Chapel Hill

Chap·el Hill

(chăp′əl)

A town of north-central North Carolina at the edge of the Piedmont region near Raleigh and Durham. It is the seat of the University of North Carolina (chartered 1789).

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Chap′el Hill′

a city in central North Carolina. 32,421.

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Chapel Hill - a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina - a university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

NC, North Carolina, Old North State, Tar Heel State - a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies

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THE old pubs of Folly Hall and Chapel Hill have featured several times in this column in recent weeks.

Film Institute gives glimpse of Edwardian Chapel Hill

-Bank of North Carolina buys Cary, Chapel Hill branches

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provided significant financial support in 2010, 2011, and 2012.

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Chapel Hill Ergodic Theory Workshop (2004-2006: Chapel Hill, NC) Ed.

Ergodic theory and related fields; proceedings

Currin earned a master of business administration degree with honors from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor of arts in economics with honors from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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One hundred candidates applied, but Robert Shelton, an executive vice chancellor and provost/professor of physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, got the job.

Robert Shelton moves to University of Arizona

By Martin Summers (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

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Address for correspondence: Trude Bennett, Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB# 7445, 401 Rosenau Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7445; fax: 919-966-0458; email: trude_bennett@unc.edu

Refugees, forced displacement, and war

LCDR Ken Epps recently received the Frank Hawkins Kenan Award for Excellence when he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill earning an M.B.A.

Supply Corps Officer excels at UNC at Chapel Hill

That's just what occurred in February when Abingdon, Va.-based Hunt Assisted Living announced that it was selling 28 of its communities -- half of its 59 elderly housing properties -- to Southern Assisted Living of Chapel Hill, N.C.

Hunt 'hits a wall' and Southern is the beneficiary

Henderson, Ph.D, is professor and chair at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.