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Roberts
honored by Dominican Republic president
• Institute of
Government co-founder dies at 100
• Former dean of social work dies at 99
• Sullivan to
leave post as dean of business school
• Decorations &
Distinctions
Roberts
honored by
Dominican Republic president
Harold
R. Roberts, Sarah Graham Kenan professor of pathology and medicine
and founding director of the Harold R. Roberts Comprehensive Hemophilia
Diagnostic and Treatment Center in the School of Medicine, has
been given a high honor in the Dominican Republic by the country's
president and Carolina alumnus, Hipolito Mejia.
In a ceremony in Santo Domingo on Sept. 20, Mejia presented Roberts
with the Order of Christopher Columbus at the grade of Knight
for his service in establishing that country's first thrombosis
and hemostasis center.
Roberts received the Dominican Republic's honor two days after
being notified by the American Heart Association's Council on
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology that he has
been selected to receive the 2002 Special Recognition Award for
his scientific and medical contributions.
Thrombosis -- or abnormal blood clot formation -- has been the
linchpin of Roberts' research and clinical career. Thrombosis
formation can occur anywhere in the body and involve any organ.
As the basic component in vascular diseases like heart attack
and stroke, it is the culprit killing more people than all forms
of cancer combined. Add in pulmonary embolism and hemophilia,
and the impact is greater.
"No
one deserves this honor more," said Gilbert C. White, director
of UNC's Center for Thrombosis & Hemostasis. "When Dr. Roberts
came to UNC more than 40 years ago, he came to an institution
that had a growing national reputation in vascular biology. And
since then, his leadership has been instrumental in building the
clinical arm of our thrombosis and hemostasis group into one of
the finest in the world."
Roberts formed UNC's Center for Thrombosis & Hemostasis in
1978 as the focal point for research in vascular diseases at Carolina.
For 15 years, it was one of only four National Institutes of Health-funded
specialized centers of research in thrombosis in the country.
Today the center's affiliated treatment centers for hemophilia
and thrombophilia help patients from across North Carolina and
the southeast deal with bleeding and clotting disorders. At the
bench, basic biochemical and genetic research, along with clinical
and translational research, focus on finding causes and cures
for vascular diseases. Projects range from how to grow new blood
vessels to bypass clogged ones to gene therapy for hemophilia.
Roberts served as the center's director until five years ago.
The Order of Christopher Columbus is awarded for service to the
Dominican Republic through humanitarian, artistic or scientific
merit.
Institute
of Government co-founder
dies at 100
Gladys
Coates, one of the most influential women in the history of the
University, died at her Chapel Hill home Sept. 25. She was 100
years old.
Chancellor James Moeser informed the Board of Trustees of her
death at their Sept. 26 meeting and asked those attending to observe
a moment of silence in her honor.
Moeser called her "unquestionably one of the most important figures,
along with her beloved husband Albert, in Carolina's history.
Together, they founded the Institute of Government and made so
many critical contributions to the life of Carolina over the years."
A native of Portsmouth, Va., Coates was born in 1902 and graduated
from Randolph-Macon Women's College in 1924 with a bachelor's
degree in history. A researcher and writer of Carolina history
and a dedicated editor, she and her late husband, Albert, published
"The Story of Student Government in the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill" in 1985.
That partnership, begun in the early 1930s, produced dozens of
books and monographs, some bearing only Albert's name on the cover
but all influenced by Gladys' keen intellect and close attention.
She also was instrumental in the founding of the Institute of
Government. Albert Coates established the now world-renowned institute
in 1931, using the couple's own funds -- even mortgaging their
house -- and help from friends to finance the institute's activities.
The first Institute of Government building was dedicated in 1939
but it was not until 1942 that the institute itself became an
integral part of the University.
Today, the institute, part of the School of Government, serves
as a model for other states as the oldest, largest and most influential
university-based public service organization in the United States.
