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College of Arts & Sciences• Karen M. Gil, Dean• William Andrews ’70 MA, ’73 PhD Senior Associate Dean, Fine Arts and Humanities• Michael Crimmins Senior Associate Dean, Natural Sciences• Jonathan Hartlyn Senior Associate Dean, Social Sciences, International Programs• Tammy McHale Senior Associate Dean, Finance and Operations• James W. May Senior Associate Dean, Program Development; Executive Director, Arts & Sciences Foundation• Bobbi Owen Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education

Arts & Sciences FoundationBoard of Directors• James L. Alexandre ’79, Haverford, PA, Chair• Vicki Underwood Craver ’92, Riverside, CT, Vice Chair• Karen M. Gil, Chapel Hill, NC, President• William L. Andrews, ‘70 MA, ‘73 PhD, Chapel Hill, NC, Vice President• Tammy J. McHale, Chapel Hill, NC, Treasurer• James W. May, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC, Secretary• D. Shoffner Allison ’98, Charlotte, NC• Ivan V. Anderson, Jr. ’61, Charleston, SC• R. Frank Andrews ’90, ’95 MBA, Washington, DC• Valerie Ashby ’88, ’94 PhD, Chapel Hill, NC• Constance Y. Battle ’77, Raleigh, NC• Laura Hobby Beckworth ’80, Houston, TX• William S. Brenizer ’74, Glen Head, NY• Cathy Bryson ’90, Santa Monica, CA• R. Duke Buchan III ’85, Amenia, NY• Jeffrey Forbes Buckalew ’88, ’93 MBA, New York, NY• Sunny H. Burrows ’84, Atlanta, GA• G. Munroe Cobey ’74, Chapel Hill, NC• Sheila Ann Corcoran ’92, ’98 MBA, Los Angeles, CA• Steven M. Cumbie ’70, ’73 MBA, McLean, VA• Jaroslav T. Folda III, Chapel Hill, NC• Gardiner W. Garrard, Jr. ’64, Columbus, GA• Emmett Boney Haywood ’77, ’82 JD, Raleigh, NC • Lynn Buchheit Janney ’70, Butler, MD• Matthew G. Kupec ’80, Chapel Hill, NC• William M. Lamont, Jr. ’71, Dallas, TX• Edwin A. Poston ’89, Chapel Hill, NC• John A. Powell ‘77, San Francisco, CA• Benjamine Reid ’71, Miami, FL• Alex T. Robertson ’01, New York, NY• H. Martin Sprock III ‘87, Charlotte, NC• Emily Pleasants Sternberg ’88, ’94 MBA, Greenwich, CT• Eric P. Vick ’90, Oxford, UK• Charles L. Wickham, III ’82 BSBA, London, UK• Loyal W. Wilson ’70, Chagrin Falls, OH

From the deanF r O M t h e D e a nCarolina Arts & Sciences • Spring 2010

Opening doors through learning, discovery and outreach

Jeff Meanza (MFA ’04) must be a master multi-tasker. As the director of education and outreach for PlayMakers Repertory Company, our professional theater company in residence, he juggles multiple roles.

As an actor, he played five characters in the ambitious production of Nicholas Nickleby. And as an educator, he has helped PlayMakers open its doors wide to the community in new and exciting ways — including teacher artists in the schools, open discussions with artists in public venues like the library

or local bookstore, and the Summer Youth Conservatory. Through the SYC, young actors train with professionals and put on a full-scale production; my son Elliot is one of many local students who have participated in this amazing opportunity.

In the College, part of our ongoing goal is to reach out to the community, the state and the world through learning and discovery. These are not separate objectives, but rather an interconnected part of our mission, which is illustrated in several stories in our spring ’10 issue of Carolina Arts & Sciences:

• Twenty undergraduate students, led by political science faculty member Donna LeFebvre, went on a Burch Field Research Seminar to study and volunteer in Rwanda last summer and had a life-changing experience. They came back to UNC committed to forming an organization to support the Rwanda school where they had learned about that nation’s tragic past while serving its survivors.

• Exercise and sport science researchers Kevin Guskiewicz and Fred Mueller are studying the long-term impacts of football players who suffer multiple concussions. Their work is gaining national attention and raising awareness across all levels of play, including the NCAA.

• English professor George Lensing is living proof that teaching, research and service are energizing. As the former head of the Office of Distinguished Scholarships, he has helped many UNC students to land Rhodes and other prestigious scholarships. These bright students leave Carolina with bold ideas that will change the world.

• We profile Erin Burns, one of the first graduates of UNC-BEST, our partnership with the UNC School of Education that enables science and math majors to simultaneously earn N.C. teaching credentials with their undergraduate degrees. Burns is now teaching biology at an inner-city Charlotte high school.

• You’ll read about beloved music professor and tenor Stafford Wing, who retired after 40 years in the College. His many former students — including performers, teachers, musical directors and others — have benefited from his leadership, teaching and service.

We appreciate the support of our alumni and friends more than ever before as we continue to face ongoing economic challenges in the year ahead. Many of our learning, discovery and outreach initiatives would simply not be possible without their commitment.

Our door is always open to you — come see us and find out about all of the exciting things going on in the College of Arts and Sciences.

— Karen M. Gil, Dean

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6 • PlayMakers ReachesOut TheCollege’sprofessionaltheater opensitsdoorswidetothe community

10• ‘HotelRwanda’ Revisited Undergraduatesexplorethe aftermathofatrocity

15 • FootballFallout UNCresearchexaminesthe long-termeffectsofconcussion impacts

18• LensingLessons Teaching,researchandservice areenergizing

Cover photo: playMakers repertory Company’s Jeff Meanza (MFA ’04) poses with Allison press of Chapel hill high School, who portrayed helena in the Summer Youth Conservatory’s production of AMidsummerNight’sDream. (photo by Steve exum)

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inside front cover From the Dean opening doors through learning, discovery and outreach

2 high achievers two rhodes Scholars, literary prize for Asian studies professor, kudos for teaching, chemist wins polymer prize, biologists tapped for science association, computer graphics work honored, and more

20 ProFiles UNC-BeSt graduate erin Burns is born to teach; Beloved music professor Stafford Wing leaves UNC on a high note.

22 highlights New international experts join the College, gifts from retired geologist move mountains, pinpointing the causes of “runner’s knee,” celebrating firstgeneration college students, heading off “home-grown terrorism,” single atom controls how bacteria “walk,” and more

31 college BookshelF Fiction exploring the segregated past, an international adoption and celebrity encounters with animals; reflections on secret interviews with president Clinton, growing up Jewish in N.C., raising a child with autism and why Muhammad matters; and more

inside back cover Final Point LadyMechanic, a poem by senior english major Michelle hicks of Lafayette, La.

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In Taiwan, she taught English and computer skills at a shelter for Vietnamese victims of human trafficking. In Israel and Turkey, she conducted interviews and attended conferences to research tensions that arise between religious minority groups and their governments.

As part of a fall 2008 study abroad in Switzerland, Longino traveled to Bosnia-Herzegovina to research human trafficking after the country’s civil war.

At UNC, Longino is president of the Carolina chapter of the Roosevelt Institute, a national student think tank. This year, Carolina’s was named the most outstanding chapter among 75 nationwide.

Spelman has worked in refugee camps in Tanzania, tutored underprivileged high school students and trekked more than 125 miles in Washington’s Olympic Mountains.

He is proficient in conversation in Swahili and in conversation and reading in German. He has won five competitive academic prizes from the classics department since 2007, including the Herington Scholarship twice. In addition to that scholarship, his classics awards include The Eben Alexander Prize in Greek, The Epps Prize in Greek Studies and The Albert Suskin Prize in Latin.

