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chass welcomes new dean
NC State and the College of Hu-manities and Social Sciences warmly welcome Toby Parcel as our new dean. Parcel joined CHASS on August 1, 2006. She was previously Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Special Assistant to the Provost at Purdue University for four years.
In NC State’s second largest college, 500 faculty members, nine academic departments and a range of inter-disciplinary programs serve more than 4,400 undergraduate and 750 graduate students. Parcel will lead academic initiatives for the college and promote academic excellence in undergraduate and graduate educa-tion, research, international pro-grams, extension, and engagement.
Prior to her posts at Purdue, Parcel spent 18 years as a faculty member and administrator at Ohio State Uni-versity. She chaired the Department of Sociology from July 2000 to August 2002, and was associate dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sci-ences for eight years. She spent seven years at the University of Iowa as an assistant and associate professor.
Toby Parcel has attended student events, faculty receptions, and numerous other gatherings in her first few months as CHASS dean.
BUSY BEGINNINGS
The College has kept the new dean busy since her arrival. “I have already worn out a pair of shoes walking across campus to meet with CHASS faculty and staff members, with students, alumni, administrators and deans, and with lots and lots of other interesting people,” she laughs. “I do like to walk, so the shoes aren’t a problem.”
In addition to moving into the dean’s suite in Caldwell Hall, Parcel has un-packed books and files in an office in the 1911 Building, where she intends to continue her research. Parcel is a noted scholar in the sociologi-cal fields of work, work and family, and social stratification. She has published several books, numerous articles and chapters. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the National Research Council, and has garnered awards from the National Council on Family Relations and the American Sociological Association.
NC ROOTS
Though born and raised in Ohio, Parcel still has Tar Heel—and NC State—roots. Her father earned his degree in ceramic engineering from NC State in 1941. Her mother gradu-ated from Women’s College (now UNC-Greensboro) in 1942.
The Parcels returned to North Caro-lina from Ohio several times a year
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ROGER WINSTEAD throughout Toby’s childhood for family reunions with her mother’s family, who until recently lived in Greensboro.
Parcel received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She earned her master’s and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington.
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. Professor of Sociology Matt Zingraff has been a distinguished scholar and a conscientious administrator during his 30-year career at NC State, including nine years as CHASS Associate Dean for Re-search and Graduate Studies. Zingraff left the university this fall to become Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University.
Well-wishers packed Caldwell Lounge for a reception to recognize Zingraff’s service to the college and to the university—and to tease him just a little. Colleagues gave Zingraff a good-natured roast, com-plete with a full-size poster of a 1970s Zingraff in jogging attire.
Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished Professor in the
Department of English, will serve as the CHASS interim Associate Dean for Research
and Graduate Studies for the current academic year.
… and welcomes new leaders
CHASS welcomed two new department heads and the inaugural director of the School of Public and International Affairs this fall.
Dr. Douglas J. Gillan, Head, Department of Psychology Gillan comes to NC State from New Mexico State University, where he served as professor and head of the Department of Psy-chology for six years. He has also taught at the University of Idaho and at Rice University.
Gillan brings a wealth of administrative and industry experience and a record of prolific work in his field. He was a section supervisor and senior engineer at Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company’s NASA-Johnson Space Center in Houston. At General Foods, he headed a component in the Research Center’s Sensory Evaluation Department.
Gillan’s research interests include information visualization, applications of psychological principles to real-world problems, and knowledge acquisition by instruction, inference and associative learning. He is a fellow with the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Dr. Antony H. Harrison, Head, Department of English Harrison has been a professor of English
at NC State for 32 years. Harrison is a widely cited author in studies of Victorian poetry,
both nationally and internationally. He is recognized as one of the premier scholars of Christina Rossetti. He recently completed an eight-year project, editing the complete Letters of Christina Rossetti in four volumes, and is the author of Christina Rossetti in Context.
Harrison has been a fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library and at the National Humanities Center. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the
Humanities totaling nearly $250,000 that enabled him to complete the Rossetti letters
project. In 1992, he received NC State’s Alumni Distinguished Research Professor
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Dr. Richard C. Kearney, Director, School of Public and International Affairs Kearney was profes-sor and chair of the Department of Political Science at East Carolina University for eight years before coming to lead CHASS’s new School. (See article on p. 5.) He was formerly director of the Master of Public Affairs program and the Institute of Public and Urban Affairs at the University of Connecticut. He began his career at the University of South Carolina.
Kearney’s scholarly and applied research focuses on public administration, state and local politics, and public policy. His specialty areas are human resource management, labor rela-tions, and state and local government. He is co-author of the best-selling text, State and Local Government, and a frequent contributor to Public Administration Review.
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for a recent scholarship luncheon. What are philosophers doing hanging around GlaxoSmithKline? Isn’t the phar-maceutical company a more likely place for chemists, biologists, or statisticians?
Ask Gary Merrill, principal scientist at GSK and a former philosophy professor. Merrill oversees part of GSK’s research and development and analyzes huge amounts of data related to drug develop-ment and health care.
