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January 13, 2016
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tudying the collective behavior of flocks of birds or swarms of
bees is an example of biology, a pure physical science.
Exploring how collective behavior in nature can be used to
make nanoparticles organize themselves into a structure to deliver
medication more effectively in the body is an example of applied
physical science.
BR ANDON BIELT Z
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ENTERING
THE CLASS
OF THE
FUTURE
Applied physical sciences department
builds on Carolina’s collaborative culture
10
HAIL AND
FAREWELL
Assistant professor Daphne Klotsa (below), a physicist, practices a
little of both. She is also the first faculty member to be recruited and
hired exclusively as a member of Carolina’s emerging Department of
Applied Physical Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences.
“Although my background is in physics, I value enormously the
experience I have gleaned from working in engineering and chemistry
departments, in addition to physics,” she said.
“The applied physical sciences department
here at UNC is an ideal place for highly interdisciplinary research.”
The applied physical sciences department
may be the first of its kind in the country,
said Edward T. Samulski, Cary C. Boshamer
Professor of Chemistry, who returned from
retirement to lead the department. Samulski
brought in Klotsa and Scott Warren, an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the
chemistry department, to join a well-established group of faculty affiliates in the departments of chemistry, physics and astronomy,
mathematics, biology and medicine.
See APPLIED PHYSICAL SCIENCES page 11
State’s $2 billion bond proposal has bipartisan support
It is again time, Gov. Pat McCrory said, for
North Carolina voters to “step up to the future”
by approving the $2 billion Connect NC bond
on March 15.
During the past century, North Carolina voters have said yes to the future again and again
– including a $40 million highway bill called for
by Gov. Cameron Morrison and the $3 billion
higher education bond that Gov. Jim Hunt advocated for 15 years ago.
That bond, which voters overwhelmingly
approved in November 2000, was the last time a
statewide bond was on the ballot, said McCrory,
who was among a host of speakers during the
official campaign kickoff for the bond held
Jan. 5 at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library on North
Carolina State’s Centennial Campus.
In those 15 years, he added, the population of
North Carolina has grown by two million, making the total number of state residents 10 million
and making North Carolina the ninth-biggest
state in the country.
“North Carolina is in the big time now and we
need to prepare for the future,” McCrory said.
“We have a choice. Do we prepare for the future
or do we want the leaders of the future to react to
what we didn’t do?”
For these critical investments, McCrory
added, “there will be no tax increase for any citizen in North Carolina.”
See BOND page 15
ROGER W. WINSTEAD
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SOWING THE
SEEDS FOR
AN EDIBLE
CAMPUS
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News
IN BRIEF
ACKLAND ART MUSEUM
STORE RELOCATING
EOC OFFICE GETS
A NEW ADDRESS
The Ackland Art Museum store will reopen
Jan. 21 in a new downtown Chapel Hill space.
The store will move from its current location, at the corner of Franklin and Columbia
Streets, to 109 E. Franklin St., suite 101, next
to FRANK Gallery.
“While we will miss our corner space, we are
energized to start the new year in a new downtown home that is still close to the Ackland Art
Museum,” said Alice Southwick, store manager.
“We’re moving only steps away from our current space and are confident that our customers
will follow us there and love our new store.”
“With our store’s new location right next
door to FRANK Gallery on Franklin Street,
there will be an even firmer nexus of arts venues in downtown Chapel Hill,” said Ackland
Art Museum interim director and chief curator Peter Nisbet. “An increase in the amount
of wall display space at the store opens up
exciting possibilities.”
All Equal Opportunity and Compliance
Office (EOC) staff will be located in the CVS
Plaza at 137 E. Franklin St. beginning Jan. 19.
The main office will be located in suite 404.
Staff in this location can connect employees to
office staff who can assist with accommodation
requests, as well as reports of discrimination,
harassment, sexual assault, relationship violence
and stalking. The main office number and email
address will remain the same. Contact office
staff at (919) 966-3576 or eoc@unc.edu. The
campus mailbox number will change to 9162.
EDITOR
Gary C. Moss (919-962-7125)
gary_moss@unc.edu
MANAGING EDITOR
Susan Hudson (919- 962- 8415)
susan_hudson@unc.edu
DESIGN AND LAYOUT
Linda Graham
lgraham@gmail.com (919- 417- 4474)
CONTRIBUTORS
Office of Communications
With its Jan. 13 grand opening celebration,
the new Student Stores Pharmacy is ready to
serve students, faculty and staff. The pharmacy
is located on the third floor of the Daniels Student Stores building and is operated by UNC
Campus Health Services. Pharmacy hours are
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The grand opening celebration features
health-related giveaways and an entry to win a
$200 Student Stores gift card to any Carolina
student, staff or faculty who stops by during
pharmacy hours that day.
NURSING GOES MOBILE
Residents of Western Wake County suffering
from chronic illness soon will have a new place
to turn to for quality nursing care and support.
Aided by grant funding from Christ the King
Lutheran Church in Cary, the UNC School
of Nursing is launching a mobile healthcare
program designed to bring much-needed
nursing care to individuals with chronic illness who access services at Dorcas Ministries
and Western Wake Crisis Ministry. Both
CONTRIBUTED
STUDENT STORES PHARMACY
NOW OPEN
BLOOD DRIVE A SUCCESS
The American Red Cross collected 293 pints of blood during the Holiday Carolina
Blood Drive held Dec. 8 at the Smith Center.
The drive, which is sponsored by the Employee Forum, helps save lives and promote
healing in hospitals across the Carolinas Region of the American Red Cross. Among the
donors were Carolina women’s soccer players, from left: Megan Buckingham, Hanna
Gardner and Katie Bowen.
locations already provide crisis services to
at-risk residents, and the mobile clinic will
allow for convenient – and cost-saving –
access to quality healthcare.
In a survey of the ministries’ clients,
73 percent reported at least one chronic illness. The School of Nursing aims to serve
that population with mobile healthcare clinics
See NEWS IN BRIEF page 3
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Greenlaw 101, lecture hall for the 21st century
Faculty Excellence, one of the partners in the renovation, at the
Dec. 15 demonstration of the room.
Despite looking like a great place to catch the game, Greenlaw 101 is still a lecture hall. But it’s a 21st century interactive
lecture hall, the first of its kind on campus big enough for 100
students or more.
The project, piloted in the fall 2015 semester, comes in
response to a 2012 faculty survey on classrooms and resulting
KRISTIN CHAVEZ
The recently remodeled Greenlaw 101 lecture hall has several cool features: a bright orange accent wall, rolling swivel
chairs with adjustable desks and cupholders and a catwalk
down the center of the room. The room’s eight big video
screens plus a nine-panel screen in the front connect to the
Internet or to an individual’s laptop or notebook.
“It does look a little bit like a sports bar, now that you mention it,” observed Eric Muller, former director of the Center for
recommendations made to the Classroom Policy Steering
Committee. “Develop a renovation plan for an interactive lecture hall” was Recommendation No. 8 from the Classroom
Innovation Subcommittee.
With research showing that students learn more and better
when taught in an interactive way, a growing number of faculty
are incorporating interactive techniques in their teaching.
But the techniques can be hard to implement in a traditional
classroom, so the University began five years ago to renovate
classrooms and use different furniture to make collaborating
and group discussion easier. Studio classrooms, for example,
group students around tables. Seats that roll or that swivel 360
degrees make it easier to make eye contact with the instructor
and each other.
“We have about 220 general purpose classrooms on this part
of campus and only about 16 of them are designed for interaction,” said Carol Tresolini, vice provost for academic initiatives.
None of those redesigned classes could hold 100 students.
Because classroom renovations belong to “everybody and
nobody,” she said, the Greenlaw 101 project required the collaboration of the academic side as well as facilities services
and ITS.
To transform this large lecture hall, renovators removed
its stadium-style seating and steps, replacing them with
a new, gently sloped concrete floor and six learning zones
divided by railings and a center aisle (which also functions
as a wheelchair ramp).
They furnished the room with Node chairs, a swivel chair
that rolls and also has a base for storing books and backpacks so students’ stuff moves with them, making transitions
quicker and easier. The furniture was provided through an
active learning research grant from Steelcase.
The room also has Mirroring360 software, which enables
instructors (or students) to share their device screens on the
Miguel La Serna, associate professor of history, was one of 13 faculty members to teach in Carolina’s first interactive lecture hall
in the fall.
