An exhibit featuring photographs, publications and drawings of the University’s landscape since 1793 will be on display in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of Wilson Library through May 31.

Graduate students got their first chance this semester to have a chat with the chancellor.

Sponsored by the Student Advisory Committee to the Chancellor, the open house provided an opportunity for students to interact on a personal basis with Chancellor Holden Thorp and his administrative team.

Mark Sobsey, a clean water expert at UNC, has been one of 10 innovators participating in a NASA-backed event to address the supply and quality of water.

Sobsey presented a proposal for simple, affordable water quality tests at the inaugural LAUNCH event, which began Tuesday and ends today.

The UNC College Republicans elected sophomore Anthony Dent as 2010-11 chairman following an election Monday.

Dent, who also serves as a member of Student Congress and the Carolina Review, was among five officers elected at the meeting.

Junior Marc Seelinger was elected the group’s executive vice chairman, while Greg Steele was elected to fill Dent’s current role as treasurer.

Basketball is not the only area where UNC is facing stiff competition from its ACC rivals.

Rankings released by Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine ranked both Duke University and N.C. State University above UNC in its list of green colleges and universities, and UNC’s Sierra Student Coalition did not take those figures lying down.

In June 2009, a local advocacy group submitted a public records request to UNC for information about a University facility in their neighborhood. Nine months later, they are still waiting for many of those records.

UNC’s Student Supreme Court heard a case Wednesday between Board of Elections Chairman Pete Gillooly and former Student Congress candidate Taylor Ann Holgate, who requested a re-vote for the District 5 election.

The court will make a decision on the case in a week and a half at the earliest, Chief Justice Emma Hodson said.

Correction (March 18 12: 18 a.m.): Due to reporting and editing errors this story is incorrect. At Whole Foods, organic cereal (cornflakes) cost $3.29; a half-gallon of organic milk costs $3.69; and a half-gallon of organic orange juice costs $3.69. Harris Teeter does not sell organic orange juice. The total cost of buying the 16 organic food items on the Daily Tar Heel’s shopping list at Whole Foods was $56.93. The total of the 15 organic foods sold at Harris Teeter was $54.66 The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the errors.

Though it is likely to cost more, food activists are pushing people to buy sustainable, local and organic food anyway.

“Finding ways to spend our money on foods that support these ideals is important,” says Jordan Treakle, a senior and leader of the student group FLO (Fair, Local, Organic) Food.

But while you can find local, organic and sustainable food in more places and varieties than ever before, price remains a problem.

Nominations are open for two awards recognizing excellence in UNC advising.

The Mickel-Shaw Excellence in Advising Award and the Class of 1996 Award for Advising Excellence are open to any adviser from any academic department, any professional school and the Academic Advising Program.

A new weeklong service event aims to instill the virtues of lifelong philanthropic commitment in college students.

GenerAction Week, taking place April 5 to 10, will display community and student organizations across campus. A speaker series will also bring voices to campus from the nonprofit and public service realms. The week will culminate in a benefit concert.

It is the most beautiful of all music, and without it, no other popular music would exist.

Or at least that’s what folklorist William Ferris thinks when it comes to blues music.

Administrators are continuing efforts to increase on-time graduation rates by giving students who have spent the most semesters at UNC the earliest registration dates.

The Daily Tar Heel is seeking four students to serve on this year’s editor selection committee, the 11-member board that will convene April 10 to select the next editor-in-chief of the organization.

Fifty years ago, a group of students gathered together to fight social injustice as part of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Now, three of those students are coming to UNC.

As a celebration of the civil rights group’s 50th anniversary, three women will lead a discussion about their experiences in the struggle for equal rights.