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News Briefs • PlayMakers
announces accessible performance of Our Town PlayMakers
announces accessible performance At its performance of Our Town on April 12 at 8 p.m., PlayMakers Repertory Company will have available American Sign Language interpretation, audio description, disability seating, Braille programs and large-print programs as a part of a Triangle-wide theater project aimed at improving accessibility to area productions. Those with disabilities should purchase tickets as early as possible. Tickets, $22.50-$25, are available at the box office, 962-PLAY (7529). Patrons using TTY may contact the box office via Relay NC 711. The play runs through April 28 with performances Tuesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Carolina Environmental Program forum planned Students, faculty and the community are invited to learn more about the Carolina Environmental Program (CEP) field sites at a forum on April 12 from 9 to 11 a.m. in rooms 211-212 of the student union.
Students will give short presentations about each of the four CEP field
site programs that provide real-world experience through internships
and experiential learning through courses, field trips and labs. Field
site directors will be present to answer questions. Medical school symposium marks 50th anniversary A symposium, Exploring Medicine in the Post-Genome World, will take place April 19-20 at the William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education and in Berryhill Hall during the School of Medicine's Spring Medical Alumni-Medical Center 50th Anniversary celebrations. Speakers include Nobel laureate and physiologist Lee Hartwell and alumnus Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Registration deadline is April 12. For more information, see genomics.unc.edu/about/symposium_04_02.htm or call 843-6382. Business school hosts ethics expert Rushworth Kidder -- ethics expert, author and founder of the Institute for Global Ethics -- will speak at a free, public lecture at 5:30 p.m. on April 16 in the Maurice J. Koury Auditorium of the McColl Building.
To reserve a seat, contact Lindsley Bowen at 962-3107 or lindsley_bowen@unc.edu
For more information, see
intranet.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/events/community/citizenshipday2002/ Upcoming exhibit focuses on work of Walker Percy A reception and collection viewing at 5 p.m. April 17 will open the exhibit Walker Percy: From Pen to Print, on the third floor of Wilson Library. The display will include manuscripts; first edition copies of Percy's novels; correspondence with his lifelong friend, author Shelby Foote; and photographic material provided by Percy's wife. Alumnus and Wake Forest University English professor Farrell O'Gorman will focus on the historical context and religious underpinnings of Percy's first novel, The Moviegoer, in a 6 p.m. talk in the library's Pleasants Family Assembly Room.
The collection will be on view April 17-Aug. 15. Exhibit hours will
be 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, and 9 a.m.-1 p.m on Saturdays. For
more information, call Libby Chenault, 962-1143. Journalism
students' documentary A two-part television series on water pollution, produced by University students, will air on UNC-TV's North Carolina Now April 22 and 23 at 7:30 p.m. Students in Tom Linden's "Science Documentary Television" class (JOMC 197) conceived, wrote and produced the series. Linden narrates. The first part of the series looks at how waste from large hog operations affects nearby rivers and streams. The team traveled to Onslow County to look at the impact of hog waste on the New River. In the second part of the series, the report explains what residents in Madison and Buncombe counties are doing to stop pouring home sewage directly into streams. Nursing school plans groundbreaking ceremony The School of Nursing will break ground on April 25 at 10:30 a.m. for an addition that will double its size. Afaf I. Meleis, dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and president of the International Council on Women's Health, will speak on "International Collaboration: Passion, Partnership, Power and Play" at the Kemble Lecture, 1:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building. CBS
correspondent Simon to speak Bob Simon, a correspondent with CBS's 60 Minutes II and contributor to 60 Minutes, will present the Nelson Benton Lecture on April 29 at 6 p.m. in Carroll Hall auditorium. Simon, who joined CBS in 1967, was named chief Middle Eastern correspondent in 1987 and is recognized as the premier broadcast journalist in that part of the world. Beyond the Middle East, Simon has covered countless major international figures and virtually every major foreign story in the last three decades. The free, public lecture is sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Music department celebrates works of Stravinsky The music department will perform the music of Igor Stravinsky and discuss his works and life during Celebrating Stravinsky: A Festival on the Hill on April 26-27. The festival will open with a concert at 8 p.m. April 26 in Hill Hall auditorium that will benefit the department's scholarship fund. Tickets are $15 for the public, $10 for seniors and $5 for students and can be purchased at the Carolina Union box office, 962-1449, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, or at the concert. Donors of at least $250 will be invited to a pre-concert reception. April 27 events will begin with a symposium from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Person Recital Hall. At 8 p.m. small groups will perform chamber music selections in Hill Hall. There will be no charge for the day's events. For more information, call Jim Ketch, 962-1039. The 2002 senior class gift committee has selected artist Do-Ho Suh to design its class gift, the Unsung Founders Memorial, a work of public art to honor the men and women of color -- bond or free -- who helped build the Carolina campus. To date, 1,252 seniors and their parents have pledged $30,962 toward the $40,000 goal. Matching funds from the University will help reach the $80,000 needed to complete the project. Suh will visit the campus in early May to begin the design. For more information, see www.carolinafirst.unc.edu/seniors University Gazette
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