NEWS IN BRIEF from page 2
one day a week beginning this month. These
nurse-led, nurse-run clinics will provide free
health assessments, as well as education and
materials to help patients manage their own
health needs. With regular checkups and
better disease management, chronically ill
patients can improve their long-term health
outlook and avoid costly emergency room visits and ambulance services.
Carolina nursing faculty and students, alongside nurse volunteers, will staff the clinics. They
will be available at Dorcas Ministries and Western Wake Crisis Ministries on Tuesdays from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m., alternating sites each week,
operating from a specially outfitted van that
includes a small exam room, state-of-the-art
equipment and medical supplies.
ARTS PROJECT EXPLORES
MEANING OF ‘HOME’
A year-long project at the Carolina, “Telling our Stories of Home: Exploring and
Celebrating Changing African-Diaspora Communities,” has been awarded a Humanities
in the Public Square grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
The project, led by two faculty members
in Carolina’s College of Arts and Sciences –
Kathy Perkins, professor of dramatic art, and
Tanya Shields, associate professor of women’s
and gender studies – will kick off with a conference and festival March 31– April 2 and
April 6–8.
At the public event, held at the Stone Center, women scholars and international artists
will come together to explore the theme of
home through drama, spoken word, performances, poetry, film/video, dance, music and
visual art.
After the festival, community centers, local
arts councils and the Stone Center will host
public gatherings featuring films and discussions around complex themes of home
developed during the festival. Educational
resources for North Carolina public school
social studies teachers will also be developed,
and the themes will be explored in the African
Diaspora Fellows Program summer institute
held at Carolina in June. A professional videographer will capture all performances and
the information will be digitally archived.
ALUMNUS COMMITS SUPPORT
FOR PUBLIC SERVICE EDUCATION
Carolina announced a commitment from
alumnus Scott Douglas MacDonald of Del
Mar, California, to support undergraduate
students dedicated to public service.
His gift has a dual purpose, creating the
Scott D. MacDonald Community Service
Scholarships in the Office of Scholarships
and Student Aid as well as the Scott D.
MacDonald Community Service Fellowship Program in the Carolina Center for
Public Service.
Beginning this fall, MacDonald Community Service Scholarships are providing tuition support to a select group of four
incoming students who have demonstrated
a commitment to community service. The
awards, which are renewable for four years,
also provide resources to increase the
See GREENLAW page 6
students’ related knowledge and skills.
As third-year students, MacDonald Scholars and potentially other community service
scholars will become eligible for Scott D. MacDonald Community Fellowships. The fellowship program will provide monetary support
enabling students to work with faculty and
staff to identify and implement a signature,
experience-based public service project.
“I believe everyone who has graduated and
been successful in part because of the education they received has an obligation to help
others who follow,” said MacDonald, a retired
real estate executive who received a master’s
degree in regional planning from Carolina in
1972. “I also believe there are many people
who are in need and would benefit from the
efforts of interested and socially motivated
university students. These programs speak to
both needs.”
To learn more about creating a community
service scholarship, contact Terri Hegeman,
director of development for scholarships, student aid and access, at 919-962-4385 or terri_
hegeman@unc.edu.
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No. 1, again
best value
DAN SEARS
For the 15th time, the nation’s first public university is first
in value. Carolina is once again the best value in public schools
across the country and also No. 1 for best out-of-state value, a
new category added this year by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.
Carolina also moved into the top 10 ranking of public and private universities.
The top ranking is no coincidence – Carolina’s commitment to low cost is a value built into the school’s mission and
its history. Despite rising costs, tuition at Carolina has always
been among the lowest of all comparable universities, including public schools.
“Providing a great value to the people of North Carolina and
students around the nation and the world is a hallmark of our
222-year history,” said Chancellor Carol L. Folt. “We’re proud
to continue to be recognized as the best value in American public higher education for the 15th time, a welcome tribute to our
deeply held commitment to accessibility, affordability, innovation and student success.”
Rounding out the top three for best values in public colleges
are the universities of Florida and Virginia. Taking the top spot
in the combined best values list is Washington and Lee University, followed by Princeton and Harvard.
The magazine ranked 300 colleges based on its definition
of value, a quality education at an affordable price. Based on
a scale of 100, quality criteria account for 55 percent of total
points, cost criteria account for 45 percent.
Some of the key measures for quality are:
admission rates;
graduation rates;
test scores of incoming freshmen; and
student-to-faculty ratios.
As for the financial measures, the magazine considers overall
cost of tuition; the cost of books; room and board; the average
CAROLINA:
percentage of need met by aid and the average debt a student
accumulates before graduation.
According to the Project on Student Debt, 69 percent of students nationwide borrow money to pay
for college, while 41 percent borrow money to attend
Carolina. Currently, debt for Carolina’s graduating
students is $18, 945, far below the national average of $35,051.
Forty-seven percent of students at Carolina currently receive
financial aid. Additionally, Carolina provides outstanding
access and affordability through signature programs like Carolina Covenant. The program promises low-income prospective students they’ll graduate debt free with help from grants,
scholarships and work-study jobs.
The University’s Carolina Firsts program has also created a
pathway of opportunity for the almost 20 percent of undergraduates who are the first in their family to attend college.
Carolina, which garnered a record 31,955 applications for
2015 admission, offers an even wider array of world-class
resources. The university features 325 study abroad programs
in 70 countries, and it ranks among the nation’s most successful public universities in attracting research funding from federal agencies. The school’s most recent four-year graduation
rate is 81 percent, well above the 59 percent national average
for public schools.
More options, time for Student Stores decision
No decision about privatizing UNC Student Stores has
been made yet and probably won’t be until March or April,
Brad Ives, associate vice chancellor for campus enterprises,
told Employee Forum delegates at the Jan. 6 meeting.
The University posted a request for proposals Jan. 11 and
will be considering at least three options for Student Stores:
outsourcing the whole store, outsourcing a virtual bookstore
and not outsourcing at all.
Consideration of outsourcing began in the summer
when Follett, a national college bookstore chain, presented
an unsolicited bid to privatize Student Stores, saying it could
increase revenue.
But when the bid was announced to employees at Student
Stores in September, their concerns about layoffs, loss of benefits and other issues led to protests against privatization in
the Pit.
“The campus reaction to the announcement was very
strong. We heard a lot of passion coming back about Student
Stores,” Ives said, “and we listened to that.” Comments and
concerns expressed by Student Stores and the Employee
Forum have been incorporated into the current request for
proposals, he said.
Increasing revenue to fund student scholarships is an
attractive option, especially considering the general downturn
in textbook and independent bookstore sales. Students buy
about one-third of textbooks online at Amazon, and Bull’s
Head Bookshop hasn’t turned a profit in the last 15 years,
Ives said.
But more revenue isn’t the only concern. “We want to be
fair to employees,” Ives said, adding that he has encouraged
employees to present their own proposal for management of
the store. He said he is meeting with the employees every other
week to update them on the process.
What’s tougher to address are some of the intangible values
of having a University-run store and an independent bookstore
on campus: support for faculty-written books, work opportunities for students and services like on-site printing at the Print
Stop, the U.S. Post Office branch, the Pit Stop convenience
store and the new pharmacy.
Break-even status might be acceptable for some services, but
the bookstore and post office are in the red. “We can’t lose large
amounts of money providing some of these services,” Ives said.
“We’ve got to strike a balance.”
Employee Forum delegates also heard updates on adverse
weather policy and the work of the Task Force on UNC-Chapel
Hill’s History.
On Jan. 1, a new adverse weather policy for all campuses
of the UNC system went into effect. The policy allows the
UNC president or a chancellor to declare three condition levels: Condition 1 Reduced Operations; Condition 2 Limited
Operations; and Condition 3 Closed.
The Office of Human Resources posted the new policy
online this week at hr.unc.edu.
The new policy increases the requirements for total closure of a campus, making it extremely rare, said Gena Carter,
interim associate vice chancellor for human resources. Human
resources is still clarifying some of the other policy changes,
Carter said. Employees will receive further explanation of the
policy changes as soon as possible.
History professor Jim Leloudis gave delegates an overview
of the history task force, created by Chancellor Carol L. Folt
in response to the Board of Trustees’ decision to remove
the name of Col. William Saunders from a campus building
because of his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan.
In fulfilling its charge, the task force has installed a plaque on
the newly christened Carolina Hall explaining the name change
and will put a history display inside the building focused on the
Reconstruction era, the 1920 decision to name the building for
Saunders and more recent decades of student activism that led
to the renaming in 2015.