When he needs help figuring things out—for example, the best ways to organize data stored on computers for drug development, production, safety, and patient care—he gathers around him people who can think. He brings in the philosophers.
“Philosophers are trained in formal logic,” Merrill reasons. “They know how to analyze a problem conceptually. They can compare big systems, break things down, and determine likely outcomes.”
Specifically, Merrill calls on student in-terns in the Philosophy and Religion De-partment’s Logic and Cognitive Science Initiative. GSK funds the undergraduate internships in knowledge exploration at the GSK Drug Discovery Sciences Lab on NC State’s Centennial Campus.
Merrill looks for students who have knowledge and expertise in computer programming, knowledge in mathemati-cal sciences, including statistics, and facility with logic, philosophy, and cogni-tive science.
Students like senior Jeffery Painter, a computer science major. Or junior Kris-topher M. Kleiner, a Mathematics major.
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UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IN KNOWLEDGE EXPLORATION
The two are currently interns in the Logic and Cognitive Science Initiative.
Painter, who returned to NC State as a computer science major after being out of school for eight years, says a linguistics professor steered him toward cognitive science. Painter will graduate next spring with a minor in Logic and Cognitive Science. “This internship has been great for me,” he says. “Dr. Merrill has spent a lot of time just talking with us. He has had us read Quine and other philosophers. We don’t tend to do that in our computer science classes. I will come out of this program with a much broader sense of how to handle problems.”
This year, Painter and Kleiner have applied their analytical skills to data-mining that matches specific drugs with patient conditions. They have even co-authored an extended abstract with Merrill about that data-mining, titled
Inter-translation of Biomedical Coding Schemes Using UMLS. They will present their findings at a major national confer-ence this fall, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Symposium, in Arlington, Virginia.
Merrill hopes others in industry will come to rely more heavily on philoso-phers. “Industry has a crying need for the analytical skills philosophers can provide,” he says. “There is a misunder-standing of what philosophy students can do in a practical sense.”
If enough philosophers put their heads together to address that misunderstand-ing, the problem will likely be solved.
philosophy’s logic and cognitive science initiative
The Department of Philosophy and Religion’s Logic and Cognitive Science Initiative comple-ments the University’s core strengths in science, engineering, and technology.
Students preparing for careers in the fields of research and development, informatics, or other high-tech areas can supplement their majors with a sequence of courses in formal logic, cognitive philosophy, and cognitive science. For those who want to delve more deeply, the Department has a newly approved BS in Philosophy with a Concentration in Logic, Representation, and Reasoning.
Areas of study include logic, the philosophy of language, theory of knowledge, and the philoso-phy of psychology. “Although logic and cognitive science are highly theoretical in their own right, they deal with ideas, structures, and methods of reasoning that have significant practical applica-tions,” says Michael Pendlebury, head of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
“Whether students choose to major in the new Philosophy concentration, or to take a series of courses through the Logic and Cognitive Science Initiative, they will expand their horizons and enhance their arsenal of conceptual resources. Meanwhile, the Initiative is contributing to the educational needs of high-tech industry in North Carolina and around the world.”
More information: www.ncsu.edu/chass/philo/ phil_lcsi.html
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transformations taking place from 1895 national spotlight
More and more grandparents are caring
for their grandchildren. What is the toll
on these elder caregivers? What are the
benefits? Feinian Chen, Assistant Professor
of Sociology, has received a five-year,
$576,000 grant from the National
Institutes of Health, to find out. Chen,
an expert in family studies in Chinese
society, will be looking at the short-and
long-term effects on grandparents’
health and well-being. She is focusing her
work in China, where it is common for
grandparents to care for their children’s
children.
tta has published Cowboy:
he Illustrated History, (Penn
ublishing, Ltd., 2006)
which tells—and shows—
150 years of cowboy life.
Pr ofessor of History
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Publishing, Richard W.
CHASS Creative Writing
Professor John Kessel and
novelist James Patrick
Kelly have edited Feeling Very Strange,
The Slipstream Anthology (Tachyon
Publications, 2006).
David Ambaras, Associate Professor
of History, has published Bad Youth:
Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of
Everyday Life in Modern Japan (University
of California Press, 2006), the first
in-depth study of the political, social,
and cultural history of
juvenile delinquency in
that country. Ambaras
looks at the encounters
between young people
and reformers in homes,
schools, jobs, and on the streets, and
relates their experiences to the broader
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to 1945: capitalist development, nation-state
formation, and imperialism.
ABC-TV’s new Masters of Science
Fiction series will broadcast an
adaptation of Creative Writing Professor
John Kessel’s A Clean Escape this year.
The hour-long episode directed by
Mark Rydell stars Judy Davis and Sam
Waterston.
John Kessel (left) on the set with director
Mark Rydell.
Renowned short story writer Amy
Hempel, author of At the Gates of the
Animal Kingdom, Tumble Home, and
The Dog of the Marriage, kicked of
the Creative Writing Program’s 2006
2007 Owen/Walters Readings Series in
October.
