The bubblegum-pink goop placed in Chancellor Holden Thorp’s ears looked like something intended for an Easy-Bake Oven. In reality, it was a silicone gel mixture that hardened

within about 10 minutes to create a mold for custom, musician-quality hearing protection.

Musicians’ earplugs let a person hear the music, but at a lower sound level to reduce the risk of noise-induced hearing loss.

“Unlike the foam earplugs people buy at the drugstore, these custom earplugs will block potentially harmful noise without distorting it,” said Martha Mundy, audiologist and coordinator of the doctoral program

in audiology in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences within the School of Medicine’s Department of Allied Health Sciences.

“With his history as a musician, the chancellor is an excellent candidate for a hearing assessment and consideration of musicians’ hearing protection.”

Thorp had his hearing tested on April 8 in the division’s Audiology Teaching Laboratory to measure thresholds for the softest sounds he could detect.

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As part of ongoing efforts to enhance campus safety, the University will conduct an emer-gency drill off campus next Wednesday, April 21, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

The Department of Public Safety is coordinat-ing the drill, which will simulate the University’s response to a shooter on campus and will involve local law enforcement and response agencies in addition to University officials.

The drill will be held at the Outdoor Education Center, located off Country Club Road, and will be confined to that area. Actors from EnviroSafe Consulting and Investigations Inc., a firm under contract with UNC General Administration, will play the role of armed shooters. Others will portray hostages and victims from the campus community.

“In conjunction with the drill, we’re asking you to practice your own emergency preparedness

on April 21,” Chancellor Holden Thorp told the campus community in an April 6 e-mail message.

Shortly before 8:45 a.m., the emergency sirens will sound as a test. People who are outside will likely hear the sirens, but people inside may not. Students, faculty and staff who have registered for emergency text messages in the online directory

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Left , Chancel lor Holden Thorp has his hear ing tested by third-year doctoral student Ellen Pearce, below, in the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences’ Audiology Teaching Laboratory. Afterward, Pearce fitted Thorp for custom musicians’ earplugs designed to reduce noise across the frequency range without distorting sound. Thorp took part to emphasize the importance of hearing assessment and protection.

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NIH award spurs expansion of genetic research at Bingham Facility

The National Institutes of Health has awarded the University about $14.5 million in American Recov-

ery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding to build 30,000 square feet of new buildings at its Bingham Facility.

Research conducted by the Bingham Facility, an animal research facility in western Orange County, focuses on the genetic diseases hemo-philia and muscular dystrophy, areas in which Carolina is a leading center for research.

The grant provides funding to erect two build-ings to be completed by 2013 to house animals and support the infrastructure of the facility. In addition, the University will fund and con-struct a building to house veterinary services, laboratories and offices. This work will take place alongside the construction sponsored by the federal government.

“To receive a construction award in such an extremely competitive grant program is an achievement that reflects the extraordinary qual-ity of work by our faculty researchers,” said Tony Waldrop, Carolina’s vice chancellor for research

and economic development. “The researchers whose work will be sup-

ported by the Bingham Facility are national lead-ers in discovering new gene therapy for hemo-philia, muscular dystrophy and cardiovascular disease. They give new hope daily to patients with these diseases.”

The Bingham Facility has been in operation since the 1970s. The additional construction, which also will move research from the 50-year-old Francis Owen Blood Research Laboratory near University Lake, is consistent with a master plan prepared in 2004. At full build-out, the plan calls for the facility to span 103,000 square feet in several buildings clustered together on the 57-acre site.

Planning for the new construction will be completed in the summer or fall of 2011 and construction will be completed in mid-2013.

UNC researchers have received nearly $110 million in ARRA grants or awards since March 2009, not including this award. Officials expect about $129 million in total ARRA funding.

The Board of Governors last week approved Carolina’s plan to expand its pharmacy-education program to UNC-Asheville in partnership with Mission Health System.

The Eshelman School of Pharmacy will create a satellite pharmacy program that will be based at UNC-Asheville. The new program is an expansion of the successful part-nership Carolina’s pharmacy school has had with Elizabeth City State University since 2005. That program will graduate its second class in May.

The start-up costs for the program will be covered by a $2.5 million fundraising initia-tive spearheaded by the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners has pledged $600,000 toward that goal, and the City of Ashe-ville has pledged $100,000.

By the fourth year of the program, the cost is projected to be fully covered by tuition and by Mission Health System funding half the clinical faculty’s salaries. The partnership program is not expected to require any state funding.

Asheville was considered the natural choice for locating a satellite program because of the close working partnership among UNC-Asheville, Mission Health System and Carolina.

Like its counterpart at ECSU, the satellite program in Asheville will educate more pharmacists in an area of North Carolina that does not have enough health-care provid-ers in general. In recognition of the need for more health-care practitioners in Western North Carolina, Carolina’s pharmacy school made expansion into the area part of its strategic plan five years ago.

The satellite program could enroll up to 40 doctor of pharmacy students a year. The doctor of pharmacy, or Pharm.D., is the professional degree required to practice as a pharmacist.

The Asheville community already is known for the highly successful Asheville Project, which began more than a decade ago as a collaboration among the Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Mission Health System, the City of Asheville and community pharmacists. The multidisciplinary program provides intensive education for people with chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure and high cholesterol through their employers’ health plans.

Patients are also paired with community pharmacists who help them understand how to use their medications correctly. As a result of the project, many community pharma-cists have developed thriving practices that have improved their patients’ health while saving money.

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with A little help From StudeNtS Stephen Anderson, assistant professor of music, has a

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Such a test typically measures tones at the many different frequencies associated with speech and other sounds, Mundy said. Test-ing covers the frequencies from 250 to 8,000 cycles per second (also known as Hertz), although most of the sounds in speech fall between 300 and 3,000 cycles.

By also measuring a person’s response to a series of words at different volume levels, audi-ologists can estimate the speech threshold.

Another test, known as word recognition, compares the ability to understand a word heard at normal sound levels in each ear with the overall word recognition rate. This test, Mundy said, looks at the impact of hearing on overall communication.

Thorp’s hearing tested within the normal word recognition range of 90 percent to 100 percent, said Ellen Pearce, the third-year doc-toral student who, under Mundy’s supervi-sion, conducted the hearing test and created impressions for the custom earplugs.

“Even though the chancellor had good test results, it’s important to protect the current hearing level so there is no subsequent hearing loss,” Pearce said.

Within a week or so, Thorp will have a pair of “marble blue” (the closest available color to Carolina blue) vinyl musicians’ earplugs designed to reduce noise across the frequency range without distorting sound. Special inserts will allow him to reduce incoming sound by 9 decibels or 25 decibels, as needed.

In addition to being custom-fitted from an impression for maximum comfort, musi-cians’ earplugs are designed to provide a “flat” reduction of incoming sound. Standard foam earplugs distort incoming sound by reducing the high pitches more than the low pitches, Mundy said.

Thorp’s good-natured willingness to par-ticipate in this process was not simply to end up with jazzy earplugs. He wanted to empha-size the importance of hearing assessment and protection.

“We want people to take care of their hear-ing,” Thorp said, “and at Carolina, we have

great resources in this field to help people.” The chancellor’s hearing test was sched-

uled in conjunction with International Noise Awareness Day, which will be celebrated for the 15th year on April 28. Founded by the non-profit Center for Hearing and Communication, the day was created to promote the awareness of the dangers of long-term exposure to noise.

Harmful noise, sounds that are too loud for too long, can damage the ear’s sensory cells, causing noise-induced hearing loss, Mundy said. Sounds that are less than 85 decibels – for example, the humming of a refrigerator (45 decibels) or normal conversation (65 deci-bels) are no problem. But when sounds exceed 85 decibels, there is the potential for perma-nent hearing damage, she said.

City traffic can easily exceed 85 decibels, a rock concert could climb to 100 to 120 deci-bels, and very loud noises such as firecrackers, firearms or a jet engine at takeoff range from 120 to 140 decibels.

