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              Nearly $2 million in federal stimulus grant funding over
two years from the National Cancer Institute will support
research at Carolina that offers new hope for brain
tumor patients.
Otto Zhou, David Godschalk Distinguished Professor of Physics
and Materials Science, and Sha Chang, associate professor of radiation
oncology, will apply the carbon nanotube X-ray technology invented
at UNC to a promising experimental microbeam radiation therapy.
That therapy now must be housed in massive synchrotrons – facilities
larger than Kenan Stadium.
Using carbon nanotechnology, Zhou hopes to be the first to deliver
the same dosage of radiation with a desktop-size device. “We want to
build a system to cure brain tumors. That’s the grand hope,” he said.
A carbon nanotube is a single layer of carbon atoms linked up in
a hexagon pattern, like a roll of chicken wire. These tubes are tiny –
about 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair – but as
hard as diamond and as tough as graphite.
Zhou and his colleagues developed a novel X-ray source technol-ogy
that utilizes the carbon nanotubes as the “cold” electron source.
They can be placed in an array that allows them to fire all at once, from
different angles.
For brain tumor treatment, Zhou and Chang propose to use a
doughnut-shaped X-ray source ring that could be placed around the
patient’s head to deliver the microbeam radiation at the high dose rate
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The University Board of Trustees on Nov. 19
unanimously approved a recommendation from
Chancellor Holden Thorp to increase tuition for
all undergraduate students by 5.2 percent.
The trustees’ recommendation will be
fowarded for approval to the UNC Board of Gov-ernors,
which in turn will forward its recomenda-tion
to the N.C. General Assembly for approval.
If the recommendation is approved without
changes, resident tuition would increase by $200
and non-resident undergraduate tuition would
increase by $1,127. In addition, resident graduate
students would see a $200 increase, while non-residents
would pay $732.
This year the General Assembly mandated that
$200 of each tuition increase would go directly to
the general fund to help balance the state budget.
In terms of generating additional revenue
for campus needs, the net effect is that none of
the $200 increase North Carolina undergradu-ates
and graduate students would pay would be
available for that purpose, said Bruce Carney,
interim executive vice chancellor and provost.
Carney co-chaired the chancellor’s Tuition and
Fee Advisory Task Force with Student Body
Board of Trustees endorses 5.2 percent tuition hike
Carolina researchers
attract $129 million
in stimulus funds
The incredible shrinking X-ray machine
Otto Zhou displays a model of carbon nanotube technology
invented at Carolina, which helped Zhou and radiation
oncologist Sha Chang secure a $2 million federal stimulus grant.
The researchers are applying the technology to a new cutting-edge
treatment of brain tumors.
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The Board of Trustees honored four
recipients with the William Richard-son
Davie Award, the board’s highest
honor, on Nov. 18.
Recipients were Fred Eshelman, founder
of PPD Inc., of Wilmington; Richard Krasno,
executive director of the William R. Kenan Jr.
Charitable Trust, of Chapel Hill; Gov. Beverly
Perdue of Raleigh; and Richard “Stick” Wil-liams,
senior vice president of environmen-tal
health and safety at Duke Energy Corp.,
of Charlotte.
Established by the trustees in 1984, the Davie
Award is named for the Revolutionary War hero
who is considered the father of the University. It
recognizes extraordinary service to the University
or society.
Eshelman
With his vision and generosity, Eshelman has
transformed the University’s pharmacy school,
now named the Eshelman School of Pharmacy
in his honor. The 1972 pharmacy school gradu-ate
has been a member of the Board of Visitors for
more than a decade and has lectured at Carolina
as an adjunct faculty member.
With each of his gifts, totaling more than
$33 million, he has strategically improved the
school. He created five $1 million distinguished
professorships and established six scholarships for
doctor of pharmacy students and fellowships that
last year were awarded to eight graduate students.
He provided seed money to begin construc-tion
of the school’s 70,000 square feet of labora-tory
space in the new Genetic Medicine Building
and established a Fund for Excellence to support
innovation at the school.
Krasno
Krasno has led the William R. Kenan Jr. Chari-table
Trust since 1999, and he serves as president
of the four related William R. Kenan Jr. Funds.
Combined, Kenan family and philanthropic foun-dations
have given more to the University than
any other private donor. In the Carolina First
Campaign, they gave nearly $70 million, the cam-paign’s
highest total from a single contributor.
Krasno and his wife, Carin, have personally
supported Carolina with gifts to the PlayMak-ers
Repertory Benefit Fund and Kenan-Flagler
Business School.
Before joining the Kenan Trust, Krasno was
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Four honored with Davie Awards
Elizabeth Blair “Libby” Longino and
Henry Lawlor Spelman were among 32
American college students awarded Rhodes
Scholarships to Oxford University in Eng-land
last month; they will enroll at Oxford
for graduate study next fall. Both are seniors
and Morehead-Cain Scholars.
Longino, who is double-majoring in Eng-lish
and public policy analysis, will pursue
master’s degrees in forced migration and
comparative social policy; she plans a career in human rights advo-cacy.
Spelman, who is majoring in classical languages with a minor
in creative writing, will pursue a master’s degree in Greek and Latin
languages and literature; his ambition is to become a professor.
Since the U.S. Rhodes program began in 1904, 45 Carolina
students have received Rhodes Scholarships – the second high-est
among all top public research universities. This year marks the
sixth time Carolina has had two Rhodes winners in the same year.
“Libby and Henry have distinguished themselves by excelling
in the classroom and by demonstrating their impressive commit-ment
to helping others,” said Chancellor Holden Thorp. “Both are
examples of the great students we have at Carolina and the world-changing
opportunities they enjoy.”
Longino
Longino spent a summer in Vietnam interviewing clients of a
small microcredit project and documenting items their first loans
had bought for their homes and businesses. One day, she heard a
Vietnamese mother’s pleas for a heart treatment for her daughter.
“Her question prompted me to ask ques-tions
of my own,” Longino said. “What fac-tors
of government and development kept
vital medical procedures out of this wom-an’s
grasp? How could local, national and
international bodies remedy this injustice?”
The experience resulted in an invitation
later from Vietnamese colleagues to help
start a foundation in Cambodia addressing
child prostitution in Phnom Penh’s Viet-namese
community. Longino worked to develop a support net-work
in Cambodia and identify donors for expanded educational
facilities.
She also taught English and computer skills at a shelter for Viet-namese
victims of human trafficking in Taiwan, and she traveled
to Bosnia-Herzegovina to research human trafficking after the
country’s civil war. In Israel and Turkey, she researched tensions
between religious minority groups and their governments.
“Not only is Libby one of UNC’s most distinguished scholars,
but also she has been extraordinarily effective as an advocate for
social justice,” said Linda Dykstra, director of the UNC Office of
Distinguished Scholarships.
Spelman
Last spring, Spelman received two prizes for Carolina under-graduates:
one for the best rendering into English of selected pas-sages
of Greek not previously read, and one for the best ability to
Two seniors awarded Rhodes Scholarships
See rhodes scholars page 4
longino spelman
on the web
Getting Santa ready to ride
Santa stopped by UNC Health Care recently to get
a little preventive maintenance. At left, his personal
physician Tim Carey gives him a onceover before the
big day. And refer to snipurl.com/tnjzn to see psy-chologist
Cynthia Bulik wonder if the Grinch might
snipurl.com/tnhfo be depressed – and taking it out on Who-ville.
Blogging about climate
change conference
Environmental law professor Victor Flatt has been
in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Confer-ence
and has been blogging about it for the Houston
Chronicle. He has a special interest in how carbon
snipurl.com/tnh05 markets from a cap-and-trade system will work.
five tips for holiday survival
Jonathan Abramowitz, an expert in anxiety dis-orders
and professor of psychiatry and psychology
in the School of Medicine and College of Arts and
Sciences, offers five coping skills for dealing with
the holiday blues – and the related stress , anxiety,
snipurl.com/tnhgs depression and anger.
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What happened to Wall Street in 2008 and the
early part of this year can be likened to a 100-
year flood that leaves anyone in the market
under red ink no matter how diversified – or defensive –
the portfolio.
Jon King, president and chief executive officer of UNC
Management Co. Inc., which manages the UNC-Chapel Hill
Foundation Investment Fund, said the negative 26.2 percent
return on the S & P 500 for the 2009 fiscal year was the worst
since 1932.
