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Staff and faculty helped Arts Everywhere Day come to life. Center for Public Service honors those who serve others. History display options presented for McCorkle Place. 3 4 12 APRIL 11, 2018 GAZETTE.UNC.EDU @UNIVGAZETTE VOL. 43, NO. 7 CAROLINA FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS Important and, in some cases, little-known historic relics from across North Carolina are available world-wide, thanks to the dedicated librarians of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center in Wilson Library. For its work, the center is one of 29 finalists for the 2018 National Medal for Museum and Library Service to be awarded later this month. The medal, the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, recognizes exceptional service to the community and honors orga-nizations that make a difference in the lives of individu-als, families and communities. On April 11, the institute and the center invite sup-porters to share via social media how the center makes a difference in their lives and communities. Use the hashtags #ShareYourStory and #IMLSmedals and tag @NCDHC on Twitter, @NCDigitalHeritageCenter on Facebook. PUTTING HISTORY ONLINE On a recent day in the center, Marty Tschetter, local history librarian at the Wayne County Library, arrives with a 1920s-era poster appealing for donations to fund a building to honor local people who died in World War I. Carefully handling the poster, technician Jay Mangum secures it for photographing behind a large clear plate. A couple of clicks later, and the poster is one step closer to its place on the center’s website, DigitalNC.org (See the scan on page 11). The poster is an example of the center’s digitiza-tion work for North Carolina’s museums, libraries and archives. The center publishes each image in a highly searchable form along with information on its background and importance for the public to access at DigitalNC.org for free. Local to worldwide in a couple of clicks Outstanding service earns six employees prestigious Massey Awards Six employees at Carolina have been selected by Chancellor Carol L. Folt to receive the 2018 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, one of the most coveted distinctions earned by faculty and staff. “These amazing people, through their hard work and dedication, day in and day out, create the Carolina we love,” Folt said. “They are incredible community builders and we thank them for their service and commitment to excellence.” The late C. Knox Massey of Durham created the awards in 1980 to recognize “unusual, meritorious or superior contributions” by University employees. In 1984, he joined the families of his son, Knox Massey Jr., and daughter, Kay Massey Weatherspoon, to create the Massey-Weatherspoon fund. Income from the fund supports the Massey Awards and Carolina Semi-nars. The Massey Award winners will each receive a $10,000 stipend. Chosen from campus-wide nominations, the Massey Award recipients will be honored at a luncheon hosted by Folt on April 14, where they will receive their award citation and stipend. This year’s recipients are: Martina Kendrick Ballen, senior associate athletic director and chief financial officer, department of athletics Gregory J. Gangi, associate director for education, the UNC Insti-tute for the Environment; associate teaching professor, environment and ecology Nan Kham, housekeeper, Taylor Hall Ronald L. Mangum, clinical assistant professor, School of Social Work Daryl Maurice Odom, housekeeper, the Kenan Center Barbara Polk, deputy director and senior associate director, Office of Undergraduate Admissions These amazing people, through their hard work and dedication, day in and day out, create the Carolina we love. CAROL L. FOLT See CENTER page 11 See MASSEYS page 7 At the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, librarians like program coordinator Lisa Gregory (right) and graduate student and research assistant Julia Gootzeit digitize items for North Carolina’s museums, libraries and archives. JOHNNY ANDREWS UNIVERSITY GAZETTE 2 The University Gazette is a University publication. Its mission is to build a sense of campus community by communicating information relevant and vital to faculty and staff and to advance the University’s overall goals and messages. EDITOR Gary C. Moss (919-962-7125) gary_moss@unc.edu MANAGING EDITOR Susan Hudson (919-962-8415) susan_hudson@unc.edu DESIGN AND LAYOUT UNC Creative (919-962-7123) CHANGE OF ADDRESS Make changes through your department’s HR representative. The editor reserves the right to decide what information will be published in the Gazette and to edit submissions for consistency with Gazette style, tone and content. READ THE GAZETTE ONLINE AT gazette.unc.edu The Triangle Business Journal recently selected former University Board of Trustee member Sallie Shuping-Russell as the recipient of its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award. Shuping-Russell was one of 26 women honored at the 2018 Women in Business Awards ceremony hosted by the Triangle Business Journal at the Prestonwood Country Club in Cary. A renowned leader in investment and financial management, Shuping-Russell has helped found numerous companies and is currently serving as a senior adviser with BlackRock’s Private Equity Partners group. She was born in Greensboro and graduated from Carolina with a degree in English and political science. She then earned a master’s in business administration from Col- umbia University. Shuping-Russell was a partner at Quellos Group before its acquisition by BlackRock. Prior to that, she was a general partner at the venture capital firm Intersouth Partners. She was also a founder and vice president of Duke Management Co., now DUMAC, where she was responsible for the private investment portfolio of Duke University for 15 years. She has been on the boards of several entrepreneurial companies, in addition to serving as a director of CommonFund Capital and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center Board. She has continued to devote her time to her alma mater throughout her life. She has served on the UNC Health Care System Board, the University’s Board of Trustees and is currently vice chairman of the UNC Investment Fund. She also chairs the Carolina Research Ventures Board, which invests in companies formed from technologies developed at Carolina. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the General Alumni Association in 2011. In 2017, she was one of four alumni to be presented the Board of Trustees’ highest honor, the William Richardson Davie Award, in recognition of her “dedication, commitment, loyalty and service.” Check out those ‘70s hairstyles! The Clef Hangers, Carolina’s oldest a cappella singing group, celebrated its 40th anniversary with an April 7 concert. Since their founding in 1977, the UNC Clef Hangers have established themselves as a Carolina tradition, performing at some of the University’s biggest events from the Sunset Serenade before the first day of classes to Spring Commencement. Catch up on the group’s history with the video story at unc.edu/discover/clef-hangers-40 or stream their latest release, Castle on the Hill, at clefhangers.com. Shuping-Russell receives lifetime achievement award from Triangle Business Journal Sallie Shuping-Russell Retired pathology chair Joe Grisham receives lifetime achievement award Blast from the past CONTRIBUTED DAN SEARS Joe W. Grisham, Emeritus Kenan Professor and former chair of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at Carolina (1973–99), has been named the 2018 recipient of the Jonathan B. Howes Lifetime Achievement Award from the University’s Retired Faculty Association. The Howes award recognizes and encourages faculty contributions both within the University and beyond in the wider community, as exemplified by the career of the late Jonathan Howes, who was director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies. Grisham will accept the award and speak at the RFA general meeting at noon April 12 at the Friday Center. To register, visit the RFA website, uncrfa.web.unc.edu. Grisham was a champion of faculty diversity, encouraging the hiring of women, as well as ethnic and racial minorities. During his tenure, the number of women in the department increased at a rate not seen before in any other department in the School of Medicine. Inspired by Grisham’s efforts, the dean of the School of Medicine at the time, Stuart Bondurant, charged a new committee with encouraging affirmative action in faculty hiring. Grisham also nurtured faculty members toward leadership roles, with four becoming chairs of pathology departments, including J. Charles Jennette, at Carolina. Joe Grisham CONTRIBUTEDAPRIL 11, 2018 3 For Arts Everywhere Day, the second annual campus-wide celebration of the arts and creativity that calls attention to the strategic Arts Everywhere initiative that supports The Blueprint for Next, Carolina employees worked behind the scenes and in the spotlight with artists, students, campus departments and others to make the celebration a success. Here’s a look at a few. Employees set the stage for Arts Everywhere Day "Singing a lengthy German song cycle in this public venue while people were talking, eating lunch or just passing by, I was still able to see people really focusing in on the performance. People were walking through and, all of a sudden, they heard and saw this unexpected thing. Some were obviously thinking, ‘That’s my thing!’ and stayed, while others decided ‘That’s not my thing’ and moved on—but at least they were introduced to it. Andy, Keiko and I wanted to draw people in and help them understand it all at a high artistic level." SUCHI MOHANTY, head of the House Undergraduate Library, who helped plan the installation of artist Mary Carter Taub’s installation Right Angles. MARGO MCINTYRE, Coker Arboretum curator, who chose the site for the Seussian Igloo. “It’s been fun to see the surprise element as people find the igloo. They’ll say, ‘Oh my, what’s that?’ Then they find the door and use it. We’ve had some families come by and some people studying in it. So it’s great to have some art in the arboretum and cool to participate in Arts Everywhere.” MICHAEL PIERCE, accessibility specialist in Facilities Services, who handled ADA and accessibility preparations at all Arts Everywhere sites. “If a site has interactive parts, I made sure that at least one part of the art is accessible so that people with disabilities can experience it the same as people without a disability. I think Arts Everywhere and the interactive type of art is an important aspect of campus that allows people to have a variety of experiences. It confirms that art is not only something you look at, but you experience, like the interactiveness of the pianos, and that art also has function. It’s important that when we put this art out there that it’s accessible to everyone.” “We were only halfway through installing the art when students started asking for chalk so they could write down their to-dos. It quickly caught their attention. I think it is a great way for the students or anybody to think deeply about what they would like to accomplish in their lives.” “During the planning process with Mary, I explained the role the UL plays in student life, how we support student success and how students and faculty use our services and resources. The Undergraduate Library is a vibrant, creative space that runs off of student energy. When I browsed Mary’s online gallery, I was struck by the color and energy in her work and I thought it reflected the energy and creative spirit of the UL.” TODD MCLAMB, facilities maintenance technician in the Frank Porter Graham Union, who helped assemble the Before I Die installation. MARC CALLAHAN, baritone and assistant professor of music, who performed Die Winterreise as ANDREW MYERS created art and pianist KEIKO SEKINO accompanied. JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINERUNIVERSITY GAZETTE 4 The Carolina Center for Public Service recognized several community-based programs led by Carolina faculty, staff and students at its 2018 Public Service Awards celebration on April 9. “Service to others is at the heart of how a great public university engages with communities and addresses issues of shared concern,” said Lynn Blanchard, the center’s director. “Recipients of this year’s Public Service Awards exemplify the best of how Carolina serves the public good. I am honored to recognize their meaningful and profoundly important work.” Dorothy Holland, Boshamer Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, received the 2018 Ned Brooks Award for Public Service recognizing her long commitment to building collaborations between the University and the community that create new opportunities and generate academic excellence. Holland co-founded the Center for Integrating Research and Action and the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research. CIRA took its social change research to grassroots organizations in the state, spurring new conversations about the best ways to advocate for issues. The GCPR creates opportunities for graduate students to develop research skills in partnership with communities and provides them with substantive collaborative research experiences. The Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award was established in 2000 by then-Provost Dick Richardson to recognize extraordinary public service and engaged scholarship at Carolina. Alice Ammerman, professor of nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, was recognized for engaged research for the Heart Healthy Lenoir Project. This National Institutes of Health-funded project was a community-based partnership between HPDP, Lenoir County and East Carolina University to reduce heart disease. Ammerman and her team worked with primary care practices to help patients control their blood pressure, increase physical activity and improve diet with heart-healthy recipes. Jean Davison, associate professor in the School of Nursing, was recognized for engaged teaching for developing a service-learning course focused on migrant Latino health in North Carolina. The course teaches fundamental concepts of global health and included clinical teaching in North Carolina, Honduras and Nicaragua. Davison received an APPLES Service-Learning grant in 2015 and has expanded her local and global outreach course activities as a result. Project READY: Reimagining Equity and Access for Diverse Youth received the engaged partnership award. Project READY is a grant-funded initiative of the School of Information and Library Science partnering with the Wake County Public School System and North Carolina Central University. These partners implemented a yearlong professional development series for school librarians and educators working with them focused on racial equity. Librarians have since created innovative programs focused on educational racial equity in local classrooms. Recipients of 2018 Public Service Awards included, from left, Project READY, represented by research associate Casey Rawson; Celeste Brown of the White Coats Black Doctors Foundation; and Brian Hogan, leader of three mentorship programs for North Carolina