School of Public Health's Foard lecture set for April 8
Richard Feachem, executive director
of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,
will be the keynote speaker on
April 8 for the School of Public Health's
Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture.
Titled "Fighting the Great Pandemics:
Leadership, Technology Money and Research," Feachem's lecture
will focus on interventions and resources to fight disease worldwide.
The event, which takes places at the Friday Center, begins with
a reception at 5:30 p.m. The lecture follows at 6:30 p.m.
The event is free but registration is
requested. Call Dixie Bloom at 843-6191 or e-mail dbloom@email.unc.edu.
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Finalists selected, forums
scheduled for University librarian position
Four candidates have been chosen
as finalists for the position of University librarian and associate
provost for University Libraries, a post held by Joe Hewitt,
who will retire effective June 30.
Each applicant will make a one-hour presentation
that is open to the public. The first, by Joyce Ogburn, associate
director of the Libraries for Resources and Collection Management
Services, University of Washington, was held April 5. Remaining
candidates and dates are:
Sarah
Michalak, director, Marriott Library, University of Utah --
April 12, 10 - 11 a.m., 214 Davis Library;
Tom
Hickerson, associate university librarian for Information Technologies
and Special Collections and director of Digital Library and
Information Technologies, Cornell University -- April 19, 10
- 11 a.m., Wilson Library's Assembly Room; and
Larry
Alford, deputy University librarian, Carolina -- April 26, 10
- 11 a.m., Wilson Library's Assembly Room.
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International fellows to graduate
April 22
Carolina's first class of Hubert
H. Humphrey Fellowship Program fellows will graduate April 22
at 11 a.m. in a ceremony at the Redbud Room in the Friday Center.
Chancellor James Moeser and Dick Soloway, senior associate dean,
will be the featured speakers.
The 10 graduating fellows -- high-level
policymakers from Central and South America, Asia and the Middle
East -- have been based in the Department of Public Policy this
academic year and have taken graduate courses in units across
campus.
These courses have sought to teach the
fellows about policies that will help them in their respective
fields. The program also is designed to establish partnerships
and relationships between U.S. professionals and their colleagues
from other countries.
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Free online flea market welcomes
Carolina faculty and staff users
A web site offering Carolina faculty
and staff the opportunity to buy and sell within the University
community has received more than 6,000 hits since it arrived
online last fall. Its users have sold everything from Hondas
to horse buggies.
The page, located at phillips-flea.com/carolina.html,
is intended only for Carolina employees. It allows visitors
to submit ads in a variety of categories via an online form.
New ads usually are posted daily and are left up for as long
as two months.
For more information, e-mail ssp@email.unc.edu
or phillips@fac.unc.edu.
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N.C. Literary Festival to feature
more than 80 authors
Carolina's Friends of the Library
is one of three hosts of the 2004 North Carolina Literary Festival,
to be held this year on the campus of N.C. State University,
April 15 - 18.
Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
of "The Color Purple," is delivering the kickoff lecture on
April 15 at 7 p.m. Dennis Lehane, author of the Academy Award-winning
"Mystic River," will continue the festivities on April 16, at
7 p.m. Both authors are expected to fill N.C. State's Stewart
Theater in the Talley Student Center.
The festival will showcase more than 80
Southern authors, most from North Carolina, on April 17 and
18. Authors will participate in panels, readings, conversations,
book signings and special performances.
With the exception of two receptions,
one for Walker and the other for Lehane, all events are free
and open to the public.
Schedule information and details about
the festival are available on the festival web site at www.lib.ncsu.edu/nclitfest2004.
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Department of Music presents
R and R festival in April
New interpretations of long-familiar
classical music pieces will be performed April 16 - 20 in "Revisions
and Rethinkings: A Festival on the Hill," presented by the music
department.
Faculty and student musicians, plus two
guest music scholars, will discuss and perform original and
revised pieces in a symposium and four concerts. The music will
be from the Baroque period through the 20th century.
The following events, except for the symposium,
will be held in Hill Hall Auditorium:
Gala
Concert, April 16, 8 p.m.;
Symposium
on Musical Revisions and Rethinkings, April 17, Person Recital
Hall, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.;
Chamber
Music Concert, April 17, 8 p.m.;
Choral
Concert, April 18, 3 p.m.; and
Orchestra
Concert, April 20, 8 p.m.
