University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, usually called UNC-Chapel Hill or simply Carolina, is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（简称 UNC-Chapel Hill 或 Carolina）是一所位于美国北卡罗来纳州教堂山镇的公立研究型大学。

Chartered in 1789 and first enrolling students in 1795, it is one of the oldest public universities in the United States and places joint 158th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校于 1789 年获颁特许状，1795 年首次招生，是美国最古老的公立大学之一，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 158。

History

• The university was chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly on 11 December 1789.学校于 1789 年 12 月 11 日由北卡罗来纳州议会颁授特许状。

• Its cornerstone was laid on 12 October 1793 at Chapel Hill, a site chosen because of its central location within the state.其奠基石于 1793 年 10 月 12 日在教堂山镇安放，选址正在于该地居于全州中心。

• It began enrolling students in 1795, making it one of the oldest public universities in the United States.学校于 1795 年开始招生，是美国最古老的公立大学之一。

• It is one of three universities that claim to be the oldest public university in the country and the only one that conferred degrees in the eighteenth century as a public institution.它与另外两所大学同称本国最古老的公立大学，也是其中唯一在 18 世纪以公立机构身份授予学位的学校。

• During the Civil War it was one of the few universities in the South that managed to remain open.内战期间，它是南方少数仍得以维持办学的大学之一。

• It was forced to close during Reconstruction from 1 December 1870 until 6 September 1875, when student numbers failed to recover.由于学生人数未能恢复，学校在重建时期被迫停办，自 1870 年 12 月 1 日起至 1875 年 9 月 6 日止。

• After reopening, enrolment grew slowly, and administrators offered free tuition for the sons of teachers and ministers as well as loans for those who could not afford to attend.复课之后招生增长缓慢，校方为教师与牧师的儿子提供免学费待遇，并为无力负担者提供贷款。

• Following the Civil War the university began to modernise its programmes and to recruit faculty holding higher degrees.内战结束后，学校着手课程现代化，并延揽拥有高等学位的教师。

• By 1905 it had added a new gymnasium, funding for a chemistry laboratory and an organised graduate department, as reported by president Francis Venable.至 1905 年，学校已添置新体育馆、为一所化学实验室提供经费，并组建了研究生部，校长 Francis Venable 曾对此加以称述。

• On 27 March 1931 legislation grouped the university with the State College of Agriculture and Engineering and the Woman's College to form the Consolidated University of North Carolina.1931 年 3 月 27 日，州议会通过立法，把该校与州立农业与工程学院、女子学院合并为北卡罗来纳联合大学。

• In 1963 the consolidated university became fully coeducational and the institution took its present name, while the Woman's College became the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.1963 年，联合大学全面实行男女同校，该校启用现名，女子学院则更名为北卡罗来纳大学格林斯伯勒分校。

• During the Second World War it was one of 131 colleges and universities that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to a naval commission.第二次世界大战期间，它是参加 V-12 海军学院训练计划的 131 所高校之一，该计划为学生提供获得海军军官任职的途径。

• In 1951 a court ordered the university to admit its first Black students to the schools of law and medicine.1951 年，法院命令学校在法学院与医学院招收首批黑人学生。

• In 1955, after segregation in public schools was outlawed, federal courts ordered the admission of Black undergraduates.1955 年，在公立学校种族隔离被判定违法之后，联邦法院命令学校招收黑人本科生。

• Black enrolment remained low for many years, numbering four freshmen in 1960 and only eighteen in 1963.此后多年黑人入学人数一直偏低，1960 年仅四名新生，1963 年也只有十八名。

• During the 1960s the campus was a site of civil rights era protests, and a 1963 state law restricting speakers on state campuses was struck down in federal court in 1968.20 世纪 60 年代，校园成为民权运动时期抗议的场所；1963 年一项限制州立校园演讲的州法，于 1968 年被联邦法院推翻。

• From the late 1990s the university expanded rapidly, with total enrolment rising by fifteen per cent to more than 28,000 by 2007.自 20 世纪 90 年代末起，学校迅速扩张，学生总数增长 15%，到 2007 年超过 2.8 万人。