middle and high school students. Public service awards honor mentorship, advocacy programs led by Tar Heels JON GARDINER The Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award recognizes undergraduate and graduate students, staff and faculty for exemplifying outstanding engagement and service to the state of North Carolina. Joseph Nail, a senior political science and economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recognized for his work as co-creator of FairEd, a nonprofit that uses mentorship programs to provide high school students from low-income backgrounds resources and support during the college application process. Nearly three-quarters of those served are now attending a college or university. Celeste Brown, a fourth-year medical student in the School of Medicine, is a founding member of the White Coats Black Doctors Foundation. Brown and four other medical students created the foundation in 2015 to address the significant deficit of African-American physicians in North Carolina and the rest of the country. WCBD hosts networking and speaking events, conducts a mentorship program and offers a scholarship that offsets the cost of medical school applications. Brian Hogan, a teaching associate professor in the department of chemistry, is also the director of the Carolina Covenant. Hogan was recognized for his leadership of three mentorship programs for North Carolina middle and high school students. SOAR provides near-peer mentors to young Latino students and encourages involvement in science and mathematics. SUCCEED bolsters STEM education in North Carolina schools by donating science experiment kits to classrooms. GLOW works to increase access to higher education among young African-American girls through positive role modeling and academic help. Hogan was a member of the Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars Class IV. Bryan Giemza, director of the Southern Historical Collection, was recognized for his work partnering with community members in western North Carolina to create Maya from the Margins, a program educating Latino and indigenous students about the history of their roots and culture. The program paired North Carolina students with families in Yucatan, Mexico, and implemented an exchange program that resulted in a showcase of student research displayed in both North Carolina and Yucatan. The program received recognition from the Rare Books and Manuscript Section of Carolina’s Wilson Library and the Society of American Archivists for its innovation and creativity. Law Students Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, a student organization within the School of Law, was recognized for its work to protect victims from their abusers through the Ex Parte Project, including its partnership with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. These students believe that the law has the power to bring about meaningful social change and that battling domestic violence is an important step toward ending violence against women. Each semester, Law Students Against Sexual and Domestic Violence sponsors a series of panel discussions and research projects to educate the community about the domestic violence epidemic. A complete list of award recipients is available at ccps.unc.edu/2018-public-service-award-recognition. – Rhonda Beatty, Carolina Center for Public Service Dorothy Holland DAN SEARSAPRIL 11, 2018 5 WHAT’S A TYPICAL DAY LIKE IN YOUR JOB? I would break down a typical day into a few areas: communication, education and advising, networking and outreach. I do a lot of communicating through email and phone. I connect with students, faculty, staff, community partners, local agencies, nonprofits and municipalities. We are trying to build a robust online presence, so a lot of my work is on social media and two different websites. Through the education and advising piece of my job, we help students navigate living off campus. Through networking and outreach, we do a lot of neighborhood relationship work. I try to connect the University and the community at a student life level. HOW DOES YOUR WORK SUPPORT CAROLINA’S MISSION? The work that I do helps address the basic needs, such as living and safety, of students so that they can do the things that they came here to do intellectually. The University is also a public institution, which means that we have a clear responsibility to the public and the surrounding communities: Chapel Hill, Carrboro and beyond. I support the public in terms of students’ influence and impact in the community and trying to make those positive experiences for all involved. We serve our public by supporting our students’ lives off campus. WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOUR WORK? I really enjoy engaging with people, both students and community members. My dad was on the faculty here for 40 years. I grew up running around on this campus and living in this community, attending public school and cheering on the Tar Heels. For me, this is an ideal job because I get to connect both my professional life working in student affairs and higher education with my love for this institution and this community. I get to help students find a home in a place that’s been home and is home for me. HOW DID YOU COME TO WORK IN THIS POSITION? I previously worked as an assistant director in the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership at Appalachian State University. I came to Carolina as a doctoral graduate assistant in what is now called Student Life and Leadership and continued that work in the Dean of Students office. In the 2010–11 academic year, I was hired as the senior associate dean and director of fraternity and sorority life and community involvement here at Carolina, a position I held until January of this year, when I was hired to this position. WHAT WOULD OTHERS BE SURPRISED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR JOB? I think a lot of people are under the impression that I spend all day putting out fires and dealing with problems. In actuality, most of my job is actually fun and good stuff. It’s helping students be successful, helping people figure out solutions to problems and helping people have a great experience with the University or in the surrounding communities. Carolina People is a regular feature in each issue of the Gazette that asks one of your fascinating colleagues five questions about the work they do for the University. Do you know someone with an interesting or unique job at Carolina? Please email your suggestions to gazette@unc.edu and put Carolina People in the subject line. Aaron Bachenheimer EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF OFF-CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS 9 years working at Carolina JON GARDINER PEOPLE Biological materials have complex mechanical properties that are difficult to reproduce using synthetic materials. An international team of researchers, led by Carolina chemistry professor Sergei Sheiko, has produced a biocompatible synthetic material that behaves like biological tissues and changes color when it changes shape—like chameleon skin. The research is featured in the March 30 edition of Science. Sheiko said the research could have powerful implications for the development of a new generation of biomedical devices. In order to produce a medical implant, for instance, the materials must have similar mechanical properties as a surrounding biological tissue in order to mitigate inflammatory response. “Our body can be viewed as an aging car that constantly needs replacement parts. Given the steadily aging population, this creates a pressing need for better and more diverse materials for biomedical devices,” said Sheiko, the George A. Bush Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. “One key demand is that these materials closely mimic the mechanics of living tissue.” A number of biological tissues, including the skin, the intestinal wall and the heart muscle, have the characteristic of being soft yet stiffening when they are stretched. The mechanical and optical properties of biological tissue also act in concert to serve living organisms, such as chameleons, amphibians, birds and butterflies. The tissues may adjust their colors for camouflage. “Until now, synergistically integrating mechanical and optical performance has been a big material design challenge because we are essentially trying to mimic the skin of James Cameron’s Avatar: soft on touch, stiff upon deformation and colored for appeal or camouflage,” Sheiko said. As outlined in the paper, “Self-assembled elastomers with molecularly encoded tissue-like softness, strain-adaptive stiffening and coloration,” the research team has attempted to achieve this by controlling polymer architecture. They synthesized a physically cross-linked elastomer (polymer with elastic properties) composed of a central block onto which side chains were grafted (like a bottle brush) and with linear terminal blocks at each end. They succeeded in encoding in this synthetic polymer both mechanical and optical properties of natural systems, a feat which had previously never been achieved. The polymer was found to be biocompatible and does not require the addition of chemical additives, e.g. solvent. “The design-by-architecture approach reported in our paper will open the door for making materials as soft as brain tissue and as stiff as skin—ideal for direct use as implants for reconstructive surgery and drug delivery,” Sheiko added. Watch a video that shows how the material’s color changes when it is stretched at college.unc.edu/2018/03/29/polymer-sheiko. – College of Arts & Sciences Chemistry professor develops polymers that mimic chameleon skin Sergei Sheiko LARS SAHLUNIVERSITY GAZETTE 6 There is much more to the new campus master plan than bricks and mortar, and more sides to the Carolina Center for Public Service than merely doing good deeds. At their March 29 meeting, the members of the University Board of Trustees got a primer on both from Anna Wu, associate vice chancellor for facilities and University architect, and Lynn Blanchard, director of the public service center. Both Wu and Blanchard also tied their work to the broader mission of Carolina and The Blueprint for Next, the strategic framework for Carolina. PLAN FOR THE FUTURE Wu focused her talk on the process she and her office have engaged in over the past year to “knit together” the master plan with The Blueprint for Next. What made the process unique, Wu said, was how the people working on the master plan joined with a campus-wide strategic liaison group to align the campus master plan with The Blueprint for Next. Because of these efforts, Wu added, the master plan that will be presented in May will not be a wholesale building program, but a document that identifies target opportunities to add facilities and spaces to advance the blueprint’s signature initiatives. “Together, we had a chance to identify the intersections of their objectives and explore how programmatic synergies, new transportation resources and physical assets could be leveraged for innovative and effective uses,” Wu said. “This opportunity has really been a first for us. We have been able to dovetail the visionary aspects of the strategic framework into a master plan that forecasts the future vision of the campus while also targeting operational improvement.” ENGAGED SERVICE For her part, Blanchard emphasized that the work being done at the Carolina Center for Public Service goes beyond simple volunteerism or what is typically thought of as community service. “We encompass that, but our work is really inextricably linked to all parts of the University’s mission,” Blanchard said. “Our mission is to connect the energy and expertise of this University to the needs of the community.” Blanchard added that Carolina public service is really about “engaged service.” “We like to use the term ‘engaged’ because it means that this is not something we do to people, or even for people, but rather with people and communities,” she said. Chancellor Carol L. Folt said when she came to campus five years ago she heard students talking about APPLES. She didn’t know what it was then, but she does now. Of all the activities students can get involved with on this campus, the APPLES Service-Learning is one of the most profound because it transforms not only the communities that students work with but the students themselves, Folt said. Founded in 1990, APPLES has continued to strengthen civic engagement by bringing together students, faculty and communities in sustained and mutually beneficial partnerships, said Blanchard. APPLES, which is now operated by the public service center, offers alternative breaks, a service-learning initiative, internships, courses and fellowships. “This remains one of the few student-led, staff-supported service-learning programs in the nation,” Blanchard said. “And as students often point out to us, the hyphen is critical—it is that vital link that connects service to learning.” BEYOND THE NUMBERS Another student initiative that has grown over the years is the Buckley Public Service Scholar program that launched in 2003, Blanchard said. In the 2016 academic year, the program engaged 1,557 participants who together logged 197,736 hours in 88 counties in North Carolina. Last year, the center conducted a survey asking alumni involved in public service to talk about how it shaped their lives. One respondent wrote, “My public service experience at UNC was the most profound and important aspect of my college experience. It created a thread through my academic coursework that led me to my current position.” Wrote another, “I am so grateful for those who ensured I would graduate as an informed citizen dedicated to using my own skills to improve the lives of others.” – Gary Moss, University Gazette Public service efforts and a new campus master plan are both connected to a broader mission Lynn Blanchard, Justin Williford and Hiwot Ekuban field questions during the Board of Trustees meeting March 29. JON GARDINER See more Board of Trustees coverage on page 12. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Bob Blouin and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Winston Crisp have convened a student mental health task force to assess the scope of mental health care needs for students at Carolina. Crisp announced the creation of the task force March 28 at the University Board of Trustees’ University Affairs Committee. Its charge will be to: Assess the scope of mental health care needs at Carolina; Evaluate existing or emerging best practices from a variety of disciplines; and Provide evidence-based guidance and recommendations regarding campus-based policies and programs related to mental health care. To optimize its effectiveness, Blouin and Crisp selected task force members who represent major areas of campus life, including academics, health, policy and student affairs, Title IX and students. Erica Wise, professor of clinical psychology and director of psychological services in the Department of Psychology, will chair the task force. Chuck Duckett, chair of the University Affairs Committee, will also serve on the task force, along with Crisp, Savannah Putnam, the incoming student body president, and Manny Hernandez, incoming president of the Graduate and Professional Student Federation. In all, Crisp currently has recruited 19 task force members and hopes to add two more faculty members and an undergraduate. During his presentation, Crisp shared an overview of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), which provides therapy, psychiatry, referral and academic intervention services for students and post-doctoral fellows. Crisp said Carolina operates CAPS under a short-term therapeutic model, which is the same approach used by all universities across the country. Its underlying philosophic purpose, he added, has always been to support the academic mission of the University, which translates into “keeping students healthy and well-balanced enough to participate fully in the academic enterprise.” In order to meet that charge, CAPS is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and has counselors on call 24-7, 365 days a year, Crisp said. “We are not necessarily going to have all your needs taken care of the day you walk into CAPS,” Crisp said, but all students are seen for initial evaluations the same day they walk in. After initial consultation and evaluation, students may be offered individual short-term therapy to stabilize and evaluate, with no limit on the number of sessions offered; group therapy; medication evaluation and maintenance; and aca- demic interventions and crisis referral. But that model, as a result of growing demand for services, has become increasingly strained, Crisp said. As a result, there is a growing debate across the country about whether that model should be expanded to include long-term care. Mental health task force created to assess, meet growing demand Winston Crisp JON GARDINER See TASK FORCE page 10APRIL 11, 2018 7 MARTINA KENDRICK BALLEN As umpire, judge, referee and timekeeper for finances in the department of athletics, Ballen makes the calls that keep the department’s budget bal-anced and healthy. A Caro-lina graduate, she joined the staff in 1987 as director of finance and rose through the ranks to become senior associate director of ath-letics and chief financial officer. She now adminis-ters revenues totaling $95.5 million. In an environment that embraces competition, she is committed to equity, and is described as caring, deliberate, tough and a role model for integrity and heart. Bal-len leads the department’s diversity committee and created and helped launch Tar Heel Trailblazers honoring African- American student-athletes who paved the way for those who follow. She is past chair of the board of directors of the Autism Society of North Carolina and in addition to her Massey Award, received the 2011 Harvey Elliott Beech Outstanding Alumna Award. GREGORY J. GANGI Gangi is a powerful advocate for the environments that shape life. He joined the faculty in 2000 and, with dual roles as associate director for education in the UNC Institute for the Envi-ronment and associate teach-ing professor in environment and ecology, he connects scientific curiosity to intel-lectual capital across campus and in the state, nation and world. Gangi is renowned for his dedication to his stu-dents. He was previously honored with a Tanner Teaching Award and twice recognized by the National Academic Advising Association for innovative approaches to mentoring. For more than a decade, Gangi has served as faculty mentor and faculty coordinator for the University’s Scholars Program. “He is an agent of institutional change at Carolina,” wrote a colleague. Gangi’s classroom knows no boundaries. He leads environmental field studies around the world, created dual-degree programs in schools across campus and established the UNC Clean Tech Summit to link students, their ideas and energy to industry leaders and potential careers in the environment. NAN KHAM Clean workspace creates a healthy workplace, lifting spirits, enhancing productivity and making a difference for staff, stu-dents and faculty. With 11 years of service to the Uni-versity and as a housekeeper in Taylor Hall, Kham cre-ates a community in which teaching, research and ser-vice thrive. More than 75 colleagues praised her many professional and personal contributions to their well-being, noting her “above and beyond” efforts to accom-modate their work sched-ules and address the unique challenges of maintaining many laboratories in an aging build-ing. “When Nan is working in Taylor, the surroundings become brighter, literally,” praised a colleague. Outside her normal responsibilities, Kham works with facilities services’ recycling during student move-in day, contributes to staff activities and volunteers in the Carolina Campus Community Garden. In the words of a nominator, “She is extremely hard-working, efficient, helpful and approachable.” RONALD L. MANGUM For Mangum, social work is more than a career; it’s a calling. For 20 years, Mangum’s calling has been the highest and most perfect expression of Uni-versity outreach. Mangum brings best practices to all 100 North Carolina coun-ties, working with provid-ers who partner with the State Bureau of Investiga-tion to rescue children in home-based meth labs, and who work in juvenile jus-tice recidivism, child abuse, neglect and substance use. Most recently, he helped build and implement North Carolina's certified peer support specialist program, credential-ing people who live in recovery to support others in need. “More than 3,000 [North Carolinians] are engaged in meaningful vol-unteer or paid employment — rather than being ‘disabled’— due in part to the opportunities Ron has helped to create,” wrote a nominator. Mangum also developed a classroom lecture link-ing his personal experience as a black man in segregated Dur-ham to his expertise working with vulnerable, marginalized and oppressed populations. “I appreciate your candidness and gener-osity,” wrote a student. “It is an inspiration.” DARYL MAURICE ODOM Senior administrators from the Kenan Center, Kenan-Flagler Business School and the William R. Kenan Charitable Trust nominated Odom in grati-tude for his 30 years of professionalism and good-will. In the words of a col-league, “Daryl’s devotion to high standards, his respect for his environment and his collegial attitude toward co-workers, staff and visi-tors to the Kenan Center make him a wonderful role model for other employees.” in the Order of the Golden Fleece. In 1980, the Univer-sity hired Polk to find and secure the next generation of its best and brightest. Now deputy director and senior associate director in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, she was the driv-ing force behind the Univer-sity's policy to end early-decision, putting Carolina at the forefront of a movement to release high school seniors from a premature and binding academic commitment. Working with the department of athletics, Barbara balanced competing demands to identify student-athletes who are as capable in the classroom as they are in their chosen arena. Described as fair, honest, tireless, selfless and gracious, she is especially valued for helping students and families in distress. “Her good deeds have typically taken place behind the scenes and out of the limelight,” wrote a colleague. “She has done them out of love for the University and the goodness of her heart.” MASSEYS from page 1 Martina Ballen Nan Kham Daryl Odom Described as“meticulous,” Odom upholds the values of integrity, accountability, service and trust. In addition to his Massey Award and in recognition of his longstanding and out-standing job performance, he was honored during the Employee Forum peer recognition award ceremony with the call of duty award for those who go above and beyond their job expec-tations. In words of high praise, one nominator wrote, “To see Daryl is to recognize that this is a person who takes pride in all he does.” BARBARA POLK She is Carolina’s own, a 1979 graduate, and among the Uni-versity’s finest—honored as an undergraduate with membership Ronald Mangum Barbara Polk Gregory Gangi JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER In each of its next six issues, the University Gazette will profile one of the 2018 Massey Award winners. Watch for the stories in print and videos online at gazette.unc.edu. Innovate Carolina presents the premier annual innovation experience at Carolina, the UNC Innovation Showcase, at 5:30 p.m. at the Friday Center. The showcasewill celebrate 40 standout innovators asthey share how they're solving importantproblems and bringing breakthroughideas to market. For more informationand to register, visit innovate.unc.edu/showcase18. Acclaimed playwright Mike Wiley returns to PlayMakers with singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett for a musical journey across time, unearthing the cycles of history in a small North Carolina town. In Leaving Eden, cotton is king in the 1930s, pork processing keeps the town alive in 2016 and black and Latino citizens are the town’s economic backbone past and present. So why do they remain its most vulnerable to violence and hatred? As high-stakes elections loom during both time periods, the young, as ever, have a lot to fight for—and a lot to learn. For tickets, visit playmakersrep.org or call 919-962-7529. Faculty and staff get a 10 percent discount on tickets. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long will speak at Wilson Library at 4 p.m. as part of the Coastal Resilience Center’s Natural Hazards Resilience Speakers Series. Long will discuss lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane season and share a vision for emergency managers moving forward. Tucker Carlson, a veteran political commentator with stints at CNN, PBS, MSNBC and FOX News, will give the 2018 Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture for the UNC School of Media and Journalism at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Hall. Carlson’s remarks will be followed by a moderated conversation with associate professor Daniel Kreiss and several MJ-school students. Learn more at mj.unc.edu/ParkLecture2018. John Harris, director of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce University, will speak at 2:30 p.m. in Reeves Auditorium at the N.C. Botanical Garden. His talk, In the Footsteps of Spring: Retracing Naturalists Edwin Way Teale and John K.Terres, will offer highlights from the wild places thathe revisited from Teale’s 1947 odyssey of 17,000 miles,recorded in the book North with the Spring. Harris willsign copies of his book, Returning North with the Spring,at a reception following the lecture. The event is free, butpreregistration is required. Learn more at ncbg.unc.edu. CALENDAR UNIVERSITY GAZETTE 8 APRIL 12 APRIL 16 THROUGH APRIL 22 APRIL 12 APRIL 13 APRIL 15 The Gazette welcomes your story ideas and calendar announcements. To make sure your information reaches us in time for the next issue, please submit it at least 10 days before our publication date. You can find our latest publication schedule online at gazette.unc.edu/about. The next Gazette will be published April 25. To announce events occurring April 26–May 9, please submit your information no later than April 16. Email us at gazette@unc.edu or submit through the Got News? page on our website (gazette.unc.edu/got-news). GOT NEWS? Carolina Public Humanities will host the 2018 E. Maynard Adams Symposium for the Humanities at Wilson Library at 5:30 p.m. The event will feature a keynote address by Jeremy Waldron, law professor at New York University. Waldron is a leading international expert on issues such as torture, hate speech, theories of human equality and the concept of loyal opposition. The Adams Symposium is free and open to the public.The April Carolina Conversation, “What does it Mean to be a Public University?” will be held at 4 p.m. in the Aquarium Lounge in the Student Union. The gathering will explore the topic of public higher education through an engaging, participatory dialogue from a range of perspectives. Please join the conversation. All you need to bring is an open mind. APRIL 11, 2018 9 APRIL 17 APRIL 20 APRIL 20 The School of Media and Journalism, in collaboration with Duke Energy, presents Break Through: Communicating in a Crisis, a workshop to provide training, education and networking for public information officers and others responsible for communicating with the public during emergencies. The free workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Carroll Hall. For more information about the public panel discussion, please contact Michael Penny at mpenny@email.unc.edu. A Grammy nominee with her own inimitable brand of country music, Raleigh native and UNC alumna Tift Merritt will perform at Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. The singer has been compared to Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris in a proud tradition that reaches back to Dusty Springfield and Bobbie Gentry. Tickets start at $25. To purchase tickets, visit carolinaperformingarts.org or call ticket services at 919-843-3333. APRIL 17 APRIL 20 Susan Hassol will give the Earth Week keynote address at 5:30 p.m. in the Genome Science Building, room 100.Hassol is an award-winning climatechange communicator, analyst andauthor known for her ability to translatescience into English. A reception will beheld prior to the address from 4:30 to5:30 p.m. This event is sponsored by theUniversity’s Three Zeros environmentalinitiative. Carolina Hazards and Resilience Planners will hold a Climate Change and Resilience Symposium from 12:15 to 5 p.m. in the Genome Science Building, room GS200. CHRP is joining forces with the Carolina Climate Change Scientists, merging with their 5th Annual UNC Climate Change Symposium. The keynote speaker will be Susan White, executive director of North Carolina Sea Grant, North Carolina Space Grant and UNC Water Resources Research Institute.UNIVERSITY GAZETTE 10 TASK FORCE from page 6 Over a five-year period from the 2012–13 to 2016–17 academic years at Carolina, the number of walk-ins at CAPS increased by 104 percent and the number of urgent next-day follow-up appointments increased by 101 percent. At the same time, academic interventions and telephone-web contacts both increased by 43 percent. Medical evaluations increased by 25 percent, while medication management increased 70 percent. On average, a student will need to be seen three to five times in order to “stabilize the situation,” Crisp said. Counselors continue to meet with students as many times as necessary to address the problem they are facing. But because CAPS is not set up to provide long-term therapeutic care, students in need of such care must be referred to a community provider. Students have raised concerns about the high proportion of students—about 30 percent—who receive long-term care in this way, Crisp said. The task force must also take into consideration the limited funding sources that CAPS has available to pay for services. Of the CAPS operating budget of $2.66 million this fiscal year, $2.2 million was paid for with revenues from the student health fee, he said. For 2017–18, the student health fee was $381, with $87, or 23 percent, going to support CAPS and the remaining 77 percent going to pay for Campus Health Services and stu-dent wellness. While adequate funding is