In that environment, the median investment return in the
Cambridge Associates universe of 163 colleges and univesity
endowments was a negative 20 percent. The UNC Inves-ment
Fund’s return was slightly better: a negative 19.6 per-cent
return. That return placed the fund in the middle of the
pack, King said.
In real numbers, the market value of the University’s
investment fund declined by $440.7 million, from $2.22 bil-lion
on June 30, 2008, to $1.78 billion on June 30, 2009.
Balances within the investment fund on June 30 were:
n $853.2 million in the UNC-Chapel Hill Statutory Endow-ment
(for endowment unit holders, scholarships and
professorships);
n $779.8 million for the UNC-Chapel Hill Affiliated Foun-dations
(for the College of Arts and Sciences, professional
schools and others); and
n $167.5 million for the UNC-Chapel Hill Foundation (for
foundation unit holders, scholarships and professorships).
In response to the losses, the investment fund board voted
in May to decrease the 2009 distribution rate of $418 per unit
to $387 per unit, a 7.4 percent reduction. In total, the fund
will distribute $48.5 million to participating units next June,
compared to the $51.7 million distributed this year.
King also pointed out that the fund’s returns over the past
decade compared favorably with those posted by other uni-versity
endowment funds.
During the past three years, for instance, the fund posted
a 2.3 percent positive return, compared to the Cambridge
Associates’ endowment median, a negative 1.7 percent. The
University fund posted an 8.1 percent return during the past
five years, while the Cambridge Associates’ median return
was 3.7 percent in the same period.
King said it would take continued patience and discipline
to recover the losses in the coming years. He also said the
fund was relatively defensively postured and that it had a
higher degree of liquidity than in past years.
King thanked the University trustees for their understand-ing
and continued support during these difficult times. “We
will have to ride through this storm and look to the future,”
he said.
King’s presentation is posted at www.unc.edu/depts/
trustees/presentations.html.
UNC endowment is down but overall fares
better than the higher education median
At the end of last week, the 2009 State Employees Com-bined
Campaign (SECC) had raised $775,000 toward its
$825,000 goal. Campaign organizers hope to nudge that total
above $800,000 by the time all pledges have been received.
“I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the
SECC this year and make a final appeal to people who have
not yet turned in their pledges,”
said Bill Roper, 2009 SECC Uni-versity
chair and dean of the
School of Medicine.
“The campaign provides an
important way to help those less
fortunate in our community and
across the state, and every dona-tion
truly makes a difference.”
Pledge forms (available at www.
unc.edu/secc/pledgeform.htm)
will be accepted through Dec. 18.
All forms should be sent through
campus mail to Katie O’Brien,
Depa r tment of Medi c ine ,
CB# 7005, or they can be delivered
to 125 MacNider Hall.
The University’s strides in its goal to become a presence
on the world stage have widespread faculty support, but
faculty members have diverse views on the best way to reach
that objective. A panel discussion on global initiatives at the
Dec. 11 Faculty Council meeting brought to light some of
those perspectives.
Although there is no magic bullet for transforming Carolina
from a nationally renowned university into one that has a top
international reputation, the four panelists agreed that build-ing
on the University’s long-held strengths of outreach and
collaboration was key. And that could begin with addressing
problems at home.
“We are the first public health school in the country to have
global in front of our name, but the way we define global health
is local,” said Peggy Bentley, associate dean for global health in
the Gillings School of Global Public Health.
In coping with health problems such as SARS or H1N1, for
example, the solutions for North Carolina are not dissimilar to
those on the other side of the globe, she said. Addressing such
problems calls for an interdisciplinary approach.
“I came from the Johns Hopkins school of public health
11 years ago, and I’ll tell you that the seamless way we work
collaboratively here is amazing,” Bentley said.
It is one reason the interdisciplinary Institute for Global
Health and Infectious Diseases was launched two years ago.
“We have terrific strengths in global health. Our faculty work
in more than 50 countries, particularly in Asia, Latin America
and Africa,” said Myron Cohen, J. Herbert Bate Distinguished
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Immunology and
Public Health and chief of the division of infectious diseases.
Research is the driving force, he said, with no less than
$100 million of the University’s global portfolio going to global
health sciences. “The formation of the institute gave us the
ability to spread our wings and work much more aggressively
across campus,” Cohen said.
Units not directly involved in health issues, such as the
School of Education, however, do not necessarily have a
pervasive global presence.
“The spirit and heart of what we do in education are similar
to the goals of our health colleagues, but global study emerges
from passion and personal initiative, not a work expectation,”
said Suzanne Gulledge, clinical professor of middle
grades education.
In fact, because of finances, the need to work and necessary
licensure courses, fewer education students go abroad than any
other group, she said. Yet, they will be charged with teaching
their students about the world.
This situation led to a new project between the school
and the Burch Fellows Program in which Gulledge will
teach courses in Cape Town, South Africa. It will be the first
program in the School of Education that accommodates
people in the field of teacher education, she said, and others
are needed.
“My colleagues believe in international studies, but we need
cross-campus collaboration to create opportunities for our
students,” Gulledge said.
Niklaus Steiner, director of the Center for Global Initiatives,
described the center as a catalyst for faculty members’ global
work. As both a grant seeker and a grant maker in the pro-vost’s
office, the center works to secure funding to launch
global programs.
It also works to raise an awareness of the global realm on
campus and to enhance UNC’s reputation abroad, he said.
“We aren’t doing so well there. We’re recognized nationally but
not internationally."
On a more positive note, the center’s role in bringing
more resources to campus has helped spur a jump in interna-tional
grants, up from $60 million five years ago to more than
$100 million currently, Steiner said.
Equally important is increasing the international presence on
campus and the way Carolina treats foreign students, he said.
“We need to give foreign students a rich cultural experience as
well as a rich intellectual experience.”
Other issues faculty members raised include emphasizing
foreign languages, incorporating globalization into Carolina
Summer Reading Program selections, partnering with the
Friday Center to promote Carolina internationally and stem-ming
the shift away from work in European countries.
“Don’t dump the First World when you’re taking care of
the Third World,” said Diane Leonard, associate professor of
English and comparative literature.
Chancellor Holden Thorp encouraged council members
to watch a new television public service announcement
focusing on Carolina's global outreach, which is scheduled to
air during the Dec. 26 Meineke Car Care Bowl.
"It's too cool," he said.
Faculty Council
Faculty discuss best ways to globalize the University
SECC accepts
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A debilitating gum disease. A nerve-searing
toothache. Seven years without front teeth.
The inability to chew properly.
These are some of the reasons more than
200 people waited for hours before sunrise
outside one of the biggest dental clinics ever
held in North Carolina. Some hadn’t visited
a dentist in more than 20 years. Others hadn’t
visited a dentist – ever.
By the end of the two-day October clinic in
Kill Devil Hills on the Outer Banks, dentists,
local volunteers, and faculty, students and staff
from Carolina’s School of Dentistry treated
more than 900 patients and provided about
$400,000 worth of dental care.
And they didn’t charge a cent.
The clinic is part of the North Carolina Mis-sions
of Mercy (MOM), a portable dental
program delivering free dental care to about
5,000 North Carolinians each year. The North
Carolina Dental Society, which represents
about 75 percent of the 5,000 practiing den-tists
in North Carolina, sponsored the Outer
Banks clinic.
The idea began in Virginia and migrated to
North Carolina in 2003 when Steven Slott, a
private dentist practicing in Burlington for
more than 20 years, came across the Virginia
Dental Association’s MOM program. Slott
served on the Alamance County Board of
Health at the time and managed a free adult
clinic known as the Open Door Dental Clinic
of Alamance County.
He said the N.C. MOM program was a natu-ral
extension of the Burlington clinic. Through
grants and individual donations, the program
has provided more than 23,000 people with
about $7 million in free care since 2003.
“These people can’t get dental care any-where
else,” said Patrick Galloway, a third-year
dental student who served as a dental student
volunteer coordinator for the recent Outer
Banks clinic. About 65 School of Dentistry
students volunteered at the clinic.
Each two-day MOM clinic operates on a
first-come, first-served basis. The most com-mon
services include cleanings, fillings and
extractions, but patients can sometimes also
get root canals and other oral surgery proce-dures
or have missing teeth replaced. Dentists
from around the state donate their services free
of charge to provide treatment in these clinics.
