Fourth of July festivities

Celebrate July 4th with an evening of fireworks and family entertainment at Kenan Stadium. The Town of Chapel Hill's annual July 4th celebration begins at 7 p.m. when the gates open and activities for children begin.

Johnny White and the Elite Band’s concert is scheduled for 8 to 9:30 p.m. Fireworks, visible only from inside the stadium, begin at 9:30 p.m.

In case of rain, the celebration will be July 5.

For information, call 968-2784 or see snipurl.com/jpwoq.

‘Locally Grown’ series
offers free music and movies

The Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership and the Town of Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department present Locally Grown Rooftop Music and Movies this summer in downtown Chapel Hill, from June 18 through Aug. 20.

Locally Grown is a nine-week series of live concerts and outdoor movies featuring local entertainers and family friendly activities every Thursday on the Wallace Plaza, an urban park on top of the Wallace Parking Deck at 150 East Rosemary St.

The series begins June 18 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. with a concert by Will McFarlane and Big Mama E and the Cool. June 25 is movie night. A showing of “The Dark Knight” starts at sundown – around 8:30 p.m. snipurl.com/jpx2i

Federal work-study orientation
for new supervisors

The Office of Scholarships and Student Aid offers training sessions for full-time faculty and staff members interested in joining the Federal Work-Study program. Training is mandatory and covers topics such as institutional and federal guidelines, student payroll, the job classification system, documenting student hours in TIM, creating job descriptions and marketing jobs online. No registration is required; attend a session that works best for you.

Time Information Management (TIM) administrators and TIM back-up personnel are not eligible to participate.

All sessions are held in Room 121 of Hanes Art Center on the following dates:

July 14, 10 a.m. – noon; and
Aug. 6, 2–4 p.m.

Contact Michelle Klemens for information (962-4176 or michelle_klemens@unc.edu).

NC TraCS Institute develops online presence

The North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS) was established in May 2008 with a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Institutes of Health.

The institute is the academic home of the CTSA at UNC and part of the national CTSA Consortium. The institute’s mission is to transform all activities relating to clinical and translational research by creating new programs and pathways that make it easier for research to be performed at UNC and throughout the state of North Carolina.

NC TraCS has developed a Web site (tracs.unc.edu) to state its goals and to familiarize the research community with its programs and resources.

Waste reduction, recycling efforts

Recycling one ton of paper saves 17 trees, 6,953 gallons of water and 463 gallons of oil. Using that formula, by recycling paper alone Carolina has saved 23,338 trees, 9,545,120 gallons of water and 635,609 gallons of oil this year, and the fiscal year is not over.

These are the kinds of results that the Office of Waste Reduction and Recycling tracks in its trend reports. The recycling efforts of everything from confidential paper to food waste to Fall Fest to football games are documented in detail in reports posted online.

In addition, the site gives complete information about proper disposal of recyclable materials: what materials can be recycled and where they need to go. www.fac.unc.edu/WasteReduction

Spaces available for pre-college
math, science STEM camp

The UNC NC-MSEN (North Carolina Mathematics and Science Education Network) Pre-College Program Summer STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) Camp will be held June 29 through July 17. Spaces are open for students who will be in grades 6 through 12 in the fall. The camp includes courses for the upcoming school year with hands-on activities that complement their learning objectives, and field trips, speakers, projects and fun.

Hours are Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. For information call 962-1624, e-mail Affleck@email.unc.edu or see www.unc.edu/depts.ed/pcp.

Literary festival attracts
increasing numbers of authors

Actress, playwright and author Anna Deavere Smith and children’s book illustrator and author Brian Pinkney will take part in the N.C. Literary Festival, Sept. 10–13 at UNC.

Smith will present the annual Frank Porter Graham Lecture on Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Her talk, free and open to the public, is titled “Finding Grace and Kindness in a Winner-Take-All Society.”

Smith has performed for film, television and theater. She played the role of Nancy McNally, the fictional national security adviser on NBC’s hit series “The West Wing,” and she recently appeared in the Jonathan Demme movie “Rachel Getting Married.”

