Mangum wins Mary Turner Lane Award
Earp honored with Thomas Jefferson Award
Pérez elected American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow
McDiarmid appointed School of Education dean
Lawrence Band to lead Institute for the Environment
Patterson appointed chair of ERP Student Stakeholder
Committee
Matson appointed dean of the Graduate School
Cefalo, longtime director of graduate medical education,
dies
Ovitt, government data librarian, dies at 51
Decorations & Distinctions
Mangum wins Mary Turner Lane Award
Elmira Mangum, center, receives the 2008 Mary Turner Lane
Award April 30 as Lane, right, and Verita Murrill from Training &
Development look on.
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Elmira Mangum, senior associate provost for finance and
academic personnel, has won the 2008 Mary Turner Lane Award. Established
in 1986, the award recognizes people who make outstanding contributions to the
lives of
women students, faculty, staff and administrators
at Carolina.
The University’s Association for Women Faculty and
Professionals presented the award to Mangum April 30 at the group’s annual
banquet.
Mangum received multiple nominations that recounted how she
goes above and beyond her work responsibilities to mentor women in their
professional development.
During her career at UNC, Mangum has taught classes at the
School of Government and has mentored women students. She has served as a
mentor and coach to women faculty and staff in the BRIDGES Program. Her
community involvement includes serving as president of the Orange County Rape
Crisis Center and working with the Bethune Annual Recognition Luncheon honoring
women for their community service.
In her role at the University, Mangum provides
administrative leadership to the finance, human resources, institutional
research, facilities
and strategic planning efforts throughout the Office of the Provost. She is
responsible for drafting, developing and communicating
guidelines, policies, procedures and processes that facilitate resource
management.
Mangum also serves on many management and policy groups,
including the University Budget Committee, Tuition and Fees Task Force and the
Information Technology Strategic Planning Committee. She also manages the
annual and biennial budget processes for the University.
She is renowned among her colleagues for her knowledge of
issues and trends in higher education, and for her mastery in cutting through
complicated and sometimes thorny
financial issues. One example is her detailed work to develop various charts
and formulas to prepare members of the Chancellor’s Task Force on Tuition and
Fees with the background they need to develop recommendations for campus-based
tuition increases.
“Elmira has a knack for presenting information in such a way
that goes deeper than the numbers on the page,” said Executive Vice Chancellor
and Provost Bernadette Gray-Little. “I think that’s because her grasp of our
campus culture is equal to her understanding of our
finances and budget. By understanding both, she enables us to keep our budget
in sync with who we are and what we as an institution value.”
The award, established in 1986, is named
after Mary Turner Lane, founding director of the Curriculum in Women’s Studies
and the first recipient of the award.
“This kind of recognition is richly deserved and long
overdue,” Gray-Little said.
A native of North Carolina, Mangum
previously held administrative and management posts at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Immediately
prior to her
arrival at Carolina, she was vice provost at the University at Buffalo and on
the faculty of the graduate school of education.
She received her Ph.D. from the University at Buffalo and
graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with two
master’s degrees, one in public policy
and public administration and another in
urban and regional planning. She received her bachelor’s degree in geography
from N.C. Central University
(NCCU). While enrolled
at NCCU she worked in Washington, D.C., as the first African-American to serve
as a Congressional intern from the state of
North Carolina.
Earp honored with Thomas Jefferson Award
Cancer researcher Shelton Earp is honored by his peers with
the Thomas Jefferson Award. Among his accomplishments, Earp helped generate
statewide support for the University Cancer Research Fund. |
The peers of esteemed scientist and cancer researcher H.
Shelton Earp honored him with the prestigious 2008 Thomas Jefferson Award.
Chancellor James Moeser presented the award at the April 25 Faculty Council
meeting.
Earp is professor of pharmacology and medicine, Lineberger
Professor of Cancer
Research and director of the UNC Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The annual award was created in 1961 by the Robert Earl
McConnell Foundation to recognize a Carolina faculty member who, through
personal influence and performance of duty in teaching, writing and
scholarship, has best
exemplified the ideals and objectives of Thomas
Jefferson. UNC faculty members nominate candidates for the honor, which carries
a cash prize; a faculty committee chooses the recipient.
Barbara K. Rimer, dean of the School of
Public Health and Alumni Distinguished
Professor, wrote the citation honoring Earp. “A man of Jeffersonian breadth and
depth, Dr. Earp is an exemplary scientist and humanitarian,
educator and healer, mentor and leader, citizen and colleague… true blue Tar
Heel,” she said.