The task force is also developing a curatorial plan for
McCorkle Place, which will be a mix of physical and virtual
interpretive tools.
– Susan Hudson, Gazette
January 13, 2016 5
Faculty/Staff
NEWS
Christopher Payne has a favorite
brainteaser that never fails to stump the
countless students and colleagues he has
shared it with at Carolina.
“My riddle for folks is that I am a UNC
graduate, but not a Tar Heel alum.”
The other UNC is the University of
Northern Colorado in Greeley where, in
1992, Payne earned a Ph.D. in college personnel administration.
That stop at that other UNC put him on
the path that, eight years later, led him to
Chapel Hill, Payne said, but it also signified a major turning point in his life.
Born in Boise, Idaho, Payne grew up
in Arvada, a town on the western edge of
Denver, Colorado. He earned a psychology degree from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and went on to earn his
master’s degree in guidance and counseling at the University of Wisconsin at Platteville in 1982.
Working with students had always been
something he had been interested in, Payne said. As an undergraduate at Colorado State, he
had served as a resident adviser.
At Wisconsin Platteville, he had
served as a hall director.
“Most people have experienced
some kind of trouble or faced
some kind of challenge and needed someone to reach out to in those moments for
guidance and support,” Payne said.
The good or bad decisions a student
makes in those moments can have a huge
impact on the rest of their lives, Payne said.
Being there for someone just to listen, he
discovered, could sometimes make all
the difference.
The desire to help people, and more
broadly, serve a community, continued
to find expression during the seven years
he worked at a bank in Loveland, Colorado, he said. He started as a bank teller,
and later, sponsored community outreach
MEL ANIE BUSBEE
Payne’s passion for
students comes with a
penchant for listening
projects as the bank’s marketing manager.
But a series of bank mergers in the late
1980s forced him re-evaluate his career
choice. “That was the point at which I had
determined higher education was where I
really wanted to be,” Payne said.
That same penchant for listening and
service is what helped Payne earn a 2015
C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service
Award, one of the most coveted distinctions the University gives faculty and staff.
Chancellor Carol L. Folt selected the six
honorees from nominations submitted by
the campus. They each received an award
citation and $6,000 stipend.
TRANSFORMING
SOUTHERN CAMPUS
Payne got his first job in higher education when Dean L. Bresciani, the director
of housing and residential education at the
University of Nebraska at Kearney, hired
him as his assistant director.
Eight years later, the two men again
reconnected in Chapel Hill when Bresciani, who was then Carolina’s associate
vice chancellor of student services, hired
Payne away from the University of Denver where he was working as director of
See PAYNE page 6
HO NO RS
HOWARD ALDRICH, Kenan Professor of Sociology and
an adjunct professor of business at Kenan-Flagler Business
School, received an honorary Doctor of Social Sciences degree
and served as the commencement speaker Dec. 19 at Bowling
Green State University, his alma mater.
The Center for Faculty Excellence has selected
ANNIE FRANCIS, clinical instructor and doctoral student
in the School of Social work, for the semester-long Future
Faculty Fellowship Program, which helps graduate students
prepare for a teaching career.
STEPHEN HURSTING, a Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher and professor of nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC Nutrition
Research Institute, has received a National Cancer Institute
Outstanding Investigator Award. This award will support his
research on the link between obesity and cancer.
LATOYA SMALL, assistant professor in the School of
Social Work, received a Junior Faculty Development Award in
the amount of $7,500 from the UNC Committee on Faculty
Research and Study Leaves, administered by the Office of the
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.
IRIS CARLTON-LANEY, professor in the School of
Social Work, is the winner of the 2015 Hortense K. McClinton Outstanding Faculty Staff Award. This award, presented by the UNC General Alumni Association’s Black
Alumni Reunion, honors a faculty or staff member, past
or present, who has made outstanding strides in educating and developing Carolina’s undergraduate, graduate or
professional students. McClinton was Carolina’s first black
faculty member.
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DeSimone to receive National Medal of Technology and Innovation
The White House on Dec. 22 announced the
latest recipients of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and
Innovation – our nation’s highest honors for
achievement and leadership in advancing the
fields of science and technology. The new awardees – including Joseph DeSimone, Chancellor’s
Eminent Professor of Chemistry in the College of
Arts and Sciences at the Carolina – will receive
their medals at a White House ceremony in
early 2016.
“Science and technology are fundamental to solving some of our nation’s biggest
challenges,” President Obama said. “The
GREENLAW from page 3
screens wirelessly. “With the tech in here, there was never a
question of if I’d be able to do something but how,” said Devin
Hubbard, biomedical engineering lecturer. “It overwhelmed
me the amount of options there were to interact with students.”
With the technology and design of Greenlaw 101, professors can make any subject highly interactive. Thirteen faculty
members from a wide range of subjects used the room, each
differently.
“There are some stark commonalities: group work, getting
out in the classroom, generally technology. But it fits all of our
disciplines in different ways,” said history professor Kathleen
DuVal.
Tricia Sullivan, associate professor of public policy, did a
simulation of a national security situation in her peace, war and
knowledge produced by these Americans today
will carry our country’s legacy of innovation
forward and continue to help countless others
around the world. Their work is a testament to
American ingenuity.”
The National Medal of Science was created
by statute in 1959 and is administered for the
White House by the National Science Foundation. Awarded annually, the medal recognizes individuals who have made outstanding
contributions to science and engineering. The
president receives nominations from a committee of presidential appointees based on their
extraordinary knowledge in and contributions to
defense class. Divided into country teams, the students were
constantly in motion – negotiating treaties, planning strategies, getting information.
“That couldn’t have happened in the lecture hall,” Sullivan
said. “The students must be able to move around.”
Faculty members noticed real changes in the students and
themselves, they said. The flexibility of the classroom helped
them get to know their students better and faster. Being able to
approach any student via the center or side aisles even made it
easier to hand out papers, they said.
Survey research about the Greenlaw 101 project isn’t in
yet, but anecdotally the instructors agreed that attendance
was higher in their classes and that their students were more
engaged and more willing to talk in class. The students also got
to know one another better and didn’t seem to mind participating in group projects as much.
“Life is one great big uncomfortable group project, so we
THE POWER OF CONNECTION
PAYNE from page 5
housing operations.
When Payne arrived on campus in fall of
2000 as Carolina’s director of student housing,
he found himself on the cusp of what would
become the most prodigious period of building
growth in University history.
By fall of 2001, four new residence halls
were under construction on Manning Drive.
By spring of 2005, the Rams Head Center
opened along Kenan Stadium’s eastern flank
and quickly became a destination point where
students come together to eat, play, work out
or just hang out, Payne said.
“The idea, which was built into the campus master plan, was to no longer have some
parts of campus that were just residential
or academic or administrative,” Payne said.
“We wanted to knit the campus together
in such a way that there are now a mix of
uses everywhere.”
The final cornerstone of that strategy was
put into place in August of 2007 with the
opening of the SASB – Student and Academic
Services Buildings – at the corner of Manning
Drive and Ridge Road.
Payne looks back on those frenetic years
of construction as a testament to the many
people – from housekeepers to faculty – who
“have such passion and care for this place and
the students we serve.”
The spot on campus that captures that spirit
most powerfully for Payne is The Eve Marie
Carson Garden behind the Campus Y, he said.
Named for the student body president who
was murdered in 2008, the garden is intended
as a place of honor for all Carolina students, past and future, who pass away before
they graduate.
Payne said what inspires him about this
place is the inscription wall, made of Georgia
marble in honor of Carson’s home state. Chiseled in that stone is a quote from Carson that
Payne said he will forever remember:
“Learn from every single being, experience,
and moment. What joy it is to search for lessons and goodness and enthusiasm in others.”
Those words, Payne said, are a reminder
to the students that continue to arrive on this
campus and the impact they can make before
they leave.
“I think Carolina has an institutional climate
that draws individuals with passion for making
chemistry, engineering, computing, mathematics, and the biological, behavioral/social, and
physical sciences.
The National Medal of Technology and Innovation was created by statute in 1980 and is
administered for the White House by the U.S.
Department of Commerce’s Patent and Trademark Office. The award recognizes those who
have made lasting contributions to America’s
competitiveness and quality of life and helped
strengthen the nation’s technological workforce.
