation of what our police...

UNC Students Start Companies, Grant Wish

The undergraduate students in Jim Kitchen’s Fall Intro to Entrepreneurship course (BUSI 500) at UNC Kenan-Flagler may not remember everything about their assignments and lectures, but they will remember what they were able to accomplish together. In just four days,...

Interfaith Council shelter pantry

My job: Unloading the food truck which comes from Durham. We usually get 7-8 pallets of canned food (corn, beans, potatoes, soup, etc.) and a lot of frozen chickens! What I’ve learned from this job: The IFC serves 3,300 local households and provides...

UNC Children’s Hospital

The UNC Children’s Hospital is truly a remarkable place. We are fortunate to have such a world-class hospital here in Chapel Hill, with such wonderful physicians and staff living in and contributing so much to our community. UNC Health Care employees 7,964 people and...

Kitchen Founds 1789, UNC’s Venture Lab

1789 incubator gives UNC students, grads a springboard By Alexis Nelson — Correspondent CHAPEL HILL — There’s some new office space open on Franklin Street, and you can use it for whatever you want. The only requirements: you have to be a UNC student or a recent...

The Kramden Institute

According to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School system, there are approximately 500 families in our district that do not have Internet access. These households include thousands of children of all ages. Imagine if your children couldn’t research a topic online or...