“Dr. Earp has strengthened this university not only through
his own accomplishments, but by nurturing a culture of collaboration.
Because of Dr. Earp’s efforts, there is better treatment today for patients in
North Carolina,
and there will be much better prevention and treatment tomorrow.”
A faculty member since 1977, Earp earned his medical degree
from Carolina in 1970 and has devoted more than three decades to
researching the behavior of cancer cells and the signals that regulate cell
growth and
differentiation. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in
1966.
“I still have a real thirst for trying to
understand some of the molecular details of this
disease we’re trying to fight,” Earp said. “It’s not just a medical disease.
It’s not just cancer.
It’s a paradigm for how health affects the way we behave, the way we spend our
federal money, the way we go out and try to change community behavior. All of
those things are threads that come together.”
Nominators characterized Earp as an exemplary scientist,
caring clinician and benevolent administrator.
He was instrumental in generating statewide support for the
University Cancer
Research Fund, which will provide $50 million
a year toward the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
“He mobilized citizens, scientists, clinicians, patients and
legislators, and with them as partners, secured a dramatic commitment by the
legislature to create the University Cancer Research Fund,” the citation said.
“The success of this effort is testimony to Dr. Earp’s
ability to galvanize support around common goals for uncommon ends, the
prevention, early detection, treatment and eradication of cancer. Dr. Earp
embodies Jefferson’s optimistic belief that knowledge can be turned to positive
benefit for all people.”
Colleagues have called Earp a genuine, generous person who
always puts Carolina first.
“In a world that too often rewards selfishness, Shelley
bucks the trend, said Dean Holden
Thorp. He is, observed Dean Bill Roper, our priceless gem,” the citation said.
“Dr. Michael O’Malley (Lineberger Center associate director) said about Dr.
Earp: Hidden by his many achievements but fundamental to them are his emotional
intelligence, sense of commitment and a physician’s purpose to make the world a
better place.”
When he accepted the award, Earp said his blood ran Carolina
blue.
“I love this place and my love is shared by people across
this state and it is shared by a
legislature that does not run against the flagship university, it runs for it
and towards it. The
University Cancer Research Fund is the latest in a long line, and hopefully not
the last of things, that the legislature is counting on us to do.”
The author of 125 peer-reviewed publications, Earp is
board-certified in internal
medicine and endocrinology. He is the past president of the Association of
American
Cancer Institutes and has served on its board of directors since 2001. He is
also a member
of the American Association for Cancer
Research, the Association of American Physicians and the American societies of
clinical oncology, hematology, cell biology,
microbiology and clinical investigation.
Pérez elected American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow
PÉREZ |
Louis Pérez Jr., J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History,
is the latest Carolina faculty member to be elected a fellow in the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His research interests center on the 19th- and 20th-century
Caribbean, with emphasis on the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. His current
research explores the sources of Cuban nationality
and identity. Pérez is the author of “To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society,” a
social
and cultural history of suicide in Cuba. He teaches courses on the history of
Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Cuba. He also directs the Institute
for the Study of
the Americas.
Pérez is among 191 fellows and 22 foreign
honorary members to be inducted into the academy at a ceremony on Oct. 11 at
the academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. The new members are leaders in
their fields and include Nobel laureates and recipients of Pulitzer Prizes,
Academy Awards and
Grammy Awards and Kennedy Center honors.
Pérez joins a distinguished list of new fellows that
includes U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, computer company founder
Michael Dell, two-time cabinet secretary and former White House Chief of Staff
James A. Baker III, Academy Award-winning filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen and
blues guitarist B.B. King.
The University now has 35 faculty members in the academy
(see News Briefs). An independent policy research center, the academy was founded in
1780 to undertake studies of complex and emerging problems.
McDiarmid appointed School of Education dean
MCDIARMID |
G. Williamson (Bill) McDiarmid has been appointed dean of
the School of Education and Alumni Distinguished Professor of Education
effective Jan. 1, 2009. He comes to Carolina from the University of
Washington-Seattle, where he has been Boeing Professor of Teacher Education
since 2001.
McDiarmid is a senior fellow with the Washington Center for
Teaching and Learning and Teachers for a New Era, a
national initiative designed to enhance K-12 teaching. With funding from the
Carnegie Corporation of New York, Teachers for a New Era works to renew
pre-service
teacher preparation, create residencies for education
graduates and track their classroom performance.