Prolonged exposure to sounds, even if only slightly above 85 decibels, can cause hear-ing loss. In fact, an estimated 15 percent of

Americans ages 20 to 69 have high-frequency hearing loss that may have been caused by exposure to noise, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communica-tion Disorders.

Hearing problems can take different forms, Mundy said. Often, people cannot hear sounds at lower levels, but it is also possible that people can converse and understand each other one on one, but not understand what is said when other noises are introduced.

“Fortunately, noise-induced hearing loss is preventable,” said Jack Roush, professor and director of the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Carolina.

“Raising awareness within the community about how people can take care of their hear-ing and avoid permanent damage from hazard-ous noise levels is one of our most important goals,” he said.

“We are grateful to the chancellor for help-ing us raise awareness of hearing conservation and how to prevent noise-induced hearing loss through the use of appropriate hearing protection.”

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two decades ago, uNC president emeritus william Friday

described the william and ida Friday Center for Continuing

education as “the citizens’ classroom.” that was during the

center’s groundbreaking ceremony.

on march 30, Friday’s vision was realized as the Friday

Center welcomed its one-millionth conference participant

since opening its doors in 1991. bobbi earp, who attended

a conference held by triangle research libraries Network

(trlN), earned the distinction.

“i always attend the trlN conferences,” earp said, “but for

this one i was away and had to request permission to regis-

ter late – so i almost missed this, but now i certainly am glad

i didn’t.”

Friday and his wife, ida, the couple for whom the center is

named, were on hand for the celebration.

“it is very fitting that people working with books are here

today, because you are the perpetual force of the uni-

versity and every high school and grammar school,”

Friday said.

Chancellor holden thorp called the Friday Center a

central source of support for the university’s mission “to

extend knowledge-based services and resources to the cit-

izens of North Carolina and is indicative of the university’s

strong commitment to public service.”

Among its programs, the Friday Center offers a popular

selection of enrichment courses at modest cost taught by

Carolina faculty, staff, alumni and community experts.

the summer session of the Community Classroom

Series, for example, will offer courses such as “write your

life: the Sequel,” “Applied improv ii: Creativity and Com-

munication” and “intermediate digital photography.”

For more information, refer to fridaycenter.unc.edu.

Cheryl Stout, assistant director for parking services, rolled out the good news first.

There will be no increases in costs for parking permits next year, she told Employee Forum members last Wednesday.

The other news, she said, is not really bad, but it reflects a growing realization that the policy of subsidizing commuting alternatives with revenue from parking permit fees has its limits.

Over the past decade, commuter alternatives such as free park-and-ride lots, free regional transit, subsidized vanpools and free ridership on Chapel Hill Transit buses have helped limit to about 60 percent the number of employees who park their private vehicles on campus.

Much of the cost that allowed these commuting alternatives

to be free was shifted to parking permit holders.That policy to limit surface parking spaces was established in

the campus master planning process and implemented during the past decade of campus construction, Stout said.

But as the Advisory Committee for Transportation (ACT) begins work on a new five-year plan, it will seek to moderate that policy in order to stretch dollars that can benefit more commuters while limiting the burden on permit holders.

One exciting new option that will be offered is Zimride, an innovative software that makes it safe and easy for commuters

to find people who drive to work in their own vehicles and who are willing to have other people ride with them.

Stout said any future increases in parking permit fees would hinge on what the fees would be designated to support, from new parking garages to a new park-and-ride lot to transit support.

In other matters, Kathy Bryant, director of communica-tions for Human Resources, announced that the new Office of Human Resources Web site would go live on April 16. It will be announced to the University community on April 19.

She also reminded forum members that the University Lead-ership Education and Development program, known as U-LEAD, is accepting applications through April 30. For more information on U-LEAD, refer to hr.unc.edu.

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Six employees have been selected by Chancellor Holden Thorp to be honored with a 2010 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award, one of the most coveted

distinctions the University bestows to faculty and staff. The late C. Knox Massey of Durham created the awards

in 1980 to recognize “unusual, meritorious or superior con-tributions” by University employees. In 1984, he joined the families of his son, Knox Massey Jr., and daughter, Kay Massey Weatherspoon, in creating the Massey-Weatherspoon fund. Income from the fund supports the Massey Awards and Carolina Seminars.

Thorp will host a dinner for the recipients on April 24 to celebrate the 31st year of the awards. Thorp selected this year’s recipients based on nominations from the campus com-munity, and each honoree will receive an award citation and a $6,000 stipend.

The recipients are:n Bruce Carney, executive vice chancellor and

provost;n Anson Dorrance, women’s soccer coach;n Stephen Farmer, associate provost and director of

undergraduate admissions;n Patsy Oliver, assistant dean for finance and business,

medicine administration;n Steven Reznick, psychology professor and associate

dean of the Undergraduate Education Office; andn Nihlei Tial, housekeeper in the Joyner and Connor

residence halls.

CArNeyAccording to an Italian proverb, “The right man

comes at the right time.” For Carolina, one of those men has been Carney, who came here 30 years ago as an assistant professor of astronomy after receiving his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard.

As an astrophysicist and expert on the distribution of older stars and the formation of the Milky Way galaxy, Carney helped breach the confines of Earth through his work on the Southern Astrophysical Research (or SOAR) Telescope in Cerro Pachon, Chile.

During the past decade, his administrative career at Carolina has soared as well. In 1999, he became chair of the Department of Physics and Astron-omy, and then served as senior associate dean for the natural sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences.

Because of Carney’s outstanding performance, Thorp asked him to serve as interim dean of the college in 2008. Thorp had been dean of the college when he was named the University’s 10th chancellor that year.

One year later, Thorp tapped Carney to serve as interim executive vice chancellor and provost when Bernadette Gray-Little left that post to become chancellor of the University of Kansas. Earlier this year, Thorp asked Carney to take the posi-tion permanently.

dorrANCeMia Hamm, widely regarded as the most successful women’s

soccer player in history, perhaps is best qualified to explain why Dorrance could be considered the greatest women’s soccer coach in history.

Dorrance realized Hamm’s potential, she said, and he pushed her when she needed to be pushed to be able to realize it.

“He challenged me every single day to constantly improve,

nurtured me when he saw that I needed it and molded me not only into the player, but into the person, I am today,” Hamm said.

That ability to mold players to meet their full potential has allowed Dorrance to amass one of the most successful coaching careers ever, not only in soccer, but also throughout athletics.

In a pantheon of the NCAA’s illustrious coaches, he is the first in Division I history to coach a single sport to 20 NCAA titles, and his .934 winning percentage is the highest of any coach in any sport in NCAA history.

FArmerEach year, in a process heralded as “an imperfect art and con-

stant balancing act,” Carolina narrows a pool of nearly 24,000 applicants down to 7,000 top undergraduate students who would be a good fit for the University.

At the center of that process is Farmer, who brings to the task

what one colleague described as a relentless pursuit of the best and the brightest. At the same time, Farmer has championed programs such as C-STEP for transfer students to increase college access for all students, despite their socioeconomic background.

He also pushed for the expansion of the National College Advising Corps – and the subsequent creation of the College Advising Corps – to help low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students find their way to college. One colleague said the embrace of socioeconomic diversity is not merely a programmatic objective for Farmer, but a personal one.

One first-generation student said she was impressed with Farmer when she and her mother visited campus. It was not so much what he said, but how well he listened, the student said. In that act, she said, Farmer showed “he really cared about me as a person,” which ultimately led to her decision to enroll.

oliverSince joining Carolina’s staff in 1990 as an accountant

in the Controller’s Office, Oliver has progressed through a series of positions with increasing levels of responsibility, first in the School of Public Health and later in the School of Medicine.

The dean, vice dean and executive associate dean, all of whom nominated her for the Massey Award, said Oliver is universally praised by department chairs, center directors and business managers as a true asset both to the School of Medi-cine and the University.

“She is always gracious, helpful and generally wonderful, no matter the size, scope or complexity of the matter at hand,” they wrote.