Tickets are available in advance in 106
Hill Hall or at the door the night of each concert. Each concert
is $15 for the public, $12 for seniors and $5 for students.
A festival pass for all concerts is $40 for the public, $35
for seniors and $25 for students and may be purchased in advance
or at the door the night of the first concert. The symposium
will be free. For more information, call 962-1039.
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Visit libraries of Oxford and
Prague on summer travel seminars
Explore some of Europe's oldest
and most unique libraries this summer, including Prague's library
of prohibited books and Oxford's 17th-century Bodleian Library,
as part of two seminars offered by the School of Information
and Library Science.
The school is offering a seminar in Oxford,
England, May 16 - 29, and one in Prague, Czech Republic, May
30 - June 2. Anyone with an interest in international libraries
and librarianship may participate. Registration ends April 19.
For more information or to register online,
see ils.unc.edu/ils/continuing_ed/prague.
Participants can choose to earn three
hours of graduate credit from the school for attending and completing
a research paper on either of the seminars.
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Friday Center to offer courses
on children's literature and Chekhov
The works of Anton Chekhov and children's
literature will be the subjects of two new fine arts courses
sponsored by the Friday Center in May.
"Writing Literature for Children
and Young Adults with Ruth Moose" will meet on Tuesdays from
May 4 to June 8, 7 - 9 p.m., at the Friday Center. "Summer Evening
Acting Classes: Approaching Chekhov with Julie Fishell" will
meet on Mondays and Thursdays from May 24 to June 21, 7 - 9:30
p.m., at the Center for Dramatic Art.
The courses are offered in collaboration
with the Creative Writing Program and PlayMakers Repertory Company.
Enrollment in the courses is limited.
Fee for the children's literature classes is $375 ($425 after
April 16). For more information and to register, refer to fridaycenter.unc.edu/cni/childlit.htm.
Fee for the Chekhov classes is $325 ($350 after May 7). For
more information and to register, see fridaycenter.unc.edu/cni/acting.htm.
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Recruitment under way for BRIDGES
participants
BRIDGES Academic Leadership for
Women is now accepting applications for prospective BRIDGES
participants from Carolina. Sponsored by the Friday Center,
BRIDGES is an intensive professional development program for
women in higher education who seek to gain or strengthen their
academic leadership capabilities. It is designed to help women
identify, understand and move into leadership roles in the academy.
The program is offered Sept. 17 - Nov.
20. Eleven classes of women have completed this program, and
applications for this year's class are due by May 3. The program
cost is $1,550; however, some scholarship funds may be available
for participants.
For more information about the BRIDGES
program, including the application, see www.fridaycenter.unc.edu/cni/bridges.htm.
For more information about BRIDGES, contact
any Carolina member of the BRIDGES board: Trevaughn Eubanks
(962-9001 or tbrown3@email.unc.edu);
Annette Madden (962-1123 or madden@email.unc.edu);
Meg Pomerantz (962-0233 or lanchan@email.unc.edu)
or Jacki Resnick (962-7190 or jacki_resnick@unc.edu).
For more information about scholarship
availability, contact Elmira Mangum (843-6056 or Elmira_Mangum@unc.edu).
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Subjects needed for eating
disorders study
Study participants are needed for
a genetic study of anorexia nervosa in families sponsored by
the National Institute of Mental Health and the UNC Eating Disorders
Program.
Families are sought with at least two
members who have or have had anorexia nervosa. The study involves
the completion of several interviews and questionnaires, plus
a blood draw. Participants will be paid a fee upon completion
of the study.
For more information, call Lauren Reba,
966-4410, or e-mail lauren_reba@med.unc.edu.
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Carolina once again rated a
'best value'
According to "The Princeton Review's"
latest survey, Carolina is the nation's number one "Best Value."
The ranking can be found in the new book, "America's Best Value
Colleges," now on sale. It profiles 77 schools that the education
services company chose for their outstanding academics, low-to-moderate
tuition and fees and generous financial aid packages.
"The Princeton Review" compiled
the list and book based on quantitative and qualitative data
it obtained from administrators at more than 500 colleges and
surveys of students attending them. A list of the 77 schools
is posted at princetonreview.com. Other schools in the top 10
are: Amherst College, CUNY/Brooklyn College, Rice University,
Bates College, Grinnell College, Southwestern University, the
University of Texas at Austin, Lake Forest College and Claremont
McKenna College.