Patients think nothing of camping out long
before the clinic begins.
When Slott went home after the first day
of a recent Greensboro clinic, people were
already lining up for the next morning. “It’s
overwhelming,” he said.
The clinics offer dental students a unique
hands-on experience.
“The complexity of the patients’ needs is
astronomically different, because these peo-ple
have let their disease get so far gone that
you’re doing a whole different level of care,”
Galloway said. He added that students see
more people than they would on a daily basis
at the dental school’s campus clinics.
Galloway became involved with the MOM
program as a UNC undergraduate when he
was a member of Delta Delta Sigma, the pre-dental
honor society that regularly sends
its members to MOM clinics. As a sopho-more,
Galloway joined ENNEAD, the dental
school’s student volunteer organization, and
helped coordinate clinics across the state.
This past year, he worked on eight or nine
clinics. Dental, dental hygiene and dental assist-ing
students, as well as dental residents, regu-larly
volunteer for ENNEAD outreach efforts.
“That’s part of the reason why I went to den-tal
school in the first place,” he said. “I really
kind of fell in love with these clinics and just
the whole aspect of volunteerism.”
In October 2008, the dental school spon-sored
its own MOM clinic in Hillsborough,
in conjunction with Slott’s Open Door
Dental Clinic of Alamance County. Stu-dents
volunteered an estimated 809 hours to
help provide around 255 patients with free
dental care.
MOM primarily serves adults since federal
programs, such as the State Children’s Health
Insurance Program, provide public funding for
children’s dental care.
The MOM program is one way Carolina
helps address statewide access to care. More
than 1.5 million North Carolina residents
are enrolled in the Medicaid program,
but fewer than 1,500 of the state’s dentists
are able to provide treatment to them to an
appreciable degree, Slott said. Only 24 per-cent
of dentists in the state accept $10,000 or
more worth of Medicaid treatment per year,
he added.
“We try to get as many politicians as we can
to come see what we’re doing in order to raise
awareness among these key decision makers,”
Slott said. “We’re making progress.”
John N. Williams, dean of the dental school,
also volunteered at the Outer Banks MOM
clinic and said students’ contributions were
key to the overall MOM program’s success.
“I’m just so proud of our students,” he
said. “They really rolled up their sleeves, and
they worked hard. They learned a lot both in
terms of the technical aspects, the biological
aspects ... but equally, if not more importantly,
the sociological learning that they had about
communities and people in need.”
The MOM program now provides 10 to 12
clinics each year with an average of 40 to 50
dental chairs per clinic, up from 20 to 25 chairs
in the initial clinics, Slott said. Similarly, the
number of student volunteers has increased
dramatically. As a result, the number of people
served has increased from 200 to 400 to a cur-rent
average of 300 to 700.
Students like Galloway give their time
because of the satisfaction they receive in
return for helping others. He said projects like
the MOM clinics give his work purpose.
“My hopes and dreams are already coming
true,” Galloway said. “It just keeps getting
bigger and better.”
Editor’s Note: This article was written by
Chiara Austin, a senior journalism and mass
communication major from Raleigh.
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understand Latin poetry and translate selected passages at sight. He also is proficient in conver-sation
in Swahili and in conversation and reading in German.
“My studies in college have been dedicated to recovering the past through interpreting clas-sical
authors, to salvaging their insights like an archaeologist unearthing ancient structures of
thought so that we might build some pieces of them into our lives,” Spelman said.
Working to help Burundian refugees in Tanzania last summer, he read the ancient Greek
poetry of Pindar – in Greek.
“What the Burundians wanted is what Pindar celebrated: a life that expresses the human
potential for freedom, dignity and achievement,” Spelman said. “For me, scholarship, art and ser-vice
are three mutually indispensable ingredients for that fully human life.”
Dykstra said: “Already, Henry has been recognized for his original poetry, his contributions as
a classics scholar and his service to Amnesty International and the U.N. Refugee Commission.
Perhaps even more impressive is the lively, good-humored and unselfish spirit that Henry brings
to all of his many accomplishments.”
North Carolina
Missions of Mercy
gives the gift
of free dental care
School of Dentistry faculty members, students and staff join scores of local volunteers and den-tists
to treat more than 900 patients as part of an Oct. 23-24 clinic in Kill Devil Hills on the Outer
Banks. The North Carolina Dental Society sponsored the clinic as part of the North Carolina Mis-sions
of Mercy portable dental program that provides free dental care to adults across the state.
Rhodes Scholars from page 2
contributed
December 16, 2009 5
On Nov. 20, accounting technician PAULA TENNYSON
received the 2010 Margaret Gulley Award for Secretarial Excel-lence
in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medi-cine.
The $1,000 award recognizes excellence in secretarial and
clerical contributions to the department; it is named for the
department's former administrative manager.
EUGEN MERZBACHER, Kenan Professor Emeritus of
Physics and Astronomy, received the Francis G. Slack Service
Award by the Southeastern Section of the American Physics
Society in November. He was recognized for his long-term
excellence in physics leadership and his work to develop and
support physics education and research.
STAN AHALT, director of the Renaissance Comput-ing
Institute (RENCI), has been elected to a second term as
chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation
(CASC). Ahalt, who became RENCI director in September,
was first elected CASC chair a year ago and took the leadership
role in January, while serving as executive director of the Ohio
Supercomputer Center.
BLAND SIMPSON, Bowman and Gordon Gray Dis-tinguished
Term Professor of English and Creative Writing,
recently received the R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award from the
North Carolina Literary and Historical Association for his con-tributions
to North Carolina literature.
The American Association for Cancer Research recognized
CHARLES M. PEROU with the 2009 Outstanding Investi-gator
Award for Breast Cancer Research, funded by Susan G.
Komen for the Cure. The association called Perou's work “one
of the most important findings in breast cancer and health dis-parities
in the last decade,” Perou is an associate professor of
genetics, pathology and laboratory medicine, and a member of
the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The Modern Language Association of America awarded
its 17th annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Com-parative
Literary Studies to SAHAR AMER for her book
“Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval
French and Arabic Literatures.” Amer is a professor of Asian
studies and adjunct professor of Romance languages and inter-national
studies.
Three faculty members received 2009-10 Fulbright Scholar
grants, enabling them to teach and conduct research abroad.
Christopher Gaffney, a visiting geography lecturer,
researched the urban and social impacts of mega-events in Rio
de Janeiro at Rio de Janeiro State University. Eric Muller,
associate dean and professor of law, participated in the Nagoya
American Studies Seminar in Nagoya, Japan. Beverly Size-more,
director of the Department of International Programs
in the law school, participated in the U.S.-Germany Interna-tional
Education Administrators Program in Berlin.
Faculty/Staff news
honors
New licensing model helps spur spin-offs
A new standard licensing agreement should make
starting a company based on technology invented at
Carolina easier and faster. The University’s technology
transfer office developed the Carolina Express License
Agreement to offer one set of terms to cover widely
divergent deals with minimal negotiation.
Cathy Innes, director of the Office of Technology
Development, said the new agreement was a fundamen-tal
departure from business as usual.
“We believe we’ve come up with a set of terms that will
work for all UNC start-up licenses that is fair and reason-able
to all stakeholders and can be put in place with no
negotiation,” she said. “I don’t know of any other univer-sities
that have tried this approach.”
The idea for a standard license grew out of a commit-tee
formed earlier this year by Tony Waldrop, vice chan-cellor
for research and economic development.
The Carolina Express License offers the same terms to
all UNC start-ups and offers the best deal available from
the University. Key provisions include:
n A 1 percent royalty on products requiring Food and
Drug Administration approval based upon human
clinical trials;
n A 2 percent royalty on all other products;
n A cash payout equal to 0.75 percent of the company’s
fair market value paid to the University upon a merger,
stock sale, asset sale or initial public offering; and
n Provisions to make products available on a humanitar-ian
basis in developing countries.
The agreement does not include provisions granting
UNC equity in the company and milestone fees. The
committee found that while most universities’ start-up
deals have equity provisions in lieu of cash upfront fees,
it is difficult for the University to manage equity. By the
time a liquidation event occurs, the University posi-tion
is not significant. Carolina arrived at the payout
value and royalty terms through an analysis of previous
transactions.
The Carolina Express License and Term Sheet are
available at research.unc.edu/otd.