A distinguished independent committee representing the private and public sectors submits
recommendations to the president.
all have to learn how to do that,” said Lois Boynton, associate
professor in the School of Media and Journalism. “This is a safe
place to have that.”
Group project discussions were almost impossible in a traditional lecture hall, said chemistry lecturer Thomas Freeman.
Group members sat in the same row of fixed seats and the students on the ends were left out. By contrast, in Greenlaw 101
“all the students know each other and communicate in a way
that’s more natural,” he said.
“I love this place,” Boynton said.
So do all 13 faculty members who used it, since all have asked
to teach in Greenlaw 101 again. “The flexibility of the classroom allows for the kind of teaching I want to do,” Hubbard
said. “I can’t wait to work in here again next year. I’m already
retooling all of my stuff.”
a difference,” Payne said. “And that passion
is shared by our faculty and staff as well. We
share a deep commitment to listen to what our
students are telling us so that we can make the
changes that need to occur – not only on our
campus, but throughout the world.”
Home: Durham
Job: associate vice chancellor and senior
operating officer for Student Affairs
UNC employee since: 2000
Family: He and his wife, Coleen, attended
rival high schools in the same town, but met
– Susan Hudson, Gazette
two decades later, on Feb. 13, 1992, in Loveland, Colorado. They married a year later.
Their two children, Catie and Connor, grew
up competing in demonstration jump roping.
Catie earned a bronze medal at the world competition in Toronto, Canada.
What it meant to receive a Massey award:
“The award was very meaningful for me in the
sense that it acknowledges all the work that is
done by so many all across the organization on
behalf of our students,” Payne said. “This
award sheds a light on one individual, but it’s
much larger than that.”
– Gary Moss, Gazette
This story is one of a series featuring
2015 winners of the C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award. The late C. Knox
Massey of Durham created the awards in
1980 to recognize “unusual, meritorious
or superior contributions” by University
employees. The award is supported by the
Massey-Weatherspoon Fund created by
three generations of Massey and Weatherspoon families.
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NOBEL PRIZE
OFFERS
SANCAR
ANOTHER
CHANCE TO
GIVE BACK
A
ziz Sancar is donating $310,000 – his
entire share of the award money from
the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – to
advance another lifelong passion: helping students from his home country of Turkey feel at
home at Carolina.
Sancar, the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, left
Turkey to study as a graduate student at
the University of Texas, where he launched
his groundbreaking scientific research in
DNA repair in the early 1970s.
“The day I stepped off the airplane in Dallas, I
essentially saw the need for such houses on college campuses and promised myself to eventually
dedicate my resources to a project of this kind,”
Sancar said.
Sancar and his wife, Gwen – also a Carolina
professor – bought a house on Franklin Street
near downtown Chapel Hill to realize that dream.
The cultural center, named “Carolina Turk
Evi,” is owned by the Aziz and Gwen Sancar
Foundation and provides graduate housing for
Turkish researchers at Carolina as well as guest
services for Turkish visiting scholars. The foundation also seeks to promote a cultural exchange
between Turkey and the United States.
“I believe strongly that we are all more similar
than we are different,” Sancar said. “If we take the
time or have the opportunity to learn about one
another – to promote friendship and understanding – then we won’t have as many conflicts in our
personal lives or between nations.”
RESEA RC H BRIEFS
IMPROVEMENTS FOR NONFLAMMABLE
LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES
Carolina’s Joseph DeSimone and Nitash Balsara from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory revived industry and consumer confidence last year when they created the first prototype of a nonflammable lithium-ion battery. Now they have
made the nonflammable prototype even better, replacing the
liquid electrolyte with a liquid-solid hybrid that makes the battery more conductive and more resistant to damage.
The new work builds on the nonflammable material that
DeSimone and colleagues developed last year. In the new study,
that same material – called perfluoropolyether – was attached
to particles of glass to create a nonflammable film with high conductivity at room temperature. Read more at go.unc.edu/Cs4j9.
ORAL CHEMO STILL TOO EXPENSIVE,
STUDY FINDS
Access to expensive oral chemotherapy drugs will still be out
of reach for millions of Americans with Medicare coverage,
even when one of the most touted reforms in health care coverage takes place in 2020. The analysis, which assesses out-ofpocket health care costs for cancer patients after the Medicare
Part D doughnut hole (or coverage gap) closes, shows with
unprecedented clarity that the financial burden for prescription
drugs for many cancer patients will still be too high – in some
cases, up to one-third of their household budget.
Specifically, the out-of-pocket cost for a cancer patient
undergoing a year of oral chemotherapy covered under Medicare Part D ranged from $6,500 to $12,000 in 2010. When
the doughnut hole shrinks in 2020, the researchers project
that the average out-of-pocket cost will range from $3,900 to
$9,600, assuming drug prices do not change. Read more at
go.unc.edu/s3W6N.
SYMPTOM SURVEYS LINKED TO
BETTER CARE RESULTS
Systematic collection of cancer patients’ symptoms using
computer surveys was linked to less frequent emergency room
admissions, longer average chemotherapy adherence, greater
quality of life improvements, and improved survival, according
to a new randomized, controlled trial spearheaded by a UNC
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher.
A larger number of patients using the survey system experienced quality of life improvements, with improvements in 34
percent of patients compared to 18 percent of patients receiving usual care. The survey group also had fewer emergency
room visits, with 34 percent visiting the ER compared to 41
percent receiving usual care. They remained on chemotherapy
longer at an average of 8.2 months compared to 6.3 months.
They also saw survival benefits: 75 percent of patients using
the surveys were alive after one year, compared to 69 percent
of those receiving usual care. Read more at go.unc.edu/c2F4K.
FALSE-POSITIVE MAMMOGRAMS
MAY INDICATE FUTURE RISK
Women with a history of a false-positive mammogram results
may be at increased risk of developing breast cancer for up to
10 years after the false-positive result, according to a study led by
a researcher with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
In the United States, 67 percent of women ages 40 and older
undergo screening mammography every one to two years.
Prior studies have shown that about 16 percent of first mammograms and 10 percent of subsequent mammograms will generate a false-positive result. Read more at go.unc.edu/g8F9Ws.
GLOBAL DIET GETS SWEETER
Researchers at Carolina show that the global diet is getting
sweeter, particularly when it comes to beverages – and some
regions are faring better than others. Work published in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology reveals that in low- and middleincome countries, sugar consumption is rising fastest, but that
it is declining in high-income regions such as North America.
Previous research has shown that consuming foods and beverages with added caloric sweeteners is linked to an increased
risk of weight gain, heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Currently,
68 percent of packaged foods and beverages in the United States
contain caloric sweeteners, 74 percent include both caloric and
low-calorie sweeteners, and just 5 percent are made with lowcalorie sweeteners only. Read more at go.unc.edu/Ao2x9.
U n ive rsity Gaze t t e
A look back at 2015
For Carolina, 2015 was a year of tragedy and triumph that began with the shooting deaths of three Muslim
students and ended with Aziz Sancar receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Here’s a look back at some
of the issues and events that shaped the year.
Sometimes tragedy brings out the best in people. At a Feb. 11 vigil in the Pit for
three students slain the night before, community leaders, friends and family members expressed that hope for Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha.
“We have seen an outpouring of love, not just in our own community, region
and state, but across the world – people who want to affirm that we do not have to
feel alone at this moment,” said Chancellor Carol L. Folt. “These were such amazing people, sensitive, generous. From what I hear, their main interest was saving the
world. We want the legacy of these three wonderful students to be a legacy of hope
and understanding.”
That hope turned to action on Sept. 17 for DEAH Day, when more than
350 School of Dentistry students spread out across the Triangle to do volunteer service in honor of their classmates Deah Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha.
Students grieve during the Feb. 11 vigil in the Pit.
BR ANDON BIELT Z
‘A legacy of hope and understanding’
Exploring the issues of race and inclusion
The University Board of Trustees began the year studying the narrow question of whether to rename Saunders Hall – a discussion that over the course of the year
expanded into a much broader conversation encompassing both Carolina’s own troublesome racial history and
the ongoing struggle for inclusion and acceptance that
African-American students face today on college campuses across the country. The issues of race and inclusion
were the focal point of a Nov. 19 town hall meeting that
Chancellor Carol L. Folt quickly responded to with seven
initiatives affirming her determination to create the kind
of community where “all feel welcome, respected and free
to pursue their dreams and goals and become their best
and truest selves.”