NC State is hosting a year-long series
of events, discussions, and commemo
rative celebrations honoring the 50th
anniversary of its first African American
undergraduates. For details, visit www.
ncsu.edu/msa/goldenanniversary.php.
on nc heritage
Linguist Walt Wolfram thinks—and
hopes—we’re becoming a lot more
conscious about preserving our past
than we were 50 years ago. “There’s
a new concern for linking with our
heritage, whether through music,
language, or life,” says Wolfram, William
C. Friday Distinguished Professor of
English at NC State. Wolfram directs
the NC Language and Life Project,
which recently produced a 30-minute
documentary about Appalachian music
and heritage. The program is airing on
public television stations across the
country this fall. The Queen Family will
also be shown at two international film
festivals: the Heart of Gold International
Film Festival in Australia and the
Hillbilly Babylon Film Festival in Berlin.
While other Language and Life Project
documentaries about regional dialects
have aired statewide, The Queen Family
is the first to be selected for national
distribution. Wolfram ties interest to a
growing appreciation for language and
culture. He says from the mountains
to the coast, North Carolina is one of
the most diverse states for the study
of language and culture. Wolfram
has studied the Cherokee language,
Outer Banks brogue, Lumbee English,
African-American English, and Hispanic
English. He’s also explored the unique
dialects of the state’s mountain and
city communities. “You could probably
travel the country and not find dialect
diferences as distinct as you get within
this state,” he says. “And the most
interesting thing about dialects is the way
in which they reflect a culture.”
For more information, visit www.
queenfamilymovie.com.
chass announces
new degree programs
BA, Africana Studies
BA, Women’s and Gender Studies
BA, Leadership in the Public Sector online
degree completion program
BS, Philosophy, concentration in Logic,
Representation, and Reasoning
MA, Anthropology
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city of durham engages
gang expert
She’s a gang expert, and Durham wants
her help. Deborah Lamm Weisel, a Re
search Assistant Professor in the School
of Public and International Afairs,
conducts research on many issues of
concern to police, including burglaries,
grafiti, street drugs—and gangs. Dur
ham knows it has a problem. But how
big? And how best to attack it? City
and county oficials needed an expert.
Over the next year, Weisel will work
with another gang expert, James C.
‘Buddy’ Howell of the National Youth
Gang Center, to provide a road map for
some long-term solutions to Durham’s
struggles with drugs and violence.
They’ll start by crunching numbers and
surveying young people, parents, politi
cians, and key individuals in the crimi
nal justice system, from magistrates
to prosecutors, judges, and jailers.
They’ll look at records maintained by
gang units, the juvenile justice system,
schools and other key institutions.
“We’re going to compare Durham’s
gang problems and response with what
other cities and counties do,” Weisel
says. “Outside the criminal justice
system, we’re also asking what role
community programs, youth services,
schools, landlords, and civic groups
can play in addressing the problem.
Durham is looking for answers, and we
intend to give them some.”
Weisel has studied gang problems
extensively in San Diego, Indianapolis
and Chicago, with funding from the
National Institute of Justice.
two chass faculty applauded
for engagement eforts
Two CHASS faculty members were
recently inducted into NC State’s Acad
emy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in
Extension. Toby Brody and Ann Ross
were among eight university faculty
members honored for their collaborative
and interdisciplinary extension activities.
Toby Brody established and directs the
English as a Second Language Program
in the Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures. The ESL Licensure
Program provides training to North
Carolina’s teachers and produces more
ESL teachers each year than any other
institution in the state. With her exper
tise in the practice and delivery of ESL,
Brody engages teachers, students, and
the growing immigrant community in
the state.
Ann Ross, a forensic anthropologist in the
Department of Sociology and Anthro
pology, applies her expertise in human
skeletal identification to help the people
of North Carolina, the United States,
and other nations. She helped establish
the NC Program for Forensic Sciences
to train law enforcement oficers. As a
member of the national DMORT team,
she travels across America to help the
Department of Homeland Security
identify victims of hurricanes and other
disasters. Abroad, Ross engages her
skills and expertise on behalf of victims
of genocide and other human rights
violations in Eastern Europe and Central
America.
James L. Zuiches, vice chancellor for extension,
engagement and economic development at NC State,
recently presented CHASS faculty members Ann
Ross (center) and Toby Brody with the University
Outstanding Extension Award. Both women were
inducted into the Academy of Outstanding Faculty
Engaged in Extension.
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A new School of Public and International Affairs, launched in 2006, will serve as NC State’s home
for approximately 1,000 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and training program students preparing
for careers in public service.
The School is housed within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and encompasses the
Departments of Political Science and Public Administration, the International Studies graduate
program, and the Public Safety Leadership Initiative.
“NC State has been preparing students for careers in public service for more than three decades
through its Department of Political Science and Public Administration,” said Dr. Richard C. Kearney,
the School’s director. “The work being done here has outstripped the department’s boundaries and
outgrown its institutional confines.”