Working to help Burundian refugees in Tanzania last summer — Spelman’s second time there with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees on a Morehead-Cain summer experience — he read himself to sleep at night with the ancient Greek poetry of Pindar.

Spelman edits the Cellar Door, UNC’s undergraduate literary magazine, and has written a poem accepted by the internationally circulated Southern Poetry Review. He won the prize for the best poet in the junior class from UNC’s creative writing program.

With Amnesty International, Spelman has participated in national planning sessions and a steering committee, coordinated activism by about 30 high school students in the Triangle and led the UNC chapter. •

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UNC seniors Elizabeth Blair “libby” longino and Henry lawlor Spelman have won prestigious Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at Oxford University in England.

They were among 32 American college students selected Nov. 21 for the prestigious honor, perhaps the world’s most competitive in higher education.

Longino of Dallas is double-majoring in English and public policy analysis. Spelman of Swarthmore, Pa., is majoring in classical languages with a minor in creative writing.

Longino will pursue master’s degrees in forced migration and comparative social policy at Oxford. She plans a career in human rights advocacy.

Spelman will pursue a master’s degree in Greek and Latin languages and literature.

His ambition is to become a professor.

Both students came to Carolina on the Morehead-Cain Scholarship — a full, four-year merit award that includes four summer enrichment experiences.

That’s not the only thing they have in common. They met during their first year at Carolina, reconnected about two years later on a research trip to Turkey, and then later started dating. They are looking forward to exploring Oxford together.

Longino has interned with a microcredit program in Vietnam, helped start a group combating child prostitution in Cambodia and completed an Outward Bound Wilderness Expedition in the Pacific Northwest.

Longino spent one of her Morehead-Cain summers in Vietnam, interviewing clients of a small microcredit project. One day, she heard a Vietnamese mother’s pleas for a heart treatment for her daughter.

The experience resulted in an invitation later from Vietnamese colleagues to help start a foundation in Cambodia addressing child prostitution in Phnom Penh’s Vietnamese community.

Asian studies scholar wins literary prize

Sahar amer, a professor of Asian

studies, won a top prize from the Modern

Language Association of America (MLA).

Amer received the Aldo and Jeanne

Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary

Studies for her book, Crossing Borders:

Love Between Women in Medieval French

and Arabic Literatures (University of

Pennsylvania Press, 2008). The award

is presented annually for outstanding

scholarly work that

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American societies

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At Carolina, she is

also an adjunct professor of French and

international studies.

She focuses her research on

cross-cultural relations between the

Arab world and Europe throughout the

centuries; Arabs and Muslims in France

and in America today; and cross-cultural

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Kudos for teachingSixteen College faculty and graduate teaching assistants were recognized with 2010

University Teaching Awards, the highest campuswide honors for instructional excellence.This year’s nominee for the UNC System Board of Governor’s Award for Excellence

in Teaching is rachel Willis, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor in the department of American studies. One recipient is selected each year by each of the 16 institutions in the UNC system. The UNC-Chapel Hill recipient is also the University’s nominee for the CASE U.S. Professors of the Year competition, a national award for outstanding undergraduate teaching.

Winners of Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching are:• Claudio Battaglini, assistant professor of exercise and sport science;• robert Cantwell, Townsend Ludington Professor of American Studies;• Brian Hogan, assistant professor of chemistry;• Elizabeth Jordan, lecturer and associate director of undergraduate studies, psychology; • Greg Gangi, assistant professor, curriculum for the environment and ecology.

Winners of Johnston Teaching Excellence Awards for undergraduate teaching are:• Daniel Wallace, J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor, English and comparative literature;• albert K. Harris, professor of biology.

Winners of Distinguished Teaching Awards for Post-Baccalaureate Instruction are:• Thomas Hill, Kenan Professor of Philosophy;• robert MacCallum, professor of psychology.

Winners of Tanner Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants are:• Stacey Treat, communication studies;• Ben White, religious studies;• Pablo Maurette, Spanish;• andrew Pennock, political science.

In addition, religious studies professor omid Safi won the J. Carlyle Sitterson Fresh-man Teaching Award, awarded to a professor teaching first-year students, and political science professor Michael lienesch won the University Professor of Distinguished Teach-ing Award. This three-year term professor-ship was established to recognize career-long excellence in teaching. •

Simpson lauded for literature contributions

Bland Simpson, a creative writing professor, author, composer and lyricist, was recognized for his significant contributions to North Carolina literature.

Simpson, Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professor, received the R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.

Simpson has taught in the College since 1982 and directed the creative writing program from 2002 to 2008.

He is the author of numerous books about North Carolina, including The Great Dismal: A Carolinian’s Swamp Memoir, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey: A Nonfiction Novel, Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering and The Inner Islands: A Carolinian’s Sound Country Chronicle.

He has been a member of the Tony Award-winning string band, The Red Clay Ramblers, since 1986. He has collaborated on or contributed to almost a dozen musicals, including Diamond Studs, King Mackerel, Kudzu and the Tony winner Fool Moon. •

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Inger Brodey received the 2009 South

Atlantic Modern Language Association

Studies Book Award.

Brodey is associate professor of English

and comparative literature and Asian studies.

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on landscape gardening and the history of the

novel features the work of Laurence Sterne,

Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Jane Austen.

“Inger Brodey has written a book of

remarkable vitality about the fascination with

ruins across eighteenth-century Europe,” said

Wu Hung, a distinguished professor at the

University of Chicago.

Brodey has won national awards

for her scholarship, including a Mellon

Fellowship in the Humanities. She was

recently awarded an Earhart Foundation

Research Grant to complete a book-length

comparison of cowboys and samurai in

film. She also is working on a study of

representations of Jane Austen in Asia.

She won a 2006 UNC Tanner Award for

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Two juniors receive Carson Scholarships Juniors Caroline Fish and Chase Jones have been named Eve Carson Scholars at UNC.The scholarship will provide half the cost of their senior year studies, plus $5,000 each

for a summer enrichment experience.Fish, of Raleigh, is double-majoring in psychology and English, with a minor in creative

writing in the College of Arts and Sciences.Jones, of Greensboro, is majoring in business administration at Kenan-Flagler Business

School, with a minor in exercise and sport science in the College.Carson, a senior from Athens, Ga., and UNC’s 2007-2008 student body president,

was killed in March 2008. One of what she called her “Big Ideas” as president was to create a merit-based scholarship for UNC juniors.

The scholarship was established in her memory to honor balanced, ambitious students who have shown strong involvement in leadership roles at Carolina and have at least a 3.0 grade-point average in their first three undergraduate years.

Fish is a 2007 graduate of Ravenscroft School in Raleigh. She has worked toward solving the problems of sexual assault and domestic violence. She is working with campus colleagues to produce a documentary to raise awareness about sexual violence. She also has studied abroad in France,

where she worked to help victims of sexual assault.“Caroline is an incredibly motivated person and inspired the committee with her drive

to bring about positive change in this area,” said Thomas Edwards, a senior biology major who directed the scholarship program this year.

Jones graduated from Ragsdale High School in Jamestown, N.C., in 2006. He has worked with patients at the N.C. Children’s Hospital and next year will lead the Carolina Dreams Program, which connects athletes to children in the hospital. A varsity baseball player, he overcame brain cancer during his first year at Carolina.

“He took this devastating event and turned it into both a positive personal experience and motivation to work diligently to ease the burden of children in similar situations at the N.C. Children’s Hospital,” Edwards said. •

Davenport wins award for Cobb programrandi Davenport, executive director of the James M. Johnston

Center for Undergraduate Excellence, received a statewide award for her leadership in the Connected Learning Program (CLP) in Cobb residence hall.