• The growth was funded in part by the Carolina First fundraising campaign, and the endowment increased fourfold to more than $2 billion within ten years.这一扩张部分由“Carolina First”筹款活动提供经费，其捐赠基金在十年内增长四倍，超过 20 亿美元。

• Professor Oliver Smithies was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2007 for his work in genetics.该校教授奥利弗·史密斯因遗传学方面的研究获得 2007 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。

• Professor Aziz Sancar received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for his work on the molecular repair mechanisms of DNA.该校教授阿齐兹·桑贾尔因阐明 DNA 分子修复机制的工作获得 2015 年诺贝尔化学奖。

• In 2019 Kevin Guskiewicz was named the university's twelfth chancellor, and the institution forms part of the University of North Carolina system.2019 年，凯文·古斯基维茨被任命为学校第十二任校长；学校是北卡罗来纳大学系统的一部分。

Academics

• The university offers degrees in more than 240 programmes, divided among thirteen professional schools and a primary unit, the College of Arts and Sciences.学校开设 240 多个学位项目，分设于十三个专业学院以及一个基础教学单位文理学院。

• It is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research activity and is a member of the Association of American Universities.学校被归类为科研活动极强的 R1 类博士型大学，也是美国大学协会的成员。

• The National Science Foundation ranked it ninth among American universities for research and development expenditure in 2023, with $1.5 billion.美国国家科学基金会认定其 2023 年研发支出为 15 亿美元，在美国高校中排名第九。

• Its endowment stood at $6.22 billion in 2025, making it one of the wealthiest public academic institutions in the United States.2025 年其捐赠基金达 62.2 亿美元，是全美最富有的公立学术机构之一。

• Its professional schools include medicine, law, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, public health, business, education, social work, information and library science, journalism and media, government, and data science and society.其专业学院包括医学、法学、牙科、药学、护理、公共卫生、商学、教育学、社会工作、信息与图书馆学、新闻与传媒、政府学院以及数据科学与社会学院。

• In 2007 it offered 71 bachelor's, 107 master's and 74 doctoral degree programmes.2007 年，学校开设 71 个学士、107 个硕士与 74 个博士学位项目。

• State law requires that the proportion of North Carolinians in each freshman class meet or exceed 82 per cent, and students come from all one hundred counties of the state.州法规定每届新生中北卡罗来纳州本地学生比例不得低于 82%，其学生来自全州全部一百个县。

• The Making Connections curriculum, introduced in 2006, requires all students to study English, social science, history, a foreign language, mathematics and natural science.2006 年推出的“Making Connections”课程要求所有学生修读英语、社会科学、历史、一门外语、数学与自然科学。

• Undergraduates are held to an eight-semester limit of study, and the university offers about 300 study abroad programmes in seventy countries.本科生须在八个学期内完成学业；学校在七十个国家开设约 300 个海外学习项目。

• Admissions are described as most selective, and for the class entering in 2021 it received 53,776 applications and accepted 10,347.其招生被形容为“最具选择性”：2021 年入学的这一届共收到 53776 份申请，录取 10347 人。

• Its freshman retention rate is 96.5 per cent, with 91.9 per cent of students graduating within six years.其新生留校率为 96.5%，六年内毕业率为 91.9%。

• It is need-blind for domestic applicants and, through the Carolina Covenant announced in 2003, guarantees a debt-free education to low-income students.学校对本国申请者实行不论经济状况的录取政策，并通过 2003 年宣布的“卡罗来纳契约”为低收入学生提供无债务教育。

• The Morehead-Cain Scholarship covers tuition, room, board, books and summer study, and twenty-nine of its alumni have become Rhodes Scholars.莫尔黑德-凯恩奖学金覆盖学费、食宿、书籍与暑期学习费用，其校友中已有二十九人成为罗德学者。

• Since 2001 the university has co-hosted the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program with neighbouring Duke University.自 2001 年起，学校与邻近的杜克大学共同主办罗伯逊学者领导力项目。