an area of concern that must be addressed, Crisp emphasized one ongoing strength of CAPS are counselors who run it. “I want to be the first person to stand here and say this is not about what is wrong with mental health care on this campus,” Crisp said. “There is nothing wrong with mental health care on this campus except they are overwhelmed. “We can’t just be overwhelmed and accept that. We have to figure out how to do more of this and how to do this better and that is what this task force and board is going to be about.” Crisp said the task force will work through the summer before proposing a series of recommendations by the end of the year. –Gary Moss, University Gazette Former Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost James W. Dean Jr. has been named the next president of the University of New Hampshire, effective June 30. After a national search, the UNH University System board of trustees unanimously selected Dean to become the university’s 20th president, UNH announced April 4. “I am deeply honored to have the opportunity to serve as president of UNH at a time when all public universities need to rethink our efforts to support the public through teaching, research and engagement,” said Dean. “The university has accomplished so much already in the classroom, the laboratory and the community, and it is well positioned to strengthen and even to redefine its role as a leading public research university.” In announcing Dean as UNH’s next president, John Small, chair of the University System of New Hampshire board of trustees, said UNH is gaining an “experienced leader from one of the nation’s top public universities.” “Jim is committed to and understands public higher education and the key role it plays in the state, the region and the nation,” said Small, who also headed the search committee. “He not only understands but embraces the importance and challenges of access, affordability, diversity and inclusion. He is also eager to bring his experience in leadership and building relationships with businesses to the university for the benefit of our students. Jim is thoughtful, approachable, visionary and an exceptional team builder—he will be an outstanding president for UNH.” Dean stepped down as Carolina’s executive vice chancellor and provost in September 2017, after serving four years in the position. He was succeeded by Bob Blouin, longtime dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Dean was named provost after a highly successful 15-year tenure on the faculty and administration at Kenan-Flagler Business School; including serving five years as the dean from 2008 to 2013. He also served as senior associate dean from 2007 to 2008, associate dean of executive development from 2002 to 2007 and associate dean of the MBA Program from 1998 to 2002. As the University’s chief academic officer, Dean hired seven deans, helping 14 schools and the College of Arts and Sciences chart a strong course for the future. He bolstered faculty retention efforts to ensure Carolina has the very best people teaching and conducting research. Dean also led the campus-wide efforts for Carolina’s 10-year review process for reaccreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Along with other senior leaders, Dean collaborated on a cross-campus effort to strengthen student advising to better meet the needs of the diverse campus. With administrators in Finance and Operations, he began work to develop a new budget model to modernize the ways the University allocates resources across campus. Dean named president of University of New Hampshire James W. Dean Jr. DAN SEARS Jim is committed to and understands public higher education and the key role it plays in the state, the region and the nation. JOHN SMALL At the April 4 meeting of the Employee Forum, members heard updates from human resources and others, reaffirmed its “commitment to a safe and inclusive campus community” in recognition of April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month and heard a first reading of a resolution on employee compensation. Forum delegates also heard presentations from Tinu Diver, associate director for ethics education and policy management, and Delores Bailey, executive director of the community organization EmPOWERment Inc. Bailey wanted delegates to be aware of the resources available through EmPOWERment, such as providing affordable housing for those in need and support for minority and women entrepreneurs with limited access to traditional loans. Diver informed delegates about the March 29 launch of unc.policystat.com. PolicyStat, a web-based, policy management application provides automated workflow for the creation, editing, review and approval of policies. The new website also serves as a central location for the publication of University policies. Felicia A. Washington, vice chancellor for workforce strategy, equity and engagement, and several members of her staff had updates for delegates. Here’s a brief summary: UNC System survey: Preliminary results from the recent University of North Carolina System employee survey show that all UNC System employees expressed strongest positive results for understanding how their job affects the University’s mission, having a good relationship with their supervisor and being proud to be a part of the institution. The strongest negative responses were tied to adequate staffing, promotions and fair pay. Carolina had the lowest survey participation rate (38 percent). SHRA career banding classification and compensation system: UNC Chapel Hill departments continue to provide SHRA employees increases for permissible reasons allowed by the state and UNC System. The System’s market trend analysis shows that UNC Chapel Hill has the greatest percentage of employees compensated at market or above. Ranges for employee salaries were established by the state in 2008 based on market rate salaries at the time, but the state has not implemented a comprehensive market rate review for career banding salary ranges since then. The UNC System has worked on a proposal to incrementally adjust the SHRA career banding ranges to be used by each institution in the UNC System. Final approval to any changes would have to be approved by the Office of State Human Resources. SHRA employee appraisals: Performance reviews are being conducted now. Some units are participating in a pilot program to do reviews completely online, which could be adapted across campus as early as next year. Afterward, delegate Bryan Andregg read a proposed resolution recommending that Chancellor Carol L. Folt direct the University’s Office of Human Resources to undertake a three-phase project to study employee compensation. The resolution will be read again, discussed and voted on at the forum’s May 2 meeting, which Folt is scheduled to attend. Employee Forum hears updates from policy office and HR during April meetingAPRIL 11, 2018 11 DigitalNC.org’s some 36,000 monthly visitors include genealogists, historians, K–12 students and the interested public, said Lisa Gregory, the center’s program coordinator. The site’s visitors are mostly from North Carolina, with about 10 percent coming from foreign countries. Established in 2009, the center has digitized more than 120,000 yearbooks, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs and city directories from the past two centuries and more recent decades. Newer entries include newspapers published through the 1980s and 1990s such as Q-Notes, Charlotte’s LGBTQ newspaper and The Shore Line from Pine Knoll Shores. Many of the state’s approximately 800 cultural heritage centers lack the necessary equipment, time and personnel, so the center digitizes for them and hosts the content online. Its partners so far include 227 institutions in 79 counties. Gregory said that the center increasingly focuses on collections from underrepresented and underserved communities. “Traveling to Chapel Hill may be a burden for some, so we are trying things such as going into the field to scan materials or using a courier service to bring items here,” she said. “We really want to diversify and represent their voices.” ON LOCATION SCANS In September 2017, the center called for nominations for cultural organizations that would receive on-location scanning. This December the Digital Heritage Center team took a field trip to Johnston County Heritage Center in Smithfield to do a session of on-location scanning. Armed with two flatbed scanners, laptops, external hard drives and an armful of cords and cables, team members set to work scanning and filling out metadata for over 200 photographs that are now available on DigitalNC. The center is a collaboration between Carolina’s University Libraries and the State Library of North Carolina. The State Library contributes funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. University Libraries operates the center, adding equipment and expertise from more than two decades of digitization activity. One factor in the center’s success, Gregory said, is that she and her staff leave it to each contributing institution to select materials that will bring the most value to its local community. Through the University Library’s Digital Production Center, the center has equipment to handle crumbling books and distressed items with tender care: flatbed scanners for small, flat items like postcards, a sheet-feed scanner for unbound documents and an archive book scanner for bound materials. The book scanner can produce about 3,000 pages daily. In six to 12 weeks on average, an incoming project is preserved in pixels. The rare and unique treasures are then available worldwide, ready for anyone to view and use them. –Scott Jared, University Gazette Traveling to Chapel Hill may be a burden for some, so we are trying things such as going into the field to scan materials or using a courier service to bring items here. LISA GREGORY CENTER from page 1 DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTER DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTER DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTER DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTER DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTER Clockwise, from top left, scans from the Digital Heritage Center include this 1920s-era poster from Wayne County; future folksinger Emmylou Harris in a 1966 UNC-Greensboro student yearbook photo with faculty member Arthur Dixon; photo of Spicy Elizabeth Hayes Barefoot (1862–1931) scanned during an on-location session at the Johnston County Heritage Center in Smithfield in December; 1927 Yackety Yack photo of James Kern “Kay” Kyser before he became an iconic big band leader and radio personality; and, also from the Yack, Andy Griffith in 1947, before he was Sheriff Andy Taylor or Matlock on TV.UNIVERSITY GAZETTE 12 History professor James Leloudis of the Chancellor’s Task Force on UNC–Chapel Hill History updated the University Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees on March 28 about a plan for developing signs, markers and online content to give people a better understanding of McCorkle Place. The plan will use that quad to introduce visitors to “the broad sweep of our institutional history, from the story of this land and this place prior to European settlement to Carolina’s stature today as one of the world’s leading research universities,” Leloudis said. Phase one of the interpretive plan for McCorkle Place includes signage for the north entrance at Franklin Street and the south entrance at Old East; repair and renovation to the Unsung Founders Memorial; a marker for a history of the land’s indigenous peoples; a marker giving historical context to the Confederate Monument; and related digital content. In the years since the Unsung Founders Memorial was installed, the monument gradually sank into the ground, obscuring the figurines that make up its base. The goal of the repair and renovation is to stabilize the piece, improve accessibility and make the space more contemplative and reverential. The two design concepts presented by Surface 678, a Durham firm, both connect the memorial to the brick walkway, place it on a round hard surface and encircle it with curved walls for reading and sitting. Both also include two markers, an introductory one at the entrance to the space and an artist’s statement. The only real difference between the two is that the first concept breaks one of the curved walls with three slots, each on a sightline to a building constructed by enslaved people: Old East, Old West and Person Hall. Riggs Ward Design, a Richmond firm, developed design con- cepts for signage and markers in McCorkle Place. The first concept embeds medallions and an engraved sign in the wall at the steps leading up from Franklin Street and in a new curved knee wall near Old East. In the second concept, the gateway signage is tall and vertical, with separate markers embedded in the wall at Franklin Street and flush with the sidewalk at Old East. Each of the proposed markers would include an embedded Bluetooth beacon to alert passersby through their smart phones or tablets, inviting them to access digital historical content online. The digital content will be “a virtual analog” to the history exhibit installed in Carolina Hall in 2016, Leloudis said. Scholars working under the direction of Leloudis have already completed the digital content about the Confederate Monument and are about halfway through the content for the Unsung Founders Memorial. That story will be told through the life of Wilson Caldwell, who was born into slavery and went on to found a school for African-Americans and to serve as a justice of the peace. Content about the history of indigenous peoples and their relationship to the University will also be developed working with Native American scholars and community representatives. Task force members hope to prompt people to visit “The Gift,” a tribute to North Carolina Native Americans created by Haliwa-Saponi artist Senora Lynch, at the Student Union. At the end of the presentation, trustee Jeff Brown asked Leloudis if the interpretive plan for McCorkle Place could be expanded beyond the memorials and monuments there. “I was struck by the gateway markers [with the legend] ‘the birthplace of American public higher education,’” he said. “It seems to me that there’s an opportunity to broaden McCorkle Place’s recognition.” Leloudis agreed. “That has always been our intent for McCorkle Place and why we’ve described this as phase one,” he said. He added that he could imagine markers at Hill Hall, the University’s first real library, and Graham Memorial, named for University President Edward Kidder Graham, to name a few. “That has been our ultimate goal all along,” Leloudis said, “to develop interpretive plans and design concepts that would allow us to spin this out to scale.” – Susan Hudson, University Gazette History Task Force presents interpretive options for McCorkle Place Plans from the history task force will use McCorkle Place to introduce visitors to the broad sweep of the University’s institutional history. DAN SEARS I was struck by the gateway markers [with the legend] ‘the birthplace of American public higher education.’ It seems to me that there’s an opportunity to broaden McCorkle Place’s recognition. JEFF BROWN