In recent years, Oliver has been instrumental in seeing the School of Medicine through the rounds of state budget cuts,

nominators said. In addition, she served on the steering committee

for EPAWeb, a system that incorporates EPA per-sonnel business rules to improve the processing and approval of personnel actions for all EPA employees.

reZNiCKSince his arrival at Carolina in 1998 as a professor

of psychology, Reznick has established a reputation as both a “methodically sophisticated researcher” and a capable administrator who has earned the position as director of the program in developmental psychology.

“He loves to brainstorm ideas and, simply, to get things done,” wrote a nominator. “When he sees a need, he does not sit on the sidelines, but rather jumps in and gets to work.”

As associate dean for first-year seminars and aca-demic experiences, Reznick has committed himself to using the first-year seminar as a vehicle to foster a sense of community while introducing students to both the joys and rigor of academic life.

His commitment to the broader community is evi-dent in his work with the UNC Faculty-Staff Recre-ation Association – also known as the Farm. As both a former board member and president of the Farm, Reznick was the driving force in the effort to replace the aging building with a modern facility. He attended town council meetings, met with planners and helped establish a long-term capital improvements plan with town staff members.

tiAlMore than 80 students from the Joyner and Connor resi-

dence hall communities, five resident advisers, one young alumnus and a former Massey winner saw in Tial these same qualities meriting recognition: hard work, passion and love.

Said the students, “She puts everything she has into her work and truly helps create a home away from home for us!”

Students often spot Tial scrubbing her way up and down the hall to dust the fringes of the walls, or sweeping the stairwells, prompting one student to write, “She does all the regular duties of a housekeeper with such determination that dirt and grime stand no chance.”

Tial is originally from Burma where she worked as a chemis-try teacher and she shares her knowledge of the subject with the students in the residence halls.

While mastering English, she communicates through the universal vocabulary of friendliness, the students said.

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Partnership for a Healthier America, an independent, non-partisan organization that aims to mobilize the country to action and to further the goals of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign to curb childhood obesity within a generation, has named WilliAM l. roper to its national board. Roper is dean of the School of Medicine, CEO of UNC Health Care and vice chancellor for Health Affairs.

freDericK p. BrooKs Jr., Kenan Professor of Com-puter Science and founder of the computer science depart-ment, recently received the 2010 Virtual Reality Career Award, given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society in honor of his lifetime contribu-tions to virtual reality research and practice. Ming c. lin, Beverly W. Long Distinguished Term Professor of Computer Science, received the 2010 Virtual Reality Technical Achieve-ment Award – also given by IEEE – in recognition of seminal technical achievement in virtual and augmented reality.

sUsAn coppolA, clinical associate professor of occupa-tional science, has been elected by the American Occupational Therapy Association membership to serve a four-year term as the United States’ delegate to the World Federation of Occu-pational Therapists.

DAviD goDscHAlK, Stephen Baxter Professor Emeri-tus of City and Regional Planning, has been tapped by the American Planning Association to co-chair a new sustainability task force. Godschalk will co-chair a task force that will focus on using comprehensive planning as a tool to help communities of all sizes achieve sustainability.

nortH cArolinA pUBlic rADio/WUnc-fM won nine awards March 27 at the North Carolina Associ-ated Press Awards in Greensboro. The station won outstand-ing news operation and nine out of the 14 radio Division One awards. Capitol Bureau Chief lAUrA leslie won four awards, health reporter rose HoBAn won three awards, and “Morning Edition” host eric HoDge and producer yAsMeen KHAn won best newscast award.

The Carolina Center for Public Service recently honored the inaugural class of the Faculty Engaged Scholars program. As a competitive program, these scholars were selected to participate in the two-year program designed to advance fac-ulty involvement in engaged scholarship. Members of the first class of scholars were: gAry BisHop, professor of com-puter science; MiMi cHApMAn, associate professor of social work; giselle corBie-sMitH, associate professor

of social medicine, medicine and epidemiology; DorotHy HollAnD, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; JocK lAUterer, lecturer and director of the Carolina Community Media Project; MAi ngUyen, assistant professor of city and regional planning; pAUl sMo-KoWsKi, associate professor of social work; and MicHAel WAltMAn, associate professor of communication studies.

A technology that makes cancer drugs work better and a nonprofit that is improving the lives of street children in Accra, Ghana, each won top honors and $15,000 in the University’s sixth annual cArolinA cHAllenge entrepreneurial business-plan competition March 27.

These two teams were among eight proposed ventures, four commercial and four social, that took home a total $50,000 in prize money. They emerged as winners from the record field of 121 teams that signed up in January to compete in the 2010 Challenge. Read more about the winners: snipurl.com/vb56m.

After winning an honorable mention at Carolina’s com-petition, the AUtisMspHere startup won first place and $5,000 in social entrepreneurship the same day at Wake Forest University’s Business Elevator Pitch Competition. AutismSphere is creating Internet-driven support communities for children with autism.

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Steven Dobbins, administrative support specialist in Academic Advising, is the win-ner of the 2009 Robert R. Cornwell Unsung Hero Award. The presentation was made March 29 at Wilson Library by the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment in a celebration in Dobbins’ honor.

The award is presented annually to an employee who has provided significant ser-vice in support of the University over a long period of time and, generally, from a back-ground position. Of equal importance to excellence of work performed is the likeli-hood that the employee’s work is unnoticed by much of the University community.

The award is named for Cornwell, who served the University for more than 20 years as associate registrar and research associate

in the Office of Institutional Research, before he died in 1994.

Dobbins was cited by co-workers for his dedication, work ethic and institutional memory, and his tireless efforts behind the scenes to solve problems. “All of us would be doomed in advising if it weren’t for his knowledge of the curricula and the eligibility rules,” a nominator said.

Dobbins’ meticulous tracking of students and monitoring their academic eligibility status is incomparable, a nominator said. Dubbed the “Eligibility Man” by colleagues, he is considered “the go-to person for all questions related to eligibility, which, due to its complexity, often confuses students and advisers alike,” another said.

Described by co-workers as unassuming

but very funny, Dobbins is adept at putting people at ease and creating an environment in which ideas can be shared. Although he deals with numbers and rules, he cares deeply about the students his office serves.

“From G015C Steele Building, Steve Dobbins works his magic to keep the Aca-demic Advising Program, and the more than 14,000 students we serve, on track,” a col-league said.

“With 17 years’ experience, he is the one to whom we turn to make sure our student listserv is current, our students’ eligibility and classification statuses are accurate, our official communications to students are timely, and our language on forms and official memoranda leaves no room for misinterpretation.”

With phishing e-mails and malware infec-tions on the rise, the Information Security Office at Information Technology Services (ITS) has created a Web-based training mod-ule to inform Carolina faculty and staff about the basic elements of IT security.

The 2010 Computer Security Awareness Module is designed to provide University employees with information to help them operate their computers safely and securely. It provides security guidelines, encourages safe computing and can help decrease mal-ware infections on campus.

The training, available at https://itsapps.unc.edu/ITSSelfStudy/, contains 11 sections, each consisting of training materials followed by a self-assessment quiz. Anyone who has an Onyen can access the Web site and work on each section independently and at his or her own pace. Each section is expected to take less than 10 minutes to complete, and most people can expect to complete the entire

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If you walk into a room and see 20 or so peo-ple doing yoga exercises before they attempt dramatic readings, you might guess they were theater students.

But you would be wrong. They are physiol-ogy and neuroscience graduate students tak-ing a class in drama as a way to improve their speaking skills.

Ann Stuart, professor of cell and molecular physiology, teaches a graduate presentation and writing class in the School of Medicine in which students present their research to Stu-art, their classmates and other faculty mem-bers in the physiology department and neuro-biology curriculum. The students also critique each other’s presentations.

Stuart has taught the class, which she initi-ated as an experiment, for eight to 10 years. “The class is an intense experience which I think is unique on campus,” she said.

