SECC
extended to end of November
State
Employees Combined Campaign (SECC) volunteers would like to thank
everyone who has given to the SECC so far this year.
The campaign was originally set to end Nov. 1, but SECC volunteers
will continue to collect donations until the end of November to
boost the campaign toward its goal of $1.1 million. The SECC now
stands at three-quarters of that goal.
If for some reason you have not been approached by a campaign
volunteer about making a pledge and would like more information
about how to do so, please see the University's SECC web site
at www.unc.edu/secc or call Heather Parlier at 962-2547 or Alicia
Moore at 463-5016.
Pulitzer
Prize winner to speak Nov. 13
Sandra
Mims Rowe, editor of The Oregonian in Portland, Ore., will speak
on "Journalism's Renewed Sense of Mission: Will It Last?" Nov.
13 at 5:30 p.m. in 111 Carroll Hall.
Under Rowe's leadership, The Oregonian , the largest newspaper
in the Northwest, won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting
in 1999 and, this year, the Pulitzer Gold Medal for public service
and a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing.
The lecture is part of the Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture Series.
In addition to the series, the Park Foundation provides funding
annually for 14 entering master's students and 10 entering doctoral
students.
Jupiter
Ball set for launch at planetarium Nov. 17
The
Morehead Planetarium's black-tie fund-raiser, the Jupiter Ball,
is planned for Nov. 17. Proceeds from the annual event support
the planetarium's educational programs.
The evening begins at 7 p.m. in the planetarium rotunda with a
champagne reception. It is followed at 7:45 p.m. with a concert
by the Chapel Hill Chamber Orchestra in the Star Theater, and
dinner and dancing begin at 8:30 p.m. in the banquet hall. After
dinner the observatory will be open for guests.
For more information and to purchase tickets, call Carrie Anne
Spinelli at 843-7952.
Ten-digit
dialing postponed indefinitely
The
stalled economy has claimed a new victim in the Triangle that
no one will miss. Ten-digit dialing was to have been mandatory
effective February 2002, with the introduction of the new 984
area code, but a slower demand for telecommunications means the
region isn't running out of new telephone numbers as fast.
The word went out to University departments in September to begin
preparing for 10-digit dialing, advising updates to stationery
and telephone equipment, but according to Brent Sutton, telecommunications
analyst supervisor with ATN, BellSouth has delayed its implementation
indefinitely.
Two
lectures address current events
The
Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense will host a military and
a medical expert, each of whom will address the current terrorist
threat in the United States. The lectures will be from 7 to 9
p.m.
Retired Army Capt. Craig Marks, associate professor of military
science and a former Green Beret, will speak on Nov. 9 in Gerrard
Hall about ways the public can be vigilant and protective without
paralyzing themselves.
On Nov. 20 in 100 Hamilton Hall, David J. Weber, associate professor
in the schools of medicine and public health, will address the
topic "Bioterrorism: What Is the Threat, How Great Is It?"
For more information, contact Jackie Gorman at jackie@unc.edu
or 962-3093.
Latin
American films shown here during festival
The
15th annual Latin American Film and Video Festival, Crossing Borders/Cruzando
Fronteras: A Focus on Immigration and Transculturation, will take
place here and at five other N.C. colleges and universities Nov.
4-19. The Carolina schedule is:
Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m., Hanes Art Center: Lista de espera/Wait List.
A group of Cubans, stuck at a remote bus station, transform it
into a socialist utopia.
Nov. 11, 7:30 p.m., Hanes Art Center: Nuestra Comunidad: Latinos
in North Carolina. The Chapel Hill directors, who will introduce
the film, look at the impact on N.C. communities of the rapidly
increasing Spanish-speaking population.
Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., Hanes Art Center: El chacotero sentimental/The
Sentimental Teaser. Wake Forest University film scholar Keith
Richards will speak before the U.S. premiere of the Chilean box
office hit.
Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m., Carolina Union Film Auditorium: Gaijin. A
young Japanese couple come to seek their fortune on a Brazilian
coffee plantation in the 1890s.
For information on films at other locations, see www.unc.edu/depts/ilas/filmfest.html
University
publishes holiday schedule
The
2001-02 holiday schedule is posted on the Human Resources web
site, www.ais.unc. edu/hr/spaman/appendices/holidays.htm
Holidays for fall and spring semesters are:
Nov. 22-23, Thanksgiving.
Dec. 24-27, Christmas.
Jan. 1, New Year's Day.
Jan. 21, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday.
March 29, Spring Holiday.
UNC
Sports Clubs members fill gap with platelet donations
For
the third year, members of UNC Sport Clubs have chosen to donate
platelets as their service project. One hundred twenty volunteers
will donate Nov. 5-17, assuring a supply of the critical, short-lived
blood component around Thanksgiving when donations usually fall
short of need.
