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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Department of Biology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40465-z, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Transferred from the Department of Biology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in February 2016 (RT 20160225.2) and by Bill Burk in March 2017 (20170315.2).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2016

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2016

Updated because of additions in July 2017

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Biology--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• General education--North Carolina--History.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Departments.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Curricula.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Biology.

The Department of Biology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill formed in 1980 with the merger of the Departments of Zoology and Botany.

The Department of Biology Records include the "Self-Advising Handbook for Biology Majors" and "Seminars," a booklet promoting the speakers and lecture titles scheduled for the Fall 1985 semester. Also included are the department's faculty meeting minutes from 1982 to 1999.