He also helped create the Teaching/Learning Partnership
program, working in conjunction with the University of Washington’s College of
Arts and Sciences, the Seattle Public Schools and the Seattle Education
Association. The program prepares people in mid-career transition to teach math
and science in Seattle’s high-need middle schools.
“Dr. McDiarmid’s credentials in teacher education and
learning are impressive,” said Bernadette Gray-Little,
executive vice chancellor and provost.
Carolina’s School of Education includes 56 full-time and 30
part-time faculty members, 193 undergraduate students,
543 graduate students and 150 licensure students.
A Carolina alumnus and native of Raeford, McDiarmid
previously served on the faculties of the University of Alaska-Anchorage, the
University of Alaska-Fairbanks and Michigan State University. In Anchorage, he
was director
of the Institute of Social and Economic Research and
professor of educational policy, where his research focused on Alaska Native
educational issues.
In 2007, he was a visiting professor at Hebei Normal
University in Shijiazhuang, China. His honors include
being named a National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow and receiving the
Outstanding Contribution to Interpretative Research Award from the American
Educational Research Association. McDiarmid is the author of three books, many
book chapters and numerous journal articles and research monographs.
He received a bachelor of arts degree with highest
honors in American studies from Carolina in 1969 and earned his doctor of
education degree in administration, planning and social policy from Harvard
University’s Graduate School of Education in 1984.
“I would like to thank the search committee, led by Dean
Jean Folkerts of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, for their
work,” Gray-Little said in
announcing McDiarmid’s appointment. “I also want to
express my deep appreciation to Dr. Jill Fitzgerald,
professor of literacy, who will continue to lead the School of Education until
Dr. McDiarmid arrives.”
Lawrence Band to lead Institute for the Environment
BAND |
Lawrence Band, Voit Gilmore Distinguished Professor of
Geography, has been named
director of the Institute for the Environment.
He succeeds Doug Crawford-Brown, who led the institute until
earlier this year and has left to become a senior sustainability adviser to the
firm of Pell Frischmann in the United Kingdom.
Band, who came to Carolina in 1998, served as chair of the
geography department from 2002 to 2007.
His research focuses on the hydrological and ecological
structure, function and dynamics of watersheds, a key area for North Carolina
and the nation in view of recent droughts and storms.
“Professor Band’s deep knowledge of the mission and goals of
the institute and his impressive record of scholarship and administrative
leadership have prepared him well to direct this critically important
campuswide center,” said Bernadette Gray-Little, executive vice
chancellor and provost.
“I look forward to the contributions that Professor Band and
the
Institute will make to increasing our understanding of the pressing
environmental problems that we face, and developing solutions to them.”
Band received his bachelor’s degree at the State University
of New York at Buffalo, and master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of
California, Los Angeles. Before coming to Carolina, he served on the faculties
of San Francisco State University, Hunter College and the University of
Toronto.
The institute was founded in 2006 as an expansion of the
Carolina Environmental Program.
Patterson appointed chair of ERP Student Stakeholder
Committee
PATTERSON |
Roger Patterson,
associate vice chancellor for finance, has been appointed chair of the
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Student Stakeholder Committee. He replaces
Executive Associate Provost Steve Allred, who will leave the University at the
end of June to become provost at the University of Richmond.
The ERP is the University-wide effort to streamline and
integrate the computing
systems that manage student information,
human resources, payroll and finance. As committee chair, Patterson will work
closely with the ERP team and engage with campus units to facilitate the ERP
implementation.
“I’m pleased to have the opportunity to guide the
collaborative efforts for such a critical system,” Patterson said. “It is my
hope that I can continue to build on the project’s progress and Steve’s
leadership. I’m looking forward to working with the project team and affected
schools and units to solve any
challenges that lie ahead.”
Committee members are:
DeAhn Baucom,
director of student
accounts and University receivables;
Stephen
Farmer, assistant provost and director of undergraduate admissions;
Phillip
Asbury, deputy director of
scholarships and student aid;
Bobbi Owen,
professor of dramatic art and senior associate dean for undergraduate
education; and
Alice Poehls,
assistant provost and
University registrar.
For more information about ERP, contact Debra Beller at
843-0477 or debra_beller@unc.edu.
Matson appointed dean of the Graduate School
MATSON |
Steven W. Matson, professor and chair of the Department of
Biology, will become dean of the Graduate School effective July 1.
A member of the faculty since 1983, Matson is widely respected
for his teaching, mentoring and research in the field of genetics and molecular
biology, said Bernadette Gray-Little, executive vice chancellor and provost,
when she
announced the appointment.