Building on the 18-month appointment of Judith Cone as
special assistant to Chancellor Holden Thorp for innovation
and entrepreneurship, the University is forming an Innova-tion
and Entrepreneurship Circle, a high-level task force that
will help determine how Carolina can become even more
innovative.
Thorp talked about the task force at the Nov. 19 Board of
Trustees meeting.
“Much like alumnus Bill Harrison led the efforts to draw a
blueprint for enhancing the University’s global presence, Judith
will help us carve out a leadership role so people will think of
Carolina first in innovation and entrepreneurship,” he said.
The task force will augment the five-year-old Carolina
Entrepreneurial Initiative, which Cone helped shape when
she was vice president of emerging strategies for the Kauffman
Foundation.
Chairing the circle is Lowry Caudill, co-founder of Magel-lan
Health and the namesake of Caudill Hall. The University
is recruiting distinguished alumni, parents and key faculty from
diverse fields to serve with Caudill.
So far, the group includes trustees Phillip Clay, Alston Gard-ner
and Sallie Shuping-Russell; Dennis Gillings, founder and
CEO of Quintiles Transnational; Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu;
and Kimberly Jenkins, the former president of Internet Policy
Institute and a Duke trustee who teaches on both campuses.
Thorp said he hoped to finalize the group soon so meetings
could start early next year.
Thorp announces Innovation and Entrepreneurship Circle task force
Professor emeritus Tom Stumpf, left, and George Morgan, a textbook
buyer in Student Stores, kick off the holidays in traditional Carolina
style on Dec. 9 by reading “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” at the
Bulls’ Head Bookshop – in English and Latin, respectively.
6 Universi ty Gazet te
To celebrate the 100th season of Carolina basketball, the Gazette
asked readers to share their favorite memories of being die-hard fans.
IMMUNE TO THE ROAR OF THE CROWD
There are times when the little ones remind us that there may
be more important things in life than who wins the Duke–UNC
basketball game – like a good sleep.
We finally decided that our daughter was big enough to go to
her first Duke–UNC game but little enough to sit in a lap (and not
incur the cost of an extra ticket). Good news–bad news.
Good news: Only one of us
could stand and cheer. Bad news:
Only one of us could stand and
cheer. Really bad news: Our
daughter actually fell asleep
during the second half of the
game (think falling asleep at a
Rolling Stones concert), so we
had to watch the video replays of
exciting action down the stretch
because everyone around us
was standing.
She is now a student at NCSU
but still cheers for the UNC bas-ketball
team.
Dick Blackburn,
Kenan-Flagler Business School
A child’s eyes
My son was in grade school
when the Dean Smith Center was
dedicated. I was broke and could
not afford the tickets for admission. I volunteered to hand out
programs, however, and brought him along so we earned our way
into the event.
I will never forget the look on his face when we finished hand-ing
out programs on the concourse and went into the arena to find
an empty seat. There was pure amazement and joy as he stopped
in his tracks and took in the full force of the scene in one instant
– crowds, music, noise and lights!
How glad I was I had made an effort to get us there! I recall the
events of the dedication dimly, but the look on his face is with me
today as though it just happened.
Beverly Foster, School of Nursing
Lifelong Tar Heel fans … and beyond
It’s common practice today for me to take personal identifica-tion
and a credit card to the Dean Dome, just in case my husband
actually makes it onto the court to object to a referee’s call and is
ejected or arrested and I
have to post bail.
But my relationship
with Carolina basketball
started much earlier. I
was born in a champion-ship
year, 1957, and have
vivid memories of my
dad “coaching” Charlie
Scott and Larry Miller in
front of a Zenith black-and-
white console TV in
the 1960s.
When my dad, a 1949
UNC alumnus, died in
1985, his funeral was on
the day of the Carolina-
Dook game at Cameron.
After the service, the
family (a toxic mix of Tar
Heels and Blue Devils)
gathered at my aunt’s
house in Durham for lunch.
One by one, people started to migrate to a room where the
game was on TV. Finally, just my mother and I were left at the
kitchen table. She said, “Where is everyone?” When I told her that
they were watching the Carolina game, she didn’t miss a beat.
“Well, what’s the score?” she asked. I like to think that my dad was
there to see it. The final score: Carolina 78–Dook 68.
In addition, my mother’s funeral last year was on the day of the
first home basketball game. We had to schedule the service so
we could make the game. Believe me, she would have wanted it
that way!
Del Hunt Helton, Arts and Sciences Foundation
carolina attitude
Jan. 4, 1971, was a very emotional night in Carmichael
Auditorium.
Second-ranked South Carolina, highly unpopular in the Atlan-tic
Coast Conference for their rough play, was in town. We
weren’t supposed to be able to handle the Gamecocks’ big front-court
and their all-conference guard, John Roche.
The tone of the game was set right away. Early on, UNC guard
George Karl got the ball upcourt, put the ball on his hip and
looked at South Carolina as if to say, “C’mon, boys, let’s go.”
The Gamecocks, primarily a zone team, weren’t able to keep up
with the Heels.
The final score: 79-64, UNC. Big, bad South Carolina had
gone down.
Carmichael was very hot and very loud for a great game. It was a
night I will never forget.
David Thompson, Office of Faculty Governance
A chant heard ‘round the world
Having been brought up on UNC basketball since I was 2,
I rarely missed watching a tournament game. I had been plan-ning
a trip to Italy for quite some time, and my time in Flor-ence
happened to occur during the 2004 ACC men’s basketball
tournament.
Thinking I would have to wait to find out how my beloved
Heels did until I returned to the U.S., I was excited to walk by an
Irish pub near one of the city’s famous churches and see a sign
advertising that the ACC tournament games would be shown
that evening. I showed up with my friend (an N.C. State grad) to
watch the UNC–Georgia Tech game at 8:30 that night and found
myself surrounded by other UNC fans – including quite a few
UNC students who were on spring break in Italy.
We cheered together for the Heels, educated a group of New
Zealanders about UNC sports, chanted “Tar” and “Heels” back
and forth across the bar, shared hugs and high-fives when baskets
were made and then commiserated after the loss.
Although most of us never knew one another until that day, we
were brought together across the ocean by a common obsession
with UNC basketball.
Melissa McMurray, Office of International Affairs
UNC vs. the Giant
I was not quite 4 years old, so maybe I have filled in some things
in my “memory” of the Tar Heels’ first NCAA championship in
1957, but it definitely made an impression on me.
I remember my father saying that it was almost a miracle that
we had managed to beat Michigan State in triple overtime to get
to the championship game.
I probably didn���t know what triple overtime really was, but it
sounded extra hard. And, as we gathered around the crackling
AM radio (I don’t believe there was FM in those days, and it
would be more than a year before we would get our first TV), I
learned that Carolina had to battle against a giant, a man named
Wilt Chamberlain, who was more than 7 feet tall! Surely we
had no chance.
A hundred years of TAR HEEL hoops
1910-11 – Carolina’s first varsity basketball team
‘Our team’
It was the ACC tournament in 1973, my junior year in high
school: Carolina vs. Wake Forest. The game was scheduled
during band class. I had a radio and regularly
ducked behind the music stand to check the
score.
We lost. I went home from school and wrote
a letter to Dean Smith bemoaning the game
outcome. Every day for the next couple of
months, I went home hoping for a reply.
Nothing.
I gave up hope, disappointed, but not sur-prised.
He was, even then, a legend. Then one
day, an envelope with a Carolina blue return ad-dress
arrived! Yes, Dean Smith did write back,
apologizing for the delay caused by recruiting
trips. The message: Take care of the people
who support you. (Evans is shown at right with
Smith’s letter, framed for safekeeping.)
Fast forward about 20 years when my father
was cleaning out an old car and found a news-paper
article about Dean Smith’s appointment
as head coach. He smiled when he asked if
I wanted it. (He knew he didn’t have to ask!)
Today, that article and the letter are framed together and hang
on the Carolina wall in my house as a daily reminder of the les-sons
I learned about basketball and life from Dean Smith.
Elizabeth (Libby) Evans, Information Technology Services
December 16, 2009 7
I had to go to bed before the game really got started, but was
awakened some hours later by shouts of joy that we had somehow
won the game, again in that mysterious “triple overtime.” I was
hooked for life on Carolina Basketball and now serve as a volun-teer
usher in the Smith Center.