The North Carolina Housing Officers Organization (NCHO) tapped Davenport for its Faculty Partnership Award. The new award recognizes the outstanding contributions of an academic faculty member to the housing and residence life department at their institution.

The Connected Learning Program in Cobb, a joint project of the Johnston Center and Housing and Residential Education at UNC, was created in 2004. The program offers students the chance to shape their own learning experiences outside the traditional classroom. During the academic year, CLP students work in teams to develop projects of their own design — ranging from research trips and lecture series to music performances and film-making workshops. The participants live together in Cobb hall.

Davenport is an adjunct faculty member in the department of English and comparative literature. Her memoir, The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes, was published by Algonquin in March 2010. [see page 31.] •

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Chemist awarded polymer prize

Chemist Michael rubinstein was awarded the 2010 Polymer Prize from the American Physical Society.

The award recognizes outstanding contributions in polymer physics research.

Rubinstein, the John P. Barker Distinguished Professor, has been at UNC since 1995.

Most of the materials around us (from plastics to tires) and inside us (DNA and proteins) are made of polymers — giant, chain-like molecules. The goal of Rubinstein’s research group is to understand how polymers move through a tangle formed by their molecule neighbors and how they are deformed if attached to each other in a network, then pulled apart (like stretching a rubber band). UNC researchers are modeling polymers in the lungs with the goal of developing treatments for diseases such as cystic fibrosis.

Rubinstein received his bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Technology and his master’s and doctorate degrees from Harvard University.

Lin named to top 10 chemists list

Chemist Wenbin lin was named to a top 10 list by a British publication for the number of citations per article published.

The London-based Times Higher Education, named Lin among the “Top Ten Chemists of the Decade.” From January 1999 through June 2009, Lin published 106 original research reports and review articles, which were cited a total of 6,685 times, averaging around 63 citations per paper.

Lin’s research group works on a variety of interdisciplinary projects from catalysis to supramolecular materials to nanobiotechnology. His research efforts are relevant to important societal issues such as environment and sustainability, alternative renewable energy, biofuels and solar cells, and human health.

Lin holds joint appointments in the College and UNC’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy.

He is a lead investigator in the new Solar Energy Research Center, a project principal investigator of the Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology.

Computer graphics, robotics work honored

Computer scientist Dinesh Manocha was honored by the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society for his contributions to geometric computing, computer graphics and robotics.

Manocha, the Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

He is an expert in computer graphics and geometric modeling. His research on mathematical foundations and applications has been used in scientific computations, robotics, 3-D computer graphics and virtual reality by the scientific community, the computer industry and the entertainment world.

Biologists tapped for science association

Biologists Joseph Kieber and Mark a. Peifer were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The association honors fellows’ scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science.

Kieber was recognized for his contributions to plant hormone biology. Hormones influence virtually every aspect of plant growth and development. He was also cited for his service to the international community of arabidopsis researchers.

Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant, is widely used as a model organism in plant biology. Studying model species can help provide insight into the workings of a wide variety of other organisms.

Peifer, the Hooker Distinguished Professor of Biology and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, was recognized for his contributions to the understanding of interactions between cells and of cell signaling during development. Disruptions in this cellular machinery contribute to various diseases, including cancer. His work, which explores how cells turn into tissues and organs, focuses on epithelial tissues such as skin, lung, colon and breast tissue. Graduate student wins Intel Fellowship

To his adviser, rahul narain “is an exceptional student in every regard.”

Narain, a UNC College graduate student in computer science, received an Intel Ph.D. Fellowship, the only recipient in North Carolina.

The Intel PhD Fellowship Program selects students who are conducting leading-edge technology research. Students must focus on research in hardware systems technology and design, software technology and design, or semiconductor technology and manufacturing.

Narain specializes in efficient animation of complex phenomena, such as human crowds, while also retaining small-scale detail.

“Due to his rare combination of excellent analytical skills and unparalleled programming skills, Rahul is able to achieve impressive results that have never been seen before,” said his adviser Ming Lin, the Beverly W. Long Distin-guished Professor of Computer Science. •

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It’s 10 a.m. on a December morning and Jeff Meanza quickly heads backstage after greeting teachers and students in the lobby of UNC’s Center for Dramatic Art. He will make a fast change into costume for a performance of PlayMakers Repertory Company’s The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

Talk about juggling multiple roles. Meanza (MFA ’04), PlayMakers’ director of education and outreach, also plays five characters ranging from a middle-aged womanizing dandy to a 14-year-old boy in the epic two-part production that casts 25 actors in 150 roles.

Since their inception in 1984, these educational matinees have reached nearly 100,000 area youth.

Sue Scarborough, who teaches acting and theater at Enloe Magnet High School in Raleigh, has been bringing her students to PlayMakers’ weekday matinees for nearly 20 years.

“PlayMakers is our closest and best theater that showcases outstanding acting and technical [work],” she said. “It’s important for me as a teacher to know that they create everything there, from the costumes to the sets.”

“It lets me as a teacher show my students the possibilities.”

Possibilities and partnershipsThe educational matinees are just part

of the many partnerships PlayMakers is exploring in an increasing effort to reach out to the community. The company is bringing dramatic performances to a wider audience through cultural programming both inside and outside the theater’s walls.

A couple of years ago, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) jump-started an initiative to take PlayMakers artists into the schools. Through its teaching artists program, PlayMakers offers two residencies per year to area schools at no cost.

“We want to be as supportive as we

theater is like,” he said. Meanza was 5 years old when a local

theater production of Annie in his hometown of Modesto, Calif., first sparked his interest in dramatic art. He went to theater summer camps, studied the oboe for 14 years, played in bands and symphonies — but when he got to college at the University of California at Berkeley, he initially felt like he needed to pursue a more “secure” liberal arts degree.

While in college, a trip to see an off-Broadway play re-lit the theater spark. He changed his undergraduate major to theater, then went on to pursue his MFA at UNC.

Meanza is quick to point out that the skills learned in theater cross disciplines.

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can to keep the arts alive and well in their schools,” said Kathy Williams, a PlayMakers company member who heads the program.

Joy Jones, an MFA candidate in the Professional Actor Training Program, led a workshop for the artists on creating lesson plans, warm-up activities and addressing different themes. A Google e-mail group allows the artists to continue to share ideas.

The partnership with the schools — which has stretched from the Triangle to Fayetteville, Yanceyville and beyond — is one of the initiatives Meanza is most proud of since joining PlayMakers’ staff in 2007.

“We’re there to help augment anything they need — whether it’s using the arts to teach English or history or science, or to help students understand what a professional

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young age, after graduate school, I became the national director of graduate programs for the Princeton Review,” he said. “All of the skills I learned as an actor were completely applicable in that job.”

A creative collaborationFor the past three summers, Brian and

Mary Stokes of Pittsboro have supported their 15-year-old son Henry’s participation in the Summer Youth Conservatory (SYC), a unique partnership between PlayMakers and The ArtsCenter of Carrboro.

In an intensive, five-week experience, 40 children from elementary to high school learn from PlayMakers’ professional staff all the aspects of putting on a full-scale production — including training in acting, movement, voice and technical theater. And they perform it in the Center for Dramatic Art’s Paul Green Theatre, where PlayMakers puts on its main-stage shows. Students have to audition for a spot in the conservatory, which is tuition-based. Full and partial scholarships are available.

“No matter what you end up doing … you learn to express yourself creatively and with confidence, and those are probably the most highly sought-after skills in any field.”