The building on Franklin Street that first housed the institute
was named the Albert and Gladys Coates Building in 1997. Gladys
and Albert Coates also are the first couple to have separate endowed
professorships named in their honor at Carolina. They both received
the General Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Medal and
the Board of Trustees' William Richardson Davie Award, and are
only the second couple to both have received honorary degrees
from Carolina (the first were President Franklin D. Roosevelt
and his wife, Eleanor). The University honored Gladys Coates with
an honorary doctor of laws degree in May 2001.
Gladys Coates won Chi Omega's North Carolina Distinguished Service
Award for Women in 1974 and was the first recipient of the Cornelia
Philips Spencer Bell Award in 1994. She was a member of the Order
of the Valkyries, the Order of the Golden Fleece, the North Carolina
Society, the Friends of the Library and the Chancellor's Club.
Former
dean of social work
dies at 99
Arthur
E. Fink, the dean and a professor in the School of Social Work
for 28 years, died Sept. 29 at the age of 99.
Fink was active in the civil rights movement and was instrumental
in admitting the first African-American student to the School
of Social Work. He published "Causes of Crime" in 1938 and "The
Field of Social Work" in 1942. He retired from the University
in 1975. From 1951 to 1952 he was a Fulbright lecturer at the
University of Birmingham in England.
Fink attended Girard College, a boarding school for fatherless
boys in Philadelphia, and earned his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from the University of Pennsylvania.
Among his positions prior to coming to Carolina, he worked with
Elliott Ness during World War II as associate director of the
Social Protection Division in what was then the Federal Security
Agency in Washington.
He also was a professor of social work and director of social
work training at the University of Georgia.
Fink is survived by his wife, Kathleen Boles Fink; his daughter,
Susan Casey; and his son Christopher B. Fink.
His funeral and burial services were private.
Sullivan
to leave post as dean
of business school
Robert
S. Sullivan, dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School, has been
appointed founding dean of the new Graduate Management School
at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Chancellor James Moeser commented on Sullivan's selection on Oct.
3. "During his productive tenure as dean, the leadership of Robert
Sullivan has helped significantly transform the Kenan-Flagler
Business School, raising even higher its academic quality and
well-deserved reputation as an educational leader here in the
United States and in the international arena," Moeser said.
"The
University has benefited from Kenan-Flagler's innovations and
successes, and we are grateful to Bob for all he and the faculty,
staff and students have done to make that progress possible. Bob
now has the rare opportunity to become the founding dean of the
newly approved Graduate Management School at UC, San Diego. We
in Chapel Hill wish him success in meeting the challenge of building
a new graduate program from the ground up. The people of California
will benefit from the considerable expertise and experiences that
Bob will bring with him to this exciting new position."
Moeser said he planned to name Julie Collins, currently senior
associate dean of Kenan-Flagler, as interim dean and will appoint
a committee to conduct a national search to fill the post on a
permanent basis.
Pending the approval of the University of California Board of
Regents, Sullivan's appointment will become effective Jan. 1,
2003.
Prior to his tenure at Carolina, Sullivan served as dean of the
Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon
University and as director of the IC2 Institute and founder of
the Texas Telecommunications Policy Institute at the University
of Texas, Austin.
Sullivan received his bachelor's degree from Boston College, his
M.B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in operations management
from Pennsylvania State University.
Decorations
& Distinctions
Karen
Gil
Senior
associate dean for undergraduate education,
Gil has received the 2003 Logan Wright Distinguished Research
Award for her research on coping strategies used by children with
chronic illnesses such as sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis,
rheumatoid arthritis or cancer.
Donald Mathews
Professor
of history, Mathews' 1977 book "Religion in the Old South," will
be discussed regarding its impact on the study of Southern religious
history at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association
in Baltimore.
Oliver Smithies
Excellence
professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, Smithies has been
selected to receive the 2002 Massry Prize for pioneering research
on how genes affect health and illness in humans and other mammals.
Given by the Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation of Beverly Hills,
Calif., the award consists of a gold medal and $40,000. Smithies
will share the prize with Mario Capecchi of the University of
Utah, who has done similar research.