To achieve the intended results, Stuart said she encourages her students to be merciless in their critiques of people who come to campus to speak so they can see how – or how not – to give an effective, engaging talk.

As part of the class, the students do writ-ing and other exercises and must give two talks, which they rehearse with other stu-dents beforehand. They meet in what Stuart calls rehearsal pods and critique each other to incorporate peer feedback; then they give their rehearsed talk to the class.

The talks are filmed so Stuart and the stu-dents can discuss the presentations and what needs to be improved, whether it is voice pro-jection, slide design, sequence of ideas and transitions, or posture.

Even with such thorough feedback, Stu-art wants the students to hone their skills in engaging their audiences, so two years ago she added a new dimension.

“Who engages audiences?” Stuart thought. “Actors, of course.”

She contacted the Department of Dramatic Art and spoke with Jeff Meanza, director of education and outreach for PlayMakers Rep-ertory Company (shown above with Stuart). He agreed to work with the students for one class period.

The students went to the Paul Green The-atre, where Meanza demonstrated various exer-cises that would improve their speaking skills.

“Two years ago the class was voluntary and the students thoroughly enjoyed it,” Stuart said. “This year I just put it on the schedule.”

Meanza thought it was an exciting idea. He said one mission of the Department of Dra-matic Art is collaboration across disciplines.

“Using techniques of acting to show people they should be interested in what you have to say can produce dramatic results,” he said.

Some of the main things Stuart’s students typically have trouble with are voice projec-tion, confidence, nervousness, posture and not

knowing what to emphasize. To address these issues, Meanza worked

with the students on such things as vocal pro-duction, clarity of speech and nervousness. One challenge, he said, was getting the stu-dents to go outside themselves and not worry what other people thought.

He had the students work in groups doing warm-up exercises, playing games and reciting Shakespearean sonnets. He also showed them how to do vocal exercises with their material so they could make it as engaging as possible.

When the class began, Meanza said, the students were a mixed bag. Some had done theater in high school and were excited about the opportunity, but others were not. But even the students who had reservations were will-ing to play along, he said, and it was exciting to see the moment in which the students transi-tioned into their work.

“I’m going to throw a lot of ideas at you and work quickly with you so you don’t have a chance to second-guess yourself,” Meanza said.

Adam Gracz, one of Stuart’s students, thought the theater project was excellent. “The breathing and voice exercises were surprisingly effective in terms of relaxation,” he said. “I will honestly probably use some of these before my next talk.”

Another student, Mike Wallace, said: “This project provided a unique insight into the importance of not just communicating our

science, but presenting it in a way that engages the audience and gets them interested in what we have to say. In science, it is often stressed to be concise and clear. However, flow and style are often overlooked. I felt that the theater project began to address some of those issues.”

Stuart’s class is more than a requirement, though, and the collaboration with Meanza goes far beyond fun and silliness. Skills taught in the class are essential for job interviews and research presentations.

“The skills you have to learn to knock the socks off people are very complicated,” Stuart said. “Graduate students’ whole lives depend on standing up there for one hour and telling people about their work. How effective they are in that hour often determines whether they get that job.”

Meanza and Stuart are pleased with their collaboration and hope that this concept might spread to other science departments at Carolina. Stuart is optimistic that her students will be more adept at connecting with their audiences and making their research under-standable and engaging for people with a vari-ety of backgrounds.

And she plans to have her students work with Meanza again next year.

Editor’s Note: This article was written by Lauren Shoaf, a sophomore who is majoring in journal-ism and mass communication.

meanza and Stuart teach graduate students how to

present their science

At the start of its sixth season, Carolina Performing Arts is building relationships with artists and audiences in an expan-sive program showcasing internationally acclaimed artists in 49 performances.

Featuring a lineup of returning artists and new series pro-gramming, the 2010-11 season, announced April 7, boasts its largest lineup to date, including 13 returning artists and ensembles. Those include cellist Yo-Yo Ma, conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, pianist Mitsuko Uchida, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, dance-theater troupe Cirque Éloize, and Durham resident and saxophonist Bran-ford Marsalis who will perform with the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra.

Anthony Dean Griffey, world-renowned tenor and University professor of the practice, will be joined by Carolina music fac-ulty for a concert on Jan. 14, 2011, that will mark Griffey’s recital

debut in Chapel Hill.Banjo legend Earl Scruggs will share the stage with North

Carolina’s own bluegrass band The Red Clay Ramblers, open-ing Carolina Performing Arts’ celebrated American Roots series on Sept. 15.

Subscriptions to any of seven Carolina Performing Arts series, as well as flex subscription packages and single tickets to the Aug. 17 Yo-Yo Ma concert, will be available June 7.

Tickets to other individual performances will be on sale beginning July 5. All on-sale dates begin at 10 a.m. Subscriptions and tickets can be purchased online at www.carolinaperformin-garts.org or through the Memorial Hall Box Office (843-3333).

While University classes are in session, the box office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

For complete information about the new season, refer to unc-news.unc.edu/content/view/3509/66.

Carolina Performing Arts’ new season showcases

internationally acclaimed artists

It was billed as a panel discussion among a U.S. general and two British scholars on military history and strategy.

But James Mattis, the general who heads the U.S. Joint Forces Command, said he considered himself more of a pupil of the other two men, whom he has turned to for strategic advice.

The discussion, “War and Military Operations in the 21st Century: Civil-Military Implications,” was part of a two-day conference last week sponsored by the University’s Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense and the War Studies Department at

King’s College London in partnership with the Triangle Insti-tute for Security Studies.

In addition to Mattis, panelists included James Gow, pro-fessor of international peace and security and director of the International Peace and Security Programme at King’s College, and Hew Strachan, Chicele Professor of the History of War at All Souls, Oxford University.

Mattis argued that, while the characteristics of war may be changing, the essence of war is immutable.

“The nature of war will change about the time the nature of

water changes,” Mattis said. “It cannot change. It is what it is. We are going to have to deal with it.”

In his present command, Mattis’ focus is on supporting cur-rent operations while shaping U.S. forces for the future. Several years ago, he joined with Gen. David Petraeus to oversee the current command of the U.S. Central Command, the publica-tion of Field Manual 3–24 on counterinsurgency.

He cited a term coined by British General Rupert Smith, “war amongst the people,” to describe the military challenges in Afghanistan and Iraq where instead of fighting on the battle-field, enemy combatants take the fight to the civilian popula-tions to neuter the superior force of the U.S. military.

“So our military is going to have to adapt,” Mattis said. “It must adapt because it must avoid being dominant – and irrelevant – at the same time. And there is not one of us wear-ing this uniform who on 9/11 didn’t think we let you down.”

Gow and Strachan also emphasized the importance of con-trolling the perceptions of a battle as well as winning the bat-tle itself, especially in an age of global communication where images can be transmitted across the world in an instant.

“Although our states are democracies, we are finding it very hard, extraordinarily hard, to understand and manage the rela-tionship between war and politics, and as a result, exceedingly unable to produce a coherent strategy,” Strachan said.

Gow said it would be increasingly difficult for Western coun-tries in particular to use their superior armed forces for foreign policy aims because of a growing aversion to using force and the resulting injury or death of so many people.

Mattis said the enemies of modern democracies have sought to use this to their advantage. Even as the United States has sought to narrow the battlefield and limit the loss of innocent life, its enemies have sought to expand it by fighting without uniforms among the civilian population.

Despite the changing face of war, Mattis emphasized that the enemies the United States and other Western democracies now face are little different from the enemies they have faced – and defeated – over the past century.

“The enemies of today may come disguised in false religious garb, but basically it is tyranny,” Mattis said. “We fought in World War I when it was militarism. We fought it in World War II when it was fascism. We fought it in hot wars and cold wars when it was communism. They can dress it up any way they wish, but it is basically tyranny.”

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A $1.8 million, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation will add six telescopes to the University’s Skynet Robotic Telescope Network and expand its reach from three to four continents.

Skynet is a software program developed by the University that controls the tele-scopes remotely. The network is used by professional astronomers and students.