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“Henry will never forget some of these people,” Brian Stokes said. “No matter what you end up doing … you learn to express yourself creatively and with confidence, and those are probably the most highly sought-after skills in any field. … The kids are also learning how to work with deadlines and achieve certain milestones.”

The SYC participants performed Oliver! and The Music Man their first two seasons. Last year, they took on Shakespeare. Henry Stokes played a major role — Lysander — in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In his first two seasons, he played ensemble roles, and he found those just as valuable.

“Being in an ensemble role was amazing, because Tom [Quaintance, the director] really makes those roles special and uses them to develop the world of the play,” he said.

The North Carolina Theatre Conference

(NCTC), the statewide service organization for theater arts and artists, recently awarded the SYC its Constance Welsh Theatre for Youth Award.

Angie Hayes, the executive director of NCTC, called the conservatory “a model program for youth theater in North Carolina.”

Seventeen-year-old Allison Press of Chapel Hill has participated in SYC for two summers. She admits that at first it was intimidating to think about doing Shakespeare; now she loves it. She played Helena in Midsummer.

“The experience just gets richer and richer and more fun every year,” she said. “Once Tom and [dramatic art professor] Julie Fishell helped us to unlock the language, it was fun to build a character off of that.”

Last year for the first time, SYC offered an apprentice program called TheatreTech. Six students signed up for the program and learned about different technical aspects of theater, including set, costume and lighting design, and stage management. They could then focus on one area.

“Everything in theater is one huge problem-solving exercise — even if the show goes off fairly smoothly,” said Kaitlyn Rogers, 18, of Chapel Hill, a TheatreTech apprentice.

This summer, SYC will expand from a half-day to a full-day program, allowing for more in-depth classes. Participants will perform The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Jeri Lynn Schulke (MFA ’99), director of the Youth Performing Arts Conservatory at The ArtsCenter, said the partnership with PlayMakers has been very rewarding.

“The staff at PlayMakers are inspiring people to work with,” she said. “Nobody’s in it for ego; we’re all focused on doing the best we can for these students.”

Echoed Allison’s dad, Dennis Press, who is the controller at UNC, “The ArtsCenter and PlayMakers individually do great things, but collectively it proves the expression that ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.’”

Fostering a love of DickensWith its production of Nicholas Nickleby,

PlayMakers took the idea of engaging the community to a new level.

An NEA grant helped the company to

create “The Dickens Initiative” — expanded programming around the play that was offered in area bookstores, a library, schools, an art museum and more. Playwright David Edgar came to campus for a week in residence, a master class and public lecture.

Marian Fragola, who got her master’s in information and library science from UNC in 2008, is the humanities coordinator at the Durham County Library. She has been involved with bringing PlayMakers’ artists to the library since The Glass Menagerie in 2008.

With Nicholas Nickleby, she brought in directors, actors and designers to the library’s main branch and The Regulator Bookshop to talk about adapting, directing and designing an epic.

“People are fascinated to get that behind the scenes [look],” she said. “One of the attendees said, ‘like the extras on a DVD, these lectures helped me to appreciate the massive undertaking of Nicholas Nickleby.’”

Tom Quaintance, a Los Angeles-based director who has led each summer’s SYC performances and who co-directed Nicholas Nickleby with producing artistic director Joseph Haj (MFA ’88), enjoyed participating in the outreach events.

“When we were producing the play, we wanted to peel away some of the layers, to show how we were doing this,” he said. “There was a joy in this process that had to do very specifically with the building of a community.”

CLOCKWISE FROM BELOW: (From left), SYC students Alexander Daly and Karl Kopcynski rehearse a scene from The Music Man. • (From left), Joy Jones and Jeff Meanza in Nicholas Nickleby. • SYC participants took on Shakespeare last summer.

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has collaborated with PlayMakers productions since 1980.

The program’s 2009 Richard A. Soloway Seminar, supported by private funds, focused on “The Victorian World,” with UNC and Duke scholars discussing different aspects of Victorian life. Participants attended a performance of Nicholas Nickleby. For teachers, the tickets were free.

“This collaboration brings the humanities to life in ways that we don’t

often experience,” said Eve Duffy, director of the program. “It’s a conversation that just gets started in the theater, and then you keep it going.”

Expanding the conversationSince Haj came on board as producing

artistic director in July 2006, he has made it a key focus of PlayMakers’ strategy to extend that conversation with the community.

He created the second-stage PRC² series where the company could explore socially and politically relevant work in a more intimate setting — shows are performed in the smaller Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre. And he added post-show discussions with the audience and the creative artists.

With the main-stage season this year, PlayMakers introduced the free “Vision Series: Directors in Conversation.” A week before each show opens, the public is invited to the theater to learn about the production in process, meet the director and get a behind-the-scenes peek at the show.

“If you ask a dozen different artistic directors, you’ll get different ideas about what’s important to them,” Haj said. “We just believe strongly at PlayMakers that this theater belongs to the community it is charged to serve. It’s not up to us to sit in an ivory tower and wave the artistic flag.”

Tariq Nasir, a documentary filmmaker and a member of PlayMakers Advisory Council, has supported PRC² discussions from the beginning.

In this day and age when it may be easier to turn on the TV than visit the theater, Nasir believes an educational mission is even more crucial. A study by the NEA found a noticeable decline in theater, museum and

concert attendance between 2002 and 2008 for adults 18 and older.

“When you learn how to appreciate [theater], you learn the subtleties and then you’re more likely to want to take part because you see the real value,” he said. “With the PRC² series, Joe is saying, ‘we’re going to entertain you, but we also want you to feel stretched beyond your comfort zone.’”

“We just believe strongly at PlayMakers that this theater belongs to the community it is charged to serve.” — JOSEPH HAJ

The “Mindplay” discussions offer another avenue for community participation. While the program has existed for about a decade, attendance has been growing in recent years, according to Meanza.

On select nights after each of the main-stage productions, a psychoanalyst leads a 50-minute discussion about characters and themes in the show.

“Modern psychoanalysis is the deepest study and treatment of human character and emotion that we have, and so it’s a powerful lens for looking into a drama,” said Peter Perault, a Chapel Hill psychiatrist who has led several discussions over the years. “I think people find that the give-and-take with the audience after a performance always enriches their experience of the theater.”

In the coming year, PlayMakers will explore new partnerships with the North Carolina Symphony, Kidzu Children’s Museum in Chapel Hill and UNC’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, among others.

Quaintance, the guest director, has known Haj for about 20 years. Haj has rallied his team around the idea of embracing the community, he said.

“There’s a sense of shared purpose in that building,” he said. “Joe hasn’t just surrounded himself with people who agree with him; he’s surrounded himself with people who are willing to fight for what’s right and work for a higher purpose.”

“That’s a recipe for success.”

ONLINE ExTRAS: More on PlayMakers at www.playmakersrep.org and college.unc.edu.

Reaches OutThe

Ackland Art Museum presented the original drawings, illustrations and prints of Dickens’ England. Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, the temporary installation in the new second floor study

gallery included works by Dickens’ chief artistic collaborators. The exhibition featured one of artist George Cruikshank’s original 1838 drawings for Oliver Twist. English lecturer Marc Napolitano gave a lunch-time talk on Dickens’ art in the “Victorian popular consciousness.”

A Wilson Library installation in the Rare Book Reading Room showcased the original serial editions of Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839) and two early theatrical adaptations of the novel. More about the installation and Napolitano’s talk were posted online on PlayMakers’ Web site.

“It was very exciting working with PlayMakers, to use our collection to bring together faculty and resources from across campus to help extend the life of Nicholas Nickleby beyond the event itself,” said Rob Colby, coordinator of academic programs at the Ackland.