Kearney says the School will provide “an intellectual center for strengthening, promoting, and
contributing to public policy and international programs across the university, as well as research
and services for those engaged in public affairs across the state and nation, particularly in
political arenas.”
www.spia.chass.ncsu.edu
achieve! the campaign for nc state
NC State is nearing its $1 billion Achieve! Campaign goal. With the help of our College’s alumni and friends, CHASS will meet our ambitious goal of $12 million.
The campaign is all about NC State: students, faculty, alumni, and the future of this great university. Funds will support stu-dents, faculty, research, and new programs.
The CHASS campaign stands at $9,145,000. We are especially pleased that $3,370,000 has been raised for student support and another $1,057,000 to support CHASS faculty.
We need your help! Every gift, large and small, brings us closer to the goal. For your convenience, you can contribute securely at www.givetochass.ncsu.edu.
For more information, contact Joanna Johnson, Executive Director of College Advancement, at 919.515.5973 or joanna_ johnson@ncsu.edu.
student scholar learns from mentor
Dr. Slater Newman taught for 46 years in the Department of Psychology. Upon his retirement, his many friends funded a scholarship in his honor, and Dr. Newman is making it his business to get to know the student recipients.
The scholarship is awarded to a first-year student every year. In 2005, Newman met Slater Newman Scholar Kathrine Summey at the CHASS Scholarship luncheon. Their friendship has continued ever since.
Newman and Summey exchange emails and have met several times for coffee, mixed with a big dose of encouragement. “Dr. Newman has become a mentor to me,” Summey says. “He has been so encouraging and support-ive of my career. It has been a real gift to learn from such a wise man.”
His counsel includes advising her to become involved in research. “Research is one of the most valuable experiences an undergraduate student can have,” he says. “It’s great preparation for graduate school, for the workplace, and more generally, for life applications.”
Apparently, Newman’s mentoring is paying off. Not only has Summey enjoyed the friendship and the sage advice, she has also been recognized for her ability and her desire to achieve. As a sophomore, this year Sum-mey received funding from the CHASS Board of Advisors Scholarship and the William T. Kretzer Family Scholarship.
Ever humble, Slater Newman simply says he considers it a special privilege to get to know his scholarship students.
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SCHOLARSHIPS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Scholarship recipient Tensie Taylor says her Jean F. Kilgore Scholarship meant she could return to NC State this fall as a sophomore, against the odds. Her mom suffered an accident last year that left her on disability. Her father, who is partially blind and has a brain tumor, is in ill health. Tensie was overwhelmed when she learned of her scholarship, and thanked her lucky stars.
Donor Jean Kilgore insists that she is the lucky one—that every scholarship recipient she has supported has enriched her life immeasurably. “I have met some incredible young people,” she says of the students she has supported. “They are our future, and I am so proud to play a small part in preparing them for what lies ahead.”
CHASS scholarship recipients had the opportunity to meet and thank the donors who made their scholarships possible at a luncheon held at the University Club this fall. See a full list of existing scholarships at www.givetochass.ncsu.edu.
Nancy and Melinda Snow Scholarship: Donor Nancy Snow with Christina LaCanfora, a senior in Public Relations and Organiza-tional Communication.
J
ean F
. Kilgore Scholarship:
J
ean Kilgore h
as helped many CHA
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ears
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he enjoy
ed meeting (left to right) sophomore
A
nna P
atton,
(S
panish L
anguage and Liter
ature), sophomore D
awn M
artin, (S
ociolog
y), and
sophomore
T
ensie
T
aylor (Communic
ation M
edia).
A
fourth Kilgore Scholarship
recipient
, senior M
ich
aela King
, (Creative
W
riting and P
sy
cholog
y), is study
ing
abroad this semester in Scotland. Centex Scholarship: Tyler Barker is a senior Benjamin Franklin Scholar, double majoring in History and Civil Engineering. He is grateful to Centex, represented by Brooks Raiford, Centex Construction, and Hampton Pitts, Centex Homes. Pitts serves on the CHASS Board of Advisors. lifetime giving society members help keep campaign on track
NC State’s $1 billion Achieve! Campaign is on target to surpass our goal by June 30, 2008. Many alumni and friends have sup-ported this campaign as well as previous university fundraising initiatives. We extend our appreciation to each and every one of you for all you do for NC State and for CHASS.
For those who are able to make especially generous contributions to NC State, the university’s Lifetime Giving Societies extend a public and formal recognition. These societies are named for North Carolinians who have been influential in paving the way for NC State’s success.
We wish to thank our CHASS alumni whose generosity to NC State is recognized through the Lifetime Giving Societies. We also want to thank our non-alumni friends who have made giving to CHASS a priority.
The Alexander Quarles HolladaySociety, named for the educator, law-yer, and legislator who served as the first president of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, now NC State University, honors donors who have given more than $5,000,000 in outright or irrevocable deferred gifts.
Mrs. and Mrs. James B. Goodnight
The William Joseph Peele Society, named for the Raleigh lawyer who founded and was the first president of the Watauga Club in 1884, honors donors who have given more than $1,000,000 in outright or irrevo-cable deferred gifts.