Platelets and plasma are used in the treatment of cancer, leukemia,
traumas, severe burns and blood disorders, as well as during major
surgery.
For more information on platelet and plasma donation, call the
UNC Hospitals Platelet & Plasma Donor Program at 966-2370.
Business
school, partner develop logistics tool
Kenan-Flagler
Business School and Saffron Technology of Research Triangle Park
are teaming up to provide new military logistics solutions for
The Boeing Co., the world's largest aerospace company.
The Center for Logistics and Digital Strategy at Kenan-Flagler's
Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise will use SaffronOne
technology to provide Boeing with intelligent logistics tools
for its Log Net project, an intelligent software system that provides
an integrated view of the military logistics environment. The
system will enable logisticians to gain "situational awareness"
of forces around the world and to make better decisions about
how to support them.
Business
seminar addresses global challenges
The
first set of seminars in a new series offered by Kenan-Flagler
Business School will help executives meet challenges in a changing
global environment shaped by the events of Sept. 11.
Presented by Kenan-Flagler's Executive Education Program, seminars
will be held at the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center at Meadowmont,
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Topics are:
Nov. 14 -- "The Impact of Recent Events on the U.S. and Global
Economy," James F. Smith.
Nov. 30 -- "Securing Communications Links to Customers, Suppliers
and Employees," Albert H. Segars.
Dec. 14 -- "Decision-Making in a Changed Global Environment,"
Richard A. Bettis and Peter J. Brews.
Jan. 25 -- "Speaking the Language of Leadership in a World Turned
Upside Down," Mark Walton.
For more information, see www.kenan-flagler. unc.edu/execprograms/,
e-mail unc_exec@unc.edu or call 800-862-3932.
Business
school receives three national awards
Kenan-Flagler
Business School has been honored with three national awards for
its outstanding leadership in training MBA students in environmental
and social impact management skills.
Beyond Grey Pinstripes 2001, the only survey that evaluates how
well MBA programs integrate these concepts into curricula, gave
the school top marks in all award categories: environmental stewardship,
social impact management and management for sustainability. Every
accredited business school in the United States, as well as more
than 60 international schools, were surveyed.
Poet
and former Carolina employee to read Nov. 11
Pamela
Duncan of Graham and John Balaban, poet-in-residence and professor
of English at N.C. State University, will be the featured readers
at the Nov. 11 installment of the Second Sunday Readings series,
which features some of North Carolina's many writers of fiction,
poetry and non-fiction.
Duncan, who from 1985 to 2000 worked at Carolina in continuing
education for health sciences and the School of Public Health,
published her first novel, Moon Women, in August.
Balaban is the author of 10 books of poetry, prose and translations,
including Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems,
a 1997 National Book Award finalist.
The readings; which will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Pleasants Family
Assembly Room of Wilson Library, are free and open to the public.
The series is sponsored by the North Caroliniana Society, the
North Carolina Collection in Wilson Library and the Creative Writing
Program in the Department of English.
Call 962-3461 for more information.
Town
meetings about personnel system scheduled for shift
employees
Carolina's
Personnel Flexibility Committee's Input Subcommittee has sponsored
a series of town meetings to get ideas from employees on what
characteristics should be included in a University-designed personnel
system, should the N.C. General Assembly give the campus the flexibility
to create one.
Three town meetings were held in October. To give shift employees
the chance to be heard, the Input Subcommittee will hold two town
meetings at times that more appropriately fit their schedules.
The meetings will be:
Nov. 14, 12:15-1:45 a.m. at the Cheek-Clark Building; and
Nov. 15, 11 p.m.-12:30 a.m. in Gerrard Hall.
Participation in these meetings is considered work time, as long
as essential departmental operations are covered. Employees should
ask their supervisors for permission to attend, as well as ask
them to join in the discussions.
Children
of Howard W. Odum to participate in panel discussion
In
honor of the 80th anniversary of Carolina's School of Social Work,
the children of Howard W. Odum, an eminent sociologist and founder
of the school, will participate in a panel discussion at 5 p.m.
Nov. 9 in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building auditorium.
"Celebrating
the Past and Looking to the Future" will feature Eugene P. Odum
of the University of Georgia, H.T. Odum of the University of Florida
and Mary Frances Schinhan of Chapel Hill. They will discuss their
father's work, its impact on the field of social work and its
influence in their lives. The event is free to the public.
Howard W. Odum, who died in 1954, came to Chapel Hill in 1920.
His interest in the social and economic problems of the South
and his vision for the region's future became the foundation of
the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, known
today as the Odum Institute.
Call 843-5299 for more information.
