Deadline
looms for smokeout registration
Nov.
7 is the deadline to register for the Great American Smokeout,
a day sponsored by H.E.E.L.S. for Health and the American Cancer
Society that is set aside to encourage those who smoke to quit
for one day.
H.E.E.L.S. for Health will send motivational packages up to the
day of the smokeout to those registered and a packet of goodies
on Nov. 21.
To register and for more information, call 962-2348 or see www.ais.
unc.edu/hr/archive/FY2002/1031smokeout.doc.
Expert
to lecture on importance of ongoing training for journalists
Robert
Giles, curator of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism,
will speak about the importance of training for journalists Nov.
11 at 7:15 p.m. in 111 Carroll Hall as part of the Reed Sarratt
Lecture Series in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Giles -- formerly senior vice president of The Freedom Forum,
a non-partisan, international foundation dedicated to freedom
of speech and of the press -- was a newspaper editor for more
than 25 years, during which two newspapers won Pulitzer Prizes
under his leadership. The Nieman Foundation offers the world's
oldest mid-career professional fellowships for journalists.
For more information, contact John Sweeney at 962-4074 or jsweeney@email.unc.edu.
Proposals
being accepted for Intellectual Life Grants
The
James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence is accepting
proposals through Nov. 15 for Intellectual Life Grants for activities
to be held in the spring semester.
Grants fund innovative, hands-on projects for which support from
other sources is limited. Preference is given to projects that
reach across disciplinary lines or members of the faculty, staff
or students. The grants do not provide support for salaries, web
site development, individual travel or the purchase of equipment.
The maximum amount awarded is $1,500. Recipients will be notified
of their awards on or before Dec. 13.
Applications must be submitted online at the Johnston Center web
site, www.unc.edu/depts/jcue.
For more information, contact Randi Davenport, the center's associate
director, at rdavenpo@email.unc.edu
or 843-7765.
Online
course design workshop planned Nov. 15
Terri
Buckner, instructional design consultant for the School of Education,
and Evelyn Daniel, a professor in the School of Information and
Library Science, will present a workshop for faculty on design
strategies for developing online courses Nov. 15 from noon to
12:50 p.m. in room 213 of the Johnston Center for Undergraduate
Excellence.
The workshop is part of the "Consider IT with Colleagues -- Teaching
with Technology at UNC-Chapel Hill" series sponsored by the Center
for Instructional Technology. For more information, contact Terri
Buckner at 843-6865 or tbuckner@email.unc.edu.
Holiday
schedule set
The
upcoming paid holidays for SPA employees are:
* Nov. 28-29, Thanksgiving;
* Dec. 24-27, Winter Holiday;
* Jan. 1, 2003, New Year's Day; and
* Jan. 20, 2003, Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday.
The full schedule for 2003, as well as information regarding eligibility,
is posted online at a link on the Human Resources web page, www.ais.unc.edu/hr.
For more information, employees may talk with their supervisors
or call 962-3897.
Research grant received to study schizophrenia
The
School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry has received a five-year
grant of more than $9.3 million to form the Silvio O. Conte Center
for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders to study the onset of
schizophrenia.
Jeffrey Lieberman, the Thad and Alice Eure distinguished professor
of psychiatry, pharmacology and radiology, is the principal investigator
for the Carolina Conte Center. Anthony LaMantia, associate professor
of cell and molecular physiology, and John Gilmore, professor
of psychiatry, are co-principal investigators. They have assembled
a multidisciplinary team from Carolina, Duke University, Harvard
University and the University of Washington.
The Conte grant is the second largest research award granted to
the psychiatry department, which ranks seventh among psychiatry
programs that receive funding from the National Institutes of
Health, receiving $18 million in 2001.
Birth
defect study funded
The
Department of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health has
received a $4 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention to establish a N.C. Center for Birth Defects
Research and Prevention. Carolina is collaborating on the project
with the N.C. Birth Defects Monitoring Program of the N.C. Department
of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health.
Principal investigator is Andrew Olshan, professor of epidemiology.
Co-principal investigator Bob Meyer is director of the N.C. Birth
Defects Monitoring Program and an adjunct faculty member. David
Savitz, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology,
and Art Aylsworth, chief of the Division of Genetics and Metabolism
in the Department of Pediatrics, are co-investigators.
New
health research effort established
Carolina,
in collaboration with N.C. Central University and Winston-Salem
State University, has received a grant of $1.5 million from the
National Institute of Nursing Research to create a Center for
Innovation in Health Disparities Research. The center's goal is
to develop nurse researchers who will generate the knowledge to
deliver culturally competent care to a diverse and rapidly changing
U.S. population.
The grant is intended to allow the universities to collectively
research and collaborate on strategies for advancing the quality
of health care while reducing health disparities among patients
from diverse cultures. Chris McQuiston, associate professor in
the School of Nursing, is a center director.
International
Education Week
begins Nov. 18
President
Bush has declared Nov. 18-22 as the nation's third International
Education week. It is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department
of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs
that prepare Americans for a global environment.
The University Center for International Studies (UCIS) will be
implementing campuswide activities that celebrate the spirit of
international cooperation and diversity across the campus and
the community.
On Nov. 18, in a private event intended for past Fulbright Program
awardees and current Fulbright Program applicants, Harriet Fulbright
will deliver the address to launch the week's activities. She
will speak about the importance of international education and
the Fulbright Program, the international education program established
by her late husband, Sen. J. William Fulbright.
Other International Education Week activities are listed in the
beginning of the calendar section on page 12. For more information,
contact Beth-Ann Kutchma at bkutchma@email.unc.edu
or 843-6842 or refer to the UCIS web site at www.ucis.unc.edu.
Two
accomplished journalists to lecture on campus in November
President
Bush has declared Nov. 18-22 as the nation's third International
Education week. It is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department
of State and the U.S. Department of Education to promote programs
that prepare Americans for a global environment.
The University Center for International Studies (UCIS) will be
implementing campuswide activities that celebrate the spirit of
international cooperation and diversity across the campus and
the community.
On Nov. 18, in a private event intended for past Fulbright Program
awardees and current Fulbright Program applicants, Harriet Fulbright
will deliver the address to launch the week's activities. She
will speak about the importance of international education and
the Fulbright Program, the international education program established
by her late husband, Sen. J. William Fulbright.
Other International Education Week activities are listed in the
beginning of the calendar section on page 12. For more information,
contact Beth-Ann Kutchma at bkutchma@email.unc.edu
or 843-6842 or refer to the UCIS web site at www.ucis.unc.edu.
