FallFest set for Aug.
22; volunteers needed
Chancellor urges faculty
and staff to support GED-prep program
Deadline is near to apply
for Festifall
Friday Center extends
hours for registration, announces creative fall lineup
Carpool, vanpools seek
riders
Focus is on renovation
at Health Sciences Library -- real and virtual
List student job openings
with University Career Services
Reduce waste through
phone book recycling
Catalano to give Tate
Distinguished Professorship lecture Sept. 14
University conducts
library-user survey
'Freecycling' program
splits into four county Internet message boards
SILS receives $150,000
gift from Microsoft Corporation
Forget those messy sprays,
glue sticks and paste
Research studies have
openings for subjects
FallFest set for Aug. 22; volunteers
needed
FallFest, Carolina's annual kickoff to
the school year, begins at 9 p.m. Aug. 22 in the area around
Carmichael fields, in front of Carmichael Auditorium and, new
this year, down South Road to the School of Government deck.
One of the event's highlights is the ice
cream social that features "distinguished dippers" from across
campus. Dippers are needed; to volunteer for a 15-minute shift,
call Tammy Lambert, 966-3128, or e-mail lambert2@email.unc.edu.
In addition, faculty and staff volunteers
are needed for setup and jobs such as dispensing soft drinks.
To volunteer, e-mail Kala Bullett, kala_bullett@unc.edu.
All members of the University community
are invited to the alcohol-free festival. There will be performances
on two stages, games on Hooker Field and free refreshments.
In addition, representatives from student organizations and
University departments will be signing up new members and passing
out information at an Activities Fair.
South Road will be closed to traffic from
Country Club Drive to Raleigh Road between 5 p.m. and 3 a.m.
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Chancellor urges faculty and
staff to support GED-prep program
Chancellor James Moeser has sent an e-mail
to all employees to familiarize them with the University's GED-preparation
program, provided in partnership with Durham Technical and Community
College.
Intended for employees who do not have
a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED),
the program is managed by Facilities Services but is open to
any University employee who wishes to study, make progress toward
and eventually attain a GED.
The University allows employees three
hours a week of work time to pursue a GED. For more information,
call Ray Doyle at 962-4440. There is no cost for participation.
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Deadline is near to apply
for Festifall
Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation is accepting
applications through Aug. 13 for Festifall Street Fair, which
will be held on West Franklin Street on Oct. 3 from 1 to 6 p.m.
Space is available to qualifying exhibitors
in the categories of arts/crafts, entertainer, children's activity
or international food. For a complete list of application guidelines,
call 968-2784.
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Friday Center extends hours
for registration, announces creative fall lineup
In order to assist students with registration
in Continuing Studies, Carolina Courses Online, Independent
Studies and Self-paced Study Online courses, the Friday Center's
student services office will stay open until 6 p.m. on Aug.
23 and 24.
For more information, call 962-1134 or
see fridaycenter.unc.edu.
In addition, registration is now open
for two writing workshops that begin in September, one in situation
comedy writing, the other in creative writing.
Students in veteran scriptwriter Stephen
Neigher's class will become virtual staff writers in a fictitious
situation comedy. They will learn about script format, defining
the meaningful traits of lead characters and will write jokes
as well as full scenes. Neigher is a visiting professor in communication
studies.
The class begins Sept. 8 for eight weeks.
For more information and to register, see fridaycenter.unc.edu/cni/comedy.htm.
Michael Chitwood, poet, essayist and visiting
lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, will be teaching a
10-week Creative Writing Workshop beginning Sept. 13. The class
will give writers an opportunity to revise and refine their
work with the help of an experienced writer and a supportive
group of other writers.
For registration information, see fridaycenter.unc.edu/cni/cww.htm.
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Carpool, vanpools seek riders
The following vanpools and carpool have
available seats:
A vanpool that picks up at the Winn-Dixie
in Mebane at 6:45 a.m. has an opening for a rider. It arrives
on campus at 7:30 a.m. and leaves campus at 4:30 p.m.
For more information, e-mail Polly Mebane,
polly_mebane@med.unc.edu.
A carpool that leaves the Mebane Winn-Dixie
parking lot at 6:25 a.m., arriving on campus at 7 a.m., has
an opening for two people. Both current participants work in
Bynum Hall.
For more information, e-mail Donna Clapp,
dclapp@email.unc.edu.
A Hillsborough vanpool departs from Mayo
Street at 6:55 a.m. and arrives at the Ambulatory Care Center
and UNC Hospitals at approximately 7:20 a.m. It leaves UNC Hospitals
at 4:35 p.m. to arrive in Hillsborough at 5:05 p.m.
For more information, e-mail Mary Fuller,
mof@email.unc.edu; call 962-0202 or 732-3984; or call Brian
Fahey, 485-7465.
A Pittsboro vanpool leaves at 6:45 a.m.
and arrives in Chapel Hill between 7:15 and 7:20 a.m., dropping
off on Mason Farm Road, the School of Nursing, State Employees
Credit Union and UNC Hospitals' entrance. It leaves Chapel Hill
at 4:30 p.m., arriving in Pittsboro at 5:30 p.m.
For more information, call 962-6442.
TTA offers free vanpool and carpool matching
services. For more information about vanpooling or carpooling
to Carolina, call Brian Fahey at 485-7465 or see www.ridetta.org.
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Focus is on renovations at
Health Sciences Library -- real and virtual
Renovations are complete on the third
and fourth floors of the Health Sciences Library (HSL), and
the staff began the process of moving books and journals in
on Aug. 2. However, during the transition materials may not
be immediately available, and it is suggested that anyone planning
a trip to the library should first check this web page: www.hsl.unc.edu/jrnlmove.cfm.