The University will add four new 16-inch

optical telescopes at Siding Spring Observa-tory in Australia to its existing telescopes in Chile, the United States and Italy.

Other additions include a new 32-inch diameter optical and infrared telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Obser-vatory in the Chilean Andes, which will complement six 16-inch Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarim-etry Telescopes (PROMPT) built in 2004.

In addition, a refurbished 20-meter radio telescope will be added at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, W.Va.

Daniel Reichart, associate professor of physics and astronomy and director of Sky-net, PROMPT and the Morehead Observa-tory, is the grant’s principal investigator.

In 2005, Reichart and UNC under-graduate student Joshua Haislip (now a software engineer in Reichart’s lab) discov-ered the then-oldest known explosion in the universe, the afterglow of a gamma ray

burst 12.8 billion years old, using both PROMPT and the SOAR (Southern Astro-physical Research) telescope in Chile.

Since its launch shortly after that discov-ery, Skynet has been used by thousands of North Carolina high school students by Web interface to observe the night sky in locations thousands of miles from Chapel Hill.

About 350 Carolina undergraduate stu-dents per year are accessing Skynet from their laptops in introductory astron-omy classes.

nSf grant extends celestial access

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FACulty CeNter Added to CoNNeCtCAroliNA

The Faculty Center is now available in ConnectCarolina, the University’s new integrated administrative system. This is the new version of Faculty/Staff Central in the new system and will be the location to view class rosters once registration begins in the fall. Faculty Center also will be the location to view other information as more pieces move into production.

In order to gain access, each individual will need to complete the training, which is available online.

Complete information is found on the ConnectCaro-lina Web site’s Faculty Guide: unc.edu/connectcarolina/facultyguide.

New voiCe mAil pASSwordS ANd GreetiNGS required by April 30

By April 30, all faculty and staff must initialize their voice mail passwords for the University’s new voice messaging sys-tem and record a new personal greeting.

At the end of this month, the University will replace the 16-year-old Octel voice mail system with CallXpress, an Applied Voice and Speech Technologies (AVST) unified com-munication platform. AVST includes all the voice messaging features of the Octel system and it can accommodate next-gen-eration technology.

To help faculty and staff make the transition, Information Technology Services will provide user training throughout

the month. For information about training dates and loca-tions, user responsibilities, a step-by-step guide to updating the password and greeting, FAQs, help documentation and an AVST user guide, refer to its.unc.edu/CommTechnology/engineering_and_operations/voicemail.

reAdiNGSThe following readings will be held at the Bull’s Head Book-

shop at 3:30 p.m.:n April 15 – Bland Simpson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Dis-

tinguished Term Professor of English and Creative Writ-ing: “The Inner Islands: A Carolinian’s Sound Country Chronicle”;

n April 19 – Jonathan Boyarin, Kaplan Distinguished Profes-sor of Religious Studies: “The Unconverted Self: Jews, Indi-ans and the Identity of Christian Europe”;

n April 21 – Deborah Christie: “Green House: The Story of a Healthy, Energy-Efficient Home,” with slide show presenta-tion; and

n April 22 – Minrose Gwin, Kenan Eminent Professor of Eng-lish and Comparative Literature: “The Queen of Palmyra.”

Forum plANS April 16 meetiNG oN heAlth iNSurANCe, other topiCS

The Employee Forum will hold a community meeting on topics including health insurance on April 16 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Great Hall of the FPG Student Union. Among those attending will be Chancellor Holden Thorp and Brian

Usischon, senior director for benefits. Employees will have an opportunity to sign up for their State Health Plan options online following the meeting. Submit questions in advance to forum_office@unc.edu or call 962-3779.

pAuper plAyerS preSeNtS ‘iNto the woodS’

Pauper Players, the student-run theater organization, will perform “Into the Woods,” by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, April 16–20 with shows nightly at 8 p.m. at the FPG Student Union Cabaret. A matinee also will be held April 18 at 2 p.m. Buy tickets at the Student Union box office (962-1449) or nightly at the door. www.unc.edu/pauper

April 15 proGrAm to hiGhliGht NeweSt rAre booKS

On April 15, treasures will come out of the stacks at the Rare Book Collection in Wilson Special Collections Library. In a free public program at 5:45 p.m., Claudia Funke, curator of rare books, will speak about the concept of rarity and the role of libraries in collecting and making rare books available. For her talk, titled “The Raw and the Cooked – and the Rare,” Funke will showcase some of the collection’s recent gifts and pur-chases. Participants will have the opportunity to view additions to the Rare Book Collection from the past two years during a reception beginning at 5 p.m. Items will range in date from the 17th to the 21st centuries. snipurl.com/vb35q

humANitieS ANd humAN vAlueS CelebrAteS 30th ANNiverSAry

The Program in the Humanities and Human Values cel-ebrates its 30th anniversary with a program from 3 to 6 p.m. on April 23 at the Friday Center. Michael H. Hunt, Everett H. Emerson Professor Emeritus of History, Joy S. Kasson, Bow-man and Gordon Gray Professor of American Studies and English, and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Morehead Alumni Dis-tinguished Professor of Philosophy, will discuss the role of the humanities in undergraduate studies, in the academy and in society.

The afternoon includes musical entertainment, door prizes and a reception with silent auction. The event is free, but reg-istration is required. R.S.V.P to human@unc.edu or 962-1544.

reGiSter For SpriNG FliNGCampus Recreation will host the annual Spring Fling run/

walk on May 7, with check-in from 11:30 a.m. to noon in front of the Student Recreation Center.

In addition to promoting physical activity, health and well-being, participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the Glenwood Elementary Family Assistance Program through the donation of canned food, and to the Orange County Ani-mal Shelter through donations such as food, blankets, leashes, bowls and collars. For complete information and registration form, refer to campusrec.unc.edu/employee_rec.

deAdliNeS to wAtChn Nominations are open through April 30 for the Finance Divi-

sion’s 2010 Extra Mile Awards. Five finance employees will be selected to receive a letter of recognition, a $100 gift cer-tificate and one day of paid annual leave. snipurl.com/vbyr5

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From the classroom to gallery to stage, “the Spinoza project” has

launched this spring at Carolina to present a multidisciplinary exami-

nation of religious freedom and separation of church and state.

Among the many variations on the theme programmed throughout

campus are the following events:

n in coordination with the Spinoza project and the “religious Stud-

ies 138” class, the Ackland Art museum’s Study Gallery has mounted

an exhibit with visitor guide (snipurl.com/vait5) that includes nine

works, including “A Scholar in his Study (Faust),” shown at left. the

mid-18th century etching was designed by rembrandt van rijn and

engraved by George bickham the younger. it will be on display

through may 9.

n April 16–20 – uNC opera will present the world premiere of

“Searching for Spinoza” in the Nelson mandela Auditorium of the

Fedex Global education Center. purchase tickets ($15) online: www.

spinozaeffect.com.

n April 16–17 – the program in the humanities and human val-

ues will offer a seminar at the Center for School leadership devel-

opment titled “the Spinoza project: A Case Study in the Separa-

tion of Church and State” that features the world premiere of the

musical “Searching for Spinoza.” the program begins Friday after-

noon at 4:30 pm and continues through Saturday at 1 p.m. An optional dinner is available Friday as are tickets to the

musical. registration is required, with fee. See adventuresinideas.unc.edu or call 962-1544. For more information, see

www.spinozaeffect.com.

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n A p p l i c a t i o n s a r e o p e n through May 14 for the next class of the Faculty Engaged Scholars Program – the two-year program designed to advance faculty involvement in engaged scholarship. Refer to snipurl.com/vamv8, and for more information contact Lynn Blanchard, director of the Carolina Center for Pub-lic Service (ccps@unc.edu or 843-7568).

n N o m i n a t i o n s a r e o p e n through May 14 for the Insti-tute on Aging’s Gordon H. DeFriese Career Develop-ment in Aging Research Awards. Complete informa-tion and nomination form are online: snipurl.com/vb10o.