The College of Arts and Sciences’ Program in Humanities and Human Values was founded in 1979; the program

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I felt a tinge of discomfort as we landed on the runway and pulled into the airport …my inability to grasp the atrocity that happened here. To me it is a scene from a horror movie, a page from a book … I surely could never imagine such hell.

— Sarah Stoneking’s blog, May 21, Kigali

LedbyUNCpoliticalscienceseniorlecturerDonnaLeFebvreandTessaBialek,analumnateachingassistant,thegroupreturnedtothescenesofamassivemassacrethatoccurred15yearsago.

NearlyamillionRwandanswerekilledinthespaceof100daysin1994,inabloodyethnicclashwhenHutusturnedontheirTutsineighbors.Hollywoodbroughtthegenocidetolightinthe2004award-winningfilm,hotel rwanda,thetrue-lifestoryofPaulRusesabagina,ahotelmanagerwhoshelteredoverathousandTutsirefugees.RequiredreadingfortheUNCstudentsincludedNew YorkerwriterPhilipgourevitch’sbook,We Wish to inform You that tomorrow We Will Be Killed With our Families.

Carolinastudentsmetsurvivorsandperpetratorsfacetoface;tookclassesongenocide,reconciliationandinternationallaw;taughtchildrenorphanedbytheslaughter;visitedchurchesandschoolswherepeoplewereslain;livedwithRwandanfamiliesandsatinoninternationalcriminalcourtproceedings.

ThroughaBurchFieldResearchSeminar,theyspentafewdaysinArusha,Tanzania,attheinternationalCriminalTribunalforRwanda;fourweeksinKigali(includingweek-longhomestayswithRwandanfamilies);oneweekinButareattheNational

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UniversityofRwandaandoneweekinTheHagueattheinternationalCriminalCourt.inadditiontoacademiccoursework,theywentonfieldtripsandvolunteeredatvariousschoolsandnonprofitsinRwanda.

“Alotofuscouldn’tprocesswhatwehadseen,”saidSarahStoneking,aseniorchemistrymajorfromgreensboro,whoispursuingadoubleminorinanthropologyandmusic.“inalotofways,ifeltlikeididn’thavetherighttounderstandwhatihadseen,becausetherewerestoriesthatwerebeingtoldthatwerenotmine—andneverwillbemine.”

The memorial gave me, and I believe others, truth. It not only gave me facts, it gave me the reality. It not only gave me the names, it gave me the faces. It not only gave me the written accounts, it told me the stories. It gave me the people. The women, the men and the children. — Menna Mburi’s blog, May 21,

Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre

ForMennaMburi,aseniorpoliticalsciencemajorandjournalismminor,itwasajourneybacktoherfamily’srootsinneighboringTanzania.ShegrewupinRaleigh,butlivedforacoupleofyearsinTanzaniawhenshewas5.Shewastherein1994,atthetimeofthegenocideinRwanda,butwroteinherblogthatshedoesn’trememberhearingaboutitthen.

Atthememorialcenter,theimpactofthekillingshithomeforMburiwhenshestumbleduponaglasscase,illuminatedbyasinglelightbulb,thatcontainedapieceofclothingwornbyoneofthevictims.

“itremindedmeofsomethingthatmymomhadworn[asayoungadult],”Mburisaid.“There’sthispictureofmymom,myfavoritefromwhenshewasyounger.Shehasonthisgreenfabric,andshe’satmygrandmother’shouse,kneelingonthegroundwithacow.ittriggeredsomethinginmymind,andimadetheconnectionthatthiscouldhavebeenmymom,mydad,mybrother.ittouchedmeinawaythatican’tevenexplain.”

As I hope the people who read this understand, no part of Rwanda was left untouched by the genocide. The National University of Rwanda’s narrative is one of immense sadness: professors turned on professors, students against students, professors against students. Over five hundred people were killed on this campus,

on a typical college day. When we sat in a lecture room, the only thing going through my head was: Who was sitting here, in this chair?

— Matt Karkutt’s blog, June 14, Butare

Theuniversitywasoneofmanymemorialsitesthestudentsvisited.AttwochurchesintheKibuyedistrictofRwanda,studentssawbloodstains,holesleftbybulletsandgrenades,pilesofclothingwornbythevictimsandpews

scatteredwitheverydayobjectstheycarried—toys,purses,hats,ballpointpens,ethnicidentitycards.Skullsandbonesofthedeadlinedshelvesofthesacredplaces,surroundedbythemuskysmellofearth,deathandage.

We went to Nyamata where 10,000 people were killed in a church. … I thought about everyone I knew, and how that would only be a drop in the bucket of even this one massacre. I thought about my hopes and dreams and how those of the victims were cut down, right then and there for no reason. — Thomas Ginn’s blog, May 30

Memorial in Butare, where the skeletons are preserved in limestone. This one brought me to tears, wondering why I had been born into such privilege, security and opportunity. — from Ginn’s Facebook album of the trip

Thomasginnsaiditwasn’tjustatmemorialsitesthatthestudentsfelttheimpactofthegenocide.Becauseofthelengthoftheirstay,theywereabletoimmersethemselvesinthedailylifeofRwanda.everyonetheymethadastorytotell.

“Weweresittinginarestaurantonenightandwestartedtalkingtoaguysittingbyhimself,”recalledginn,aseniormathandeconomicsmajorfromAtlanta.“Hetalkedtousforthreehoursabouthislife,howhisentirefamilywaskilledinthegenocideandhowhewasstilltryingtofigureoutawaytocope.…Youcouldn’thavelearnedthisinaclassroom.”

Duringthegenocide,bodiesweredumpedintheAkageraandNyabarongorivers—bothtributariesofLakeVictoria.Asperthecustom,theUNCstudentswrotemessagestothesurvivorsandvictimswhilewalkingacrosstheriverbridges.

MattKarkutt,ajuniorenglishandinterdisciplinarystudiesmajorfromgray’sCreek,N.C.,chosetoofferupthisquotefromJ.R.R.TolkienwhileonthebridgeoftheAkagera:“Littlebylittle

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Exploring global climate change in Iceland and moreThis summer UNC students will travel to Iceland and

Alaska to study global climate change, thanks to a new Burch Field Research Seminar.

The rotating roster of semester- and summer-long seminars allows UNC faculty to lead groups of undergraduates on extensive field research trips in the U.S. and around the world.

The program is supported by Lucius E. Burch III, a 1963 Carolina graduate who wanted to encourage professors and students to engage their intellectual curiosity together

beyond the classroom. The first seminar debuted in fall 1998. Burch also funded the Burch Fellows Program, which allows talented Carolina undergraduates to design and pursue individual independent study projects anywhere in the world.

Burch Seminars, which typically have between 12 and 18 students, provide 12 hours of academic credit in a mix of independent study and formal course work.

They are open to all UNC undergraduate students who are in good standing and have at least a 3.0 GPA. Financial aid can be applied to the program cost, and students can apply for additional need-based scholarships.

Information online at www.burchseminars.unc.edu. — B y K i m W e a v e r S p u r r ’ 8 8

onetravelsfar.”Karkuttaddedinablogentry:“itravelwiththeRwandanpeople,always.”

Karkutt,whoisinvolvedwithananti-genocideactivistgrouponcampus,hadread“obsessively”aboutRwandabeforethetrip.Still,hesaidtheexperienceofactuallybeingtherewas“intense—butthat’sanunderstatementnomatterwhat.”

“Atthememorialsitwasveryraw,”hesaid.“itwasn’tpolished,itwasn’tclean.itcouldbedifficultsometimes,becausewewanttoputbarriersaroundourselveswithdeath,butthereyoucouldn’tdothat.Youknewthatwhereveryoustood,someonewasprobablymurderedthere.”

