'Wonderland' of a program coming to Wilson
Library Dec. 11
A program of seasonal
stories, music and poetry is coming to Wilson Library on Dec.
11. Sponsored by Friends of the Library, "Winter Wonderland"
will be the theme of the 11th annual event, which is free and
open to the public. There are no religious themes or songs but
lots of material about winter, snow and the natural world.
Poet and biology library
assistant Jeffery Beam, lead organizer and participant in the
program, returns, along with storyteller Terry Rollins and musicians
Kate Barnhart and Jill Shires playing guitar, dulcimer and flute.
Refreshments will be served
at 5 p.m.; the program begins at 5:30 p.m.
The program can be a little
intimidating because the actors' proximity to part of the audience,
so it's suggested that it's appropriate for children ages 4
and above.
For more information,
contact Liza Terll at 962-1301 or lterll@email.unc.edu.
Nominations open for Three-Legged Stool Award
Nominations of not more
than 250 words are being accepted through Dec. 12 for the Employee
Forum Community Award, also known as the Three-Legged Stool
Award.
The honor is designed
to recognize distinguished contributions by individuals who
work to promote cooperation and collaboration among staff, faculty
and students. Any member from that group is eligible for the
award; current members of the Employee Forum Executive Committee
are not.
Nominees should be individuals
who inspire creativity; promote harmony and partnerships within
the University community; inspire teamwork, cooperation and
participation; demonstrate new approaches to current processes;
encourage, mentor and build bridges; form alliances to work
collectively; or any other significant community building activities.
Submissions should include
the name of, and how to contact, the nominee (campus address,
phone, CB#, or e-mail address), your name and contact information,
and the specific reasons you are nominating this individual.
No official nomination
form is required.
The Executive Committee
of the Employee Forum is responsible for reviewing the nominations
and selecting the recipient. The award will be presented at
a monthly meeting of the forum.
Send nominations to: Forum
Community Award, Employee Forum Office, 134 East Franklin, Room
207; or CB# 3488.
For more information,
e-mail forum_office@unc.edu.
ATN tool makes it easier to reclaim Onyen
password
Academic Technology &
Networks (ATN) has developed a new, web-based password reset
tool to make life easier for faculty, staff and students when
they forget their Onyen password.
Rather than contacting
the IT Response Center for assistance, the new option is a challenge-response
system where you select and answer questions now, which you
would answer the same way again if you have forgotten your password
and need to reset it at a later time.
The only catch is that
you cannot use this option to reset your password until you
select your questions and answers. If you don't know your password
now, you will need to contact the IT Response Center at 962-HELP
for assistance in resetting your password, prior to using this
new option.
Access the new option
as follows:
Go
to onyen.unc.edu;
Select
the "manage password" button on the left side of the screen;
Select
the "challenge response" option at the top of the screen; and
At
the top of the next screen, again select the "challenge response"
option.
Review
the "position of trust" notice when you access the challenge
response system.
For more information,
see help.unc.edu.
What you need to know about the Adverse Weather
Policy
Survivors of the December
2002 ice storm -- not to mention last week's close call -- need
no reminder that it's never too early to brush up on the University's
Adverse Weather Policy.
The University has several
ways of disseminating information to the campus community. Employees
can:
Call the Adverse Weather
Hotline at 843-1234, a special line with recorded information
and announcements about schedule delays or closings;
Check the University's
home page on the web, www.unc.edu;
Listen to broadcasts on
the University's Traveler's Information System, 1610 AM;
Check the details of campus
parking lots and Chapel Hill Transit at the Department of Public
Safety's web site, www.dps.unc.edu;
and
Check listings on local
radio and television stations.
Once you find out the
status of the University, here's how to interpret what the adverse
weather conditions mean:
Condition I -- offices
open, classes in session;
Condition II -- offices
open, classes not in session; and
Condition III -- University
closed.
To learn more about the
University's adverse weather policies, see hr.unc.edu/Data/SPA/leave/adverseweatherleave.
SILS grants to help prevent shortages of
librarians
The School of Information
and Library Science (SILS) has been selected to help recruit
a new generation of academic librarians across the United
States.
With nearly half the
nation's library directors expected to retire in the next
decade, the national Institute of Museum and Library Services
has awarded SILS and 26 others nearly $10 million in federal
money to prevent a shortage of librarians. The grants will
support doctoral students specializing in academic librarianship,
a branch of the field in which shortages are expected to be
severe.