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Full Text | Staff and faculty helped Arts Everywhere Day come to life. Center for Public Service honors those who serve others. History display options presented for McCorkle Place. 3 4 12 APRIL 11, 2018 GAZETTE.UNC.EDU @UNIVGAZETTE VOL. 43, NO. 7 CAROLINA FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS Important and, in some cases, little-known historic relics from across North Carolina are available world-wide, thanks to the dedicated librarians of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center in Wilson Library. For its work, the center is one of 29 finalists for the 2018 National Medal for Museum and Library Service to be awarded later this month. The medal, the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, recognizes exceptional service to the community and honors orga-nizations that make a difference in the lives of individu-als, families and communities. On April 11, the institute and the center invite sup-porters to share via social media how the center makes a difference in their lives and communities. Use the hashtags #ShareYourStory and #IMLSmedals and tag @NCDHC on Twitter, @NCDigitalHeritageCenter on Facebook. PUTTING HISTORY ONLINE On a recent day in the center, Marty Tschetter, local history librarian at the Wayne County Library, arrives with a 1920s-era poster appealing for donations to fund a building to honor local people who died in World War I. Carefully handling the poster, technician Jay Mangum secures it for photographing behind a large clear plate. A couple of clicks later, and the poster is one step closer to its place on the center’s website, DigitalNC.org (See the scan on page 11). The poster is an example of the center’s digitiza-tion work for North Carolina’s museums, libraries and archives. The center publishes each image in a highly searchable form along with information on its background and importance for the public to access at DigitalNC.org for free. Local to worldwide in a couple of clicks Outstanding service earns six employees prestigious Massey Awards Six employees at Carolina have been selected by Chancellor Carol L. Folt to receive the 2018 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards, one of the most coveted distinctions earned by faculty and staff. “These amazing people, through their hard work and dedication, day in and day out, create the Carolina we love,” Folt said. “They are incredible community builders and we thank them for their service and commitment to excellence.” The late C. Knox Massey of Durham created the awards in 1980 to recognize “unusual, meritorious or superior contributions” by University employees. In 1984, he joined the families of his son, Knox Massey Jr., and daughter, Kay Massey Weatherspoon, to create the Massey-Weatherspoon fund. Income from the fund supports the Massey Awards and Carolina Semi-nars. The Massey Award winners will each receive a $10,000 stipend. Chosen from campus-wide nominations, the Massey Award recipients will be honored at a luncheon hosted by Folt on April 14, where they will receive their award citation and stipend. This year’s recipients are: Martina Kendrick Ballen, senior associate athletic director and chief financial officer, department of athletics Gregory J. Gangi, associate director for education, the UNC Insti-tute for the Environment; associate teaching professor, environment and ecology Nan Kham, housekeeper, Taylor Hall Ronald L. Mangum, clinical assistant professor, School of Social Work Daryl Maurice Odom, housekeeper, the Kenan Center Barbara Polk, deputy director and senior associate director, Office of Undergraduate Admissions These amazing people, through their hard work and dedication, day in and day out, create the Carolina we love. CAROL L. FOLT See CENTER page 11 See MASSEYS page 7 At the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, librarians like program coordinator Lisa Gregory (right) and graduate student and research assistant Julia Gootzeit digitize items for North Carolina’s museums, libraries and archives. JOHNNY ANDREWS UNIVERSITY GAZETTE 2 The University Gazette is a University publication. Its mission is to build a sense of campus community by communicating information relevant and vital to faculty and staff and to advance the University’s overall goals and messages. EDITOR Gary C. Moss (919-962-7125) gary_moss@unc.edu MANAGING EDITOR Susan Hudson (919-962-8415) susan_hudson@unc.edu DESIGN AND LAYOUT UNC Creative (919-962-7123) CHANGE OF ADDRESS Make changes through your department’s HR representative. The editor reserves the right to decide what information will be published in the Gazette and to edit submissions for consistency with Gazette style, tone and content. READ THE GAZETTE ONLINE AT gazette.unc.edu The Triangle Business Journal recently selected former University Board of Trustee member Sallie Shuping-Russell as the recipient of its 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award. Shuping-Russell was one of 26 women honored at the 2018 Women in Business Awards ceremony hosted by the Triangle Business Journal at the Prestonwood Country Club in Cary. A renowned leader in investment and financial management, Shuping-Russell has helped found numerous companies and is currently serving as a senior adviser with BlackRock’s Private Equity Partners group. She was born in Greensboro and graduated from Carolina with a degree in English and political science. She then earned a master’s in business administration from Col- umbia University. Shuping-Russell was a partner at Quellos Group before its acquisition by BlackRock. Prior to that, she was a general partner at the venture capital firm Intersouth Partners. She was also a founder and vice president of Duke Management Co., now DUMAC, where she was responsible for the private investment portfolio of Duke University for 15 years. She has been on the boards of several entrepreneurial companies, in addition to serving as a director of CommonFund Capital and the North Carolina Biotechnology Center Board. She has continued to devote her time to her alma mater throughout her life. She has served on the UNC Health Care System Board, the University’s Board of Trustees and is currently vice chairman of the UNC Investment Fund. She also chairs the Carolina Research Ventures Board, which invests in companies formed from technologies developed at Carolina. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the General Alumni Association in 2011. In 2017, she was one of four alumni to be presented the Board of Trustees’ highest honor, the William Richardson Davie Award, in recognition of her “dedication, commitment, loyalty and service.” Check out those ‘70s hairstyles! The Clef Hangers, Carolina’s oldest a cappella singing group, celebrated its 40th anniversary with an April 7 concert. Since their founding in 1977, the UNC Clef Hangers have established themselves as a Carolina tradition, performing at some of the University’s biggest events from the Sunset Serenade before the first day of classes to Spring Commencement. Catch up on the group’s history with the video story at unc.edu/discover/clef-hangers-40 or stream their latest release, Castle on the Hill, at clefhangers.com. Shuping-Russell receives lifetime achievement award from Triangle Business Journal Sallie Shuping-Russell Retired pathology chair Joe Grisham receives lifetime achievement award Blast from the past CONTRIBUTED DAN SEARS Joe W. Grisham, Emeritus Kenan Professor and former chair of the department of pathology and laboratory medicine at Carolina (1973–99), has been named the 2018 recipient of the Jonathan B. Howes Lifetime Achievement Award from the University’s Retired Faculty Association. The Howes award recognizes and encourages faculty contributions both within the University and beyond in the wider community, as exemplified by the career of the late Jonathan Howes, who was director of the Center for Urban and Regional Studies. Grisham will accept the award and speak at the RFA general meeting at noon April 12 at the Friday Center. To register, visit the RFA website, uncrfa.web.unc.edu. Grisham was a champion of faculty diversity, encouraging the hiring of women, as well as ethnic and racial minorities. During his tenure, the number of women in the department increased at a rate not seen before in any other department in the School of Medicine. Inspired by Grisham’s efforts, the dean of the School of Medicine at the time, Stuart Bondurant, charged a new committee with encouraging affirmative action in faculty hiring. Grisham also nurtured faculty members toward leadership roles, with four becoming chairs of pathology departments, including J. Charles Jennette, at Carolina. Joe Grisham CONTRIBUTEDAPRIL 11, 2018 3 For Arts Everywhere Day, the second annual campus-wide celebration of the arts and creativity that calls attention to the strategic Arts Everywhere initiative that supports The Blueprint for Next, Carolina employees worked behind the scenes and in the spotlight with artists, students, campus departments and others to make the celebration a success. Here’s a look at a few. Employees set the stage for Arts Everywhere Day "Singing a lengthy German song cycle in this public venue while people were talking, eating lunch or just passing by, I was still able to see people really focusing in on the performance. People were walking through and, all of a sudden, they heard and saw this unexpected thing. Some were obviously thinking, ‘That’s my thing!’ and stayed, while others decided ‘That’s not my thing’ and moved on—but at least they were introduced to it. Andy, Keiko and I wanted to draw people in and help them understand it all at a high artistic level." SUCHI MOHANTY, head of the House Undergraduate Library, who helped plan the installation of artist Mary Carter Taub’s installation Right Angles. MARGO MCINTYRE, Coker Arboretum curator, who chose the site for the Seussian Igloo. “It’s been fun to see the surprise element as people find the igloo. They’ll say, ‘Oh my, what’s that?’ Then they find the door and use it. We’ve had some families come by and some people studying in it. So it’s great to have some art in the arboretum and cool to participate in Arts Everywhere.” MICHAEL PIERCE, accessibility specialist in Facilities Services, who handled ADA and accessibility preparations at all Arts Everywhere sites. “If a site has interactive parts, I made sure that at least one part of the art is accessible so that people with disabilities can experience it the same as people without a disability. I think Arts Everywhere and the interactive type of art is an important aspect of campus that allows people to have a variety of experiences. It confirms that art is not only something you look at, but you experience, like the interactiveness of the pianos, and that art also has function. It’s important that when we put this art out there that it’s accessible to everyone.” “We were only halfway through installing the art when students started asking for chalk so they could write down their to-dos. It quickly caught their attention. I think it is a great way for the students or anybody to think deeply about what they would like to accomplish in their lives.” “During the planning process with Mary, I explained the role the UL plays in student life, how we support student success and how students and faculty use our services and resources. The Undergraduate Library is a vibrant, creative space that runs off of student energy. When I browsed Mary’s online gallery, I was struck by the color and energy in her work and I thought it reflected the energy and creative spirit of the UL.” TODD MCLAMB, facilities maintenance technician in the Frank Porter Graham Union, who helped assemble the Before I Die installation. MARC CALLAHAN, baritone and assistant professor of music, who performed Die Winterreise as ANDREW MYERS created art and pianist KEIKO SEKINO accompanied. JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINERUNIVERSITY GAZETTE 4 The Carolina Center for Public Service recognized several community-based programs led by Carolina faculty, staff and students at its 2018 Public Service Awards celebration on April 9. “Service to others is at the heart of how a great public university engages with communities and addresses issues of shared concern,” said Lynn Blanchard, the center’s director. “Recipients of this year’s Public Service Awards exemplify the best of how Carolina serves the public good. I am honored to recognize their meaningful and profoundly important work.” Dorothy Holland, Boshamer Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, received the 2018 Ned Brooks Award for Public Service recognizing her long commitment to building collaborations between the University and the community that create new opportunities and generate academic excellence. Holland co-founded the Center for Integrating Research and Action and the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research. CIRA took its social change research to grassroots organizations in the state, spurring new conversations about the best ways to advocate for issues. The GCPR creates opportunities for graduate students to develop research skills in partnership with communities and provides them with substantive collaborative research experiences. The Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award was established in 2000 by then-Provost Dick Richardson to recognize extraordinary public service and engaged scholarship at Carolina. Alice Ammerman, professor of nutrition in the Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, was recognized for engaged research for the Heart Healthy Lenoir Project. This National Institutes of Health-funded project was a community-based partnership between HPDP, Lenoir County and East Carolina University to reduce heart disease. Ammerman and her team worked with primary care practices to help patients control their blood pressure, increase physical activity and improve diet with heart-healthy recipes. Jean Davison, associate professor in the School of Nursing, was recognized for engaged teaching for developing a service-learning course focused on migrant Latino health in North Carolina. The course teaches fundamental concepts of global health and included clinical teaching in North Carolina, Honduras and Nicaragua. Davison received an APPLES Service-Learning grant in 2015 and has expanded her local and global outreach course activities as a result. Project READY: Reimagining Equity and Access for Diverse Youth received the engaged partnership award. Project READY is a grant-funded initiative of the School of Information and Library Science partnering with the Wake County Public School System and North Carolina Central University. These partners implemented a yearlong professional development series for school librarians and educators working with them focused on racial equity. Librarians have since created innovative programs focused on educational racial equity in local classrooms. Recipients of 2018 Public Service Awards included, from left, Project READY, represented by research associate Casey Rawson; Celeste Brown of the White Coats Black Doctors Foundation; and Brian Hogan, leader of three mentorship