“Butwhatiwoulddoislookaroundme,andiwouldseelifecontinuing,kidsplayingandpeoplemovingonandtryingtolookforwardtothefuture.”

LeFebvre,whohasaUNClawdegree,gotinterestedininternationalcriminallawabout10yearsago.inthesummerof2006,sheinterviewedstaffandattendedhearingsattheinternationalCriminalTribunalforRwanda,theRwandangenocidecourtinArusha,Tanzania,andthenewinternationalCriminalCourtinTheHagueintheNetherlands.

ShedecidedtocreateaBurchseminar,anoff-campusstudyprogramthatshowcasestherelationshipbetweenUNCfacultyresearchandundergraduateeducationbycombiningtraditionalcourseworkwithexperientiallearning.TheseminarprogramissupportedbyagiftfromUNCalumnusLuciuse.Burchiii.eachyearbetweenfiveandsevenseminarsareofferedinbothdomesticandinternationallocations.

“Overallwhatiwantedthemtogetfromtheexperienceisthatyoucanmakeadifference,thatthingslikegenocidedon’thavetohappen—andwhentheydohappen,youcandosomethingaboutit,”saidLeFebvre,whohaswon13teachingawardsatCarolina.“Theyhaveadutytodosomethingbecausetheyareglobalcitizens.”

StudentsfoundthevoluntaryservicelearningcomponentoftheBurchseminarmostmeaningful.

StonekingwasamongagroupofstudentswhovolunteeredtoteachatCollegeDoctrinaVitae(CDV),asecondaryschoolinKigali.

“ifeltsomesortofvisceraldiscomfortwiththefactthatiwasinRwandaandiwaslearningandtalkingandmeetingpeople,butiwantedsomethingelseicouldn’treallyarticulate,”saidStoneking,whotaughtchemistry,dramaandenglish.“Oncewestartedwork-ingatCollegeDoctrinaVitae,itwasamazing.…iendedupdoingmyresearchprojectonteachingscienceindevelopingcountries.”

Mburiworkedatalocalnonprofit,MwanaUkundwa(“BelovedChild”),anorganizationstartedbygenocidesurvivorMukankakaRosetoprovideorphansandwidowswiththeknowledgeandskillstore-integrateintosociety.

OnMburi’sfirstdaythere,shehelpedplant,weedandhoecrops—pumpkins,squashandcarrots.Theweatherwasperfect.

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Thirteen’s a lucky numberPolitical science senior lecturer Donna LeFebvre has won

13 teaching awards since becoming a UNC faculty member in 1984.

That baker’s dozen includes two UNC Tanner Undergraduate Teaching Awards (in 1996 and 2004) and three Students’ Undergraduate Teaching Awards (in 1995, 2000 and 2006). She became the first person to win a second students’ teaching award, the only such honor directed and funded by Carolina students.

Menna Mburi, a senior political science and journalism major who participated in last summer’s Rwanda Burch Seminar with LeFebvre, is not surprised by those accolades. She said in LeFebvre’s classroom, students are encouraged to voice their opinions and share their ideas.

“Her instructional techniques go beyond the traditional lecture,” Mburi said. “Everything was about application and about putting ourselves in other people’s shoes and about being able to examine both sides of the [Rwandan] conflict. … She pushes you to think beyond the subject matter.”

LeFebvre is also committed to service learning, something a student nominator noted in 1996 when recommending her for the Tanner Award:

“Through her variety of experimental class methods and her dedication to organizations and committees on campus, Donna LeFebvre is working to expand the definition and goals of university education.”

LeFebvre has taught criminal law in Eritrea and through Semester at Sea, a floating university ship that travels around the world. In fall 2004, she led the university’s Honors Program in London. In fall 2010, she will direct the Honors Program in Cape Town, South Africa.

Friederike Seeger, director of Burch Programs and Honors Study Abroad, believes LeFebvre’s background in leading international programs will help another group of students create meaningful experiences in Cape Town.

With an intense study abroad experience like a Burch Seminar, “faculty directors need to wear many hats: you have to be not only a professor, but also a parent and friend. Donna excels at that because she really cares about the students,” Seeger said.

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Althoughtheydidnotspeakthesamelanguage,theRwandanwomenandUNCvolunteersbondedthroughsong.itwasoneofthemomentsshewillneverforget.

“Thesunhadnotrisenyet;itwasbehindthemountain,anditwasverycool.…iremembertheyweresingingChristiansongs,andtheyaskedifweknewanyChristiansongs,andwestartedsinging‘Amazinggrace.’…Westartedteachingtheminenglish,andtheystartedteachingusinKinyarwanda.…itwasourwaywecommunicatedwitheachother.”

inadditiontoteachingatCDV,Karkutttookonanindependentprojectofhisown.Aclassicallytrainedballetdancer,hedecidedtoteachballettostudentsataprimaryschool.inturn,theyshowedhimintore,anativeRwandandance.

OncetheyreturnedtoChapelHill,thestudentswantedtocontinuetheirconnectiontoRwanda.TheyareforminganofficialstudentorganizationthatwillcontinuethepartnershipwithCollegeDoctrinaVitae.Theyarearrangingforletter-writingexchangesbetweenU.S.andRwandanstudents.Theywanttoprovidesuppliestotheschool.AndtheywereawardedaNourishinternationalgranttosendsixUNCstudentsbacktoCDVthissummer.

“i’veneverhadagroupofstudentslikethis—fearless,smart,

adventurous,”saidLeFebvre,whohashosted“reunions”ofthegroupatherhouse.“Theyjustleaptin…sometimesworking12or14hoursaday.…Theywerebusy24-7.”

Thestudentscamebackchangedindifferentwaysfromtheexperience.Manyofthemhopetodofurthertravelandstudiesabroad.Somesaythetripeitheraffirmedorchangedtheircareerpaths.Karkutthopestofindawaytocontinuehisdanceexchange.FromLeFebvrehe

learnedtoaskthequestion:“Whatdoiwanttodonext?”“Whenyouopenthatbook,youcan’trealizewhatit’slike

tostepoffaplaneinKigali,Rwanda,untilyoudoit,”Karkuttsaid.“Studyingabroadopensyoureyesandmakesyouseealotofthingsaboutyourowncountry,andaboutyourself.”

From Karkutt’s June 7 blog entry: It’s our last night of Kigali. I’m currently sitting at Bourbon Café, drinking a short latte, taking in the city atmosphere … one last time. I’ve made several decisions … and one is that I’m coming back.

ONLINE EXTRAS: Listen to audio clips of LeFebvre and Stoneking talking about the rwanda trip at college.unc.edu.

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Football Fallout

Football Fallout


We are a sports-crazed nation. We love celebrating the success of athletes of all stripes — from the girl on the youth recreation team kicking her first goal to the professional football player scoring his umpteenth touchdown. We’re not so big on the injuries. We don’t necessarily ask to know more about the sprained ankles, torn menisci, busted vertebral discs, broken ribs or concussions that athletes suffer. But each year, in every sport, a steady stream of injured players trail off the football fields and ice-rinks, away from the track and soccer fields, and into the offices of athletic trainers and physicians.

Of all the common impact injuries an athlete might incur, concussions are the hardest to detect. But we’d best figure it out, because a body of research is building that shows

how athletes who suffer multiple concussions can expect a bevy of problems later in life: depression, cognitive troubles and dementia.

When football players take to the field each fall, about 10 percent can expect to sustain at least one concussion that season. Of these, 15 to 20 percent are likely to have a second concussion in the same season. And the recurrent concussions may be the most costly to a player’s lifetime health.