Some materials may be available online, but other materials
may need to be accessed from other parts of the library by staff.
For more information, call 962-0800 or
refer to AskALibrarian at www.hsl.unc.edu/-services/asklib/asklib.cfm.
In addition, the HSL released its new
web site on Aug. 10. This virtual renovation coincides with
the library's building renovation and combines the content of
UNCLE (www.uncle.unc.edu) with the services offered on the HSL's
web site. The new site can be found at www.hsl.unc.edu and will
completely replace the existing HSL and UNCLE sites, providing
enhanced access to the library's electronic resources and services.
E-mail barrie_hayes@unc.edu
for more information, or call 962-0800.
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List student job openings
with University Career Services
University Career Services can help your
department hire a student worker, and non-work-study jobs can
be listed at no charge. To post a job, e-mail the job posting
to Megan Kilburn (kilburnm@email.unc.edu)
or refer to the web site (careers.unc.edu)
and click on "Post a part-time job at UNC" to list a job online.
Once a student has been hired, notify
Career Services by e-mail (ucs@unc.edu)
or phone (962-6507). For more information, e-mail Kilburn or
call her at 843-0844.
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Reduce waste through phone
book recycling
The Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling
reminds employees that old telephone books can be recycled in
either the blue outdoor newspaper bins or the indoor newspaper/magazine
bins. This service is provided year round, so there is no start
or stop date.
In addition, the department offers the
following suggestions for reducing the number of leftover phone
books:
Share a phone
book within your office space;
Use the online
campus directory:
(https://www-s3.ais.unc.edu/campus_dir/search.jsp);
and
Request only
the exact number of phone books needed.
For more information, call 962-1442 or
see
www.fac.unc.edu/WasteReduction.
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Catalano to give Tate Distinguished
Professorship lecture Sept. 14
Richard Catalano, professor and associate
director of the Social Development Research Group at the University
of Washington's School of Social Work, will give the John A.
Tate Distinguished Professorship Lecture on Sept. 14 at 5:30
p.m. in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Auditorium.
The event is free and open to the public,
but reservations are requested by Sept. 8 and can be made by
calling Lara Swanson, 843-3597, or e-mailing lswanson@email.unc.edu.
A reception follows the lecture.
The lecture is sponsored by the School
of Social Work and by the John a. Tate Distinguished Professorship
for Children in Need, established by Jack Tate, who served on
the Board of Trustees for many years.
Parking for the event will be available
at the N7 lot on Pittsboro Street, one block from the School
of Social Work.
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University conducts library-user
survey
The University Library System and the
Office of Sponsored Research are co-sponsoring a library-user
survey over the next 12 months to assess usage of the library's
services. The survey will be conducted during two-hour time
frames at randomly selected times through June 2005.
The library staff asks users to participate
if they are requested to do so when visiting the library or
using its electronic services. All responses are confidential.
For more information, e-mail Samira Collins in the Office of
Sponsored Research, scollins@unc.edu.
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`Freecycling' program splits
into four county Internet message boards
`Freecycling,' an Internet message board
that lets people recycle items rather than discard them, has
been split into four separate groups from the Triangle-wide
unit that it formerly served.
Moderated by Theresa Champion, proposal
coordinator for the Carolina Population Center, the group is
part of a national effort to recycle rather than to throw away.
The Freecycle community uses the simple concept of e-mail to
hook up local individuals looking to give something away with
those who would like to acquire it. The only requirement is
that everything be free.
For information, contact Champion at 593-0247
or pukidy@yahoo.com. To
subscribe to a Freecycle group in your county, see www.freecycle.org.
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SILS receives $150,000 gift
from Microsoft Corporation
School of Information and Library Science
(SILS) faculty members Gary Marchionini and Paul Solomon have
been awarded a $150,000 gift from the Microsoft Corporation
to research how frequent users of structured data such as statistical
files and databases make sense of and annotate information.
Solomon, the school's interim dean and
an associate professor, and Marchionini, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished
Professor, will form a team of SILS researchers who will collaborate
with Catherine Marshall, senior research scientist at Microsoft.
The team will select a group of people
doing survey, cataloging and statistical analysis work. Participants
will be observed using software in their workplaces, and researchers
will record how they make notes to themselves. Participants
will be interviewed and observed over a one-year period to identify
strategies and potential tools for annotating structured data.
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Forget those messy sprays,
glue sticks and paste
The staff at Medical Illustration and
Photography is now using a DryTac hot press method to mount
posters, photographs, flyers and announcements and offers dry
mounted services with optional extras for all Carolina departments
and faculty and staff.
For more information on mounting, laminating,
the Pro-Edge system of finished edging, or any of Medical Illustrations'
creative services, call 966-4232 or see www.med.unc.edu/medill.
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Research studies have openings
for subjects
The following studies are soliciting participants:
The Department
of OB/GYN in the School of Medicine is conducting a research
study on the effects of an investigational medical beverage
on pain associated with fibrocystic breast disease.
Participants must be 18 - 50, not pregnant,
not lactating, with regular menstrual cycles and with recurring
cyclic breast pain. Study requires up to five sequential, monthly
visits of one - two hours each and will provide compensation
for eligible participants.
Call Susan Walley, 966-9846, or e-mail
swalley@email.unc.edu.
The Eating
Disorders Program in the Department of Psychiatry seeks participants
for a clinical trial comparing group cognitive behavioral therapy
with self-paced, CD-ROM-based cognitive behavioral therapy.
Participants must be 18 - 60, overweight,
have access to an IBM-compatible computer and experience binge
eating episodes.
For more information, call Lauren Reba,
966-6525, or e-mail lauren_reba@med.unc.edu.