programs for North Carolina middle and high school students. Public service awards honor mentorship, advocacy programs led by Tar Heels JON GARDINER The Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award recognizes undergraduate and graduate students, staff and faculty for exemplifying outstanding engagement and service to the state of North Carolina. Joseph Nail, a senior political science and economics major in the College of Arts and Sciences, was recognized for his work as co-creator of FairEd, a nonprofit that uses mentorship programs to provide high school students from low-income backgrounds resources and support during the college application process. Nearly three-quarters of those served are now attending a college or university. Celeste Brown, a fourth-year medical student in the School of Medicine, is a founding member of the White Coats Black Doctors Foundation. Brown and four other medical students created the foundation in 2015 to address the significant deficit of African-American physicians in North Carolina and the rest of the country. WCBD hosts networking and speaking events, conducts a mentorship program and offers a scholarship that offsets the cost of medical school applications. Brian Hogan, a teaching associate professor in the department of chemistry, is also the director of the Carolina Covenant. Hogan was recognized for his leadership of three mentorship programs for North Carolina middle and high school students. SOAR provides near-peer mentors to young Latino students and encourages involvement in science and mathematics. SUCCEED bolsters STEM education in North Carolina schools by donating science experiment kits to classrooms. GLOW works to increase access to higher education among young African-American girls through positive role modeling and academic help. Hogan was a member of the Thorp Faculty Engaged Scholars Class IV. Bryan Giemza, director of the Southern Historical Collection, was recognized for his work partnering with community members in western North Carolina to create Maya from the Margins, a program educating Latino and indigenous students about the history of their roots and culture. The program paired North Carolina students with families in Yucatan, Mexico, and implemented an exchange program that resulted in a showcase of student research displayed in both North Carolina and Yucatan. The program received recognition from the Rare Books and Manuscript Section of Carolina’s Wilson Library and the Society of American Archivists for its innovation and creativity. Law Students Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, a student organization within the School of Law, was recognized for its work to protect victims from their abusers through the Ex Parte Project, including its partnership with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. These students believe that the law has the power to bring about meaningful social change and that battling domestic violence is an important step toward ending violence against women. Each semester, Law Students Against Sexual and Domestic Violence sponsors a series of panel discussions and research projects to educate the community about the domestic violence epidemic. A complete list of award recipients is available at ccps.unc.edu/2018-public-service-award-recognition. – Rhonda Beatty, Carolina Center for Public Service Dorothy Holland DAN SEARSAPRIL 11, 2018 5 WHAT’S A TYPICAL DAY LIKE IN YOUR JOB? I would break down a typical day into a few areas: communication, education and advising, networking and outreach. I do a lot of communicating through email and phone. I connect with students, faculty, staff, community partners, local agencies, nonprofits and municipalities. We are trying to build a robust online presence, so a lot of my work is on social media and two different websites. Through the education and advising piece of my job, we help students navigate living off campus. Through networking and outreach, we do a lot of neighborhood relationship work. I try to connect the University and the community at a student life level. HOW DOES YOUR WORK SUPPORT CAROLINA’S MISSION? The work that I do helps address the basic needs, such as living and safety, of students so that they can do the things that they came here to do intellectually. The University is also a public institution, which means that we have a clear responsibility to the public and the surrounding communities: Chapel Hill, Carrboro and beyond. I support the public in terms of students’ influence and impact in the community and trying to make those positive experiences for all involved. We serve our public by supporting our students’ lives off campus. WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOUR WORK? I really enjoy engaging with people, both students and community members. My dad was on the faculty here for 40 years. I grew up running around on this campus and living in this community, attending public school and cheering on the Tar Heels. For me, this is an ideal job because I get to connect both my professional life working in student affairs and higher education with my love for this institution and this community. I get to help students find a home in a place that’s been home and is home for me. HOW DID YOU COME TO WORK IN THIS POSITION? I previously worked as an assistant director in the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership at Appalachian State University. I came to Carolina as a doctoral graduate assistant in what is now called Student Life and Leadership and continued that work in the Dean of Students office. In the 2010–11 academic year, I was hired as the senior associate dean and director of fraternity and sorority life and community involvement here at Carolina, a position I held until January of this year, when I was hired to this position. WHAT WOULD OTHERS BE SURPRISED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR JOB? I think a lot of people are under the impression that I spend all day putting out fires and dealing with problems. In actuality, most of my job is actually fun and good stuff. It’s helping students be successful, helping people figure out solutions to problems and helping people have a great experience with the University or in the surrounding communities. Carolina People is a regular feature in each issue of the Gazette that asks one of your fascinating colleagues five questions about the work they do for the University. Do you know someone with an interesting or unique job at Carolina? Please email your suggestions to gazette@unc.edu and put Carolina People in the subject line. Aaron Bachenheimer EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF OFF-CAMPUS STUDENT LIFE AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS 9 years working at Carolina JON GARDINER PEOPLE Biological materials have complex mechanical properties that are difficult to reproduce using synthetic materials. An international team of researchers, led by Carolina chemistry professor Sergei Sheiko, has produced a biocompatible synthetic material that behaves like biological tissues and changes color when it changes shape—like chameleon skin. The research is featured in the March 30 edition of Science. Sheiko said the research could have powerful implications for the development of a new generation of biomedical devices. In order to produce a medical implant, for instance, the materials must have similar mechanical properties as a surrounding biological tissue in order to mitigate inflammatory response. “Our body can be viewed as an aging car that constantly needs replacement parts. Given the steadily aging population, this creates a pressing need for better and more diverse materials for biomedical devices,” said Sheiko, the George A. Bush Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. “One key demand is that these materials closely mimic the mechanics of living tissue.” A number of biological tissues, including the skin, the intestinal wall and the heart muscle, have the characteristic of being soft yet stiffening when they are stretched. The mechanical and optical properties of biological tissue also act in concert to serve living organisms, such as chameleons, amphibians, birds and butterflies. The tissues may adjust their colors for camouflage. “Until now, synergistically integrating mechanical and optical performance has been a big material design challenge because we are essentially trying to mimic the skin of James Cameron’s Avatar: soft on touch, stiff upon deformation and colored for appeal or camouflage,” Sheiko said. As outlined in the paper, “Self-assembled elastomers with molecularly encoded tissue-like softness, strain-adaptive stiffening and coloration,” the research team has attempted to achieve this by controlling polymer architecture. They synthesized a physically cross-linked elastomer (polymer with elastic properties) composed of a central block onto which side chains were grafted (like a bottle brush) and with linear terminal blocks at each end. They succeeded in encoding in this synthetic polymer both mechanical and optical properties of natural systems, a feat which had previously never been achieved. The polymer was found to be biocompatible and does not require the addition of chemical additives, e.g. solvent. “The design-by-architecture approach reported in our paper will open the door for making materials as soft as brain tissue and as stiff as skin—ideal for direct use as implants for reconstructive surgery and drug delivery,” Sheiko added. Watch a video that shows how the material’s color changes when it is stretched at college.unc.edu/2018/03/29/polymer-sheiko. – College of Arts & Sciences Chemistry professor develops polymers that mimic chameleon skin Sergei Sheiko LARS SAHLUNIVERSITY GAZETTE 6 There is much more to the new campus master plan than bricks and mortar, and more sides to the Carolina Center for Public Service than merely doing good deeds. At their March 29 meeting, the members of the University Board of Trustees got a primer on both from Anna Wu, associate vice chancellor for facilities and University architect, and Lynn Blanchard, director of the public service center. Both Wu and Blanchard also tied their work to the broader mission of Carolina and The Blueprint for Next, the strategic framework for Carolina. PLAN FOR THE FUTURE Wu focused her talk on the process she and her office have engaged in over the past year to “knit together” the master plan with The Blueprint for Next. What made the process unique, Wu said, was how the people working on the master plan joined with a campus-wide strategic liaison group to align the campus master plan with The Blueprint for Next. Because of these efforts, Wu added, the master plan that will be presented in May will not be a wholesale building program, but a document that identifies target opportunities to add facilities and spaces to advance the blueprint’s signature initiatives. “Together, we had a chance to identify the intersections of their objectives and explore how programmatic synergies, new transportation resources and physical assets could be leveraged for innovative and effective uses,” Wu said. “This opportunity has really been a first for us. We have been able to dovetail the visionary aspects of the strategic framework into a master plan that forecasts the future vision of the campus while also targeting operational improvement.” ENGAGED SERVICE For her part, Blanchard emphasized that the work being done at the Carolina Center for Public Service goes beyond simple volunteerism or what is typically thought of as community service. “We encompass that, but our work is really inextricably linked to all parts of the University’s mission,” Blanchard said. “Our mission is to connect the energy and expertise of this University to the needs of the community.” Blanchard added that Carolina public service is really about “engaged service.” “We like to use the term ‘engaged’ because it means that this is not something we do to people, or even for people, but rather with people and communities,” she said. Chancellor Carol L. Folt said when she came to campus five years ago she heard students talking about APPLES. She didn’t know what it was then, but she does now. Of all the activities students can get involved with on this campus, the APPLES Service-Learning is one of the most profound because it transforms not only the communities that students work with but the students themselves, Folt said. Founded in 1990, APPLES has continued to strengthen civic engagement by bringing together students, faculty and communities in sustained and mutually beneficial partnerships, said Blanchard. APPLES, which is now operated by the public service center, offers alternative breaks, a service-learning initiative, internships, courses and fellowships. “This remains one of the few student-led, staff-supported service-learning programs in the nation,” Blanchard said. “And as students often point out to us, the hyphen is critical—it is that vital link that connects service to learning.” BEYOND THE NUMBERS Another student initiative that has grown over the years is the Buckley Public Service Scholar program that launched in 2003, Blanchard said. In the 2016 academic year, the program engaged 1,557 participants who together logged 197,736 hours in 88 counties in North Carolina. Last year, the center conducted a survey asking alumni involved in public service to talk about how it shaped their lives. One respondent wrote, “My public service experience at UNC was the most profound and important aspect of my college experience. It created a thread through my academic coursework that led me to my current position.” Wrote another, “I am so grateful for those who ensured I would graduate as an informed citizen dedicated to using my own skills to improve the lives of others.” – Gary Moss, University Gazette Public service efforts and a new campus master plan are both connected to a broader mission Lynn Blanchard, Justin Williford and Hiwot Ekuban field questions during the Board of Trustees meeting March 29. JON GARDINER See more Board of Trustees coverage on page 12. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Bob Blouin and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Winston Crisp have convened a student mental health task force to assess the scope of mental health care needs for students at Carolina. Crisp announced the creation of the task force March 28 at the University Board of Trustees’ University Affairs Committee. Its charge will be to: Assess the scope of mental health care needs at Carolina; Evaluate existing or emerging best practices from a variety of disciplines; and Provide evidence-based guidance and recommendations regarding campus-based policies and programs related to mental health care. To optimize its effectiveness, Blouin and Crisp selected task force members who represent major areas of campus life, including academics, health, policy and student affairs, Title IX and students. Erica Wise, professor of clinical psychology and director of psychological services in the Department of Psychology, will chair the task force. Chuck Duckett, chair of the University Affairs Committee, will also serve on the task force, along with Crisp, Savannah Putnam, the incoming student body president, and Manny Hernandez, incoming president of the Graduate and Professional Student Federation. In all, Crisp currently has recruited 19 task force members and hopes to add two more faculty members and an undergraduate. During his presentation, Crisp shared an overview of Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), which provides therapy, psychiatry, referral and academic intervention services for students and post-doctoral fellows. Crisp said Carolina operates CAPS under a short-term therapeutic model, which is the same approach used by all universities across the country. Its underlying philosophic purpose, he added, has always been to support the academic mission of the University, which translates into “keeping students healthy and well-balanced enough to participate fully in the academic enterprise.” In order to meet that charge, CAPS is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and has counselors on call 24-7, 365 days a year, Crisp said. “We are not necessarily going to have all your needs taken care of the day you walk into CAPS,” Crisp said, but all students are seen for initial evaluations the same day they walk in. After initial consultation and evaluation, students may be offered individual short-term therapy to stabilize and evaluate, with no limit on the number of sessions offered; group therapy; medication evaluation and maintenance; and aca- demic interventions and crisis referral. But that model, as a result of growing demand for services, has become increasingly strained, Crisp said. As a result, there is a growing debate across the country about whether that model should be expanded to include long-term care. Mental health task force created to assess, meet growing demand Winston Crisp JON GARDINER See TASK FORCE page 10APRIL 11, 2018 7 MARTINA KENDRICK BALLEN As umpire, judge, referee and timekeeper for finances in the department of athletics, Ballen makes the calls that keep the department’s budget bal-anced and healthy. A Caro-lina graduate, she joined the staff in 1987 as director of finance and rose through the ranks to become senior associate director of ath-letics and chief financial officer. She now adminis-ters revenues totaling $95.5 million. In an environment that embraces competition, she is committed to equity, and is described as caring, deliberate, tough and a role model for integrity and heart. Bal-len leads the department’s diversity committee and created and helped launch Tar Heel Trailblazers honoring African- American student-athletes who paved the way for those who follow. She is past chair of the board of directors of the Autism Society of North Carolina and in addition to her Massey Award, received the 2011 Harvey Elliott Beech Outstanding Alumna Award. GREGORY J. GANGI Gangi is a powerful advocate for the environments that shape life. He joined the faculty in 2000 and, with dual roles as associate director for education in the UNC Institute for the Envi-ronment and associate teach-ing professor in environment and ecology, he connects scientific curiosity to intel-lectual capital across campus and in the state, nation and world. Gangi is renowned for his dedication to his stu-dents. He was previously honored with a Tanner Teaching Award and twice recognized by the National Academic Advising Association for innovative approaches to mentoring. For more than a decade, Gangi has served as faculty mentor and faculty coordinator for the University’s Scholars Program. “He is an agent of institutional change at Carolina,” wrote a colleague. Gangi’s classroom knows no boundaries. He leads environmental field studies around the world, created dual-degree programs in schools across campus and established the UNC Clean Tech Summit to link students, their ideas and energy to industry leaders and potential careers in the environment. NAN KHAM Clean workspace creates a healthy workplace, lifting spirits, enhancing productivity and making a difference for staff, stu-dents and faculty. With 11 years of service to the Uni-versity and as a housekeeper in Taylor Hall, Kham cre-ates a community in which teaching, research and ser-vice thrive. More than 75 colleagues praised her many professional and personal contributions to their well-being, noting her “above and beyond” efforts to accom-modate their work sched-ules and address the unique challenges of maintaining many laboratories in an aging build-ing. “When Nan is working in Taylor, the surroundings become brighter, literally,” praised a colleague. Outside her normal responsibilities, Kham works with facilities services’ recycling during student move-in day, contributes to staff activities and volunteers in the Carolina Campus Community Garden. In the words of a nominator, “She is extremely hard-working, efficient, helpful and approachable.” RONALD L. MANGUM For Mangum, social work is more than a career; it’s a calling. For 20 years, Mangum’s calling has been the highest and most perfect expression of Uni-versity outreach. Mangum brings best practices to all 100 North Carolina coun-ties, working with provid-ers who partner with the State Bureau of Investiga-tion to rescue children in home-based meth labs, and who work in juvenile jus-tice recidivism, child abuse, neglect and substance use. Most recently, he helped build and implement North Carolina's certified peer support specialist program, credential-ing people who live in recovery to support others in need. “More than 3,000 [North Carolinians] are engaged in meaningful vol-unteer or paid employment — rather than being ‘disabled’— due in part to the opportunities Ron has helped to create,” wrote a nominator. Mangum also developed a classroom lecture link-ing his personal experience as a black man in segregated Dur-ham to his expertise working with vulnerable, marginalized and oppressed populations. “I appreciate your candidness and gener-osity,” wrote a student. “It is an inspiration.” DARYL MAURICE ODOM Senior administrators from the Kenan Center, Kenan-Flagler Business School and the William R. Kenan Charitable Trust nominated Odom in grati-tude for his 30 years of professionalism and good-will. In the words of a col-league, “Daryl’s devotion to high standards, his respect for his environment and his collegial attitude toward co-workers, staff and visi-tors to the Kenan Center make him a wonderful role model for other employees.” in the Order of the Golden Fleece. In 1980, the Univer-sity hired Polk to find and secure the next generation of its best and brightest. Now deputy director and senior associate director in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, she was the driv-ing force behind the Univer-sity's policy to end early-decision, putting Carolina at the forefront of a movement to release high school seniors from a premature and binding academic commitment. Working with the department of athletics, Barbara balanced competing demands to identify student-athletes who are as capable in the classroom as they are in their chosen arena. Described as fair, honest, tireless, selfless and gracious, she is especially valued for helping students and families in distress. “Her good deeds have typically taken place behind the scenes and out of the limelight,” wrote a colleague. “She has done them out of love for the University and the goodness of her heart.” MASSEYS from page 1 Martina Ballen Nan Kham Daryl Odom Described as“meticulous,” Odom upholds the values of integrity, accountability, service and trust. In addition to his Massey Award and in recognition of his longstanding and out-standing job performance, he was honored during the Employee Forum peer recognition award ceremony with the call of duty award for those who go above and beyond their job expec-tations. In words of high praise, one nominator wrote, “To see Daryl is to recognize that this is a person who takes pride in all he does.” BARBARA POLK She is Carolina’s own, a 1979 graduate, and among the Uni-versity’s finest—honored as an undergraduate with membership Ronald Mangum Barbara Polk Gregory Gangi JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER JON GARDINER In each of its next six issues, the University Gazette will profile one of the 2018 Massey Award winners. Watch for the stories in print and videos online at gazette.unc.edu. Innovate Carolina presents the premier annual innovation experience at Carolina, the UNC Innovation Showcase, at 5:30 p.m. at the Friday Center. The showcasewill celebrate 40 standout innovators asthey share how they're solving importantproblems and bringing breakthroughideas to market. For more informationand to register, visit innovate.unc.edu/showcase18. Acclaimed playwright Mike Wiley returns to PlayMakers with singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett for a musical journey across time, unearthing the cycles of history in a small North Carolina town. In Leaving Eden, cotton is king in the 1930s, pork processing keeps the town alive in 2016 and black and Latino citizens are the town’s economic backbone past and present. So why do they remain its most vulnerable to violence and hatred? As high-stakes elections loom during both time periods, the young, as ever, have a lot to fight for—and a lot to learn. For tickets, visit playmakersrep.org or call 919-962-7529. Faculty and staff get a 10 percent discount on tickets. Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long will speak at Wilson Library at 4 p.m. as part of the Coastal Resilience Center’s Natural Hazards Resilience Speakers Series. Long will discuss lessons learned from the 2017 hurricane season and share a vision for emergency managers moving forward. Tucker Carlson, a veteran political commentator with stints at CNN, PBS, MSNBC and FOX News, will give the 2018 Roy H. Park Distinguished Lecture for the UNC School of Media and Journalism at 11 a.m. at the Memorial Hall. Carlson’s remarks will be followed by a moderated conversation with associate professor Daniel Kreiss and several MJ-school students. Learn more at mj.unc.edu/ParkLecture2018. John Harris, director of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce University, will speak at 2:30 p.m. in Reeves Auditorium at the N.C. Botanical Garden. His talk, In the Footsteps of Spring: Retracing Naturalists Edwin Way Teale and John K.Terres, will offer highlights from the wild places thathe revisited from Teale’s 1947 odyssey of 17,000 miles,recorded in the book North with the Spring. Harris willsign copies of his book, Returning North with the Spring,at a reception following the lecture. The event is free, butpreregistration is required. Learn more at ncbg.unc.edu. CALENDAR UNIVERSITY GAZETTE 8 APRIL 12 APRIL 16 THROUGH APRIL 22 APRIL 12 APRIL 13 APRIL 15 The Gazette welcomes your story ideas and calendar announcements. To make sure your information reaches us in time for the next issue, please submit it at least 10 days before our publication date. You can find our latest publication schedule online at gazette.unc.edu/about. The next Gazette will be published April 25. To announce events occurring April 26–May 9, please submit your information no later than April 16. Email us at gazette@unc.edu or submit through the Got News? page on our website (gazette.unc.edu/got-news). GOT NEWS? Carolina Public Humanities will host the 2018 E. Maynard Adams Symposium for the Humanities at Wilson Library at 5:30 p.m. The event will feature a keynote address by Jeremy Waldron, law professor at New York University. Waldron is a leading international expert on issues such as torture, hate speech, theories of human equality and the concept of loyal opposition. The Adams Symposium is free and open to the public.The April Carolina Conversation, “What does it Mean to be a Public University?” will be held at 4 p.m. in the Aquarium Lounge in the Student Union. The gathering will explore the topic of public higher education through an engaging, participatory dialogue from a range of perspectives. Please join the conversation. All you need to bring is an open mind. APRIL 11, 2018 9 APRIL 17 APRIL 20 APRIL 20 The School of Media and Journalism, in collaboration with Duke Energy, presents Break Through: Communicating in a Crisis, a workshop to provide training, education and networking for public information officers and others responsible for communicating with the public during emergencies. The free workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Carroll Hall. For more information about the public panel discussion, please contact Michael Penny at mpenny@email.unc.edu. A Grammy nominee with her own inimitable brand of country music, Raleigh native and UNC alumna Tift Merritt will perform at Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. The singer has been compared to Joni Mitchell and Emmylou Harris in a proud tradition that reaches back to Dusty Springfield and Bobbie Gentry. Tickets start at $25. To purchase tickets, visit carolinaperformingarts.org or call ticket services at 919-843-3333. APRIL 17 APRIL 20 Susan Hassol will give the Earth Week keynote address at 5:30 p.m. in the Genome Science Building, room 100.Hassol is an award-winning climatechange communicator, analyst andauthor known for her ability to translatescience into English. A reception will beheld prior to the address from 4:30 to5:30 p.m. This event is sponsored by theUniversity’s Three Zeros environmentalinitiative. Carolina Hazards and Resilience Planners will hold a Climate Change and Resilience Symposium from 12:15 to 5 p.m. in the Genome Science Building, room GS200. CHRP is joining forces with the Carolina Climate Change Scientists, merging with their 5th Annual UNC Climate Change Symposium. The keynote speaker will be Susan White, executive director of North Carolina Sea Grant, North Carolina Space Grant and UNC Water Resources Research Institute.UNIVERSITY GAZETTE 10 TASK FORCE from page 6 Over a five-year period from the 2012–13 to 2016–17 academic years at Carolina, the number of walk-ins at CAPS increased by 104 percent and the number of urgent next-day follow-up appointments increased by 101 percent. At the same time, academic interventions and telephone-web contacts both increased by 43 percent. Medical evaluations increased by 25 percent, while medication management increased 70 percent. On average, a student will need to be seen three to five times in order to “stabilize the situation,” Crisp said. Counselors continue to meet with students as many times as necessary to address the problem they are facing. But because CAPS is not set up to provide long-term therapeutic care, students in need of such care must be referred to a community provider. Students have raised concerns about the high proportion of students—about 30 percent—who receive long-term care in this way, Crisp said. The task force must also take into consideration the limited funding sources that CAPS has available to pay for services. Of the CAPS operating budget of $2.66 million this fiscal year, $2.2 million was paid for with revenues from the student health fee, he said. For 2017–18, the student health fee was $381, with $87, or 23 percent, going to support CAPS and the remaining 77 percent going to pay for Campus Health Services and stu-dent wellness. While adequate funding is an area of concern that must be addressed, Crisp emphasized