• Its library system holds more than ten million combined print and electronic volumes across twelve locations, and the R.B. House Undergraduate Library opened in 1968.其图书馆系统在十二个馆址合计藏书逾一千万册（含电子资源）；R.B. 豪斯本科生图书馆于 1968 年启用。

• The North Carolina Collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of holdings about any single state in the nation, and the university is home to ibiblio, one of the world's largest collections of freely available information.北卡罗来纳特藏是关于美国任何单一州份最全面、规模最大的收藏；学校还是免费信息库（ibiblio）的主办方，后者是世界上规模最大的免费信息库之一。

• In 1974 the university created the Instrument of Student Judicial Governance, the basis of its long-standing student-run honour code, though in 2024 it moved to a staff-run hearing board.1974 年，学校制定《学生司法治理文件》，成为其沿袭已久、由学生主导的荣誉制度的依据；不过到 2024 年，学校已改为由教职员组成听证委员会。

• It also operates a School of Government that trains public officials and a School of Civic Life and Leadership, reflecting its public-service mission.学校还设有培训公职人员的政府学院，以及公民生活与领导力学院，体现其服务公众的使命。

Campus

• The campus covers about 760 acres, including some 125 acres of lawns and more than thirty acres of shrub beds and ground cover.校园占地约 760 英亩，其中草坪约 125 英亩，灌木与地被植物逾三十英亩。

• The oldest buildings, Old East of 1793-95, the South Building of 1798-1814 and Old West of 1822-23, stand around the quadrangle of McCorkle Place, named after Samuel Eusebius McCorkle.最古老的建筑——1793 至 1795 年的东老楼、1798 至 1814 年的南楼与 1822 至 1823 年的西老楼——环绕麦考克尔广场，该广场以塞缪尔·尤西比乌斯·麦考克尔命名。

• A second quadrangle, Polk Place, was built in the 1920s south of the original campus and named after the alumnus President James K. Polk.第二处方庭波尔克广场建于 20 世纪 20 年代，位于老校区以南，以校友、美国总统詹姆斯·诺克斯·波尔克命名。

• The Wilson Library stands at the south end of Polk Place and houses the special collections.威尔逊图书馆位于波尔克广场南端，收藏各类特藏。

• The northern part of campus includes the Frank Porter Graham Student Union and the Davis, House and Wilson libraries.校园北部设有弗兰克·波特·格雷厄姆学生活动中心，以及戴维斯、豪斯与威尔逊三座图书馆。

• The southern part of campus houses the Dean Smith Center, the School of Medicine, the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Kenan-Flagler Business School, while the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History stands further north.校园南部设有迪恩·史密斯中心、医学院、吉林斯全球公共卫生学院与凯南-弗拉格勒商学院；索尼娅·海恩斯·斯通黑人文化历史中心则位于更靠北处。

• The Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower was completed in 1931 and stands 172 feet tall, and seniors may climb it shortly before May commencement.莫尔黑德-帕特森钟楼建成于 1931 年，高 172 英尺，毕业班学生可在五月毕业典礼前登临。

• The Old Well, a small neoclassical rotunda modelled on the Temple of Love at Versailles, marks the site of the original well that supplied water for the school and is a symbol of the university.老井是一座仿凡尔赛宫爱之神殿的新古典主义圆形亭，立于最初为学校供水的原井所在处，是学校的象征。

• The Davie Poplar, a tree in McCorkle Place, is linked by legend to the founder's choice of the site, and two grafts of it have been planted nearby.麦考克尔广场上的戴维杨树依传说与创办人选址相关，其两株嫁接苗已种在附近。

• The historic Playmakers Theatre, designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, was completed in 1851 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973, and the university also hosts the resident Playmakers Repertory Company.历史悠久的剧作家剧院由亚历山大·杰克逊·戴维斯设计，1851 年建成，1973 年被列为国家历史地标；学校还设有常驻的剧作家剧目剧团。

• The Morehead Planetarium first opened in 1949, the campus arboretum was created by the botany professor William C. Coker, and the main library, Davis Library, opened on 6 February 1984 as the largest state-owned building in North Carolina.莫尔黑德天文馆于 1949 年首次开放，校园树木园由植物学教授威廉·科克创建；主图书馆戴维斯图书馆于 1984 年 2 月 6 日启用，是北卡罗来纳州最大的州有建筑。