The festival will include a stage dedicated to programs for children, and Pinkney will read from his works and share his illustrations on Sept. 12 at 10 a.m. as part of the Susan Steinfirst Memorial Lecture in Children’s Literature sponsored by the School of Information and Library Science.

Among his honors, Pinkney won the 1997 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for “The Adventures of Sparrowboy” and also the Coretta Scott King Award from the American Library Association.

The fifth biennial festival will include readings and discussions by more than 100 authors. www.NCLiteraryFestival.org

UNC awarded 14th financial reporting certificate

The University has received its 14th consecutive Certificate for Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. The certificate of achievement is the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and financial reporting.

The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada recently awarded the certificate to the University for its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008. The Finance Division is largely responsible for the yearly report, but many University offices contribute to the final product.

Hip hop troupe completes
PlayMakers’ 2009–10 lineup

The innovative hip hop theater troupe Universes returns to Chapel Hill for performances in January 2010 as part of PlayMakers Repertory Company’s PRC² second-stage series. Universes will present its newest stage show, “The Big Bang.” The show is a mix of music, drama, poetry and rhythmic movement charting the creative history of the critically acclaimed ensemble. All PRC² performances are followed by artist-audience discussions.

Tickets for “The Big Bang” are available now as part of the theater’s season subscription packages. Call PlayMakers box office at 962-PLAY (7529) or see playmakersrep.org.

Update campus directory listings
for print directory, campus mail

Updates to personal data must be made to the online campus directory by June 19 to ensure the accuracy of the 2009–10 printed campus telephone directory. Information is pulled from the online directory for the print version. To review and update data, go to directory.unc.edu and selected the “Update Entry” option from the links on the left.

University Mail Services (UMS) is changing the way it handles campus mail and needs the UNC community’s help to ensure accurate service.

Automated mail sorting equipment was due to be installed this week. It will sort inbound U.S. Postal Service mail through the use of a computer database, multiline optical character reader and robotics.

To facilitate delivery of inbound mail, UMS will use the online campus directory to obtain delivery information for mail that is improperly addressed. For that reason, and as stressed above, it is important for faculty and staff to review their online campus directory listings (directory.unc.edu) and make updates as necessary.

Mail services makes changes
to delivery routes July 1

With the addition of automated mail sorting equipment, University Mail Services will begin to process mail in the early morning hours, and all first-class business correspondence will be delivered to University departments no later than 11:30 a.m. each day. This change is intended to expedite turnaround of important information.

In addition, to improve efficiency the number of campus mail delivery routes will be reduced from 13 to 10 on July 1. It is not expected that the route consolidation will negatively affect mail pickup or delivery. Careful consideration has been given to critical finance areas and large volume mailers when making route changes. Refer to www.fac.unc.edu  for complete information on new routes and delivery times.

UNC Press book is a slam dunk
for holiday gift giving

“One Fantastic Ride: the Inside Story of Carolina Basketball’s 2009 Championship Season” is a behind-the-scenes portrait of the men’s basketball team’s journey to its fifth NCAA tournament title this spring. Written by Adam Lucas, Steve Kirschner and Matt Bowers, the authors were present with the team’s coaches, players and staff at every stage of the season.

Lucas is a featured columnist on TarHeelBlue.com and is publisher of Tar Heel Monthly and Tar Heels Today. Kirschner is associate athletic director for athletic communications at Carolina, and Bowers is deputy director of athletic communications. Coach Roy Williams wrote the book’s foreword.

“One Fantastic Ride” will be in bookstores in October and is available for preorder now. snipurl.com/jx1re

‘What Is the Good Life?’

The Program for the Humanities and Human Values has a summer full of seminars as part of its Adventures in Ideas series. Among them is a seminar featuring Lloyd Kramer, chair and Dean E. Smith Distinguished Term Professor of History, “What Is the Good Life? Searching for Success from Plato and Prozac.” It will be held June 26–27 at the Center for School Leadership Development.

Registration is required. Cost is $120 plus an optional dinner.

Two other June summer seminars are sold out: “Venice and the Making of the Modern World (June 20) and “The Classic Southern Novel (July 11). A waiting list is available for both events, and if significant demand is evident, certain seminars could be repeated.

For information, e-mail human@unc.edu, call 962-1544 or see adventuresinideas.unc.edu.