one ongoing strength of CAPS are counselors who run it. “I want to be the first person to stand here and say this is not about what is wrong with mental health care on this campus,” Crisp said. “There is nothing wrong with mental health care on this campus except they are overwhelmed. “We can’t just be overwhelmed and accept that. We have to figure out how to do more of this and how to do this better and that is what this task force and board is going to be about.” Crisp said the task force will work through the summer before proposing a series of recommendations by the end of the year. –Gary Moss, University Gazette Former Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost James W. Dean Jr. has been named the next president of the University of New Hampshire, effective June 30. After a national search, the UNH University System board of trustees unanimously selected Dean to become the university’s 20th president, UNH announced April 4. “I am deeply honored to have the opportunity to serve as president of UNH at a time when all public universities need to rethink our efforts to support the public through teaching, research and engagement,” said Dean. “The university has accomplished so much already in the classroom, the laboratory and the community, and it is well positioned to strengthen and even to redefine its role as a leading public research university.” In announcing Dean as UNH’s next president, John Small, chair of the University System of New Hampshire board of trustees, said UNH is gaining an “experienced leader from one of the nation’s top public universities.” “Jim is committed to and understands public higher education and the key role it plays in the state, the region and the nation,” said Small, who also headed the search committee. “He not only understands but embraces the importance and challenges of access, affordability, diversity and inclusion. He is also eager to bring his experience in leadership and building relationships with businesses to the university for the benefit of our students. Jim is thoughtful, approachable, visionary and an exceptional team builder—he will be an outstanding president for UNH.” Dean stepped down as Carolina’s executive vice chancellor and provost in September 2017, after serving four years in the position. He was succeeded by Bob Blouin, longtime dean of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Dean was named provost after a highly successful 15-year tenure on the faculty and administration at Kenan-Flagler Business School; including serving five years as the dean from 2008 to 2013. He also served as senior associate dean from 2007 to 2008, associate dean of executive development from 2002 to 2007 and associate dean of the MBA Program from 1998 to 2002. As the University’s chief academic officer, Dean hired seven deans, helping 14 schools and the College of Arts and Sciences chart a strong course for the future. He bolstered faculty retention efforts to ensure Carolina has the very best people teaching and conducting research. Dean also led the campus-wide efforts for Carolina’s 10-year review process for reaccreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Along with other senior leaders, Dean collaborated on a cross-campus effort to strengthen student advising to better meet the needs of the diverse campus. With administrators in Finance and Operations, he began work to develop a new budget model to modernize the ways the University allocates resources across campus. Dean named president of University of New Hampshire James W. Dean Jr. DAN SEARS Jim is committed to and understands public higher education and the key role it plays in the state, the region and the nation. JOHN SMALL At the April 4 meeting of the Employee Forum, members heard updates from human resources and others, reaffirmed its “commitment to a safe and inclusive campus community” in recognition of April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month and heard a first reading of a resolution on employee compensation. Forum delegates also heard presentations from Tinu Diver, associate director for ethics education and policy management, and Delores Bailey, executive director of the community organization EmPOWERment Inc. Bailey wanted delegates to be aware of the resources available through EmPOWERment, such as providing affordable housing for those in need and support for minority and women entrepreneurs with limited access to traditional loans. Diver informed delegates about the March 29 launch of unc.policystat.com. PolicyStat, a web-based, policy management application provides automated workflow for the creation, editing, review and approval of policies. The new website also serves as a central location for the publication of University policies. Felicia A. Washington, vice chancellor for workforce strategy, equity and engagement, and several members of her staff had updates for delegates. Here’s a brief summary: UNC System survey: Preliminary results from the recent University of North Carolina System employee survey show that all UNC System employees expressed strongest positive results for understanding how their job affects the University’s mission, having a good relationship with their supervisor and being proud to be a part of the institution. The strongest negative responses were tied to adequate staffing, promotions and fair pay. Carolina had the lowest survey participation rate (38 percent). SHRA career banding classification and compensation system: UNC Chapel Hill departments continue to provide SHRA employees increases for permissible reasons allowed by the state and UNC System. The System’s market trend analysis shows that UNC Chapel Hill has the greatest percentage of employees compensated at market or above. Ranges for employee salaries were established by the state in 2008 based on market rate salaries at the time, but the state has not implemented a comprehensive market rate review for career banding salary ranges since then. The UNC System has worked on a proposal to incrementally adjust the SHRA career banding ranges to be used by each institution in the UNC System. Final approval to any changes would have to be approved by the Office of State Human Resources. SHRA employee appraisals: Performance reviews are being conducted now. Some units are participating in a pilot program to do reviews completely online, which could be adapted across campus as early as next year. Afterward, delegate Bryan Andregg read a proposed resolution recommending that Chancellor Carol L. Folt direct the University’s Office of Human Resources to undertake a three-phase project to study employee compensation. The resolution will be read again, discussed and voted on at the forum’s May 2 meeting, which Folt is scheduled to attend. Employee Forum hears updates from policy office and HR during April meetingAPRIL 11, 2018 11 DigitalNC.org’s some 36,000 monthly visitors include genealogists, historians, K–12 students and the interested public, said Lisa Gregory, the center’s program coordinator. The site’s visitors are mostly from North Carolina, with about 10 percent coming from foreign countries. Established in 2009, the center has digitized more than 120,000 yearbooks, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs and city directories from the past two centuries and more recent decades. Newer entries include newspapers published through the 1980s and 1990s such as Q-Notes, Charlotte’s LGBTQ newspaper and The Shore Line from Pine Knoll Shores. Many of the state’s approximately 800 cultural heritage centers lack the necessary equipment, time and personnel, so the center digitizes for them and hosts the content online. Its partners so far include 227 institutions in 79 counties. Gregory said that the center increasingly focuses on collections from underrepresented and underserved communities. “Traveling to Chapel Hill may be a burden for some, so we are trying things such as going into the field to scan materials or using a courier service to bring items here,” she said. “We really want to diversify and represent their voices.” ON LOCATION SCANS In September 2017, the center called for nominations for cultural organizations that would receive on-location scanning. This December the Digital Heritage Center team took a field trip to Johnston County Heritage Center in Smithfield to do a session of on-location scanning. Armed with two flatbed scanners, laptops, external hard drives and an armful of cords and cables, team members set to work scanning and filling out metadata for over 200 photographs that are now available on DigitalNC. The center is a collaboration between Carolina’s University Libraries and the State Library of North Carolina. The State Library contributes funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. University Libraries operates the center, adding equipment and expertise from more than two decades of digitization activity. One factor in the center’s success, Gregory said, is that she and her staff leave it to each contributing institution to select materials that will bring the most value to its local community. Through the University Library’s Digital Production Center, the center has equipment to handle crumbling books and distressed items with tender care: flatbed scanners for small, flat items like postcards, a sheet-feed scanner for unbound documents and an archive book scanner for bound materials. The book scanner can produce about 3,000 pages daily. In six to 12 weeks on average, an incoming project is preserved in pixels. The rare and unique treasures are then available worldwide, ready for anyone to view and use them. –Scott Jared, University Gazette Traveling to Chapel Hill may be a burden for some, so we are trying things such as going into the field to scan materials or using a courier service to bring items here. LISA GREGORY CENTER from page 1 DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTER DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTER DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTER DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTER DIGITAL HERITAGE CENTER Clockwise, from top left, scans from the Digital Heritage Center include this 1920s-era poster from Wayne County; future folksinger Emmylou Harris in a 1966 UNC-Greensboro student yearbook photo with faculty member Arthur Dixon; photo of Spicy Elizabeth Hayes Barefoot (1862–1931) scanned during an on-location session at the Johnston County Heritage Center in Smithfield in December; 1927 Yackety Yack photo of James Kern “Kay” Kyser before he became an iconic big band leader and radio personality; and, also from the Yack, Andy Griffith in 1947, before he was Sheriff Andy Taylor or Matlock on TV.UNIVERSITY GAZETTE 12 History professor James Leloudis of the Chancellor’s Task Force on UNC–Chapel Hill History updated the University Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees on March 28 about a plan for developing signs, markers and online content to give people a better understanding of McCorkle Place. The plan will use that quad to introduce visitors to “the broad sweep of our institutional history, from the story of this land and this place prior to European settlement to Carolina’s stature today as one of the world’s leading research universities,” Leloudis said. Phase one of the interpretive plan for McCorkle Place includes signage for the north entrance at Franklin Street and the south entrance at Old East; repair and renovation to the Unsung Founders Memorial; a marker for a history of the land’s indigenous peoples; a marker giving historical context to the Confederate Monument; and related digital content. In the years since the Unsung Founders Memorial was installed, the monument gradually sank into the ground, obscuring the figurines that make up its base. The goal of the repair and renovation is to stabilize the piece, improve accessibility and make the space more contemplative and reverential. The two design concepts presented by Surface 678, a Durham firm, both connect the memorial to the brick walkway, place it on a round hard surface and encircle it with curved walls for reading and sitting. Both also include two markers, an introductory one at the entrance to the space and an artist’s statement. The only real difference between the two is that the first concept breaks one of the curved walls with three slots, each on a sightline to a building constructed by enslaved people: Old East, Old West and Person Hall. Riggs Ward Design, a Richmond firm, developed design con- cepts for signage and markers in McCorkle Place. The first concept embeds medallions and an engraved sign in the wall at the steps leading up from Franklin Street and in a new curved knee wall near Old East. In the second concept, the gateway signage is tall and vertical, with separate markers embedded in the wall at Franklin Street and flush with the sidewalk at Old East. Each of the proposed markers would include an embedded Bluetooth beacon to alert passersby through their smart phones or tablets, inviting them to access digital historical content online. The digital content will be “a virtual analog” to the history exhibit installed in Carolina Hall in 2016, Leloudis said. Scholars working under the direction of Leloudis have already completed the digital content about the Confederate Monument and are about halfway through the content for the Unsung Founders Memorial. That story will be told through the life of Wilson Caldwell, who was born into slavery and went on to found a school for African-Americans and to serve as a justice of the peace. Content about the history of indigenous peoples and their relationship to the University will also be developed working with Native American scholars and community representatives. Task force members hope to prompt people to visit “The Gift,” a tribute to North Carolina Native Americans created by Haliwa-Saponi artist Senora Lynch, at the Student Union. At the end of the presentation, trustee Jeff Brown asked Leloudis if the interpretive plan for McCorkle Place could be expanded beyond the memorials and monuments there. “I was struck by the gateway markers [with the legend] ‘the birthplace of American public higher education,’” he said. “It seems to me that there’s an opportunity to broaden McCorkle Place’s recognition.” Leloudis agreed. “That has always been our intent for McCorkle Place and why we’ve described this as phase one,” he said. He added that he could imagine markers at Hill Hall, the University’s first real library, and Graham Memorial, named for University President Edward Kidder Graham, to name a few. “That has been our ultimate goal all along,” Leloudis said, “to develop interpretive plans and design concepts that would allow us to spin this out to scale.” – Susan Hudson, University Gazette History Task Force presents interpretive options for McCorkle Place Plans from the history task force will use McCorkle Place to introduce visitors to the broad sweep of the University’s institutional history. DAN SEARS I was struck by the gateway markers [with the legend] ‘the birthplace of American public higher education.’ It seems to me that there’s an opportunity to broaden McCorkle Place’s recognition. JEFF BROWN |
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