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Kevin L. Almond
Assistant dean for advancement in the School of Pharmacy, Almond has been chosen the 2000 president of the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists, the state professional organization for pharmacists.
Danny E. Caldwell
Captain in the Department of Public Safety, Caldwell is the first officer to finish the North Carolina Justice Academy's Community Oriented Policing Program. He participated in more than 400 hours of advanced training and graduated ahead of 54 other participants.
Jill Fitzgerald, George Noblit
Professors of education, Fitzgerald and Noblit have received the Dina Feitelson Award from the International Reading Association for their article, "About Hopes, Aspirations, and Uncertainty: First-Grade English Language Learners' Emergent Reading," published in the June 1999 Journal of Literacy.
David Godschalk
Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, Godschalk has been appointed to serve as a member of the N.C. General Assembly's Commission to Address Smart Growth, Growth Management and Development Issues, which makes recommendations on coordination among local, regional and state governments to preserve the state's quality of life.
Kenneth R. Janken
Assistant professor in African and Afro-American Studies, Janken has received a 2001-2002 fellowship to the National Humanities Center to complete a biography of Walter White, the novelist and secretary of the NAACP from 1931 to 1955.
Jim Murphy
Professor of economics and dean of the Summer School, Murphy has received the Meritorious Service Award of the North Carolina Association of Summer Sessions. He also was re-elected treasurer for a second term of the North American Association of Summer Sessions.
William L. Roper
Dean of the School of Public Health, Roper has been named to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board of Trustees. The foundation is the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health care.
James R. Sorenson
Professor of health behavior and health education in the School of Public Health, Sorenson has been appointed to an expert panel to advise the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on hemochromatosis education for health-care providers and the public.
Timothy A. Turvey
Professor and chair of oral and maxillofacial surgery in the School of Dentistry, Turvey was one of 15 surgeons invited to the First International Smile Train Cleft Lip and Palate Symposium in Beijing, China. He lectured to more than 1,000 Chinese surgeons Mar. 2-4.
UNC Press
Two books published by the University Press have recently won awards. Vanessa Siddle Walker's Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South won the 2000 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education. Glenn Eskew's But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle won the 1999 Francis Butler Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association for the most distinguished first book in southern history over a two-year period.
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