AppliCAtioNS opeN For CCp GrANtS

The Community-Campus Partnership in the School of Government seeks proposals for projects that address challenges in the areas of community and economic development, education, infrastructure or public health in Caswell or Lenoir counties. Small grants from $500 to $20,000 are available to full-time Carolina faculty, staff or stu-dents. For complete information, see snipurl.com/vb14g.

leCtureS, SemiNArS, SympoSiAn April 15 – Kishore Mahbubani, public policy dean at

National University of Singapore, will speak on “The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East” in the auditorium of the FedEx Global Education Center at 5:30 p.m. snipurl.com/vant9

n April 15 – Jeanne Lambrew, director of the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Human Services’ Office of Health Reform, will present the Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Fred. T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m. at the Friday Center. Registration for the free lecture is required. snipurl.com/vajdc

n April 15 – Iain Fenlon, distinguished professor of historical musicology at the University of Cambridge, will discuss “Life and Death: Music and Ritual in Renaissance Venice” in Ger-rard Hall at 7 p.m. snipurl.com/v1zew

n April 19 – As part of the Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South, writer and director Ben Loeterman will screen his new film “The People v. Leo Frank,” which recounts the 1913 legal case of a Jewish pencil factory manager in Atlanta who was convicted of mur-dering one of his employees. It will be shown at 7:30 p.m. at the Friday Center. snipurl.com/vanxj

n April 20 – Jim Rogers, president and CEO of Duke Energy, will lecture in Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Koury Audito-rium at 5:30 p.m. as part of the Dean’s Speaker Series. R.S.V.P. for the free lecture to kfbsrsvp@unc.edu or 843-7787.

n April 20 – Allan Carlson, professor emeritus at the Univer-sity of Alberta, will give a public lecture titled “Contempo-rary Environmental Aesthetics and the Requirements of Environmentalism” in 213 Caldwell Hall at 7 p.m. This is the third part in a series on philosophy and the environment sponsored by the Institute for the Environment, the Parr Center for Ethics and the Department of Philosophy.

n April 21 – As winners of the 2009 Philip and Ruth Hettle-man Prize, Andrew Perrin, associate professor of sociology, and Jeff Whetstone, associate professor of art, will give lec-tures at 2:15 p.m. and 3:15 p.m., respectively, in Hyde Hall. Perrin will discuss “The Social and Cultural Practices of American Democratic Citizenship,” and Whetstone will talk about “Post Pleistocene: Photographs of the Contemporary Wilderness.” snipurl.com/v1zkn

n April 21-23 – The Scholarly Conference on College Sport, hosted by the College Sport Research Institute and the Department of Exercise and Sport Science, will be held at the Friday Center. Among the featured speakers will be Mary-land men’s basketball coach Gary Williams, Darryl Dawkins, a former NBA player and coach, and Craig Thompson, com-missioner of the Mountain West Conference.

www.csriconference.orgn April 23 – The public is invited to the 11th Annual Celebra-

tion of Undergraduate Research Symposium that will be held from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at the Center for Dramatic Art. At 3:30 p.m., a ceremony will recognize the 2009–10 Carolina Research Scholars. snipurl.com/vb32u

n April 25 – Philip Juras, artist and landscape architect, will give the Sims Lecture at the North Carolina Botanical Gar-den’s Education Center at 2 p.m. The lecture also opens Juras’ exhibit in the Eleanor Smith Pegg Exhibit Hall – on view through June 25 – titled “A Vision of Grasslands in the Southeast.” A reception will follow the lecture. Call to

reserve a seat for the free event: 962-0522. To see Juras’ work online, refer to www.philipjuras.com. ncbg.unc.edu/pages/28n April 29 – The next Caro-lina Innovations Seminar will be titled: “What Are the Attributes of a Good Scientific Founder?” It will be held in 014 Sitterson Hall from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. A networking session will follow at 6:45 p.m. at Top of the Hill Res-taurant. snipurl.com/eea30

eveNt rAiSeS Child-AbuSe AwAreNeSS

In recognition of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, the fourth annual Real Men Rock community event will be held April 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot of the Hillsborough Walmart. The public is invited, and fathers are encouraged to attend to show that real men rock and comfort their babies, even when they cry.

It is sponsored by the Advocates for Children Committee of Health Carolinians of Orange County, which works in collabo-ration on campus with the UNC Hospitals Beacon Program.

New CourSe oN eleCtroNiC heAlth reCordS to be oFFered thiS Summer

Javed Mostafa, co-director for biomedical informatics at North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute, will be teaching a new course from June 17 to July 23, “Electronic Health Records: Emerging Standards, Applications and Services” (INLS 890-154). The course is open to both UNC and non-UNC students. Refer to snipurl.com/vaqt9 for more information.

FAmily mediCiNe CeNter plANS opeN houSe oN April 27

The Family Medicine Center at 590 Manning Drive will hold an open house on April 27 from 7 to 9 p.m. for those inter-ested in meeting the group’s primary care physicians or nurse

NewS iN brieF SubmiSSioNSNext issue includes events from April 29 to may 12. deadline for submissions is 5 p.m., mon., April 19. e-mail gazette@unc.edu. Fax: 962-2279; clearly mark for the Gazette. Campus box# 6205. the Gazette events page includes only items of general interest geared toward a broad audience. For com-plete listings of events, including athletics, see the Carolina events Calendars at www.unc.edu/events.

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SPAin’S ComPAñíA nACionAL DE DAnzA comes to memorial Hall April 17 at 8 p.m. to perform a contemporary ballet with a synthesis of classical and modern dance with Spanish flair. buy tickets by phone (843-3333) and in person at the box office ($75-$30). refer to snipurl.com/vagva to see videos of the group. carolinaperformingarts.org

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SPAin’S ComPAñíA nACionAL DE DAnzA comes to memorial Hall April 17 at 8 p.m. to perform a contemporary ballet with a synthesis of classical and modern dance with Spanish flair. buy tickets by phone (843-3333) and in person at the box office ($75-$30). refer to snipurl.com/vagva to see videos of the group. carolinaperformingarts.org

Dream jobs are hard to come by, and Wendy Hillis considers herself both grateful and lucky to have found hers as the Uni-versity’s campus historic preservation architect.

Grateful because of the bad economy. Lucky because she knows of only three other positions similar to hers in the coun-try – one at William and Mary, one at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and one at the University of Virginia, where she earned a master’s degree in architecture, with a cer-tificate in historic preservation, in 1997.

Hillis takes an expansive view of her job. Although she is an architect by training, she is quick to challenge the preconceived idea that historic preservation is only about protecting old buildings.

“Historic buildings are part of the brand of the University and we need to be good stewards of them, but we also have to understand them as part of our growing campus and our chang-ing needs,” she said.

In this way, Hillis said, buildings both old and new inter-act with each other, and that makes her job similar to that of an interpreter trying to figure out how the past relates to the future.

Since she was hired in January 2009, Hillis has taken on addi-tional duty as a land-use planner for all University properties, including Carolina North and University Square.

Hillis is faced with a different set of challenges than her pre-decessor, Paul Kapp, encountered.

Kapp took on the newly created position in 2002, just after the start of what would become one of the biggest capital con-struction programs at any university in the country.

Hillis, on the other hand, arrived at the start of one of the most severe recessions since the Great Depression, when money to keep buildings operating became hard to come by.

But the lack of funds to address buildings’ needs does not make those needs any less significant, Hillis said, as she rattled off buildings badly in need of renovation and repairs: from Bat-tle, Vance and Pettigrew to Caldwell and Howell halls.

Perhaps the one building most in need of some TLC is Play-makers Theatre. Originally named Smith Hall, it was com-pleted in 1851 for use as a library and today is one of only two buildings on campus (the other is Old East) that have merited distinction as a National Historic Landmark, Hillis said.

And the old theater was the one building on campus she

already knew all about even before she arrived, thanks in part to the bachelor of arts degree in art history that she earned at the University of California at Davis.