Meanwhile, a task force on Carolina history continues its
work curating materials that will be used to teach a full and
accurate history of the campus, including historical markers
and exhibits. Trustees created the task force in May after
voting to rename Saunders Hall to Carolina Hall. Trustees
said the renaming was necessary to correct the “error” that
University trustees made in 1920 when they recognized
William L. Saunders’ leadership in the Ku Klux Klan as a
qualification for naming a building in his honor.
The Nov. 19 town hall on race and inclusion drew nearly
900 people to Memorial Hall.
MEL ANIE BUSBEE
8 January 13, 2016 MEL ANIE BUSBEE
Carolina continues ascent
as global research powerhouse
In the wake of Wainstein
In the 14 months since the October 2014 announcement of the results of an independent investigation into
past academic irregularities conducted by former federal
prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein, the University has continued to take pro-active steps to address the findings and
respond to actions the NCAA and its regional accrediting
body took in light of the new information revealed in the
Wainstein report.
In June, the Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) notified
Carolina that it would be placed on probation for one
year because of past academic irregularities. The same
month, the University received a notice of allegations
Carolina continued its decade-long rise as one of the world’s top universities for sponsored research,
climbing to eighth nationally among private and public research institutions in overall research and
development expenditures and sixth nationally in federal research and development spending.
Meanwhile, physics professor Laura Mersini-Houghton’s provocative questioning of the existence of black holes spurred an August conference in Stockholm where the best minds – including
Stephen Hawking – gathered to debate it.
Two months later, Aziz Sancar received the call from Stockholm telling him he had won with
two others the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The expanding reach of Carolina’s research
around the world could be measured in other ways, including its impact fighting diseases such as
AIDS through longstanding programs such as MEASURE Evaluation at the Carolina Population
Center, or through new partnerships such as the one entered into in May with GlaxoSmithKline
to accelerate the search for finding a cure for HIV/AIDS.
Aziz Sancar speaks with Chancellor Carol L. Folt following the Oct. 7 news conference celebrating his
2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
from the NCAA as the next phase in its investigation of
academic irregularities and possible bylaw infractions.
After responding to the NCAA’s notice of allegations
in the summer, the University continues to await the
NCAA’s findings.
In October, a 10-person team of campus leaders did
something no other university had done before: document
and assess all academic processes that affect student-athletes
from the time they are recruited until they graduate.
Finally, in November, the University completed personnel reviews for the six of the nine employees named in the
Wainstein investigation. In doing so, the University ended
the employment of two additional individuals, permanently restricted one faculty member from future administrative responsibilities and cleared three other employees.
To learn more, go to carolinacommitment.unc.edu.
Information on the reforms to ensure academic irregularities do not happen again is available at the Carolina Commitment website at carolinacommitment.unc.edu
MEL ANIE BUSBEE
A year of dramatic change for the UNC BOG
Rarely has the UNC Board of Governors experienced a year like this one. It began in January when
it announced UNC President Tom Ross would be stepping down at the end of the year while the board
launched a national search for his successor. In February, the BOG completed its months-long review of
240 centers and institutes across the UNC system and voted to close three, including Carolina’s Center on
Poverty, Work and Opportunity.
In October, the BOG elected former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (left) as Ross’s successor. Three days later, embattled BOG chair John Fennesbresque resigned, saying in a statement it “was time
for a fresh start.”
In December, the BOG elected Vice Chair W. Louis Bissette Jr. to lead the board as chair through June 30.
Spellings begins her new job as president March 1.
In December, Boston Consulting Group was hired to conduct an eight-week study of the UNC General
Administration that will be completed before Spellings begins her new job on March 1.
To read more about these issues, go to gazette.unc.edu.
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10 U niv ersity Gazet t e
In remembrance: some of the special people we lost in 2015
JONATHAN BROOME
HOWES was twice elected
BRANTLEY
AYCOCK
CONTRIBUTED
as a fiery champion of the
University’s freedom and
integrity. He struck back
with fervor, and not without political risk, at the
Speaker Ban Law that the
General Assembly enacted
in 1963 to prevent Communist speakers on campus. He
died in June. He was 99.
the mayor of Chapel Hill, but
in the eyes of his friends and
colleagues, he was the unofficial mayor of the Carolina
campus he loved too much
to ever really leave. Throughout a multi-faceted career
that spanned five decades
and all levels of government,
he was the epitome of a public servant. Howes died May
31. He was 78.
DAN SEARS
His turn as chancellor, from 1957 to 1964,
established W I L L I A M
CONTRIBUTED
and, for their players, forged an unbreakable
bond that seemed more like family.
Smith was the head coach of the Tar Heels
from 1961 to 1997, retiring as the winningest
coach in college basketball. He passed away
peacefully at his home in Chapel Hill on
Feb. 7 at the age of 83. Guthridge joined
Smith’s coaching staff in 1967 and stayed with
Smith the next 30 years before replacing him
as head coach in 1998. Guthridge died May 12
at the age of 77.
Over the span of four decades, the two men
led the Tar Heels to national championships in
1982 and 1993, to 13 ACC Tournament titles,
11 Final Fours, and an NIT championship, and
directed the United States Olympic Team to a
gold medal at the 1976 Summer Games.
As a boy growing up in Statesville,
WILLIAM STEVENS
POWELL shared courthouse benches with Civil
War veterans, listening to their stories. That
fascination with history
continued the rest of his
life – a fascination not so
much with dates as with
the people and political
forces that shaped their
times. The historian and
former librarian of the
North Carolina Collection
in Wilson Library died
April 10 at the age of 95.
CONTRIBUTED
For the sportsobsessed American
in the mid-1990s,
ESPN’s SportsCenter was the place
to go to catch the
day’s scores and
news. And on this
stage, S T U A R T
SCOTT stole the
show, carving out
with a wink and a
smile and a single
word – “boo-ya” –
his own inimitable
style. He died of
cancer on Jan. 4.
He was 49.
ESPN
CONTRIBUTED
Together, D E A N S M I T H and B I L L
GUTHRIDGE built a dynasty for the ages,
APPLIED PHYSICAL SCIENCES from page 1
Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics.
Mathematics, Forest said, is essential to understanding the
effect of cilia and air movement on mucus flow and the impact
of inhaled particles and pathogens on mucus. “Lung health is
essentially a race,” he said. “One must understand these properties of mucus to judge the outcome of this race and to explore
the extent to which drugs and physical therapies can steer the
outcome of the race.”
Another key member of the team and a department affiliate
is Rich Superfine, Taylor-Williams Distinguished Professor of
physics and astronomy. Superfine leads a National Institutes
of Health center that studies the biological physics of forces in
single molecules, cells and physiological phenomena including
cancer, blood clotting and mucus clearance. Collaborators in
his center include faculty from pharmacy, biology, mathematics
and computer science.
Faculty affiliate Otto Zhou, David Godschalk Distinguished
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, works with physicists,
physicians and biomedical engineers to develop medical imaging devices using the nanotube X-ray technology he invented.
The list of faculty affiliates also includes Joseph DeSimone,
Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry, UNC, and
William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical
DAN SEARS
On this professional bedrock, Samulski is building a department that currently offers master’s degrees and doctorates in
material sciences and will offer a new undergraduate major.
The University has shown its commitment to this highly collaborative way of putting research into use with funding for up to
20 new faculty members over the next decade and a dedicated
creator space in Murray Hall for testing applications.
“Our mission is to create and translate scientific research into
practical application, taking ideas to impacts,” Samulski said.
The idea of applying pure science to real-world situations
is not a new one, especially here at Carolina. The University
is well known for researchers who take scientific concepts
and adapt them, often in partnership with colleagues in other
disciplines, to solve real-world problems. Many of them have
already launched spinout companies based on the applications
of their research.
“One of the most pressing challenges now is to make sure the
outside world knows about this,” Samulski said. “We want top
scientists around the country to hear about what we are trying
to do here, and we want some of them to get so excited about
what we are doing that they come join us.”
Solar energy is the focus of several faculty affiliates of the
applied physical sciences department. Warren, for example,
uses nanomaterials only a few atoms thick to build solar cells
and smart windows that change color depending on the time of
day or year. Wei You, associate professor of chemistry, is working with other chemists and physicists to develop flexible, lightweight polymer solar cells to replace brittle, expensive silicon
solar cells.
Affiliate faculty member Thomas J. Meyer, Arey Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and director of the UNC
Energy Frontier Research Center, and his colleagues developed
an artificial photosynthesis process that converts sunlight into
storable, low-cost and efficient solar fuels.
