Thursdays
on the Terrace series features world and country music
Thursdays
on the Terrace, the lunch-time music series sponsored by the
James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, will
resume on Jan. 9 with a performance by the Yale Women's Slavic
Chorus, co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and
Literature.
Like nearly all Thursdays on the Terrace performances, the Yale
Slavic Chorus show will be from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in
the John Lindsay Morehead II Lounge in Graham Memorial. The
concert is free and open to the public. Food is available for
purchase at the center's coffee shop.
This spring the series will support course content in two music
department classes, world and country music. Other performers
scheduled to appear will be:
* Patrick Skye, Irish pipes and fiddle, Jan. 9;
* Bradley Simmons and the Djembo Ensemble, Afro-Cuban and Santeria
percussion, Jan. 23;
* Sarah Bryan, old-time string band music, Jan. 30;
* Phong Nguyen, dan bau player, and Huang Cuong, Vietnamese
composer, Feb. 6;
* Claudia and Myrna Lopez, traditional South American folk music,
Feb. 13;
* Jonathan Byrd, contemporary southern folk music, Feb. 27;
* Bill and Libby Hicks, traditional string band, March 20;
* Tift Merrit, date to be announced;
* $2 Pistols, alternative country music, April 10; and
* Steep Canyon Rangers, contemporary bluegrass, April 24.
For more information, call 966-5110 or see www.unc.edu/depts/jcue.
Playmakers
serves 'Dinner with Friends' with many flavors
PlayMakers
Repertory Company continues its 2002-03 season with the Triangle
premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "Dinner with Friends."
It opens Jan. 15 and runs through Feb. 9 at the Paul Green Theatre
in the Center for Dramatic Art.
Written by Donald Margulies and directed by Drew Barr, associate
artist with PlayMakers, the play takes both serious and humorous
looks at adult friendships and marriage. Margulies holds a mirror
up to relationships with a depth of perception and delicacy
that makes audiences laugh with recognition.
Ticket prices range from $9 to $27 ($34 for the opening night
gala performance). Discounts are available for students, seniors
and groups.
For more information or for tickets, call 962-PLAY (962-7529)
or
see www.playmakersrep.org.
Stone
Center sponsors symposium series honoring Dubois
A symposium series that begins
Jan. 29 commemorates the 100th anniversary of the publication
of W.E.B. Dubois' "Souls of Black Folk" -- the seminal work
on African-American culture, aesthetics and art.
Sponsored by the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center, the
first discussion, "Social Justice and Radical Thought: The Liberatory
Vision in Dubois' Souls," will be held in Toy Lounge of Dey
Hall at 7 p.m.
Speakers will be Sylvia Hill, Ajamu Dillahunt and Bernard Boxill,
professor of philosophy.
The series is co-sponsored with the James M. Johnston Center
for Undergraduate Excellence, the Office of the Provost, the
Caribbean Students Association and the Department of Philosophy.
For more information about this and other Stone Center programs,
see ibiblio.org/shsbcc/.
Harvard
expert to discuss Einstein on Jan. 21
Peter L. Galison, a leading
expert on the history of philosophy of physics, will discuss
"Einstein's Clocks" on Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of
the Hanes Art Center. His lecture will explore the ways in which
Einstein's theory of relativity stood at the crossroads of technology,
philosophy and physics.
Galison is the Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science
and of Physics at Harvard University. His book, "Einstein's
Clocks, Poincaré's Maps" will be published this year
by W.W. Norton.
The Michael Polanyi Visiting Lecture in the History and Philosophy
of Natural Science is free and open to the public. During his
visit, Galison also will meet with faculty and students at Carolina
and Duke University.
School
of Public Health receives funding for prenatal genetic education
program
The
National Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research
Institute has awarded an 18-month grant of $621,451 to the School
of Public Health's Department of Health Behavior and Health
Education.
James R. Sorenson, professor of health behavior and health education,
is principal investigator. Grant money will be used to implement
and evaluate computer-based education programs for prenatal
patients about genetic carrier testing.
Research will be conducted in both public health prenatal clinics
and private obstetrical practices in North Carolina. Lessons
will cover information on several major genetic tests, such
as multiple marker and advanced maternal age screening, as well
as genetic carrier screening information on sickle cell disease,
cystic fibrosis, Thalassemia, and Canavan and Tay Sachs diseases.
Have
vanpool, need riders
A
Graham vanpool is in need of more participants. The van leaves
Graham at 6:30 a.m. and departs the Carolina campus at 4:30
p.m.
For more information, call Debbie Davenport at 843-2958.
SILS
offers study abroad opportunities in Prague and Oxford
Charles
University in Prague will be the site of a study abroad course
offered June 1 - 15 by the School of Information and Library
Science.
Library science professionals and graduate students will hear
lectures and take tours related to librarianship in the former
communist nation. They also will visit centuries-old libraries
that have not been readily accessible to Westerners until recent
years.
A faculty member from the school will oversee the program, which
offers three hours of graduate credit. Credit participants must
complete a research paper that will be due after the seminar.
For information on costs and other details, refer to ils.unc.edu/ils/continuing_ed/prague
or call 962-8366. Registrations are due by March 31.
The school also will offer its 11th annual seminar "Libraries
and Librarianship: Past, Present and Future" at England's Oxford
University. Participants will study the history and chart the
future of information and library services at Oxford's Bodleian
Library, one of the world's greatest research centers, from
May 18 - 31. This seminar also is available for three hours
of graduate credit.
Information on the Oxford seminar is available at ils.unc.edu/ils/continuing_ed/oxford/.
Space is limited; early registration is encouraged. For more
information on that seminar, contact the school at 962-8366
or oxford@ils.unc.edu.
