• Race Relations Week events to run through Oct. 11
• Discussion of racial violence to be held Oct. 10
• Carolina First campaign kicks of Oct. 11
• Chinese ceramics to be exhibited at Ackland
• Halloween events to be held at planetarium
• Science reporter to give Hillard Gold Lecture
• Carolina ranks high in patenting prowess
• Nominations due for Employee Forum award
• WUNC-FM to tape show at N.C. art museum
• Instructors sought for basic computer skills
• Ferris to speak on University Day
• Researchers win grant to study child development

Race Relations Week events
to run through Oct. 11

Campus Y's Students for the Advancement of Race Relations will continue Race Relations Week through Oct. 11 in a variety of locations.

The week's events began Oct. 7. Remaining events:

* On Oct. 9, an Around the Circle event titled "Does Racial Blindness Really Equal Racial Equality?" will take place in the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center at noon. At 5:30 p.m., a discussion about racism and immigration will take place in 108 Bingham, facilitated by Niklaus Steiner of the University Center for International Studies. At 8 p.m., poets are invited to an open mike event at the Toy Lounge in Dey Hall.

* Oct. 10 will open with a multi-cultural hip-hop show titled "Shake It Fast: Watch Ya'Self" in the Pit at noon. An environmental racism forum will take place at 5:30 p.m. in 212 Union.

* At 2 p.m. on Oct. 11, teams reflecting rich racial and ethnic diversity will compete for prizes in the Diversity Games at Hooker Field. Interested participants should sign up at the Race Relations Week table in the Pit.

For more information, see campus-y.unc.edu/committees/sarr/rrweek02.

Discussion of racial violence
to be held Oct. 10

David Theo Goldberg, director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, will give a historical account of death and violence associated with racism at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in the Student Union, Room 208-209.

William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr., an economics and sociology professor and director of the Institute of African American Research, will provide a response to Goldberg's remarks.

For more information, call 962-9001.

Carolina First campaign
kicks of Oct. 11

Carolina First, a multi-year initiative with the goal of making Carolina the nation's leading public university, kicks off Oct. 11 with an announcement of the campaign goal and funds raised to date. The announcement by the chancellor and campaign leaders will take place at 12:45 p.m. at the Davie Poplar.

Already, fiscal 2002 is the best fund-raising year ever for the University with $180 million received in gifts and private grants.

For more information on the campaign, see carolinafirst.unc.edu.

Chinese ceramics to be
exhibited at Ackland

The Ackland Art Museum will display "Dark Jewels: Chinese Black and Brown Ceramics from the Shatzman Collection," a collection of ancient Chinese ceramics from the collection of Herbert and Eunice Shatzman of Durham, from Oct. 13 to Jan. 5.

The couple will join a free public opening celebration on Oct. 13 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the museum. Admission to the museum, open Wednesdays through Sundays, is free. For more information, call 966-5736.

Halloween events to be held
at planetarium

The Morehead Planetarium will present "Haunted Planetarium" activities for children and parents Oct. 28 and 30.

This Halloween event will include lessons on monster and wild animal constellations for younger children and quasars and black holes for older children. Participants also will explore an abandoned moon base and extraterrestrial space station.

Shows will be held for children in kindergarten through second grade at 6 and 6:40 p.m. in the Star Theater of the planetarium. Shows for children in third through sixth grade will be held at 7:20 and 8 p.m.

Tickets are $7 for the public and $5 for planetarium members. Call 962-1449 for tickets or more information; space is limited.

Science reporter to give
Hillard Gold Lecture

Dava Sobel, a former "New York Times" science reporter and award-winning author of "Longitude" and "Galileo's Daughter," will give the annual Hillard Gold Lecture at 8 p.m. on Oct. 28 in Hill Hall auditorium.

She will discuss "The Making of 'Galileo's Daughter.'" The lecture is free and open to the public.

Carolina ranks high
in patenting prowess

MIT-based "Technology Review" magazine placed Carolina 12th among research universities in technological strength, a calculation based on the number of U.S. patents, multiplied by the "current impact index" (a measure of how often patents over five years are cited in the current year, relative to all U.S. patents).

For more information, see www.technologyreview.com/articles/wo_leo082802.asp.

 

Nominations due for
Employee Forum award

The Employee Forum is accepting nominations through Nov. 7 for the Employee Forum Community Award, commonly known as the Three-Legged Stool Award, which is designed to recognize distinguished contributions by individuals who work to promote cooperation and collaboration among faculty, staff and students. Any member of the faculty, staff and student body of the University is eligible.

Nominations should not exceed 250 words and should include the names of the nominee and the nominator, contact information for both parties and the specific reasons the individual has been nominated. This information should be submitted to Tommy Griffin, Executive Committee chair of the Employee Forum, CB# 3488.

WUNC-FM to tape show
at N.C. art museum

WUNC-FM will present a live taping of a "Composers-in-Context" show at the N.C. Museum of Art in Raleigh Nov. 24 at 3 p.m. The show will feature Margaret Brouwer, head of the composition department at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Tickets are available from the museum box office for $6 for general admission, $5 for members and free for students. Call 715-5923 for tickets or more information.

Instructors sought for basic
computer skills

Staff and faculty are invited to help residents of Airport Gardens develop basic computer skills.

Sessions will take place Tuesday evenings at 6:30 p.m. to help adults gain a level of comfort and confidence with computers and the Internet.

For more information, see www.rtpnet.org/learn/airport-gardens. To volunteer, call Judy Hallman at 933-3931.

Ferris to speak on University Day

William R. Ferris, professor of history and associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South, will be the speaker at the annual University Day ceremonies on Oct. 12. The convocation begins at 9:30 a.m. in Hill Hall.

At 11 a.m., the day's events will continue at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities on McCorkle Place where the institute's new building will be dedicated.

Parking for faculty and staff who will participate in the University Day ceremony will be at the Human Resources building at 725 Airport Road. Shuttles will take them to Hill Hall auditorium beginning at 8:30 a.m.

Ferris, who joined the faculty on July 1, also is an adjunct professor in the curriculum in folklore. Widely recognized as a leader in Southern studies, African-American music and folklore, Ferris is the former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Recipients this year of a Distinguished Alumnus Award are Phillip Clay, chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Benjamin Long IV, a world-renowned artist primarily recognized for his frescos.

Researchers win grant
to study child development

Carolina researchers interested in how children develop have been awarded $16.5 million from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a new five-year study. They will examine biological, individual, family and community influences that affect rural children.

Lynne Vernon-Feagans, William C. Friday distinguished professor and coordinator of the Early Childhood, Families and Literacy Program in the School of Education, and Martha Cox, director of the Center for Developmental Science and professor of psychology,both are fellows at the FPG Child Development Institute and will follow 800 newborns in Wayne, Wilson and Sampson counties.

Researchers at Penn State University also will be involved in the study.