In addition to Klotsa’s work on nanoparticles and drug delivery, faculty affiliates with the applied physical sciences department are developing products to improve health.
The interdisciplinary team behind the 15-year-old Virtual
Lung Project in the Marsico Lung Institute focuses on solving lung disease, particularly cystic fibrosis. One member of
that team is mathematician M. Gregory Forest, Grant Dahlstrom Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Biomedical Engineering and director of the Carolina Center for
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DAN SEARS
January 13, 2016 Top right, APS Chair Ed Samulski (left) in chemistry and APS affiliate Rich Superfine in
physics and astronomy are part of Carolina’s collaboration culture. Right, Scott Warren
(holding test tube) has joint appointments in APS and chemistry. Above, this image from
Daphne Klotsa illustrates an experiment and simulation of a robot in a vibrating fluid.
Engineering, N.C. State. DeSimone’s accomplishments
range widely, from a new 3-D printing process to inhaled
therapeutics.
Affiliate Nancy Allbritton leads her own strong team of collaborators as chair of the UNC/NCSU Joint Department of
Biomedical Engineering. She is also Kenan Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Debreczeny Distinguished Professor and
director of the Curriculum of Applied Science and Engineering.
Faculty affiliates have also used nanotechnology to target
drug treatments for cancer, developed improved lab-on-a-chip
technologies (miniature devices that can perform lab analyses
on-site) for clinical diagnostics and environmental monitoring,
and explored ways to remove kidney stones and tumors without surgery.
As the department’s first faculty member, Klotsa also wants
to make her mark. In addition to “cooperative nanoparticles,”
she envisions “swarms of robots used for rescue and deepocean exploration and synthetic smart materials that adapt,
self-heal and regenerate.”
That’s how the applied physical sciences faculty member
plans to apply her study of the birds and the bees.
– Susan Hudson, Gazette
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Calendar
UPCOMING
EVENTS
GLOBAL PROJECTS SHOWCASE
Want to travel next summer? Looking to fund your global
project? Enjoy a showcase of students’ research, experiences
and travel stories from a variety of fields and global destinations
at the Global Projects Showcase on Jan. 14 in FedEx Global
Education Center room 3009. Learn more about past international summer projects the Center for Global Initiatives has
funded from the students themselves. Lunch will be provided.
go.unc.edu/m8JQj
ALL-CAROLINA INVITATIONAL
MALE CHORAL FESTIVAL
The UNC Men’s Glee Club, directed by Dan Huff, clinical
associate professor of music, will join male high-school choristers from around the state in the closing concert of the All-Carolina Invitational Male Choral Festival. The Jan. 16 concert will
begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Kenan Music Building. General admission tickets ($5) will be available at the door. 919-962-1039
‘STATES OF MARRIAGE’
Emily Burrill, associate professor in the Department of
Women’s and Gender Studies, will be at Bull’s Head Bookshop
on Jan. 20 at 3:30 p.m. to share from her new book, “States of
Marriage: Gender, Justice and Rights in Colonial Mali.” The
book shows how the institution of marriage played a central
role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges in the
French colony of Sudan (present-day Mali). 919-962-5066
‘HOW TO AVOID THE
SUPERWOMAN COMPLEX’
Nicole Swiner, a wife, mother of two and family doctor, will
be at Bull’s Head Bookshop on Jan. 22 at 2 p.m. to share from
her book “How to Avoid the Superwoman Complex: 12 Ways
to Balance Mind, Body and Spirit.” Through this insightful and
sometimes humorous guide, Swiner helps banish the notion
that a woman has to be “Superwoman” for her life to matter.
go.unc.edu/g2Z5P.
LECTURE BY GERMAN ROMANTIC MUSIC
SCHOLAR LAURA TUNBRIDGE
Laura Tunbridge of Oxford University will give a lecture
Jan. 22 as part of the Department of Music’s Carolina Symposia in Music and Culture. The lecture will begin at 4:15 p.m. in
Person Hall. A scholar of German Romantic music, Tunbridge
is the author of “Schumann’s Late Style,” co-editor of “Rethinking Schuman” and current editor of the Journal of the Royal
Musical Association. 919-962-1039
LECTURE BY ART HISTORIAN KATE FLINT
Kate Flint, Allen W. Clowes Fellow at the National Humanities Center, will discuss ordinariness, the everyday and the
overlooked with the internationalism of art in the 19th century
at a lecture on Jan. 21 at 5:30 p.m., following a reception at
5:15 p.m. The location is Hamilton Hall room 569. Flint,
provost professor of art history and English at the University
of Southern California, wrote “Flash! Photography, Writing and Surprising Illumination.” For information, email
dsherman@email.unc.edu.
‘VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES’
A festival of three new works written by local playwrights and
focused on veterans and their families will continue at Carolina
through Jan. 23. The performances will be directed by Joseph
Megel, artist in residence in the Department of Communication and the director of the UNC Process Series. All performances will take place in Swain Hall, Studio 6. Tickets can be
reserved through the Carolina Union. A three-day pass is $10,
with individual performance tickets for $5. Veterans get in free.
Each performance will conclude with a “talk-back” with the creative team as well as volunteers from student veterans’ groups.
“Downrange: Voices from the Homefront,” about the impact of
deployment on military families based on interviews, will be read
Jan. 14. “Silhouettes of Service,” a new documentary theater piece
that illuminates the true stories of soldiers from the shadows of
World War II to current cadets, will be staged Jan. 15, 16 and 18.
“An Loc,” a fictional account based on the true story of the
screenwriter’s father’s military service during the battle of An Loc
late in the Vietnam War, will be read Jan. 17, 22 and 23.
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Amy Locklear Hertel, director of the American Indian
Center, will moderate a Jan. 25 forum on “What’s in a
Name? Moral and Historical Considerations of Naming
You had me at ‘cello’
Exhibit of work by Matthew Rangel
CELLO MUSIC OF
MENDELSSOHN
An opening reception for “Linear Referencing,” an exhibit of artist Matthew Rangel’s prints, will be held
Jan. 26 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Hanes Art Center John and June Allcott Gallery. On the following afternoon,
from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., Rangel will demonstrate how to make prints in the John Henry Print Studio, Hanes
Art Center 301. The San Joaquin Valley of California where he grew up played a significant role in Rangel’s
creative inquiry of how human constructs of land shape his embodiment of place. The exhibit will continue
through Feb. 18. go.unc.edu/e9N7A.
A Jan. 15 faculty recital
features cello professor Brent
Wissick performing Mendelssohn cello music. He will
be accompanied by guest artist Andrew Willis of UNCGreensboro on the music
department’s 1842 Pleyel
fortepiano. The free public
concert begins at 8 p.m. in
Person Hall. Free and open
to the public. 919-962-1039
GUEST ARTIST
RECITAL: TIMOTHY
HOLLEY, CELLO
Timothy Holley, associate
professor of music at North
Carolina Central University, will present a free public recital of solo cello music
Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Person
Hall. 919-962-1039
Detail from Linear Referencing, 2015, courtesy of the artist.
January 13, 2016 ‘Absolute Authenticity’
PRC presents Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’
At the next event in the Art History Colloquium series, associate professor Victoria L.
Rovine will share her research on “Absolute Authenticity: the Display of West African Artists and Textiles at France’s Colonial Expositions.” The Jan. 15 talk begins at 12:20 p.m.
in the Hyde Hall Incubator room. Refreshments will be provided. Rovine has conducted
research in Mali since the early 1990s and has also worked in Senegal, South Africa
and Ghana. Her research
explores the innovations
of African designers, the
changing roles and meanings of historical dress styles
in Africa, and the influences
of African style on European fashion design, past
and present.
PlayMakers Repertory Company will present a new interpretation of the Anton
Chekhov classic “Three Sisters,” a play in which sisters Olga, Masha and Irina yearn for
Moscow, the sparkling city of their childhood, while languishing in a faraway provincial town. The new version was written
by Libby Appel, director of “Vanya and
Sonia and Masha and Spike,” and will be
directed by PlayMakers’ new producing
artistic director, Vivienne Benesch. Performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Tuesdays through Saturdays Jan. 20–
Feb. 7, with 2 p.m. matinees Sundays
and Jan. 30. Benesch will also host “The
Vision Series,” a behind-the-scenes preview on Jan. 13 at 6:30 p.m. This event is
free, but space is limited. Please RSVP to
the PlayMakers box office. 919-962-7529
Photo to promote a French
colonial exhibition.