David Barrow, School of Dentistry
Missing Carmichael
I was in the nosebleed section with seconds to go in the game
amid cheers, stamping, shouting, crying, laughing – all of us
strangers hugging each other, swaying back and forth. Why
you ask?
This was the last game played in this building before we moved
to the Dean Dome. In a way it was like a funeral: people hanging
around longer, breathing in memories of Carmichael, Dean Smith
and the team.
What a team! Major “Y” had the band in high form, “Hark
the Sound” was beating in my heart, resting in my soul. Sweaty,
animated, sad, happy, we hung back as a crowd, rubber necking for
one last look and another memory to tenderly tuck away.
I have wonderful memories of all the championships, yet my
best memory was when we retired Carmichael for men’s basket-ball,
with WCHL color commentary ringing in my earphones,
Woody Durham bringing us through to morning, into the fresh
air and a new start.
This Tar Heel fan will never forget. Yes, I love the Dean Dome,
and I know we needed to have a facility as first class as our team
and coaches.
Pat O’Leary, UNC Health Care
The birth of the pep band
One of my favorite memories is a result of being a member
of the Marching Tar Heels. Of course we performed at the Beat
Dook parade and at halftime for the football games, but in the
winter of 1965 or 1966, several of us realized there was no orga-nized
pep band for the basketball games.
With the permission of Major Y (John F. Yesulaitis, the band
director) and help of a “senior” band member, Ken Lemons, we
formed a pep band and sat in the upper level of the southwest
corner of Carmichael Auditorium to perform during the home
basketball games. Another individual and I were the percussion-ists.
Since we had no pep band uniforms, we all agreed to purchase
beige straw hats and white blazers with light blue vertical stripes
to, at least, have the appearance of a Dixieland band. It was always
lots of fun and I like to think that was the beginning of the out-standing
pep band we have today.
Ken May, School of Dentistry
Cheering the Heels at 0 dark thirty
My favorite Tar Heel basketball memory came back in 2005
when the Tar Heels defeated Illinois for the National Champion-ship.
I was a U.S. Army paratrooper on a deployment in Tikrit,
Iraq. I was at our base camp recovering from being out on mis-sions.
I was hoping that I was going to be able to see the Tar Heels
play for the national championship but was not sure until late the
day prior to the game.
I had to wake up between 2:30-3:30 a.m. to get my gear on
and walk up to our recreation facility to get a good seat to see the
game where it was being shown on a big-screen TV. It was about a
mile-and-a-half away from the building where we slept.
When I walked into the TV room, I walked into an empty room.
I had to ask to make sure they were showing the game. They were,
and I was the only person in the room watching the game and
cheering the Tar Heels on to victory. It was a lot of fun yelling,
screaming and cheering as if I were actually at the game live.
After the final buzzer sounded, I rushed back up to our barracks
to let my buddies know that UNC had pulled off the victory. I
was on a high for the remainder of the day and week. I will never
forget that morning because the Tar Heels were able to bring
some cheer and excitement to me as I was deployed so far away,
even in that large room watching the game all by myself.
Harry A. Walker, School of Dentistry
The emotional toll of being a fan
One of my favorite basketball memories was the time my wife
was in UNC Hospitals with an angina attack and was hooked up
to lots of monitors. Carolina was playing basketball on TV and she
was watching the game. But her nurse came in and had to turn the
TV off because the alarms were going haywire. After all, she was
Carolina’s number one fan!
Hal D. Sanders, Facilities Services
Thanks go to UNC Athletics, the Bull’s Head Bookshop and Stu-dent
Stores for their generous donation of prizes. Prize winners
drawn from this year’s entries are: David Thompson, Del Helton,
Libby Evans, David Barrow and Melissa McMurray. Thanks also to
Jeffrey Camarati and the athletics department for providing the
team photos. Photos of Williams and Evans are by Dan Sears.
1967 – ACC championship team with Coach Dean Smith 2009 – NCAA championship team coached 2005 – NCAA championship celebration, Coach Roy Williams by Roy Williams
1993 – NCAA championship game against Michigan:
Eric Montross (00) and Kevin Salvadori (33)
1982 – NCAA championship trophy:
Sam Perkins (41) and James Worthy (52)
After years of climbing to row W in the Smith Center for every men’s
basketball home game, you’d like to move away from eye level with
the base of the Jumbotron and get closer to the court. How realistic
is that?
It depends on your definition of closer.
Moving down a row or two could be feasible, but moving to the
lower level of the arena requires perseverance, said Clint Gwaltney,
director of tickets.
For faculty and staff to go from the upper rows of the Smith Center
to seats downstairs would require working at Carolina – and ordering
tickets – for at least 30 years, Gwaltney said. And that reality is hard
for some fans to understand.
Faculty and staff seating assignments are based on a combination
of length of University service with the number of years a person has
ordered tickets. Each year of service is worth one point, while each
year as a ticket holder counts six points, Gwaltney said.
While it might be imperfect, the point system rewards longevity,
tenacity – and patience. (As everyone knows, the student system is an
entirely different entity.)
“The only way we could make everyone happy would be to have an
arena where every person could sit at mid-court in the lower level,”
Gwaltney said.
Aspire to become downwardly mobile?
Grisham selected as spring
Commencement speaker
John Grisham, author of 23 books including numerous best-selling
legal thrillers, will deliver the May 9, 2010, Commence-ment
address.
Chancellor Holden Thorp chose
Grisham in consultation with the
University’s Commencement Speaker
Selection Committee, which is made up
of an equal number of students and fac-ulty.
Thorp will preside at the ceremony
in Kenan Stadium.
“John is an engaging speaker who will
have a profound message for our gradu-ates
and their families,” he said. “His
prowess with the written and spoken word makes him an excel-lent
choice for a Commencement speaker. He has an inspira-tional
story to share.”
The author has substantial ties to Carolina. He
spoke at two North Carolina Literary Festivals
held on campus, in 1998 and the most recent fes-tival
in September. And his daughter, Shea, gradu-ated
from Carolina in 2008 with a degree in ele-mentary
education and teaches in Raleigh.
Grisham’s last book, “Ford County,” was pub-lished
on Nov. 3 and is his first collection of short
stories. The Mississippi setting was also where his
first novel, “A Time to Kill,” took place.
Before he became a best-selling author, Grisham
was a successful lawyer in Mississippi and served
in the state’s House of Representatives. Since “A
Time to Kill” was published in 1988, Grisham has
written one novel a year.
Currently, more than 235 million Grisham
books are in print worldwide, and they have been
translated into 29 languages. Nine of his novels
have been made into movies.
“The Innocent Man,” published in 2006, was his
first work of nonfiction.
Atkins to speak at Carolina
Innovations seminar
The Office of Technology Development’s
next Carolina Innovations Seminar will be held
Jan. 7 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in 014 Sitterson
Hall with the topic “The Story of Oriel Thera-peutics”
presented by the group’s president and
chief operating officer Paul Atkins. Atkins co-founded
the UNC spin-out company in 2002.
snipurl.com/eea30
Boyarin presents jewish
studies seminar series
Jonathan Boyarin, Kaplan Distinguished Profes-sor
of Religious Studies, will give a series of seminars
exploring one of the leading Jewish theologians of
the 20th century and his favorite Hasidic Rebbe.
Boyarin is working on the first translation from the
Yiddish of the book that Heschel completed at the
end of his life on the controversial Rebbe of Kotsk.
In a series of four seminars, Boyarin will introduce the world
of the Hasidic Rebbe and explore Heschel’s interest in him.
The seminars will be held at Coates Hall on Feb. 2, Feb. 9,
Feb. 16 and Feb 23, 5:30–6:30 p.m. They are free and open
to the public, but reservations are required: (ccjs@unc.edu or
962-1509).
PlayMakers begins the new year
with ‘Big Bang’
PlayMakers Repertory Company will kick off the New Year
by presenting the high energy, innovative hip hop theater troupe
Universes in its newest stage show, “The Big Bang,” Jan. 13–17.
“The Big Bang” is the second show in PlayMakers’ thought-provoking
PRC2 second-stage series, where each presentation
combines an exhilarating, topical production coupled with
engaging post-show discussions with the creative artists.
Universes will perform “The Big Bang” at 8 p.m. nightly
Jan. 13–17 and 2 p.m. on Jan. 17. Tickets are $24 to $32 and
may be purchased at www.playmakersrep.org or by calling
962-PLAY (7529).
