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Faculty/Staff News & Notes • Three
receive distinguished professorships Three receive distinguished professorships Three health affairs professors have been appointed to distinguished professorships. They are: Myron S. Cohen, J. Herbert Bate distinguished professor of medicine; Augustine J. D'Ercole, Harry S. Andrews term professor of pediatrics; and Margarete J. Sandelowski, Cary C. Boshamer distinguished professor of nursing. Cohen Cohen is the chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and director of the UNC Center for Infectious Diseases. He teaches courses related to immunology, microbial pathogenesis, HIV and clinical infectious diseases. Cohen's research focuses on the transmission and prevention of of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV. Much of his work has been done at the research sites he and his group have developed in Lilongwe, Malawi, and Beijing, China. In 1997, he and his coworkers identified the concentration of HIV in genital secretions required for transmission of HIV and the effects of genital tract inflammation on HIV. Cohen has championed the potential use of antiviral therapy to prevent transmission of HIV in a recent article in the journal AIDS. Among his many honors are distinguished alumni awards from Rush Medical College and the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Cohen is married to Gail Henderson, a professor in the departments of social medicine and sociology, who is internationally recognized for her work in China. Cohen and Henderson have conducted research projects in China since 1980. They are the authors of The Chinese Hospital and are working together on AIDS prevention in China. Cohen's appointment was effective Sept. 1, 2001. The J. Herbert Bate Distinguished Professorship in Medicine was established in 1985 by an anonymous donor. D'Ercole D'Ercole is chief of the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and director of the Pediatric Endocrinology Training Program. He teaches clinical endocrinology to pediatric residents and also teaches in the endocrinology course for second-year medical students. D'Ercole studies insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) -- a protein that has a major role in controlling rate of growth, especially brain growth. He is interested in whether it can be used in the treatment of brain disorders and injuries. His numerous publications, several recently in the Journal of Neuroscience, have advanced the understanding of this process. Among the many committees on which he serves are the Advisory Committee of the Office of Student Research and Academic Enrichment, and the Research Advisory Committee of the medical school. D'Ercole serves on the Endocrine Study Section of the National Institutes of Health and the Endocrinology Sub-board of the American Board of Pediatrics. The graduate of the Georgetown University School of Medicine enjoys photography, following Notre Dame sports and working the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle. His term of his professorship is from Sept. 1 through Aug. 31, 2004. The Harry S. Andrews Professorship in Pediatrics was established with bequests by Harry and Bess Andrews of Louisville, Ky., in 1969. A native of Tarboro, Harry Andrews received a B.A. from Carolina in 1925, a Certificate of Medicine from the University in 1927 and an M.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1929. The Louisville pediatrician served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II. In 1957, he helped organize the cleft palate clinic at Kosair Children Hospital in Louisville, where he served as director of the clinic. Sandelowski Sandelowski teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in theory and research, including knowledge development in nursing, qualitative methods and qualitative analysis. Sandelowski is the principal investigator of a study to develop the analytic techniques to conduct integrations of findings of qualitative studies in the health sciences. She also conducts studies in women's health and gender/technology relations. Among her many articles and book chapters in these areas is the recent Devices and Desires: Gender, Technology, and American Nursing, as well as With Child in Mind: Studies of the Personal Encounter with Infertility. A fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, Sandelowski runs a summer institute in qualitative research here, is the assistant editor of Research in Nursing & Health and the North American editor of Nursing Inquiry. She serves as a grant reviewer for the National Institute of Nursing Research/National Institues of Health Initial Review Group. After earning master's degrees at Boston College and Columbia University, Sandelowski earned a doctoral degree in American studies at Case Western Reserve University. Sandelowski's appointment will begin July 1. The Cary C. Boshamer Professorships were established in 1969 by Boshamer, who was born in Statesville in 1895. A member of the Class of 1917 and an entrepreneur, he lived in Gastonia and Clover, S.C., where he owned and operated a number of textile mills. He also engaged in cattle raising and race horse breeding. In addition to endowing the professorships, he financed the Cary C. Boshamer Scholarships and