Mrs. Peaches Gunter Blank Mr. and Mrs. Herb Council Mr. and Mrs. James F. Goodmon
The Walter Hines Page Society, named for the influential Raleigh journalist who was a founding member of the Watauga Club and helped to form an effective coalition between the Watauga Club and the North Carolina Farmer’s Alliance, honors donors who have given $500,000 in outright gifts or irrevocable gifts of $750,000 or more.
Mr. and Mrs. David Beam III Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Lee, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie C. Poole, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Perry R. Safran Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wilson
Left: Bill and Chris Hamlin, Frank Weedon,
Dean Toby Parcel, and Perry Safran;
middle: Ross Gordon, Dean
Parcel, and Executive Director
of College Advancement Joanna
Johnson; right: Burley Mitchell,
Susan and Perry Safran.
The Charles William Dabney Society, named for the educator, administrator and sci-entist who drafted the 1887 legislation for the establishment of the new college, honors donors who have made outright gifts of $250,000 or irrevocable deferred gifts of $375,000 or more.
Mr. Craig Michael Davis
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Hamlin, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Kilgore, III
Mr. William T. Kretzer (deceased)
and Mrs. Barbara Kretzer Mr. R. Lee Ott
The Wallace Carl Riddick Society, named for the multi-talented Dr. Riddick who served for over 50 years as Professor of Civil Engineering and Hydraulics, Head Football Coach, Dean of Engineering, President and Dean Emeritus, honors donors who have given $100,000 in outright gifts or irrevocable deferred gifts of $150,000 or more.
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Black Dr. and Mrs. Leland E. Garrett, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Lionel Gordon Mrs. Kathy Ward Hardee Mr. and Mrs. R. Brooks Hedrick Mr. Michael J. Hensley Mr. Karl G. Hudson III Mr. and Mrs. H. Terry Hutchens Mr. Billy Dal Maddalon Mr. Joseph N. Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Petesch Ms. Kimberly T. Przybyl Mr. Odes L. Stroupe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Travis H. Tomlinson Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Turlington Mr. and Mrs. Michael Page Walters Mr. George E. Williams Mrs. Mary Edna Cagle Williams
The Leonidas Lafayette Polk Society, named for North Carolina’s first Commission-er of Agriculture who was largely responsible for legislation establishing the land-grant college, honors donors who have given $50,000 in outright gifts or irrevocable deferred gifts of $75,000 or more.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Allen Mr. Harry L. Boyle, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. T. McLean Brown Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lee Coker, Sr. Mr. Douglas W. Corkhill Mr. L. Michael Dodd Mr. David Frederick Flynt Mr. and Mrs. James C. Gillen Mrs. Ricki Grantmyre Mr. James Kenneth Hale Dr. Anthony D. Hall Mr. Stephen M. Holloman Mr. James Edwin Hooks Mr. Charles Martin Jacumin Mr. John N. Landi, Jr. Mr. James E. Maynard, Jr. Mr. Daren Lee McLamb Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Meacham, Jr. Judge Burley B. Mitchell, Jr. and Mrs. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. William D. Moser, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. John W. Palmour Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Jackson Payne, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund John Piaski Mr. Abdul M. Rahmani and Dr. Carol H. Rahmani Mr. Ernest Bradford Remmey Mr. James T. Robbins Mr. Alton B. Smith, Jr. Ms. Lee Smith Mr. and Mrs. Larry Wynns Mr. Don L. Yelton The Gonder-Fredericks exemplify what our
ALUMNI PROFILE
department does best … We train people to do good science, and to take that science
psychology in the real world
out into the real world and solve problems.
He works with lawyers. She works with doctors. He’s a nationally renowned trial consultant. She’s known internationally for her Type 1 diabetes research and is passionate about ensuring that patients’ psychological well-being is included in their overall health care.
Both are practicing psychology in the real world. And both are grateful for the edu-cation and training they received at NC State that prepared them for their highly successful careers.
Linda Gonder-Frederick earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology at NC State. Jeff Frederick earned his doctoral degree here. The couple, who met at NC State in the late 1970s, now live in Charlottesville, VA.
As a clinical psychologist, Linda applies the principles and methods of psychology in her daily work as the clinical director of the Behavioral Medicine Center at the University of Virginia Health System. She is also Associate Professor of Research in Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia, where she earned her doctoral degree, and where she was the first female psychologist to receive tenure in her department.
“I have always been drawn to areas in which the physiological and psychological processes interact,” she says. “I work with people whose conditions have both physi-cal and psychological implications. My research falls along the same lines. I am interested in areas where a person’s physi-cal condition—such as chronic illness— also has psychological ramifications.”
Linda also has a passion for seeing psy-chology included in medical treatments. “This is an area that has grown exponen-tially over the years, but we still have a long way to go. I want to make sure that psychology is included in both treatment and research.”
Linda’s clinical interests are helping adults cope with chronic or life-threatening ill-nesses, anxiety disorders, stress disorders, insomnia, and depression. Her research interests are behavioral and psychologi-cal issues in diabetes and hypoglycemia, predictors of outcome of weight reduction surgery, and development of patient inter-ventions. She is also developing Internet interventions based on cognitive therapy, focusing on Type 1 diabetes and insomnia.