What makes the building so distinctive, Hillis said, is the decision by its architect, Alexander Jackson Davis, to substitute the usual adornment of acanthus leaves in its Corinthian capi-tals with wheat and Indian corn as a symbol of the young nation that America was. A capital is the decorative piece at the top of a column.

When the library moved to a new building in 1907, the law school occupied Smith Hall until 1923. It was not until 1925 that the building was renovated for use by the Carolina Playmakers.

Hillis said exterior work was completed on the theater three years ago, but an ambitious interior renovation of around $10 million is on hold because of a lack of funding.

In Hillis’ eyes, that may have been a blessing in disguise since

the overhaul once contemplated would not have transformed the building, but would have erased what it was intended to be.

Original plans called for installing air conditioning, removing the floor to install an air plenum and adding a moveable stage apron, orchestra pit and modern lighting and sound systems.

A revised budget of $150,000 will be spent before the start of the fall semester to add new carpeting, paint and refurbish seats, as well as make the building accessible for disabled people.

That will be enough to open its doors for student use, but not enough for a complete restoration, she said. Hillis believes a $5 million renovation would take care of adding modern sys-tems to the building in keeping with the limits of what such a building should reasonably be able to accommodate.

“It is important to know the bones of a building to under-stand what its skeleton can sustain,” Hillis said. “The danger of packing modern features in such a building is ruining every-thing that is great about it.”

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Historic preservation architect finds connections between old and new

Enrollment for the State Health Plan opened this month. Within the first few days, more than 3,400 employees had completed their online enrollment. However, that leaves thousands of employees who need to take action by April 30 or risk staying in the PPO Basic (70/30) plan.

Employees can visit the University’s dedi-cated Web site for instructions and links to the enrollment Web portal by accessing information

on the Office of Human Resources Web site, hr.unc.edu/Data/benefits/shp-enroll-10. The Office of Human Resources has pro-vided answers to frequently asked questions about this year’s enrollment. Employees can contact their benefit consultant at 962-3071 for additional information.Who has to enroll online?

Every active permanent employee must enroll online this year.

What happens if I don’t enroll?Because of the State Health Plan’s compre-

hensive wellness initiative, all employees cur-rently enrolled in the PPO Standard (80/20) plan will automatically be moved to the PPO Basic (70/30) plan by the State Health Plan.

You must re-enroll online and acknowl-edge whether you and/or any covered depen-dents use tobacco products. The State Health Plan calls this process an “attestation.” The

attestation includes several questions asked at the beginning of the enrollment process.

If you attest that neither you nor any cov-ered dependents use tobacco products, you can change your coverage level back to the standard plan. If you attest that you and/or your covered dependents do use tobacco products, and are not currently in an approved

office of Human resources gives information on State Health Plan enrollment

See EnroLLmEnT page 11

Carolinaw o r k i n g at

practitioners. For more information or to register, call 966-2109 or e-mail bhotelli@unch.unc.edu.

April 15 reCeptioN For ‘to riGht theSe wroNGS’ At iNN

A recently discovered 8-minute film of then N.C. Gov. Terry Sanford giving a landmark speech on civil rights will be shown publicly for the first time in the Old Well Room of The Car-olina Inn, where the speech was originally deliv-ered on Jan. 18, 1963.

The screening will be part of an event to mark publication of “To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America.”

Published by UNC Press, it was written by James L. Leloudis, associate professor of history, and Robert R. Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter Professor of Public Policy and History at Duke. The event will take place on April 15 from 5 to 7 p.m. A discus-sion about the North Carolina Fund will be mod-erated by UNC President Emeritus William C. Friday at 5:45 p.m. To attend the free reception, R.S.V.P. to adagostino@carolinainn.com.

Apply Now For bridGeSThe BRIDGES Academic Leadership Program

for Women is accepting applications through May 3 for its fall 2010 program, to be conducted on four weekends between Sept. 10 and Nov. 13.

BRIDGES is an intensive professional develop-ment program for women in higher education. www.fridaycenter.unc.edu/bridges

smoking cessation program, you must remain in the basic plan.

If you do not re-enroll and complete the required attestation, you will remain in the basic (70/30) plan for the 2010–11 benefit year, which begins July 1.I’m a retiree. Do I have to enroll online?

The current annual enrollment for the State Health Plan is for active employees only. Employees who have retired (including fac-ulty members on phased retirement) who are receiving pension and health-care benefits as a retiree must follow the instructions outlined in the State Health Plan enrollment booklet for retirees (see the State Health Plan Web site, www.shpnc.org/annual-enrollment-2010.html, and review the enrollment booklet appli-cable to Medicare primary retirees or State Health Plan primary retirees).Should I complete the “other insurance” information?

In general, the following groups should not complete the “other insurance” information:

n Faculty members who are members of the Physician & Associates (P&A) group;

n Employees covered under the NCFlex Criti-cal Illness and/or Cancer plans; and

n Employees age 65 and older who are actively working. The State Health Plan is still the primary insurer for these employees.In general, those employees who have other

insurance but are not part of one of those groups should complete the “other insurance” information. If you have questions, contact your benefits consultant at 962-3071.Can I change my address on the online enroll-ment site?

No. Employee address changes must be made using the University’s campus directory since it is the system of record for employee addresses and other demographics. The University electronically transmits employee data (personal and work data) weekly to ebenefitsNow.

If you need assistance with the campus directory, contact your HR facilitator.I incorrectly answered one of the tobacco attesta-tion questions. What should I do?

Contact your benefit consultant to obtain

an amended attestation form and have the consultant update/override your ben- efit election.I recently received an e-mail that my enrollment log-in was “non-standard.” What does that mean, and what should I do?

Some employees’ login IDs do not conform to the standard login ID (first name, first let-ter of your last name and the last four digits of your Social Security number). Employees may have been assigned a non-standard login ID because:n They have a hyphenated first name;n Their first name is too short or not on

record;n They have two first names with a space

between them;n Their first name is more than 10 letters (i.e.,

Christopher is 11 letters); orn Another user within the Benefit Focus sys-

tem already has the log-in ID that would have matched the standardized format for an employee.Benefits Services is communicating directly

with those employees who have non-standard log-in IDs to provide an alternate log-in.

If you are unable to log in after receiving a modified log-in ID, or you want to obtain your log-in ID, call the ebenefitsNow Customer Ser-vice Center at 866-822-8688 for assistance.

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will receive a test text message shortly after the sirens sound.“Between 8:45 a.m. and 8:50 a.m., your assignment is to do

what you should do in an emergency: Stay inside or go inside; close windows and doors; and wait for updates,” Thorp said.

“We hope faculty and students who are in class at 8:45 a.m. will use those five minutes to talk about the things you would do if the siren warning was real. At 8:50 a.m., everyone will resume their normal activities.”

The University tests the emergency siren system every semester, but this is the first time the campus community is being asked to take a specific action, Jeff McCracken, director of public safety and chief of police, told the Employee Forum at its April 7 meeting.

“We want everyone to know that when you hear the siren it means, if you are inside, to stay inside, and if you are outside, to go to the nearest structure and stay put,” McCracken said. “We

are only going to do this for five minutes, but we want everyone to respond just as they would in an emergency.”

At the directive of General Administration, all UNC system campuses are conducting similar emergency drills.

“Unfortunately, we live in a world where bad things occa-sionally happen,” Thorp said. “We haven’t been immune on our campus, and you only have to scan the headlines to see examples of tragedies on college campuses. It’s our job to be ready for that worst-case scenario.”

Throughout the day of the drill, emergency vehicles and per-sonnel will be visible in the immediate drill area, which will be clearly marked with yellow tape, barricades and signs saying an exercise is in progress. Regular traffic and Chapel Hill Transit service in the area will not be affected.

The University will provide additional details and reminders about the drill in the coming days.