contributed substantially to the University's athletic program. Boshamer served as a trustee of the UNC system from 1969 until 1972 and was a Carolina trustee the following year. Botanical Garden names Weakley herbarium curator The University's North Carolina Botanical Garden has named Alan S. Weakley curator of the UNC Herbarium. Weakley's appointment is effective June 15. He succeeds Jim Massey, who retired after 30 years of service. The UNC Herbarium, founded in 1908 by William C. Coker, is the largest museum collection of botanical specimens in the Southeast and is a fundamental resource for studies of plant identification and distribution in North Carolina and the region. Administration of the UNC Herbarium was transferred from the Department of Biology to the North Carolina Botanical Garden in 2000. Weakley earned a bachelor's degree in botany and comparative literature from Carolina. After graduate studies at Duke University, he began a career in 1984 as a botanist and ecologist with the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, part of the Division of Parks and Recreation within the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources. His responsibilities included the inventory, assessment and protection of rare flora, high quality natural communities and significant natural areas of North Carolina. In 1994, The Nature Conservancy hired Weakley as senior regional ecologist for the southeastern United States, where he worked to develop the southeastern portion of the U.S. National Vegetation Classification. In 1999, Weakley was promoted to the position of chief ecologist, overseeing the international development of community classifications to serve conservation assessments, natural resource management and the setting of conservation priorities. In the same year, NatureServe was created to house the conservancy's biodiversity inventory and database functions. Weakley has been the chief ecologist for NatureServe for the past two years. Over the past two decades, Weakley has published frequently on the flora, plant systematics, natural communities and conservation needs of North Carolina and the southeastern United States. He also has started projects to develop new and revised floristic manuals covering portions of the mid-Atlantic and southeastern states. Moore to become vice president for infomation technology at Boston Collge Marian G. Moore, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, has accepted an offer from Boston College to serve as its vice president for information technology. The announcement was made May 8, and she is expected to assume that post mid-summer. Moore has been Carolina's first vice chancellor for information technology since 1997. At Carolina she has been responsible for all academic and administrative computing, networking and telephone systems, and was the architect of numerous initiatives designed to enhance technological support for teaching and learning. Specifically, Moore was responsible for developing the Carolina Computing Initiative (CCI) which has enabled University students to use wireless technology for high-speed access to the Internet, e-mail and the campus network in classrooms, labs, libraries and at other nearby sites. In addition, the laptop requirement for entering first-year students was part of CCI, a plan Moore developed to enhance teaching, learning and research, and to equip students and faculty with computers. Carolina was the first and largest Research I university to embark on an initiative of this size. Of Moore's resignation, Chancellor James Moeser said, "Under Vice Chancellor Moore, Carolina has become the leader in information technology among major public universities because of the success of the Carolina Computing Initiative, wireless technology eployment and other innovative programs. Her achievements here have made her an attractive target for other great universities. ...I sincerely appreciate Marian's invaluable contributions to this University and wish her well with this new opportunity." In announcing Moore's acceptance of Boston College's offer, President William P. Leahy said, "Technology is increasingly important in higher education, and Marian's experience and proven leadership in this area will help Boston College respond effectively to issues and opportunities in technology." Before joining Carolina, Moore had been a top-level manager with SAS Institute, and, before that, she served as executive director of information at Boston University, so she will be no newcomer to the area. "Boston College is an outstanding university," Moore said, "and the opportunity to return to the Boston area to serve BC in this exciting capacity was simply too hard to pass up. "I will miss UNC, and the incredible things we have done here, but I knew this was an opportunity I could not refuse." In addition to her University responsibilities, Moore also is the first chairman of the board of the N.C. Networking Initiative (NCNI), a collaboration of Carolina, Duke and N.C. State universities.
NCNI was created to explore and develop leading edge networking technologies
and to operate the North Carolina GigaPop, one of the first Internet2
sites in the country to connect to the original vBNA, a very high speed
Backbone Network Service.
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