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October 3, 2007 edition TOP STORIES: The University Board of Trustees on Sept. 26 unanimously approved the plan for Carolina North to develop 250 acres of the nearly 1,000-acre site during the next half-century. The trustees’ action clears the way for the plan to be reviewed and approved by the Chapel Hill Town Council. The plan anticipates that 2.5 million square feet of building space will be completed over the first 15 years along the eastern boundary of the property bordering Martin Luther King Boulevard. The first of those projects will be a new 85,000-square-foot Innovation Center for which the University has already requested a special-use permit to begin construction. When visiting San Francisco, most tourists flock to see the Golden Gate Bridge, the internationally recognized symbol of the city, considered the engineering marvel of its age when the bridge opened in 1937. Seventy years later, the San Francisco marvel that has caught the eye of Carolina’s Mark Crowell lies on the edge of the city in Mission Bay. Crowell is associate vice chancellor for economic development and technology transfer. Once an industrial wasteland, Mission Bay is now home to a satellite campus for the University of California at San Francisco and, next to it, the burgeoning life science complex that is being developed by Alexandria Real Estate Equities of Pasadena, Calif. A philosopher who has interests in metaphysics and the mathematics of logic, a geneticist who is working to develop cancer therapies, a computer scientist who specializes in bioinformatics and data mining, and a historian who studies the African-American experience in the American South have received the 2007 Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty. Seven Carolina employees were recognized for their outstanding contributions Sept. 24 at a luncheon at the Carolina Inn. Five people received the Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence and two received the Excellence in Management Awards. Campus-based tuition over the past decade has played a pivotal role in generating revenue to bolster faculty pay to keep Carolina competitive. CONTACT THE GAZETTE: |
Moeser announces he will step down
As he began his annual State of the University speech last week, Chancellor James Moeser reminded the University community about his performance background. Moeser is a former concert organist and longtime music professor. “The principal lesson I learned as a concert artist was always to get off the stage before the applause stopped,” he said. “The second lesson was to be conservative with encores. ‘Always leave them wanting more,’ was the best lesson I ever learned from my teachers. Those lessons stuck, and I think they apply to me as much today as they did in my years on the concert stage.” With that prelude, Moeser announced his decision to step down as Carolina’s ninth chancellor on June 30, 2008, at the end of the fiscal year. But this decision did not signal his retirement from the University, he said. “After a year’s research leave, I shall return to campus with the most exalted title that this University can confer on an individual — professor,” he said. “I make this announcement today to give the Board of Trustees time to begin a search for my successor, with the hope that this individual can assume his or her responsibilities on July 1, 2008.”
At 68, Moeser is Carolina’s longest-serving chancellor since Christopher Fordham, who retired in 1988 after more than eight years in office. The UNC Board of Governors unanimously elected Moeser April 14, 2000, and he started Aug. 15. He succeeded Interim Chancellor William McCoy, tapped after Michael Hooker’s 1999 death. Moeser pledged to be fully engaged as chancellor in the year ahead and to bring the same level of passion, energy and commitment in his last year that he did in his first year as chancellor. “Let us set the course so that a hundred years from now, historians will agree that Carolina’s third century was her best, a true renaissance of the human spirit,” he said.
Carolina “is on an incredible roll,” the chancellor said, and well positioned for continued success. He lauded the support and efforts of students, faculty, staff, trustees, alumni, parents, friends and leaders in the UNC system and around the state. “There is a lot to celebrate in Chapel Hill because we are making great progress on virtually every priority that we have set for ourselves,” he said. For the full text of the speech, as well as a timeline and list of University accomplishments under Moeser’s leadership, refer to www.unc.edu/chan/special. Expanded Gazette coverage includes:
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