She is known internationally for her diabetes research. Linda developed a training program called Blood Glucose Awareness Training, or BGAT, which she co-authored with several other research-ers. BGAT has proven especially valuable for patients with longstanding Type 1 diabetes who suffer from hypoglycemia unawareness, a physiological problem that has few effective treatments. BGAT has been critically acclaimed worldwide. Diabetes treatment centers from the Netherlands to Japan now offer translated versions of this program.
Jeff heads the National Legal Research Group’s Jury Research Services Division. In addition to personally assisting in hun-dreds of cases as a trial consultant— including the Attica prison riot trial and the Iran Contra trials—he has written several key books in the area, including Mastering Voir Dire and Jury Selection, pub-lished by the American Bar Association.
Jeff says his work draws heavily on his NC State training in research methods and social psychology. “As a trial consultant, I try to help attorneys be more effective and persuasive in their cases,” he says. “We conduct research before a trial to see how a jury would react, and help attorneys understand more about strengths and weaknesses in creating their cases. We’re involved in seeing which jurors would be more receptive to our theories and ap-proaches. We have to understand who the jurors are to ensure the fairest trial.”
The first case he ever worked on was as a graduate student at NC State. Joan Little, a jailed African American woman, was accused of murdering her white jailer. She claimed self-defense. Jeff, along with fellow graduate student Courtney Mullen, was invited to assist local defense attorneys in convincing a judge that Little could only receive a fair trial if it were moved from Eastern North Carolina to Raleigh. The “venue motion” was success-
We are proud to count Jeff Frederick and Linda Gonder-Frederick among our alumni.
— Dr. David Martin
professor and former head of the Psychology Department
ful, Little’s trial was moved, and she was eventually acquitted of the murder.
Today, his cases vary from “some relatively dull contract cases” to highly publicized murder cases, such as the trial of Kennedy clan member Michael Skakel. “It’s a very varied practice,” he says. “But I thorough-ly enjoy it. I get to keep my hand in doing applied research, and I get to write, speak, and help others.”
Both Jeff and Linda name NC State Psychology faculty members as influen-tial in their training and in their careers, among them Slater Newman, Kitty Klein, Tom LeVere, and Jim Luginbuhl. “They fostered an interest in being methodologi-cally sound,” says Jeff. “And they were so inspiring as teachers, and as individuals.”
Dr. David Martin, professor and former head of the Psychology Department, says the Gonder-Fredericks exemplify what his department does best. “We run a strong scientist/practitioner program,” he says. “We train people to do good science, and to take that science out into the real world and solve problems. We are proud to count Jeff Frederick and Linda Gonder-Frederick among our alumni.”
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9
NC Stat
e’
s P
oet in R
esidenc
e J
ohn
Balaban hears poetr
y e
ven through gun
-
fire and explosions.
As a c
onscientious
object
or during the war in
V
ietnam, J
ohn
Balaban w
ork
ed in the
V
ietnamese c
oun
-
tr
yside offering a
ssistanc
e t
o families
whose children had been injured by the
fighting.
Amid the sounds of war
, he wa
s
c
ontinual
l
y drawn t
o the soft singing of
the farmers, fishermen, and house
wives.
Their songs resonat
ed with Balaban and
star
t
ed him on a jour
ney of preser
ving
forms of
V
ietnamese culture that might
other
wise ha
ve faded int
o extinction.
Balaban wa
s hearing a form of
V
iet
-
namese l
yrical folk poetr
y known a
s ca
dao (pronounc
ed “ka zow” or “ka yow”),
which means “songs and bal
lads.”
The
poems, which e
vok
e nature, animals,
children
’
s games and lo
ve, are sung with
-
out instr
uments and are par
t of an oral
V
ietnamese lit
erar
y tradition that la
sts
t
o this day
.
“I wa
s intrigued that an oral poetr
y tra
-
dition w
ould stil
l be alive on the planet,
and that no one in the English-
speaking
w
orld seemed aware of it,” says Balaban,
an award-
winning poet and professor in
CHASS’
s creative writing program.
Aft
er c
ompleting his tw
o years of
alt
er
native ser
vic
e, Balaban retur
ned t
o
V
ietnam in 1971 and began rec
ording the
folk poems a
s par
t of a grant f
rom the
N
ational Endowment for the H
umani
-
ties.
W
ith a batt
er
y-operat
ed tape re
-
c
order and a microphone, he approached
vil
la
gers in the c
ountr
yside and a
sk
ed
them t
o sing their fa
vorit
e poems.
R
ec
ording the poems and ultimat
el
y
translating them int
o English for the
first time in hist
or
y wa
s onl
y the star
t of
Balaban
’
s preser
vation effor
ts. Continu
-
ing t
o immerse himself in
V
ietnamese
culture, he lear
ned of H
o
X
uan H
uong,
a
V
ietnamese poet f
rom tw
o c
enturies
a
go who c
omposed her w
orks in Nôm, a
syst
em of writing that looks lik
e Chinese
but represents
V
ietnamese speech.
w
e
ll
s
c
r
i
p
t
e
d
BY CHAD AUSTIN
Nôm
’
s origins dat
e back t
o 939, when
V
ietnam gained independenc
e f
rom
China. Nôm became the national script,
and for 1,000 years
—roughl
y the 10th
through the 20th c
enturies
—
V
ietnamese
lit
erature, philosophy
, hist
or
y
, law
, medi
-
cine, religion, and go
ver
nment policy
w
ere writt
en in Nôm.