Deadlines for nominations
n The deadline to make nominations for honorary degrees
to be awarded at Commencement 2011 is Jan. 20. Catego-ries
for nominees are: service to humanity, contributions to
knowledge in the world of scholarship, talent and creativity
in the arts or devotion to and support of UNC. For complete
information, see snipurl.com/tm86d. Nominations may be
e-mailed to anne_whisnant@unc.edu.
n Nominations for Faculty Mentoring Awards sponsored
by the Carolina Women’s Leadership Council are due Jan.
19. These awards honor faculty-to-student mentoring and
faculty-to-faculty mentoring, with one award given in each
category. Each recipient receives $5,000. Nominations are
made online (www.unc.edu/pcgi-bin/WLCMA_viewapp.
pl). Three separate statements are required: a statement
of rationale for nomination, a narrative descrip-tion
of the nominee’s mentoring and the nomi-nee’s
curriculum vitae. See snipurl.com/tm8fq for
complete information.
n Nominations are due by Jan. 12 to nominate
an outstanding UNC faculty or staff member as
the Honorary Coach of the UNC vs. Wake For-est
men’s basketball game on Jan. 20. The three
top nominees each will receive two tickets to
the game, where they will be recognized and
highlighted on the athletics department home
page, www.TarHeelBlue.com. Those making
the winning nominations will receive prizes, too.
snipurl.com/tm8sg.
Exhibit looks at many
‘souths’
The Center for the Study of the American South
is hosting an exhibit through Jan. 27 by landscape
painter Nerys Levy. The show, “From Saxapahaw
to Antarctica,” shows southern juxtapositions and
extremities from the American South to South
China to Southern Europe to the “real” south,
Antarctica.
The center is located in the Love House and
Hutchins Forum, at 410 East Franklin St.
www.uncsouth.org
8 Universi ty Gazet te
News in b r i e f
grisham
The trade routes known collectively as the Silk Road not only
allowed merchants throughout Asia and Europe to exchange goods – such
as Chinese silk, Byzantine gold and Indian spices – but they also introduced
people in disparate parts of the continent to new beliefs, systems of govern-ment,
literary genres, musical styles and visual forms. In turn, these exchang-es
shaped each region’s art, language, religion, economics and politics.
Drawing from the Ackland Art Museum’s celebrated collection of Asian
art, the special exhibition “Along the Silk Road: Art and Cultural Exchange”
– that opens Dec. 19 and runs through June 5, 2011 – will feature more than
60 objects which were created along these storied corridors of trade. Indi-vidually
and in groups, these objects – dating from the first through the 16th
centuries – reflect the broad scope of cultural exchange that occurred along
the Silk Road. snipurl.com/tm8uv
“The Offering of the Four Bowls to Buddha,” second century; gray schist.
Gift of Clara T. and Gilbert J. Yager and Ackland Fund.
Exploring cultural exchange
along the Silk Road
NEWS IN BRIEF Submissions
Next issue includes events from Jan. 14 to
Jan. 27. Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m.,
Mon., Jan. 4. E-mail gazette@unc.edu. Fax:
843-5966; clearly mark for the Gazette.
Campus Box# 6205. The Gazette events
page includes only items of general inter-est
geared toward a broad audience. For
complete listings of events, including ath-letics,
see the Carolina Events Calendars
at www.unc.edu/events.
December 16, 2009 9
Far left, the third-ranked Tar Heels pitched
a shutout at top-ranked Stanford Dec. 6, pre-vailing
1–0 in the 2009 NCAA Women’s Soc-cer
Tournament championship game at Aggie
Soccer Stadium. The victory gave the Tar
Heels their 20th NCAA title in the 28-year his-tory
of the NCAA Tournament, and Carolina’s
21st championship in the sport overall when
the 1981 AIAW title is included in the mix.
Left, a game-winning goal on a penalty cor-ner
with 11.7 seconds on the clock gave the
Carolina field hockey team a 3–2 win over
No. 1 Maryland on Nov. 22 at Kentner Sta-dium
in Winston-Salem, and handed the Tar
Heels the sixth NCAA championship in pro-gram
history. UNC finished the season 20–2
and claimed its second crown in the past three
years after also winning in 2007.
The University of National Champions
president of the Monterey Institute of
International Studies and coordinated
international education activities and
directed the Fulbright program for the
Ford Foundation. He is a former chair of
the Rhodes Scholar selection committee in
North Carolina.
Perdue
The 73rd governor of North Carolina,
Perdue has a deep commitment to public
service. Before she became the state’s first
woman governor, she served as lieuten-ant
governor for eight years. That tenure
followed two terms in the N.C. House of Representatives and five terms in the state Senate,
where she became the first woman to serve as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Before entering public service, Perdue worked as a public school teacher and as director of
geriatric services at a community hospital in her hometown of New Bern.
Perdue is married to Bob Eaves, Carolina class of 1958, and her two sons are graduates of
the University. The governor and Eaves met while serving on the Board of Visitors and have
long supported the University.
Williams
During Williams’ tenure as the trustees’
first African-American chair, he guided a
process that identified priorities for becom-ing
the leading public university, steered
tuition deliberations, worked to improve
town-gown relations and focused attention
on student issues and faculty retention.
Williams earned his degree in busi-ness
administration in 1975 and began
his career at what is now Duke Energy
as a financial analyst. Currently he is
senior vice president of environmental health and safety, as well as president of the Duke
Energy Foundation.
Williams’ wife, Teresa, and two of their three daughters are also Carolina graduates. The
family has supported causes including the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and
History, Kenan-Flagler Business School, the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation
and the Memorial Hall Renovation Fund.
Information Technology Services (ITS) offers a two-for-one
bargain in the war against computer viruses. Faculty and staff
who download and install the latest version of Symantec End-point
Protection (SEP) on their work computer can also obtain
a version of the security software for use on their home or per-sonal
computer.
The Symantec software is free to Carolina faculty, staff and
students and is available for download at shareware.unc.edu.
The revised security software offers new detection features that
may find malware previously unrecognized.
“This upgraded Symantec Endpoint Protection is more
effective than the previous version,” said Eva Lorenz, infor-mation
security applications specialist. “Although it is impos-sible
for any anti-virus software to detect all malware, SEP is an
improved weapon in the ongoing IT security battle. The user
should find the interface easier to use compared to previous
Symantec software versions.”
SEP is compatible with the newer Windows-based operat-ing
systems, and computers running Windows 7 must use SEP
since Symantec does not support older antivirus software for the
operating system. Antivirus software for Macs and Linux is also
available for download at shareware.unc.edu.
“No matter how improved the upgraded software may be,
everyone still has a personal responsibility to ensure that their
computers perform an automatic weekly scan,” said Lorenz.
“Then people should be sure to check that any detected mal-ware
is quarantined or deleted.”
In addition, she said, users are advised to view with caution
all e-mail that includes attachments or links. People who
receive a suspicious e-mail should call 962-HELP.
Symantec provides new feature to battle computer viruses
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10 Universi ty Gazet te
Carolina wor k ing at
Jackie Overton has a big job that she loves.
She is in charge of all the annual training for the employees
in the Office of Public Safety who are not sworn officers, part
of the requirement to meet accreditation standards. There are
more than 300 people in the department. All but the 60 or so
sworn officers come under her wing.
It was Overton’s skill as a trainer that led to her grow-ing
involvement with a number of nonprofit organizations
throughout Chapel Hill and Durham.
After earning a graduate certificate in nonprofit leadership
offered jointly by the School of Social Work and the School
of Government, Overton began getting invitations from
various boards to conduct training sessions on financial and
legal matters.
Some of the boards began calling her back – this time with
invitations to serve as a board member.
At the Dec. 2 meeting of the Employee Forum, Overton
received one of the six Unsung Heels Awards recognizing
staff members who volunteer their time after work to enhance
their communities. (This year, winners received nylon back-pack
bags, umbrellas and pens along with $50 gift cards to
Wal-Mart).
Other winners were Flicka Bateman, a community volunteer
for the Burmese refugee community;
Judith Benowitz, who organizes food
collections and volunteers with animal
rescue groups; Paula Harrington, who
helps people with addiction and mental
illness; Kathy Jones, who has coached
softball with underprivileged children
for more than a decade; and April
Spruill, who volunteers at the Dur-ham
County Library and the Kramden
Institute, a non-profit organization that
refurbishes old computers for deserving
students.