Matson will oversee the approximately 8,000 graduate students
in Carolina’s 66 doctoral and 100 masters programs.
“Dr. Matson is an innovative and collaborative administrator
whose background and extensive experience working with graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows make him especially well suited to further the
University’s efforts to attract the best students to the Graduate School and
ensure that they receive a quality education,” Gray-Little said.
On the national level, Matson is a
recipient of the American Cancer Society Faculty Research Award and has served
as a reviewer for the Journal of Molecular
Biology, Biochemistry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the
Journal of Biological Chemistry, where he served as an editorial board member
from 2000 to 2005.
At UNC, he has taught courses on
Current Topics in Biology, Advanced
Molecular Biology, Advanced Cell Biology
and honors sections of Genetics and
Molecular Biology.
A 2004 recipient of the University’s Tanner Award for
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and a 2005 Institute
of Arts and Humanities Leadership
Fellow, Matson is also a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee, Bank of
America Distinguished Professorship
review panel and Honors Program Faculty Advisory Board.
He is a past member and chair of the Pre-health Professions
Advising Task Force and has served on various University
administrative review committees through the years.
Matson’s research focuses on DNA repair, conjugative DNA
transfer and enzymatic mechanisms and biological roles of DNA helicases. His
laboratory’s
long-term goal is to understand the
molecular role of several helicases in the bacterium E. coli and the budding
yeast
S. cerevisiae.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Colgate
University. His master’s and doctoral degrees are from the University of
Rochester, both
in biochemistry.
He succeeds Linda Dykstra, William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor
of Pharmacology and Psychology, who will return
to full-time research and graduate
student training.
“The University community is extremely grateful to Dr.
Dykstra for her commitment and long-term leadership of the Graduate School,”
Gray-Little said.
Cefalo, longtime director of graduate medical education,
dies
Robert C. Cefalo, professor emeritus of obstetrics and
gynecology in the School of Medicine and director of the medical residency and
fellowship programs at UNC Hospitals for 25 years, died April 22 at age 74.
“Bob Cefalo was part of the fabric of UNC School of
Medicine,” said Daniel Clarke-Pearson, chair of the
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
“He had a passion for medical student, resident and
fellowship training. During his nearly three decades of leadership at UNC, he
improved the care of mothers and their infants throughout our region; not only
by his compassionate
obstetrical care, but by his positive influence on all of us who had the
privilege to learn from him.”
During Cefalo’s tenure as director of graduate medical
education, UNC earned national recognition for the development of “best
practices” in residency and fellowship programs.
He joined the faculty in 1979, headed the physician training
programs from 1981 to 2006 and served as assistant dean for graduate medical
education.
He also served as director of maternal fetal-medicine from
1979 to 1997, as interim chair of obstetrics and gynecology in 1981–83
and 2004–06 and as interim director of maternal-
fetal medicine in 2005–06. In 2007, he received the Courage
to Lead Award from the American Council on Graduate Medical Education.
Cefalo served terms as president and chair of the American
Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and as president of the North Carolina
Obstetrical and Gynecological Society.
He was also honored by the North Carolina Governor’s
Commission on Reduction of Infant Mortality.
Contributions may be sent to the Cefalo/Bowes
Distinguished Professorship Endowed Chair, The Medical
Foundation of North Carolina, 880 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Chapel Hill
27514; Holy Cross Catholic Church 2438 S. Alston Avenue, Durham 27713; or the
Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center, CB# 7295.
Ovitt, government data librarian, dies at 51
OVITT |
James Harvard Ovitt, government data librarian, died
suddenly of a heart attack on April 20. He was 51.
Ovitt became government data librarian in 2005 after serving
as a reference librarian and a student assistant at Davis Library. He received
a master’s degree in library science from Carolina’s
School of Information and Library Science in 2003 and a
bachelor’s degree in history from Cornell University in 1980.
Before entering the field of library science, Ovitt spent
nearly 20 years in the media industry in New York as a producer and director of
documentary and industrial films.
He was a member of the American Library Association (ALA)
and of ALA’s Association of College and Research Libraries and Government
Documents Roundtable. He was also a member of the North Carolina Library
Association and of the association’s Government Resources Section.
A college fund for Ovitt’s daughter has been established.
Checks may be made payable to Ovitt College Fund, State Employees Credit Union,
P.O. Box 878, Carrboro, 27510 or brought to the SECU office, 100 Highway 54
West, in Carrboro.