• In 1999 the campus was recognised by the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the university aims for all new buildings to meet LEED silver certification.1999 年，校园获得美国景观设计师协会的表彰；学校还力求所有新建建筑达到 LEED 银级认证。

• Lenoir Dining Hall was completed in 1939 with funds from the New Deal era Public Works Administration and was named for General William Lenoir, the first chairman of the university's board of trustees.勒努瓦食堂于 1939 年用新政时期公共工程管理局的经费建成，以学校第一任校董会主席威廉·勒努瓦将军命名。

Reputation

• UNC-Chapel Hill places joint 158th in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, 85th in the 2027 Times Higher Education table and 40th in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中并列第 158，2027 年泰晤士高等教育排名第 85，2026 年软科世界大学学术排名第 40。

• For 2026 US News & World Report ranked it fourth among public universities and 26th among national universities in the United States.在 2026 年《美国新闻与世界报道》榜单中，学校位列美国公立大学第四、全国性大学第 26。

• The Wall Street Journal ranked it the third best public university in the country behind the University of Michigan and UCLA.《华尔街日报》将其列为全美第三佳公立大学，仅次于密歇根大学与加州大学洛杉矶分校。

• It was named a Public Ivy in Richard Moll's 1985 book on America's best public undergraduate institutions.在理查德·莫尔 1985 年关于美国最佳公立本科院校的著作中，学校被列为“公立常春藤”。

• It is a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference, which was founded on 14 June 1953, and its 28 intercollegiate teams compete in that conference.学校是大西洋沿岸联盟的创始成员，该联盟成立于 1953 年 6 月 14 日，其 28 支校际运动队均在该联盟内参赛。

• For fiscal year 2020 it received $509.9 million in research funds from the National Institutes of Health, the tenth largest total in the nation.2020 财年，学校获得美国国立卫生研究院 5.099 亿美元科研经费，总额居全美第十。

• Its endowment has ranked among the ten wealthiest of American public universities.其捐赠基金规模位居美国公立大学前列，属于最富有的十所之列。

• It forms one of the three corners of North Carolina's Research Triangle, together with North Carolina State University and Duke University.学校与北卡罗来纳州立大学、杜克大学共同构成北卡罗来纳“研究三角园区”的三个顶点。

• It is classed as a Public Ivy and a member of the Association of American Universities, and it is one of the leading public universities in the southern United States.学校被列为“公立常春藤”和美国大学协会成员，是美国南方最主要的公立大学之一。

Student life

• Its motto is the Latin phrase Lux libertas, meaning light and liberty, and its colours are Carolina blue and white.学校校训为拉丁语（Lux libertas），意为“光明与自由”，校色为卡罗来纳蓝与白色。

• It recognises more than 550 student organisations, most of them assisted by the Carolina Union and funded from the student government activity fee.学校认可 550 多个学生组织，其中多数由卡罗来纳学生活动中心提供协助，经费来自学生自治会收取的活动费。

• The Daily Tar Heel is the student newspaper and won a National Pacemaker Award in 2004-05, and a student television station, STV, airs on campus cable.校报《每日焦油踵》曾于 2004 至 2005 年获全国 Pacemaker 奖；学生电视台 STV 通过校园有线网络播出。

• WXYC 89.3 FM, founded in 1977, became in 1994 the first radio station in the world to broadcast its signal over the internet.1977 年创办的 WXYC 89.3 FM 于 1994 年成为世界上第一家通过互联网传送信号的电台。

• The Carolina Quarterly, edited by graduate students, has published writers such as Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo and Joyce Carol Oates.由研究生编辑的《卡罗来纳季刊》曾发表雷蒙德·卡佛、唐·德里罗与乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨等作家的作品。

• The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies, founded in 1795, are the oldest student organisation and gave the university its blue and white colours.创立于 1795 年的辩证与博爱社团是学校最古老的学生组织，其蓝色与白色也成为校色。