Kevin Guskiewicz’s UNC research on the long-term consequences of football concussions is gaining national attention and raising eyebrows across all levels of play, including the NCAA.

Guskiewicz first became concerned about concussions when he was an athletic trainer with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the early 1990s. He saw battered and bruised players in the NFL put back in games, and he questioned if their health was being properly considered.

“What bothered me the most was the arbitrary nature in which return-to-play

decisions were made after they’d taken a hard hit to their head,” says Guskiewicz, the Kenan Distinguished Professor who now chairs UNC’s department of exercise and sport science. “We needed a system to assess the damage.”

So he set about creating one, based on careful measurements of an athlete’s postural stability, cognitive function and general symptoms. The research formed his dissertation at the University of Virginia where he earned a doctorate in sports medicine, but he did not stop there.

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concussion’s impact

Over the past decade and a half, Guskiewicz has accrued a body of published studies that seeks to untangle both the short- and long-term health effects that concussions wreak on athletes. His work has been published in numerous scientific journals and cited in major news media, from CNN and

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After establishing criteria to assess an athlete’s concussion and monitor his recovery — he helped write guidelines that are now recommended by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the American College of Sports Medicine — Guskiewicz next wondered if he could use the magnitude of a hit to predict the degree of concussion an athlete might experience. In 2004, he connected with sports equipment company SIMBEX to measure the magnitude of head impacts football players experience when tackling and blocking by rigging up special helmets with a device called an accelerometer. The instrument fits snuggly within the helmet and measures both the direction and location of a hit, and the magnitude or g-force.

In 2004, UNC football players started wearing the helmets and Guskiewicz’s team began collecting the data. When a player’s head was impacted, the accelerometers captured the hit and transmitted the information — tagged with a unique ID matched to each player — to a computer on the sidelines. Guskiewicz also used video footage to analyze the hits and match plays to the data. He thought they’d uncover a linear relationship between the highest g-forces and the worst concussions. But no such luck.

“There was no relationship between the force and the severity of concussion,” Guskiewicz says. The seeming randomness told him two things: first, that as much attention should be paid to players who receive what

might look like a minor hit as do those who receive a big hit; second, that the constellation of factors resulting in a concussion were a lot more nuanced than people had assumed.

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But what Guskiewicz found next was even more eye-popping.

In 2001 he had helped found UNC’s Center for the Study of Retired Athletes. One of the first things the center did was mail a health survey to 3,600 retired National Football League players. Little did Guskiewicz know, but he’d spend the next eight years mining data and publishing studies based on more than 2,500 returned surveys.

One of the first trends he noticed was a disturbingly high correlation between retired NFL payers who had suffered four, five or more concussions during their careers and the onset of severe cognitive problems and depression later. In a 2005 paper, Guskiewicz and his team described links between recurrent concussions and mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, and Alzheimer’s disease. MCI is a pre-dementia state. Sufferers begin to slide into severe memory loss and lose their executive functioning skills, like problem-solving. It might sound like the normal dance of old age, but it’s far more troubling. Having MCI is like being in a holding room for Alzheimer’s: 30 to 40 percent of people diagnosed with MCI will develop Alzheimer’s. In a 2007 study, they also described links between the number of concussions suffered and the probability of developing depression later.

But not everyone who sustains a concussion will develop mild cognitive

impairment or depression. About 5 percent of people with a concussion will have symptoms that last beyond

six weeks. When this happens, it’s called post-concussive syndrome. Mild cognitive impairment is a possibility if people are in this slim 5 percent.

The NFL’s mild traumatic brain injury committee sniffed at Guskiewicz’s work. They attacked his sample size as too small. They decried that some of the survey respondents were self-reporting medical histories without medical records to back them up.

“They tried to poke holes,” Guskiewicz says. “We were disappointed, but not surprised.”

But then Boston University medical doctor Ann McKee began studying brain tissue of deceased NFL players who had, while living, pledged to donate their minds to a “brain bank” at BU’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy. She found that players who suffered severe or repeated blows to their heads may develop a disease state known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, where tau proteins precipitate onto brain tissue. An excess of these deposits lead to brain dysfunction and dementia. Other studies have shown that people who suffer from Alzheimer’s have unusual deposits of beta-lipid proteins in deeper regions of their brains. Disturbingly, retired athletes who suffered four, five or more concussions during their careers appear to be more at risk for developing these excessive beta-lipid protein deposits.

Guskiewicz’s current work delves further into questions about sports-induced brain injuries. He is the principal investigator on a clinical trial that seeks to uncover if an omega-3 fatty acid supplement has the nutritive power to break up beta-lipid proteins and prevent deposits from building up within the brains of at-risk individuals. The double-blind study (where the research team and the participants are both blinded to whether

LEFT TO RIGHT: Kevin Guskiewicz’s research examines the long-term effects of concussions. • Accelerometers help researchers study head impacts. • Guskiewicz has worked with the UNC football team since 2004.

LEFT: Fred Mueller heads the National Center for Catastrophic Injury Research. ABOVE: Kevin Guskiewicz analyzes data from his research, which is gaining national attention.

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Kevin Guskiewicz is working with

UNC visiting assistant professor Jason

Mihalik in the department of exercise

and sport science to monitor the

impact of collisions sustained by youth

playing hockey for the Carolina Junior

Hurricanes in Raleigh. About 30 young

boys have had accelerometers installed

in their helmets, and the researchers

are studying two age-groups: 13- to

14-year-olds, and 15- to 16-year-olds.

They are in the middle of their fourth

season of data collection, and they’ve

logged more than 20,000 head impacts

between the two groups.

“We have not formally analyzed

the data, but so far the trends seem

to be showing us that the youth are

getting hit in the average range of 18

to 22 g’s,” Mihalik said. This puts the

force of their impacts on par with

collegiate football players.

Mihalik said this is worrisome

for several reasons. First, sustaining a

concussion at a younger age widens

the window of time when an

athlete may sustain additional

concussions. But in general,

kids don’t tend to know as

much about the dangers of

concussions, so they may be

less likely to report them. Also,

youth league teams rarely have

a physician or dedicated athletic

trainer, making it more difficult

to diagnose a brain injury.

He hopes to expand the study to

girls’ youth hockey because NCAA data

indicate that female hockey players

sustain concussions at nearly twice the

rate of their male counterparts.

the supplement or a placebo is being taken) consists of performing before-and-after brain scans and testing the cognitive skills of 40 retired athletes who participated in the 2001 health survey. He is also investigating whether some players may be hardwired to develop dementia or MCI.

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Unfortunately, the healthy pursuit of sports can lead to catastrophic injuries and death in athletes of all ages. Fred Mueller, professor and director of UNC’s National Center for Catastrophic Injury Research, has been tracking these trends in high school and collegiate athletics since 1980, though the center has been issuing the report since 1965. He retired last June, but still directs the center.

Mueller’s center issues a report annually that parses incidences of catastrophic injury and death within different sports. They also record the circumstances of the event. The data go to the National Federation of State High School Associations, the American Football Coaches Association and the NCAA.

Spikes of injury incidences within a cer-tain sport have led to changes in equipment or education to prevent future injuries. “We see fewer deaths now, fewer direct injuries, and more indirect injuries,” Mueller says, discussing data trends over three decades. He recently finished co-authoring a book to be published by Carolina Academic Press in Durham, titled A Comprehensive Study of Football Fatalities 1931-2008.

Guskiewicz says that Mueller mentored him when he first started at UNC, when

Mueller was the chair of the department of exercise and sport science.