A
moder
nized script wa
s introduc
ed in
the 17th c
entur
y
, which e
volved int
o the
V
ietnamese writing syst
em used t
oday
.
The F
rench c
olonial go
ver
nment that
lat
er c
ontrol
led
V
ietnam e
ventual
l
y for
-
bade the use of Nôm, and Nôm lit
eracy
gradual
l
y died out.
M
ost
V
ietnamese, who t
oday writ
e in a
roman script lik
e English, cannot read
Nôm, and fe
w e
ven know that their
great
est poetr
y wa
s writt
en in Nôm
script. But
in a book titled
S
pring Essence
(2000), Balaban relea
sed his transla
-
tions of H
o
X
uan H
uong’
s poems, which
caused a stir among
V
ietnamese at home
and abroad.
S
pring Essence
mark
ed the first time Nôm
had been print
ed f
rom a printing press.
P
re
viousl
y
, Nôm c
ould onl
y be repro
-
duc
ed by hand with w
oodblock ty
pe or
xerographic c
opies. Balaban
’
s transla
-
tions w
ere met with lit
erar
y acclaim.
P
resident Clint
on e
ven not
ed the book’
s
significanc
e at a stat
e dinner in
V
ietnam
in 2000
.
“When
S
pring Essence
came out,
V
ietnam
-
ese w
ere stunned t
o see the script in a
banner headline in the N
e
w
Y
ork
T
imes,”
says Balaban, who estimat
es that fe
w
er
than 100 scholars w
orldwide are familiar
with Nôm. “
Although the script wa
s used
for 1,000 years, it is now almost c
om
-
plet
el
y inacc
essible t
o moder
n
V
ietnam
-
ese.
When the book t
ook off
, I realized
that w
e had a cal
ling t
o preser
ve the
whole lit
erar
y tradition of Nôm.”
W
ith a t
eam of c
ol
lea
gues, Balaban
founded the
V
ietnamese Nôm
P
reser
vation F
oundation, a nonprofit
organization whose goal is t
o preser
ve
J
ohn Balab
an’
s fifth book of
poetr
y
,
P
ath, C
rook
ed P
ath
,
(Copper Cany
on Press
, 2006) was
released this y
ear to r
ave reviews
.
T
o hear him read selections
, go to
www
.johnb
alab
an.com.
Balab
an is the author of twelve
books of poetr
y and prose
,
including four volumes which
together h
ave won
The
A
c
ademy
of
A
meric
an P
oets
’ L
amont prize
,
a N
ational P
oetr
y S
eries S
elec
-
tion, and two nominations for the
N
ational Book
A
war
d. H
e was
the 2001-2004 N
ational
A
rtist for
the Phi Kappa Phi H
onor S
ociety
.
H
e was awar
ded a J
ohn S
imon
Guggenheim F
ellowship in 2003.
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c
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n
t
i
n
u
e
d
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below: John Balaban stands in front of a statue of Emperor Nguyen Hue, at the site of the Chinese army’s defeat in 1789. The poem on the wall begins, “We beat you because we like to wear our hair long.” right: Balaban enter-ing a former Vietnamese emperor’s moon-watching pavilion on the Perfume River in Hue.
the written tradition of the ancient script by computer digitization. The foundation has made great strides in making Nôm more accessible. Balaban’s organization published an extensive 950-page dictionary in 2004 and has developed a web site (http://nomfoundation.org/) to assist users with translations.
Balaban’s latest project involves translating The Tale of Kieu, a novel-length poem spanning 3,254 lines that is regarded as the most significant work of Vietnamese poetry. The poem traces the life of a beautiful young Vietnamese woman who sold her-self into prostitution to save her family from prison.
Originally written in Nôm in the late 1700s, The Tale of Kieu has been translated into English twice already. Those transla-tions, however, were based on a version of the poem written in modern Vietnamese. Balaban is going back to translate the poem directly from Nôm for the first time. He expects the translation to take about seven years.
For Balaban, translating and preserving Nôm is a labor of love.
“The generation that used this script in a familiar way is long gone,” Balaban says. “To think of having all that history and literature lost forever is unimaginable.”
nôm not just about poetry, literature
John Balaban’s work in unlocking the ancient script of Nôm could have present-day signifi-cance in Vietnamese politics and society, in addition to its literary heritage.
For 1,000 years Nôm was Vietnam’s national language before an early version of the country’s current national script took hold in the 17th century. But much of Vietnam’s early historical documents were written in Nôm, a language that is inaccessible to the more than 80 million people living in Vietnam today.