On April 20, the University will send a reminder text message to the 38,000 cell phone numbers registered for emergency alerts, and on April 21 will communicate in some of the normal

ways for a siren activation or test. Those include posting the current status as a banner on Alert Carolina (alertcarolina.unc.edu) and the UNC home page (www.unc.edu), sending a test text message, testing the automatic activation of the Univer-sity’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, and sending a test news release to campus and local media.

The campus will only receive one text message announcing that the sirens have sounded. There will be no “all clear” signal or later announcement reporting that the drill is over.

For information about campus safety and to register for emergency text messages, go to alertcarolina.unc.edu.

During an actual emergency, people would be directed to the Alert Carolina Web site for the most current information avail-able and any directions for the campus community.

Jeff mcCracken, director of public safety and chief of police, discusses the April 21 drill, and what people should do, in a video message posted on Alert Caro-lina. refer to snipurl.com/vcrun.

module in less than an hour. Employees can review a training report to track their progress. Access to that

information is restricted only to the employee and the human resources facilitator.The training is geared for employees with all levels of computer knowledge.

More topical modules based on the greatest threats from cyber-attacks will be available in the future.

“Although the training is voluntary at this time, some departments may wish to make it compulsory,” said Eva Lorenz, ITS systems specialist. “We have also cre-ated a one-page handout that will be included in the orientation packets for new University employees. It is vital that all faculty and staff understand the basics of IT security, not only to protect the University but also to protect themselves.”

Lorenz created the training module with assistance from ITS Teaching and Learning Interactive, Enterprise Applications and Integrated Communications. The Center for Faculty Excellence and the Office of Human Resources also were instrumental in producing the training.

the following resources are available for employees who would like to quit smoking or other tobacco use: NC quitline, a free telephone coaching service to support your effort to become tobacco-free. State health plan members who enroll in the multi-call program can receive free nicotine patches. Call 1-800-quit-Now (1-800-784-8669) or refer to www.quitlinenc.com. uNC Nicotine dependence pro-gram, located at the uNC Family medicine Center, 590 manning drive, offers individual appointments with group or individual follow-up. the office visit co-pay applies to the first visit with all follow-up at no charge. Call 966-0210 to schedule an appoint-ment. For information, refer to www.ndp.unc.edu/tobacco_users.htm.

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Being born in the United States confers an automatic right of citizenship.

There is no official requirement to be born in Robeson County to be considered a Lumbee Indian, yet Malinda Maynor Lowery’s parents understood that a tie to their ances-tral lands is as much a part of Lumbee identity as a blood connection.

That is why 37 years ago they drove some 100 miles from their home in Durham to the hospital in Lumberton where Lowery was born.

Understanding the Lumbee history became Lowery’s driving force – first as an undergraduate at Harvard, then at Carolina where she earned her Ph.D. in history in 2005. That drive gained greater intellectual force in 2006 when she returned to Harvard to become the first of two Native Ameri-can tenure-track professors hired there.

And it was that same appreciation of tribal history that Lowery sought to pass on to her unborn daughter in 2007 when she was wheeled to a delivery room down the same hallway in the same Lumberton hospital where Lowery was born.

“My husband and I just didn’t feel comfortable having her born up in Cambridge, Massachusetts,” Lowery said.

So, just as her parents had done for her, Lowery made sure that Robeson County would not be simply a place of inter-est on a map, but a touchstone for her daughter’s identity as a Lumbee.

She is quick to add that they didn’t drive directly from Cam-bridge. Just before her daughter was born, Lowery and her husband were in Robeson County to produce “Strike at the Wind,” the Pembroke outdoor drama about the life of Henry Berry Lowry. Lowry was a post-Civil War figure viewed by some white authorities as the leader of a murderous gang and by Lumbees as a pioneer in the fight for social justice.

Lowery is convinced that it was the birth of her daughter that prompted Carolina officials to contact her about filling a faculty position in American studies that opened when a former pro-fessor of hers retired.

People within the department knew that Lowery’s parents – who both had retired after long careers as professors at N.C. Central University – still lived in Durham.

Besides being close enough that her parents could see their granddaughter whenever they wanted, Lowery said, Carolina also had something Harvard did not: a commitment to estab-lish one of the best programs in Native American studies in the country.

riGhtiNG A hiStoriC wroNGThat commitment came long after her father went to Ohio

State University to study to become a veterinarian, Lowery said, because at that time North Carolina’s public universities did not enroll American Indians.

It began in earnest in 1999 when then-provost Dick Rich-ardson convened a group to explore why a flagship public uni-versity in a state with the largest American Indian population

east of the Mississippi had no organized program focused on American Indian studies.

By 2001, the Provost’s Com-mittee on Native American Issues was formed to support efforts to build programs of teaching, research and service relevant to American Indians and to advise the provost in ini-tiatives focused on recruiting and retaining Indian students, staff and faculty.

In 2006, the University opened the American Indian Center that has cemented the University’s pledge to permanently establish American Indian scholarship as part of the University’s intellectual life.

Lowery did not take the job she was offered. Instead, she asked for a position in the history department that she agreed to take, provided that the American studies position be kept open and filled by someone else.

University leaders agreed to Lowery’s terms. She joined the history faculty last fall. And this coming fall, the faculty position in American studies will be filled by Daniel Cobb, a scholar of American Indian history in the 20th century from Miami Uni-versity of Ohio.

“At this moment, UNC is poised to become the leading pro-gram in American Indian studies in the country,” Lowery said.

‘the pASt iS Not deAd’Lowery came to Carolina shortly before the publication of

her first book, “Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race Identity, and the Making of a Nation,” published this year by UNC Press.

The book explores how Lumbee Indians constructed their identity during this period – not by the absence of black blood, as Southern white segregationists advocated – but by layers that tie together kin and place, race and class, tribe and nation.

“The book argues that there are two parts of identity – how outsiders look at and interpret you, and how insiders talk among themselves about membership in the group,” Lowery said. “The substance of identity is the conversation between these two things.”

Lowery knew she could use her book as a resource last fall when she began to develop what would become the first Lum-bee history course taught at Carolina. She is teaching the course this spring.

She knew students could draw upon digital holdings of the Southern Historical Collection for reference, but she was unsure how in a seminar setting she could overcome the dearth of scholarly literature about Lumbees.

As a result, she developed a novel idea: to call upon students to generate the content themselves by connecting them with

members of the Lumbee community who could share their culture and history.

“Researchers have always come into the Lumbee commu-nity wanting answers to their own questions rather than seek-ing answers to the questions that are important to Lumbees,” Lowery said. She structured the course to make sure students avoided that mistake.

Lowery said the execution of the concept would not have been possible without the technical assistance provided by the Lenovo Instructional Innovation Grant she received for the class from the University’s Center for Faculty Excellence.

Through the grant, Lowery was able to create a Web site, lumbee.web.unc.edu, which serves as a portal to online exhib-its of the students’ work. At the same time, the Lumbee experts can read what students write online and post their comments. The final exam for the class will be a Web conference between the students and their Lumbee community partners.

Lowery also organized two class trips to Robeson County. In the first, her class traveled to Purnell Swett High School in

Pembroke to talk with students, then visited the grandmother of one of her students, a Tuscarora Indian who, like his grand-mother, grew up in the far reaches of the county where the land was filled with corn and tobacco fields as it had been for centu-ries. Once there, the grandmother offered the students a tradi-tional Indian supper that included chicken and pastry, collards, sweet potato bread and cornbread.

During their second trip, the class will visit the home of Henry Berry Lowry and the gravesite of his father, Allen. After the Confederate Home Guard lynched his father and brother, William, Henry Berry Lowry followed the Indian custom known as “the law of blood” and mounted a campaign to find and execute the people involved in the lynchings.

The idea of such visits, more broadly, is to teach students that history is a continuous stream of events that they can see and experience – and even taste – for themselves.

“That is really the main point of the field trip – to teach them that history is not dead and that various aspects of it can be re-examined and re-interpreted again and again,” Lowery said.

“As Faulkner said, ‘The past is not dead, it’s not even past.’”

Historian returns home to teach Carolina’s first Lumbee indian course