Cheryl Stout, who nominated Over-ton
for the forum’s award, cited Over-ton’s
service as president of the board
of directors for the nonprofit EmPOW-ERment
Inc., which uses a network of
community members to provide support for affordable hous-ing
and small businesses, as well as Overton’s service on the
board of Pregnancy Support Services, a Christian ministry that
provides material and spiritual support for women faced with
unplanned pregnancies.
“Jackie exemplifies Carolina’s dedi-cation
to community services and out-reach,”
wrote Stout, assistant director
for parking services. “She dedicates her
time, energy and skills to blessing the
lives of others with her commitment
to help people find their possibilities
and potential.”
Overton said she has turned down
requests to serve on other boards that
did not meet one simple criterion.
“The organization has to be about
helping people who find themselves on
the social fringes and in crisis,” Overton
said. “I love the symphony, but I am not
going to sit on a symphony board.”
Overton was not born into a wealthy
family, but she feels blessed in non-monetary
ways, and she tries to live by the familiar creed in
Luke 12:48: “For of those to whom much is given, much is
required.”
“That is what drives me,” Overton said. “I have been given a
lot. It is only right for me to give back.”
Overton's credo: 'For of those to whom much is given, much is required'
Office of Human Resources
Help for the holiday blues
The things that make the holidays fun for some people make them tor-ture
for others. The pressures to be with family, go to parties and have
house guests, and the demands of shopping, fatigue, travel and unrealistic
expectations all contribute to holiday depression. The feeling that people
are "supposed" to be happy often makes it worse.
To avoid feeling blue this holiday season:
n Have realistic expectations for the holiday season and for yourself. Be
realistic about what you can and cannot do;
n Pace yourself. Make a list and prioritize the important activities. Give
yourself permission not to attend every party, celebration or family
gathering;
n Find holiday activities that are free, such as looking at holiday decorations,
going window shopping without buying or playing with your children; and
n Let others share the responsibilities of holiday tasks.
Remember that it’s OK not to feel happy all the time. However, if you feel
that the blues are really beginning to bring you down, don’t hesitate to call
the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). You or your family members can
call the EAP anytime: Call 929-2362 during normal business hours or con-tact
the Deer Oaks EAP service toll free 24 hours a day at 877-327-7658.
2010 benefits update NEWS AND INFORMATIO N
With a new year, it is important to review benefit news and informa-tion.
For details about benefit elections, dental coverage, MetLife and
ING Group Term Life Insurance, health care and dependent Care Flex-ible
Spending Accounts, NCFlex Convenience Cards and 2010 retirement
plan limits on contributions to a 403(b)/401(k) and 457(b) plans, refer to
gazette.unc.edu/archives/09dec16/working.html.
For specific information, contact benefits@unc.edu or 962-3071.
Adverse weather policy is always in effect
With winter approaching, employees should remember that the adverse weather policy is always
in effect. Any time an employee cannot attend work due to a weather-related event, the policy
applies. This includes having to stay home to care for a child who could not attend school due to
adverse weather.
The University’s adverse weather status is designated by three condition levels:
Condition I – "normal" weather conditions up to moderate snow accumulations, power outages,
etc. Staff can navigate the campus and local areas safely; classes are in session and University offices
are open. Employees are encouraged to exercise caution while traveling. Unless otherwise stated, the
University always functions at a Condition Level I for adverse weather.
Condition II – more severe weather including heavy snow or ice with heavy accumulations; public
transportation and parking are limited and sidewalks are in poor condition. Classes are canceled, but
University offices are open. Emergency employees must report to work, and other employees are
strongly urged to consider conditions on campus and in their residential areas, plus law enforcement
reports of road conditions, before deciding whether to come to work.
Condition III – extremely bad weather with unusually large accumulations of snow, ice or sleet.
Law enforcement advises that no one travel except in an emergency. Roads are impassable, public
transportation is canceled and parking lots and sidewalks cannot be navigated. The chancellor has
closed the University because of adverse weather or other hazardous conditions; classes are canceled
and offices are closed. Emergency employees must report for work, and other employees must not
attempt to come to their work sites.
The Office of Human Resources has detailed information on hr.unc.edu/hottopics/adverseweather,
including a link to the Public Safety Web site and access to portions of the SPA and EPA non-faculty
adverse weather leave policies.
For information about Carolina’s current conditions, call the Adverse Weather and Emergency
Phone Line, 843-1234, or refer to the UNC homepage, www.unc.edu, or Alert Carolina, alertcarolina.
unc.edu.
Questions about the adverse weather policy can be directed to the employee and management
relations specialist; refer to hrconnect.unc.edu and click on "Adverse Weather Leave."
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comparable to that achieved at the large synchrotron facilities.
Preclinical studies conducted at the synchrotron centers in
the United States and France have shown the therapy has the
potential to zap the tumor but spare the surrounding normal
brain tissue.
The stimulus grant would fund the development of this
device, creating new jobs at Carolina and at Zhou’s spin-off
company, XinRay Systems in Research Triangle Park, which is
a subcontractor on the grant to manufacture the carbon nano-tube
X-ray source array.
ARA funding
In addition, 13 Carolina research projects have received new
Challenge Grants totaling about $11.8 million over the next
two years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part
of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
National competition was fierce, with the NIH receiving
more than 20,000 applications. Under the program, the NIH
defined challenge areas focused on specific knowledge gaps,
scientific opportunities, new technologies, data generation and
research methods where an influx of funds could quickly lead to
results. Officials say the research should have a high impact in
public health and biomedical or behavioral science.
Carolina projects include evaluating the influence of gene
variations and epigenetic expression on risky behaviors such
as binge drinking, smoking, illegal drug use and delinquency;
helping low-income and overweight women in rural eastern
North Carolina by creating support groups for weight loss,
financial literacy and moving out of poverty; and studying pro-teins
involved in regulating the genetic material chromatin and
exploring how its control of gene expression and gene silencing
is relevant in normal and disease biology.
This funding is part of a broader effort among researchers at
Carolina and Duke University who have teamed up to attract
an estimated $287 million from ARRA to the benefit of the
entire state.
Since last March, when ARRA funding began flowing, Car-olina
faculty have received notifications from the NIH, the
National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and
other federal agencies about grants or awards that are expected
to exceed $128.8 million over a three-year period. So far, 258
individual projects have been selected for funding.
At Duke, the cumulative total value of 269 different faculty
awards has exceeded $159.1 million, with some still pending.
“The success of the Duke and Carolina faculty in secur-ing
stimulus research funding shows the enormous power of
research universities and just how significant the impact is for
the North Carolina economy,” said Tony Waldrop, Carolina’s
vice chancellor for research and economic development.
Statewide benefit
Together, Carolina and Duke faculty have helped place
North Carolina among the leading states for attracting ARRA
funding. The state currently ranks fifth for the number of jobs
created or saved by the stimulus program, sixth for NIH stimu-lus
funding and tenth for total stimulus funding.
For more information about ARRA funding at the two
universities, including some of the specific Challenge
Grant research endeavors, refer to gazette.unc.edu/stimulus-research.
html.
President Jasmin Jones.
As for non-resident undergraduates,
$927 of the proposed $1,127 tuition
increase would remain available for
campus needs. Similarly, $532 of the
$732 increase for non-resident graduate
students could go toward campus needs.
Fees for all students would increase by
$96, the equivalent of 5.5 percent.
The total campus-based tuition rev-enue
generated under Thorp’s proposal
would be $4 million – less than half
the amount that has been generated in
previous years.
Thorp also recommended increasing
the amount earmarked for need-based aid
from 35 percent (the benchmark in past
years) to 50 percent.
The higher percentage going to need-based
aid would ensure that all students
who qualified for need-based aid would
continue to receive it, said Shirley Ort,
associate provost and director of the Office
of Scholarships and Student Aid.
However, the reduced funds would lead
to more aid offered in the form of loans,
which students would eventually have to
pay back, instead of grants, which do not
have to be repaid, she said.
Although all trustees voted for the rec-ommendation,
several did so with reserva-tions,
including John Ellison who said peer
institutions are raising tuition at a faster
pace than Carolina has in recent years – a
trend that if unchanged would leave Caro-lina
markedly unable to raise faculty pay to
a competitive level.