Those documents written in Nôm, which include items such as village, census, and court records, could lead to greater under-standing of Vietnamese history and culture.
For example, to this day, Vietnam, China and other Asian nations make historical territorial claims to the Paracel and Spratley islands in the South China Sea. China argues that no other nation has a prior claim to the islands.
“In fact, the Vietnamese do have a prior claim, and it’s written in Nôm,” Balaban says. “It’s not just poetry. There is whole collection of Vietnamese historical records written in Nôm that’s been around for a long time.”
Leading legal scholar Richard
A. Epst
ein
wil
l be on campus in M
arch
t
o present
the J
ohn
W
.
P
ope Lecture. H
is public
lecture wil
l be held M
arch 19, 2007
, at
7:00 pm on the NC Stat
e campus.
The
public is warml
y invit
ed t
o att
end.
Epst
ein
s lecture wil
l draw on his book,
S
imple R
ules for a Complex
W
orld
.
The
book is par
t of a trilogy
, which also in
cludes
S
kepticism and F
reedom
and
Principles for a F
ree S
ociety
.
Epst
ein directs the Law and Ec
onomics
P
rogram at the U
niversity of Chica
go,
where he ha
s taught and writt
en about a
wide range of legal and int
erdisciplinar
y
subjects sinc
e 1972. H
e is currentl
y the
J
ames P
ark
er H
al
l Distinguished Ser
vic
e
P
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. H
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Check
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for details. families know best
professor keeps german
hoops fans in the game
BY CHAD AUSTIN
Ruth Gross cheered Dirk
Nowitzki on when she
the NC Department of Public Instruction to systems that include schools, child mental
involve children and their families more fully in health, child welfare, juvenile justice, and
Matt is acting up in his middle school addressing the challenges that at-risk children public health.
classroom. His grades are slipping, and he and teens face in school.
Matt’s team, for example, might include a
doesn’t seem to care. The NC Family-Centered Meetings Project teacher, a school counselor, a social worker,
Through a project spearheaded by CHASS’s aims to “keep the family’s voice in the center a Sunday school teacher, a favorite aunt and
Department of Social Work, Matt and other of the conversation,” says Kara Allen- uncle, and a Boy Scout leader. The parents and
at-risk youth may be helped back on track. Eckard, who is coordinating training for the young people decide. The plans to help Matt are
Social work students, faculty, and staff are project. “We want parents to become more developed with the family at the heart of it all.
working under the direction of Dr. Joan central in creating and implementing plans
The Child and Family Teams are being piloted
Pennell, Head of the Department of Social that will help their child succeed.”
in three North Carolina schools this year.
Work, on the North Carolina Family-Centered The project also supports the concept of ‘one The Department of Social Work is providing
Meetings Project. They are collaborating with family, one plan’ across the host of interlocked training, technical support, and evaluation.
attended the final game of and don’t use them the way we do. An English term is often used
the NBA Finals in Dallas to tone down the militaristic tone of sports in German.”
on June 20, 2006. Gross found help from a reader shortly after her first transla
tions appeared on the Mavs’ Web site. Frank Knipprath, an
insurance lawyer in Cologne, offered Gross some basketball
talking tips. The two have been working together since No
Dr. Ruth Gross didn’t know much about basketball five years vember 2001.
ago when she got a call from the National Basketball Associa- German fans, along with Nowitzki himself, appreciate Gross’s
tion’s Dallas Mavericks. Could she translate some game reports efforts. And she has become a basketball fan herself. “I’ve been
into German for posting on the team’s Web site? to some games and met Dirk after one of them,” Gross says.
Gross, who heads the College’s Department of Foreign “He is very gracious and very tall. He told me that he had read
Languages and Literatures, was a professor at the University some of the previews. I felt like a groupie.”
of Texas at Arlington when the Mavs sought her help. Dirk She says it’s been fun to work with the Mavs as the team
Nowitzki, the Mavericks’ seven-foot, German-born center and has improved. “When I started translating, they were a real
five-time NBA All-Star, has a large fan following in his home ‘run-and-gun’ team without much defense. Head coach Avery
country who wanted to keep track of their native son. Johnson has changed that.”
Gross started translating game previews written by a Mavs’ Last year, Gross became part of a conference championship
television broadcaster in 2001. She had to work fast, since she team when Dallas qualified for the NBA Finals for
often didn’t get the reports until game day. the first time in team history. They fell just
Despite moving across the country in 2003 to join the faculty at short of the NBA title, however, losing to
NC State, Gross is still at it, translating a team blog written by the Miami Heat, four games to two.
Mavericks’ television play-by-play announcer Mark Followill. Although she enjoys her work with the
Like a rookie making the jump to the pros, Gross struggled Mavs, Gross says she doesn’t want to quit
early on with her limited knowledge of basketball and sports her day job. “It’s great to see a German
lingo. Cultural differences were also challenging. media hero get some well-deserved recog
nition,” she says. “But my real joy lies in
“English sports vocabulary is very combative and full of war meta- writing and teaching about German and
phors,” Gross says. “Germans take those metaphors too literally Austrian literature and culture.”
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