Decorations & Distinctions
Steve Rogers
Zefeng Wang
Rogers, assistant professor of biology, and Wang, assistant
professor of pharmacology, have been honored with Beckman Young
Investigator Awards for their work in chemical and life sciences research. They
are among 16 recipients of this year’s Beckman Young Investigator Awards, which
support the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of
academic careers in the chemical and life sciences.
Both will receive $300,000 over three years in support of
their projects.
Philip Stadter
Professor emeritus of classics, Stadter was awarded an
honorary doctorate from the Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan,
Italy, on April 8.
Formerly the Eugene
H. Falk Professor
in the Humanities, Stadter was awarded the honorary doctorate in philology,
literature and civilization of the ancient world. He was recognized by faculty
at the university for his work studying the Italian renaissance, the
ancient Greek historians and the Greek
biographer Plutarch.
After the degree was awarded, Stadter gave a lecture on
“Libraries and Persons in the Christian Reception of Antiquity.”
Joel Schwartz
Professor emeritus of political science and adjunct
professor of public policy, Schwartz was the recipient of the Faculty
Excellence Award April 17 during the APPLES Service-Learning Showcase
Celebration: Fruits of our Labor.
Carol Tresolini, associate provost for
academic initiatives, presented the awards.
Ueltschi Service-Learning Course Development Grants
The APPLES Service-Learning Program has announced recipients
of the 2008 Ueltschi
Service-Learning Course Development Grants. Six recipients were selected to
develop five innovative service-learning courses for undergraduate students by
integrating community service into the traditional academic setting.
Each course addresses unique local and state community needs
while providing
substantial learning opportunities for students.
Course topics range from grassroots community development to reporting for new
media, demonstrating a broad application of
service-learning across the disciplines.
Grant recipients will receive $8,000 to support expenses
such as course development, books, materials and stipends. Recipients must teach the course at
least three times within five years, starting in the 2008–09 academic
year.
Grant recipients are: Elizabeth Bruno,
lecturer in Romance languages; Billie
Murray and Natalie Fixmer, graduate students in communication studies; Karla
Slocum,
associate professor of anthropology; Sandy Smith-Nonini, adjunct assistant
professor
of anthropology; and Ryan Thornburg,
assistant professor of journalism and
mass communication.
2008 IT Awards
The 16th Annual UNC Information Technology Awards ceremony
was held April 22 at the Carolina Club. Each year the awards
recognize the work and dedication of the campus staff involved in information
technology (IT).
Individual winners were: Erin Adair, Christina
Artis, Alex Azad, Roger Carden, Eric Chapman, Manuel Garcia, Caitlyn Hill,
Carrie Holbert,
Shumin Li Kevin Masters, David Perrin,
Bonnie Smyre, Jeff Vandrimmelen, Scott Wilber,
Gary Wilhelm and Diana Woodhouse.
Team winners were: Chris Williams, Jeremy Buenviaje and Paul
Kamen (ResNET); Richard Hill and Tony DeLuca (ITS Internal Support); Leslie
Kreizman, Penny Ward, Baskin Cooper and Curtis Webster (IT South Building).
URC Spring Awards
The University Research Council (URC) administers a small
grant program for faculty and professional librarians at UNC. There are two
types of grants, research and publication,
reviewed twice a year. The maximum total
award is $5,000. The council encourages the use of URC grants as a stepping
stone to
extramural support.
For the spring term, there were 88 applications and 33 award
recipients. Recipients are listed at the following Web site: research.unc.edu/red/urc_winners.php.
For more information about research and economic development
small grant and internal funding programs, see research.unc.edu/red/internal.php#urc.
MD-MPH program
The MD-MPH joint degree program between the schools of
medicine and
public health was featured in an article in the April issue of Academic
Medicine, “The MD-MPH Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.” It was written by Russell Harris, Linda Kinsinger, Sue
Tolleson-Rinehart, Anthony Viera and
Georgette Dent.
The article describes the collaboration
between the schools that led to the 1997
development of the Health Care and Prevention
MPH concentration.
The concentration is designed to meet the unique needs of medical students,
residents, fellows and others with clinical
science backgrounds who seek to integrate training in population sciences with
their
medical training.
North Carolina Botanical Garden
The American Public Gardens Association (APGA) has chosen
the Web site of the North Carolina Botanical Garden (ncbg.unc.edu), to receive
first place honor in the mid-size public
garden category for the 2008 Dorothy E.
Hansell Publication Award.
The award recognizes excellence in publications related to
public gardens. The award will be presented at the APGA’s annual conference in
June in Pasadena, Calif.