“I understand it’s a difficult year, but I
am telling you all that this University is not
going to maintain its academic standing in
the world if we continue down the path we
keep going down,” Ellison said.
Unless the pattern is reversed, he said, in
“five or 10 or 15 years it will be difficult to
attract the faculty who will keep us at the
academic ranking we now enjoy.”
Faculty pay is now at the 50th percentile
when compared to Carolina's peer institu-tions,
Ellison said.
UNC President Erskine Bowles and
the Board of Governors have set as a
goal raising the average pay to the 80th
percentile of peers, and campus-based
tuition revenues have been considered
an important source of revenue to reach
that mark.
As in past years, some students protested
the tuition hike. Before trustees voted on
Thorp’s recommendation, two students
spoke to the board.
One student, Ryan Morgan from
Alabama, spoke on behalf of non-resi-dent
students. He said the escalating cost
of tuition and fees has forced some
non-resident students to withdraw.
In fact, he said he was graduating a year
early because he could not afford to stay
at Carolina.
Still, Morgan said he reluctantly sup-ported
Thorp’s proposal because it was
a smaller increase than the 6.5 percent
increase proposed by the task force.
Thorp said after the meeting that he
did not expect all students to be happy
with a tuition increase, but he was grateful
that the board, including Jones, gave the
recommendation unanimous support.
That does not happen often, he noted.
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Santa’s helper Gianna Wong put everyone in the holiday spirit on Dec. 11 when
she showed up for the chilly Jingle Bell Jog bundled up in her red velvet Santa suit.
Gianna is the daughter of Connie Wong, a post-doctoral fellow at the FPG Child
Development Institute. The annual run/walk is sponsored by Campus Recreation and
promotes wellness, but participants also make donations of food and supplies that are
distributed to local food banks and animal shelters.
Most people must pound the pavement to get an
exciting new job. But for most of his career, Jona-than
Howes simply had to answer the call.
As he was finishing his master’s degree in regional planning
at Carolina in 1961, he remembers the clarion call of a youthful
president: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what
you can do for your country.”
Upon hearing John F. Kennedy’s words, Howes remembers
thinking, “OK, where do I sign up?”
He spent most of the next decade in Washington D.C.,
assigned to top policy positions in the Housing and Home
Finance Agency, now the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
He went to Harvard in 1965 on a fellowship from the
National Institute for Public Affairs (now the National Academy
of Public Administration) to earn his master’s degree in public
administration from what is now the Harvard Kennedy School.
He returned to work in Washington, D.C., in 1967 and in
1970 was working as director of Urban America Inc., when he
got a call from F. Stuart Chapin, one of his UNC professors.
“We’ve just received some money to fund the Center of
Urban and Regional Studies and we need a fulltime director,”
Chapin said. “Would you like to be considered?”
Howes’ answer: “When is the next plane?”
Finding his place
Howes’ belief in the power and utility of government to
improve people’s lives may have found expression in Washing-ton,
D.C., but it was rooted in the hills of East Tennessee where
he was born and raised.
His father moved there from Massachusetts after graduating
from college in 1933 to join the newly created Tennessee Val-ley
Authority. His job, Howes said, was to drive the dirt roads
to talk people into selling farmland that had been in their fami-lies
for generations.
During World War II, Howes’ father was assigned to a Navy
ship in the Pacific. And it was a fascination with that Navy
experience that led Howes to Chapel Hill in 1955 after winning
a Navy ROTC scholarship.
His career path took a detour that led him to Wittenberg Col-lege
in Ohio to pursue a different calling: the Lutheran ministry.
He loved the beauty of the liturgical service and was drawn
to the idea of applying Christian ethics to societal problems.
When he enrolled in an introductory course in New Testament
Greek, however, he realized that a life in the ministry was not
for him.
After graduating from Wittenberg three years later, he had
earned double degrees in history and political science – and,
more importantly, he had met his wife, Mary.
The first thing they did upon graduating was to get married,
he said, and the second was to come back to Chapel Hill so
Howes could attend graduate school.
Serving city and state
The phone soon rang again. It was Howard Lee, Chapel
Hill’s first African-American mayor, who wanted Howes to
serve on a commission to explore the merits of jettisoning the
council-manager form of government. Howes took the assign-ment,
which led to an appointment to the town planning board
and inevitably triggered a run for the city council. People began
urging Howes to make a run for mayor, and at the end of his
third four-year term, in 1989, he finally relented.
During his tenure, he joined with the mayors of Durham
and Raleigh to establish the Triangle Transit Authority. More
importantly, though, he learned the value of being a good lis-tener
and cultivating the patience it required – “and to speak
only when it was timely to do so.”
When confronted with contentious issues, he said, it was
best to speak after listening to everyone else. “Often what you
end up having to do is to try to define some sort of consensus
out of all that has been said, and then figure out the next step
from there,” Howes said.
When Jim Hunt was elected to his third term as North Caro-lina
governor in 1992 and Howes was completing his second
term as Chapel Hill mayor, Hunt made the call that deter-mined
Howes’ next move.
For the next five years, Howes commuted to Raleigh to serve
as Hunt’s secretary of the Department of Environment, Health
and Natural Resources.
He got the job, Howes said, after challenging Hunt to do
something about the dismal condition of the state park system.
He took the job because he believed Hunt would be willing to
use his political muscle for the task. Together, they did.
Howes saw the passage of a $35 million state parks bond ref-erendum
and legislation that established a dedicated source of
funding for state parks. He also obtained $31 million from the
General Assembly to build a new Museum of Natural Sciences
and formally establish an Office of Environmental Education
to strengthen educational programs for the North Carolina
Zoo and aquariums.
One last call
In 1997, when Chancellor Michael Hooker began laying the
groundwork to redo the campus master plan, Howes got the
call that would return him to Chapel Hill and the campus he
has never really wanted to leave.
Hooker needed someone who knew the town and campus
equally, he told Howes, and he could think of no one better
suited for the task. Howes accepted the job without hesitation.
No one could have known then that the process that began
in 1998 would take three years to complete and turn out so
well, or that Hooker would die of cancer in the middle of it.
What people should know, said American Studies profes-sor
Rachel Willis, is that it was Howes and his gentle, constant
presence that kept shepherding the process forward.
“Jonathan wasn’t forcing through anything,” Willis said.
“He was trying to incorporate the knowledge that people from
so many parts of the University had on a range of issues from
stormwater management to the arts. Everybody got to be heard
and that was because of Jonathan.”
And during that time, Willis said, Howes still found time to
accept her offer to co-teach a course she developed called “The
University and the Community.”
“Jon looked at this course proposal, never suspecting that it
was about him, and said, ‘I’m in,’” Willis said. “He has taught
it for free ever since and he has mentored more students in a
way that has led to more professional careers being launched
and more contributions being made to this University than
anybody I know.”
Approaching retirement
Howes began thinking about retiring more than seven years
ago, as he approached his 65th birthday, but there were too
many things he was involved with, including Carolina North,
that always made him put it off.
Then in January 2008, Howes suffered a major heart
attack as he raced up the steps of the Smith Center to watch
his beloved Tar Heels. Howes credits the EMS team with
saving his life by getting him to the hospital within five
minutes. He spent a month there following quadruple bypass
surgery and a month recuperating at home before he returned
to work.
“It was not the way I wanted it to end,” Howes said. “When I
left the University, I wanted it to be on my own terms.”
Willis said her friend had changed his mind about retiring
three times since the heart attack before deciding to retire this
month – after teaching the course with her a final time.
To get to the core of Howes, Willis said, all you need do is
read the Athenian oath that boys of ancient Greece once took
when they reached the age of 17. An excerpt of that oath hangs
on Howes’ office wall.
It reads: “We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the
city, both alone and with many … We will transmit this City,
not only not less, but greater and more beautiful than it was
transmitted to us.”
“That is Jonathan Howes,” Willis said. “He lives by that.”
Last week, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber
of Commerce recognized Howes with its Lifetime
Achievement Award (www.carolinachamber.org).
On Jan. 19, the University will honor Howes’ many
contributions with a retirement reception in Gerrard
Hall from 4 to 6 p.m.
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Throughout the years,
Howes answers the call
Jonathan Howes, special assistant to the chancellor, poses at Rams Plaza, which he calls part of Carolina’s
“connective tissue” between north and south campuses, a key element of the University’s master plan.