AWARDS DEADLINES
partnership. Submit a two-paragraph nomination online at
go.unc.edu/Er38B.
Feb. 3 – Nominations for the Robert E. Bryan Public
Service Award. Five Bryan Awards will be given to an
undergraduate, graduate student, faculty member, staff
member and student organization for a specific effort
exemplifying outstanding engagement and service to
North Carolina. Submit a two-paragraph nomination
online at go.unc.edu/Er38B.
Feb. 5 – Nominations for the 2016 C. Knox Massey
Distinguished Service Awards. The awards ($7,500 each)
honor six recipients for “unusual, meritorious or superior contribution made by an employee, past or present.”
Submit nominations online at go.unc.edu/z9YHx or
contact Carolyn Atkins at 919-962-1536.
Feb. 3 – Nominations for the Office of the Provost
Engaged Scholarship Award. Three Provost awards
will be given for engaged teaching, research and
Feb. 8 – Applications for the Community Engagement Fellowship program. Up to five fellowships
of up to $2,000 go to full-time graduate students to
University Facilities.” The discussion will begin at 6 p.m.
in Hyde Hall’s University room. Expert panelists include
Al Brophy, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor
of Law; Fitz Brundage, William B. Umstead Professor of
History and Department of History chair; Cecelia Moore,
University historian and adviser to the Task Force on UNCChapel Hill History; and Ted Shaw, Julius L. Chambers
Distinguished Professor of Law and director of UNC’s
Center for Civil Rights.
NC ETHICS BOWL
Cheer for ethics at the daylong Jan. 23 North Carolina High
School Ethics Bowl. The competition will begin at 8 a.m. and
end at 6 p.m. on campus. The ethics bowl brings together high
school students from across three states for a day of intensive discussion about pressing ethical issues. If you would like
to participate as a volunteer or judge, please email Jeff Sebo,
jeffsebo@email.unc.edu.
‘UNDRESSING BEETHOVEN:
BEYOND THE CANON’
UNC music faculty Nicholas DiEugenio (violin) and
Mimi Soloman (piano) will present a Jan. 24 concert called
“Undressing Beethoven: Beyond the Canon Beethoven” as part
of the Department of Music’s William S. Newman Artists Series.
The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in the Kenan Music Building.
Individual tickets ($15 general admission; $10 students and
UNC faculty/staff) are available at the door. 919-962-1039
‘THE RAILROAD PHOTOGRAPHY
OF JACK DELANO’
Tony Reevy, senior associate director of the Institute for
the Environment, will read from his new book, “The Railroad Photography of Jack Delano,” at Bull’s Head Bookshop
Jan. 26 at 3:30 p.m. This remarkable collection features
Delano’s photographs of railroad operations and workers
taken in the winter of 1942-43 and during a cross-country
journey on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, plus
an extensive selection of his groundbreaking color images.
Call 919-962-5060 for more details.
DEADLINES TO WATCH
Jan. 15 – Last day for early bird rate for the 2016 NC Clean
Tech Summit, to be held Feb. 18-19 at the Friday Center.
This year’s event will feature a number of experts, stakeholders and industry leaders offering their perspectives on
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develop and implement projects that employ innovative, sustainable approaches to complex social needs
and have an academic connection. Apply online at
go.unc.edu/Er38B.
Feb. 12 – Nominations for 2016 University Awards for
the Advancement of Women. Four awards will be given
to a faculty member ($5,000), staff member ($5,000) and
two students ($2,500 each) of any gender who promote
the advancement of women at Carolina. Submit nominations (750 words) online at go.unc.edu/Re7k4. Submit
up to two letters of support.
success stories from the clean tech industry and the challenges ahead. ie.unc.edu/cleantech
May 1 – Cutoff for registration for the 2016 National Early
Childhood Inclusion Institute, to be held May 10-12 at the
Friday Center. The event will include dozens of groundbreaking sessions and workshops on these topics: challenging behavior, expulsion and suspension, dual-language
learners, friendships, learning in outdoor environments, individualizing for each child, supporting children with autism
in inclusive environments. All registrants also will get free
access to eight online Connect Courses on Inclusion. Last
year, the popular three-day conference sold out months in
advance. go.unc.edu/g8W9J
CALENDAR SUBMISSIONS
Next issue includes events from Jan. 28 to Feb. 10.
Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m., Mon., Nov. Jan. 18.
Email gazette@unc.edu. The Gazette events page
includes only items of general interest geared toward
a broad audience. For complete listings of events,
see the Carolina Events Calendars at events.unc.edu.
U niv ersity Gazet t e
Clockwise from top right: Kristen
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Simbeck spars at the end of a contact
session at the Eddie Smith Field House;
the sun breaks through at Carolina’s May
2015 Commencement; Air Force Cadet
3rd Class Vincent Lewis performs “Taps”
at Polk Place on the morning of Sept. 11,
2015; and the Carolina Helping Paws
Puppy Kissing Booth sets up in the Pit
with proceeds from photos taken going
to local animal rescue organizations.
2015
in
photos
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DAN SEARS
From graduation and the Nobel Prize
to groundbreaking research partnerships and championships, 2015 marked
another memorable year at Carolina.
Take a look back at what the Carolina
was up to this year with some of our
favorite photos and the biggest stories
from UNC.edu at go.unc.edu/b4ZYq.
MEL ANIE BUSBEE
14 Top 15 videos of 2015
We’ve balanced on roofs, attached cameras
to skateboards and Rameses, and captured
images of everything from our two Nobel laureates to our 2015 Carolina graduates. We’ve
dodged paint, dunked underwater, climbed
to the cupola of South Building – and had a
great time telling Carolina’s stories.
Take another look at 2015’s top 15
most popular produced videos, as counted
by the Carolina YouTube channel and Facebook page:
1 Remembering Coach Dean Smith
2 Snowy week in Chapel Hill
3 Carolina’s Dr. Aziz Sancar Wins 2015
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
4 Volunteering to honor a legacy through
DEAH Day
5 A Day in the Life: Rameses the Carolina
Mascot (left)
6 First day, first sip
7 Turning tassels at Carolina
8 Chance to recharge
9 Underwater hockey
10 A Day in the Life: Daily Tar Heel Editor
Jenny Surane
11 Thousands remember Coach Smith
12 Carolina remembers 9/11
13 Carolina pregame rituals
14 Carolina in bloom
15 A Day in the Life: ROTC Cadet
Jordan Sawyers
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ON T HE WEB
LOOKING BACK
BEYOND THE ‘DREAM’
After ringing in 2016, are you wondering what happened 100 years
ago? See the news from 1916. Golfers may be interested to learn
that the first PGA tournament was on Jan. 17, 1916.
On Jan. 18, the nation honors civil rights leader Martin Luther
King Jr. Find out more about this fascinating man in words,
photos and videos.
go.unc.edu/Ey4s2
go.unc.edu/Lg9b7
STALKING AWARENESS
LOOKING AHEAD
Gov. Pat McCrory declared January Stalking Awareness Month in
North Carolina, a national observance launched in 2004 in support of the 7.5 million people stalked each year.
Tar Heel students share their plans to study more and procrastinate less in 2016.
go.unc.edu/j3JQi
go.unc.edu/y7NBb
LOOKING WAY AHEAD
STICK TO IT
Besides the presidential election, what else will (or may) happen in 2016? Get a high-tech perspective of the coming year
and beyond.
Have you already broken your New Year’s resolution? Momentary failure is not as important as getting back on track. Find
other tips for making positive changes here.
go.unc.edu/x3B9H
BOND from page 1
medical education building.
“North Carolina’s future as a healthy,
vibrant state demands that we train more
physicians and health care professionals to
care for our growing, aging and longer-living
population,” Carolina Chancellor Carol L.
Folt said. “The Connect NC Bond would
invest in critical facilities at UNC’s School of
Medicine that will increase Carolina’s ability
to save lives and make a meaningful impact in
ROGER W. WINSTEAD
Almost two-thirds of the bond would go
to support higher education. The UNC system would receive $980 million to build and
repair facilities to prepare students for highdemand fields that are critical for driving
North Carolina’s economy. Carolina’s share
of the bond would be $68 million for a new
go.unc.edu/Yd3o4
At the Connect NC campaign kickoff, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, left, reaches over North Carolina State University Chancellor Randy Woodson to shake the hand of state Senate Minority Leader
Dan Blue, a Democrat.
all 100 counties of our state.”
NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson,
who opened the event, said his campus would
receive $75 million for a new engineering
building, along with $85 million for the Plant
Sciences Initiative Complex to establish
North Carolina as a world leader in plant sciences research.
“There is an old saying that if you don’t
keep moving eventually you will get run over,”
Woodson said. “The Connect NC bond will
keep North Carolina moving.”
In total, the 17 UNC system campuses
would receive a total of $980 million, with
another $350 million slated to modernize
facilities within the 58-member community
college system.
As former NC Supreme Court Justice Bob
Orr, the co-chair of the Connect NC Committee pointed out, the bond was designed to meet
a wide-ranging set of needs, with projects that
would support 76 of the state’s 100 counties.
The bond would provide a total of $75 million to update facilities at 45 state parks, along
with $25 million to upgrade support facilities,
trails and exhibits at the North Carolina Zoo
in Asheboro, Orr said.
The bond would also invest $309.5 million
in statewide water and sewer loans and grants
to meet the demands of a growing population,
and another $79 million in construction for
National Guard Regional Readiness Centers
in Burke, Guilford and Wilkes counties.
Jim Rose, the regional president of the
Yadkin Bank in Raleigh, who serves on the
five-member Connect NC working committee, said folks had questioned him about why
they should support the bond because they
did not see anything in it that would directly
benefit them.
Rose concluded by asking people to raise
their hands – “and keep them up” – if they or
a member of their family had attended a UNC
system institution. More than half the audience members raised their hands.
He then asked people to raise their hands if
they or a family member had attended a community college campus. More hands shot up.
“And how many of you were around in
the 1990s to witness National Guard members respond to Hurricane Fran or Hurricane
Floyd?” he asked.
By then, just about all hands were raised, but
Rose asked one final question to emphasize
just how far-reaching the impact of this bond
could be.
“How many of you have ever drunk water
from a water fountain?”
By then, all hands in the room were raised.
– Gary Moss, University Gazette
On Jan. 27, the Gazette
begins a three-part series
looking at how a new medical school building could help
the state meet its growing
demand for doctors.
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Harvesting a new landscape
As the person who oversees open-space projects on campus, Coleman said she provides
the context about University processes and
helps Auerbach navigate approvals and find the
best people to work with. Both women say the
expertise of the Grounds Services staff and their
willingness to try new things has been invaluable as the Edible Campus takes shape.
“The people in grounds do all our plantings
on campus, so they are incredibly knowledgeable about what does well and what should be
planted in light of the micro-climate of a given
area,” Coleman said. “In some cases, we’re trying something completely new, such as a vegetable that only lives one season. With Emily’s
work early on to identify possible locations for
plantings, the grounds workers’ understanding of what might work best in different places
and my experience in developing campus open
spaces, we truly have worked as a team.”
Durability and appearance are key. For
instance, persimmon trees and blueberry
bushes are favorites because they are low maintenance and incredibly hardy. They retain an
attractive shape even when they aren’t bearing
fruit, Auerbach said, so they can be harvested
without diminishing their appearance. Carrots wouldn’t be planted on campus because
harvesting them would leave an unsightly hole
in the ground, whereas a Jerusalem artichoke
could work well in certain locations because it
looks much like a lovely sunflower – and has a
fruit similar to an artichoke.
“UNC has a high level of aesthetic beauty
in its plantings, and we want to try to heighten
that, not take away from it,” Auerbach said.
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
ROBERT MORRIS GRIFFIN GOURLEY
On Nov. 21, an army of campus and community volunteers turned out for the first
planting day. Eighty-one people, including eight from Grounds Services,
worked at five sites across campus to
get more than 300 plants and trees
in the ground.
Herbs and salad greens were
planted in raised beds by Lenoir
Volunteers worked together on Nov. 21, 2015, to plant a persimmon tree (top right
corner) and Swiss chard (above) as part of Carolina’s Edible Campus. At right, a
13-month-old boy helps with planting.
ROBERT MORRIS GRIFFIN GOURLEY
COMPLEMENTARY SKILL-SETS
ROBERT MORRIS GRIFFIN GOURLEY
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ou are what you eat – that’s what
Mom always said to nudge us into
making healthy food choices. Now
Mom has a new ally: The Carolina campus
itself is providing an innovative way to encourage people to eat healthily.
The concept, known as edible landscaping,
mixes food-producing and ornamental plants
in the natural landscape. At Carolina, fruit and
nut trees, fragrant berry bushes and colorful
herbs and vegetables are taking root alongside
majestic oak trees and brightly colored dogwoods and azaleas. The idea is both to allow
people to grab a healthy snack as they walk
through campus and to increase their overall
awareness about food sources.
While edible landscapes are becoming more
popular in home and community gardening,
the idea hasn’t really caught on at universities
– until now.
The Edible Campus is the brainchild of
Emily Auerbach, who graduated from UNC
last spring with a major in environmental sciences and now is serving as a Chancellor’s
Fellow, expressly to help bring this idea to
fruition. Her goal is to make Carolina the first
public university in the country where edible
and medicinal plants are integrated into landscapes throughout campus.
“The basic concept is incredibly simple,”
she said. “An institution like UNC puts a lot of
thought, effort, time and money into creating
such an iconic landscape. There is no reason
these beautiful surroundings can’t be educational as well. There are so many ways we can
bring our landscapes to life.”
The concept may be simple, but turning
it into reality is the result of a broad campus
effort that began at the top with Chancellor
Carol L. Folt’s staunch support. From there,
Auerbach connected with top administrators
in Finance and Administration, the division
that oversees campus planning and operations.
Vice Chancellor Matt Fajack and Associate
Vice Chancellor for Facilities Services Anna
Wu asked Jill Coleman, the University’s landscape architect, to work with Auerbach to put
her plan in action.
Hall and between Lenoir and Davis Library,
and rainbow chard now circles an existing
Japanese maple between Woollen and Fetzer
gyms. With the guidance of University Forest
Manager Tom Bythell, the group planted fruit
and nut trees along Stadium Drive. Blueberry
bushes went in west of Rams Head Dining
Hall, and blueberries and persimmons now
grow along the wall between Student and Academic Services Building and Morrison Residence Hall.
Future plans call for developing a hub
beside Davis Library, which Auerbach envisions as a one-stop shop for working landscape education, a place to hold workshops
and events and the site of a demonstration
garden. Coleman said the team was working
on a design for the demonstration garden,
intended to show how edible plants can be
both functional and beautiful.
Experiencing the landscape is a fundamental part of the Edible Campus, Coleman said.
“This ties in directly with the Chancellor’s
interest in interactive landscapes, where a
landscape isn’t just lovely, it also provides a
way for people to experience it,” she said.
In addition to the Chancellor’s Office and
departments within Finance and Administration, other Edible Campus partners include
the Curriculum for the Environment and
Ecology, Davis Library, the Carolina Campus
Community Garden (which will receive all
excess produce for distribution to low-paid
UNC employees), the N.C. Botanical Garden,
the Carolina Center for Public Service, the
Department of Housing and Residential Education, Student Government’s Environmental
Affairs Committee and the N.C. Cooperative
Extension Master Gardener Program.
Auerbach gives much of the credit for the
project’s early success to her partners, particularly the guidance and expertise of Coleman and the Grounds Services staff. In turn,
Coleman describes Auerbach as extraordinary.
“She is focused and creative, she has great
ideas and she communicates incredibly well,”
Coleman said of her young partner.
As it happens, the campus-wide academic
theme for 2015–17 is “Food for All: Local and
Global Perspectives.” Auerbach hopes to partner with the steering committee to establish
the Davis Library Edible Garden as a physical
legacy of the “Food for All” theme. “The garden
can serve as a lasting symbol of UNC-Chapel
Hill’s commitment to leadership in sustainable
food system education,” she explained.
Her ultimate goal for the Edible Campus
is to help people understand how easily they
can make a change in their lives. “If someone
looks at an edible landscape, they might decide
to plant something in their windowsill or volunteer in a community garden or donate to a
food shelter,” Auerbach said.
“Ultimately, I want to make food awareness
an integral part of people’s lives.”
To learn more about the Edible Campus, including a map showing the location of
edible plants around campus, visit
gazette.unc.edu.
– Patty Courtright,
Finance and Administration