Carolina's share will
be $496,370, which will support five doctoral students studying
academic library research issues. They will prepare to become
faculty in schools of library science.
CEP receives grants to study Neuse River
nutrient flow
The Carolina Environmental
Program recently received a $1.6 million grant to study what
happens when nutrients and microbes interact and flow into the
Neuse River -- and possible implications for public health.
The Ecology of Infectious
Diseases award, given to researchers at Carolina and UNC-Charlotte,
is funded jointly by the National Science Foundation and the
National Institutes of Health.
The National Science Foundation
had sent out a request for proposals and received about 100
applicants. Only six proposals were chosen for funding.
Voluntary agreement signed for state clean-up
program at chemical waste site
The University and its
consultant, Arcadis Inc., have signed an administrative agreement
as part of a voluntary program with the N.C. Department of Environment
and Natural Resources (DENR) to clean up a chemical waste disposal
site on property near the Horace Williams Airport.
The agreement is the next
step in the University's ongoing efforts to clean up the 0.2-acre
tract.
Carolina used the site
between 1973 and 1979 to bury laboratory chemical waste generated
by the campus and what was then N.C. Memorial Hospital, using
accepted legal practices of that era. Because the site does
not currently pose a risk to human health or the environment,
DENR ranked it 217th among the state's 443 inactive waste sites
as of last October. The site does not appear on the Environmental
Protection Agency's Superfund national priority list.
Carolina's Department
of Environment, Health and Safety has been closely monitoring
the site for years and has worked with an environmental consulting
firm to install wells to monitor groundwater. Reviews of disposal
records have yielded a detailed record of the buried chemicals.
The clean-up project is
expected to take up to eight years and cost an estimated $10.4
million.
Campus ranks high in diversity
Carolina was ranked sixth
by the "Journal of Blacks in Higher Education" for its success
in attracting, enrolling and graduating African-American students,
as well as bringing black professors to campus.
Universities are ranked
according to a blending of 13 widely accepted quantitative measures
of institutional racial integration.
According to the journal,
Carolina is particularly strong in student diversity. The University
is ranked second in the percentage of total black enrollments
and first in the percentage of black freshmen.
Carolina also fares well
in most measures of black faculty, with nine African-American
faculty members holding endowed chairs. This is the highest
number in the country. For details, see: www.jbhe.com/features/36_leading_universities.html.
Institute awarded
multimillion-dollar grants
Researchers at Carolina's
FPG Child Development Institute have been awarded six grants
worth nearly $10 million for the study of fragile X syndrome
(FXS), the leading cause of inherited mental retardation, from
the U.S. Congress.
The largest of the grants
establishes a Fragile X Research Center under the auspices of
the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research
Centers at Carolina and the University of Kansas. The center
will use a core sample of 100 families to learn how they adapt
to the learning and behavior challenges of their children and
the family consequences of the inherited nature of FXS.
The institute also received
a $2 million grant for Project IMPACT (Improving and Maximizing
Professional Development Access and Consultation for Teachers),
a two-year program focused on increasing the knowledge of 100
early childhood educators in 10 rural North Carolina counties.
Endowment to honor founder of Injury Prevention
Research Center
Friends and colleagues
of Patricia F. Waller have established an endowment in the University's
Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC) to honor her as the
center's founding director. Waller died Aug. 15 after a long
illness.
The Patricia F. Waller
Endowment Fund will be used to support an annual lecture in
her honor to be overseen jointly by the IPRC, the Highway Safety
Research Center, the Department of Psychology and members of
the Waller family. Additional gifts will accrue so the fund
will support a professorship in injury control.
Water conservation brochure available
Carolina employees
can get copies of a brochure about water conservation mailed
to their offices for free.
Developed by the Orange
Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA), which supplies water to Carolina,
the brochure includes year-round conservation standards for
OWASA customers as well as water-saving tips.
To get a copy, contact
OWASA Public Affairs at 537-4267 or webmaster@owasa.org.
Employees who live in Chapel Hill/Carrboro should have received
a brochure at their home addresses in September, but they can
order extras by contacting OWASA.
The brochure's information
is also available at www.owasa.org.