• Its athletic teams are known as the Tar Heels, a name referring to the state's prominence as a producer of tar and pitch, and the nickname is also linked to anecdotes from the Revolution and the Civil War.其运动队名为“焦油踵”，该名源于本州早年以出产焦油与沥青著称，其来由也与独立战争与内战时期的逸闻相关。

• The mascot is a live Dorset ram named Rameses, a tradition dating from 1924, and its modern depiction wears a sailor's hat.其吉祥物是一只名为拉美西斯的活体多塞特公羊，这一传统始于 1924 年，如今其形象戴着水手帽。

• Its teams have won 51 NCAA team championships across eight sports, including twenty-two in women's soccer, eleven in women's field hockey and six in men's basketball, and the Marching Tar Heels is a 275-member volunteer band.其运动队已在八个项目上夺得 51 项 NCAA 团体冠军，其中女子足球 22 项、女子曲棍球 11 项、男子篮球 6 项；“行进焦油踵”是一支 275 人的志愿乐队。

• Traditional celebrations on Franklin Street, Carolina blue and white ribbons and songs such as I'm a Tar Heel Born mark major victories, and the first such celebration followed the 1957 men's basketball national championship.富兰克林街上的传统庆祝、蓝白丝带，以及《I'm a Tar Heel Born》等歌曲，都是重大胜利的标志；这类庆祝最早出现在 1957 年男篮夺得全国冠军之后。

• About sixteen per cent of undergraduates belong to fraternities or sororities, and a biennial naked run from Davis Library is held before final exams.约 16% 的本科生参加兄弟会或姐妹会；每逢期末考前夕，学生还会举行两年一度的戴维斯图书馆裸奔活动。

Notable people

• James K. Polk, the eleventh president of the United States, graduated in 1818, and William R. King, the thirteenth vice president, was also an alumnus.美国第 11 任总统詹姆斯·诺克斯·波尔克于 1818 年毕业，第 13 任副总统威廉·鲁弗斯·金也是其校友。

• Thomas Wolfe, the novelist, graduated in 1920, and Andy Griffith, the actor, graduated in 1949.小说家托马斯·沃尔夫于 1920 年毕业，演员安迪·格里菲斯于 1949 年毕业。

• Michael Jordan, the basketball player, graduated in 1986, and Mia Hamm is among its best-known women's soccer alumni.篮球运动员迈克尔·乔丹于 1986 年毕业；米娅·哈姆则是其最知名的女子足球校友之一，其男篮还培养了查理·斯科特、鲍勃·麦卡杜与文斯·卡特等球员。

• Roy Cooper, the seventy-fifth governor of North Carolina, studied at the university.北卡罗来纳州第 75 任州长罗伊·库珀曾在该校就读。

• Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, took a master's degree in 2003, and Louise Fletcher, an Oscar-winning actress, graduated in 1957.普利策奖得主、记者妮科尔·汉娜-琼斯 2003 年取得硕士学位，奥斯卡奖得主、演员路易丝·弗莱彻 1957 年毕业。

• Charles E. Brady Jr, an astronaut, graduated in 1971.宇航员小查尔斯·布拉迪于 1971 年毕业。

• In business, its alumni include Jason Kilar, a former chief executive of Hulu, and David Holz, the founder of Midjourney.在商界，其校友包括 Hulu 前首席执行官 Jason Kilar 与 Midjourney 创始人 David Holz。

• Dean Smith coached the men's basketball team for thirty-six years and, on retirement, held the record for most wins by a men's college head coach.迪恩·史密斯执教男篮长达三十六年，退休时保持着美国大学男篮主教练胜场最多的纪录。

• Roy Williams, who succeeded Smith, won three national championships as head coach.接替史密斯的罗伊·威廉姆斯执教期间三夺全国冠军。

• Anson Dorrance coached the women's soccer team from its foundation in 1979 until 2024, winning 22 national championships.安森·多兰斯自 1979 年女足建队起执教至 2024 年，共赢得 22 次全国冠军。

• Karen Shelton led the field hockey programme for forty-two years and won ten NCAA national championships.凯伦·谢尔顿执教曲棍球项目长达四十二年，赢得十次 NCAA 全国冠军。