Endowed Professorships
NANCY CHESCHEIR
Title: Charles Hendricks Distinguished Professor of Obstetrics
and Gynecology.
Appointment effective: Aug. 1, 2003.
Education: BS, MD, Carolina.
At Carolina since: 1988.
Classes taught at the graduate level: Teaches in the second
- fourth year medical school curriculum as well as clinical
education with house staff.
Research focus: High-risk obstetrics, fetal diseases.
Clinical interest: Multiple gestations, fetal disease, women's
preventive medicine.
Major publications: Three books as co-author or co-editor, about
45 articles.
Major honors: Medical Alumni Teaching professorship, Whitehead
lecture, one of 40 women academics in 2001 attending Executive
Leadership in Academic Medicine program from medical, dental
schools.
About the endowment: The Charles H. Hendricks Professorship
was established in the School of Medicine during the Bicentennial
Campaign for Carolina by colleagues, former residents and other
friends of Hendricks, former chairman of the Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology and the first Robert A. Ross Distinguished Professor.
KATHLEEN
MULLAN HARRIS
Title: Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Term Professor.
Appointment effective: July 1, 2003
Education: BS, Pennsylvania State University; MA, PhD, University
of Pennsylvania.
At Carolina since: 1990.
Classes taught at the graduate level: Demography, Poverty in
America.
Classes at the undergraduate level: Research Methods, Family
and Society, U.S. Poverty and Social Policy.
Research focus: Poverty, family and social policy.
Major publications: "Work and Welfare Among Single Mothers in
Poverty," "American Journal of Sociology;" "Life After Welfare:
Women, Work, and Repeat Dependency," "American Sociological
Review;" "Teen Mothers and the Revolving Door."
Major honors: 1997 Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award for Teen Mothers
and the Revolving Welfare Door, presented by the American Sociological
Association Section on the Sociology of Population for the most
significant contribution to the field of social demography among
recent books.
Little known fact: "I am a former professional tennis player,
played on the satellite tour in Europe before going to graduate
school."
About the endowment: The Gillian T. Cell Professorship for Excellence
in Undergraduate Teaching was renamed in 1993 by the Arts &
Sciences Foundation to honor Cell, former dean of the College
of Arts & Sciences. Originally called the Arts & Sciences
Foundation Professorship, it was established in 1991 from unrestricted
funds to the Arts & Sciences Foundation.
ALEDA
V. ROTH
Title: Mary Farley Ames Lee Distinguished Professor and chair,
Global Supply Chain Concentration, Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Appointment effective: July 1, 2003
Education: BS, PhD, Ohio State University; MSPH, Carolina.
At Carolina since: 1993
Classes taught at the graduate level: MBA classes: Global Operations
and Technology Strategy, Service Operations Strategy, Managing
for Knowledge and Creativity. PhD classes: Theory of Operations
Management II.
Research focus: Global operations strategy, technology and innovation,
e-operations.
Major publications: More than 100 published articles in journals
such as "Management Science," "Manufacturing and Service Operations,"
"Journal of Operations Management," "Production and Operations
Management" and "Decision Sciences."
Major honors: Reigning president of the Production and Operations
Management Society; 1998, named Dalton L. McMichael Sr. Research
Fellow; 1996, received Kenan-Flagler Business School Distinguished
Research Award.
Little known fact: "Collaborating with my daughter, who is a
doctoral student at the University of Hawaii, to apply ecology
and complexity theory to management."
About the endowment: The Mary Farley Ames Lee Distinguished
Professorship in Business Administration was established in
the Kenan-Flagler Business School in 1990. Lee created the professorship
in celebration of the 50th reunion of her undergraduate class.
The professorship was one of the early leadership gifts in the
University's Bicentennial Campaign for Carolina.
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Decorations & Distinctions
Dean
Bresciani
Interim vice chancellor for Student Affairs, Bresciani was named
to the Board of Directors for the National Association of Student
Personnel Administrators, a constituent association of the American
Council on Education. Bresciani also will continue serving in
his current role on the editorial board of the Association's
scholarly journal.
Greek Affairs
Carolina received the 2003 Outstanding Change Initiative
Award from the national Association of Fraternity Advisors at
its annual meeting in December. Director of Greek Affairs Jay
Anhorn accepted this award on behalf of the University.
Carolina was recognized
nationally for its outstanding initiatives in 16 areas of fraternity
and sorority life, most notably changes in the Interfraternity
Council recruitment process, formally chartering the Greek Alliance
Council composed of culturally-based fraternities and sororities,
creation of a new Code of Conduct related to hazing, increased
communication with alumni of all fraternities and sororities,
revival of a partnership with Habitat for Humanity, significantly
improved scholarship among some of the National Pan-Hellenic
Council fraternities and sororities, and creation of a required
fraternity/sorority Annual Report system to include best practices.
James Kessler
Director of the Department of Disability Services, Kessler
was elected president of the Association on Higher Education
and Disabilities. Founded in 1977, AHEAD is an international
and multicultural organization of professionals committed to
full participation in higher education for persons with disabilities.
Kessler will assume his position in July as the association's
first president with a two-year term.
Jodi Magness
Kenan Distinguished Professor in Religious Studies, Magness
has received a top book award from the American Library Association
for her book, "The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls."
It was named an "outstanding academic title" by "Choice Magazine."