“My goal is that through our research and improving safety in sports, we’ll see fewer subjects showing up in Fred’s catastrophic injury database,” Guskiewicz says.

• moving ForWarD, safely

Guskiewicz has just begun untangling the web of events that enmesh athletes in recurrent concussions and their associated long-term health effects. He’s helping to found a new clinical research lab, called the UNC Sport Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, which reflects the trajectory of his studies.

“It’s going to focus exclusively on brain injury research, but will allow us to connect the dots between prevention, injury mechanisms, interventions for recovery and late-life complications. So it’s a natural progression,” he says.

But he wants to make it clear he’s not seeking to fundamentally change the sport of football.

“I have three boys of my own who play football. I care very much about the sport of football continuing,” Guskiewicz says. “I just want to be sure that as researchers, we are contributing to making it safer.”•

ONLINE EXTRAS: More on research by Guskiewicz and Mueller at college.unc.edu.



George Lensing Jr., the Mann Family Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, volunteers to teach early-morning classes.

Amazingly,giventhenocturnalnatureofmanycollegestudents,hisclassesfillup.eachmorning,asthestudentsshufflein,he’stheretogreetthem,handoutsattheready,notesalreadywrittenonthewhiteboard.Hebringsenoughenthusiasmtostirsleepymindsintothoughtwithoutcrossingoverintoannoyingperkiness.

“Wherevertheyarecomingfrom,fourhoursofsleepthepreviousnightandotherthingsontheirminds,ifidon’tprojectsomeenergy,i’mnotgoingtoengagethem,”saidLensing,whoisinhis41styearofteachingatUNC.“i’menergizedbecauseiloveit.”

Lensinghasadeepwellofenergyandeffortthathedipsintototeach,toserveonanexhaustingnumberofcommitteesand,forthepastsevenyears,todirecttheOfficeofDistinguishedScholarships.(PsychologyprofessorLindaDykstratookoverlastSeptember.)Andthenthere’stheacademicresearchhedoeson20th-centurypoetsandnovelists,the Wallace Stevens Journalheedits,andthethreebookshehaswrittenonStevens

(theinsuranceexecutivecumpoet).LensingalsoworkswithstudentsattheCatholicNewmanCenterandhostsanannualpicnicathishouse,servesaspresidentoftheinter-ChurchCouncilHousingCorp.inChapelHillanddevotestimetohospicevisits.in2005,hewasawardedthe“BuildingBridgesAward”givenannuallybytheUNC/CommunityMLKJr.PlanningCorp.

TworecentawardsunderscorehisachievementsandtheesteemhehasearnedfromcolleaguesacrosstheUniversitycom-munity.TheArtsandSciencesFoundationgavehimitsinauguralWilliamF.LittleDistin-guishedServiceAward,recognizingLensing’sextraordinarycommitmenttotheCollege.ThelateLittlewasachemistryprofessorandfounderoftheFoundation.

AndLensing’sfacultypeersattheUniversityhonoredhimwiththe2009

Lensing LessonsTeaching, research and service are energizing BY NANCY E. OATES • PHOTOS BY STEVE EXUM


ThomasJeffersonAward,inrecognitionofhisstellarteaching,scholarshipandservice.Facultymembersnominatecandidatesfortheannualaward,createdin1961torecognizethecolleaguewhobestexemplifiestheidealsandobjectivesofThomasJefferson.

BobbiOwen,seniorassociatedeanofundergraduateeducation,saidLensingembodiesthecharacteristicsthattheUniversitywantstoseeinallfacultymembers.“Heisagoodscholar,agoodteacherandagoodcitizenoftheUniversity,”shesaid.“He’sthequintessentialwell-roundedperson.”

OwensaidLensing’ssuccessbenefitstheUniversityaswell.

“AsCarolinastudentshavewontheseprestigiousscholarshipsandbeencompetitivewitheliteprivateschools,”shesaid,“itletsmorepeopleknowaboutUNC-ChapelHill.”

LibbyLonginoandHenrySpelman,whobothwonRhodesscholarshipsthisyear—spokeofLensing’scommitmenttohelpingstudentsimpressthescholarshipcommittees,eventhoughhenolongerdirectstheoffice.[see related story on Longino and Spelman on page 2.]Hecritiquedtheiressaysandconductedmockinterviewswiththemsotheycouldsharpentheiranswers.

DuringLensing’stenureasdirectorofdistinguishedscholarshipsandhisunofficialroleinhelpingstudentslastfall,10UNCstudentswerenamedRhodesScholarsandmoreUNCstudentsreceivedLuceScholarshipsthandidstudentsatHarvard.in2009,UNCnominatedfivestudentsforconsiderationasRhodesScholars;allfivewerenamedamongthe236finalists.

“idon’tthinkiwouldhavewonthescholarshipwithoutProfessorLensing’skindness,experienceandhumor,”Spelmansaid.“Butevenifihadn’twon,itwasworthapplyingjusttohavegottentoknowhimbetter.”

LonginowasmostimpressedbyLensing’s“dedicationandwillingnesstoshare[his]thoughtsandadvice”incritiquingdraftsofherpersonalstatementthatthescholarshiprequires.HecontinuedtocommunicatewithherthroughouthersummerinCapeTown,SouthAfrica,untilshewassatisfiedwithhersubmission.“He’sanexpertinhelpingyouthinkabouthowtoframe

yourworkandexperiencesinawaythateffectivelycommunicateswhoyouareandhowyoufitthecriteriaforthisscholarship,”shesaid.

Lensing,whiledirectingdistinguishedscholarships,workedwithstudentsapplyingforscholarshipssuchastheLuce,Udall,Truman,Marshall,Mitchell,goldwaterandChurchill.Heoftencameinonweekendsasdeadlinesapproached.Hevideotapedmockinterviews,nottocriticizebuttosay,“Here’showyouansweredthisquestion;youcritiqueit.”Studentscamebackaweeklaterpreparedwithmuchbetteranswers.

LensinghasspenthisentirecareeratUNC.OriginallyfromalittletowninLouisianacalledLakeProvidence,helefthomeinhighschoolforboardingschoolinArkansas,followedbyanundergraduatedegreeinenglishattheUniversityofNotre

Dameinindiana.HereturnedtotheSouthforadoctorateinenglishfromLouisianaStateUniversity,thenwenttoBrazilasavisitingprofessorofenglishforatwo-yearstintinthePeaceCorps.Fromthere,heappliedforteachingpositionsatuniversitiesintheU.S.UNChadanopeninginitsenglishdepartment.Hecamein1969andneverleft.

ThelistofadministrativedutiesandcommitteeinvolvementsoverthepastfourdecadestakesupthreepagesonLensing’scurriculumvitae.HewasselectedastheDecembercommencementspeakerin2004.Assecretaryofthefaculty,hewroteandreadanumberofhonorarydegreecitationsforluminariessuchasPresidentClinton,theRev.BillygrahamandNobelPrize-winningpoetSeamusHeaney.For26yearsheservedontheCommitteeonStudentConductthat

overseestheUNCHonorsSystem,andfor15yearshemadepresentationsontheHonorCodetothemen’sbasketballteam.

Butitisinteachingthathefoundhiscalling.HereceivedtheTannerDistinguishedTeachingAwardin1984andtheJohnSandersAwardforTeachingandServicein2001,andheheldtheBowmanandgordongrayProfessorshipforDistinguishedTeachingfrom2002to2007.

evenwhiledirectorofdistinguishedscholarships,Lensinghadonlyaone-coursereductioninhisteachingload.

Lensinggetsoutfrombehindthelecternasheteachesandwalksthroughtheaislesoftheclassroom,creatinganinteractiveclassroomenvironment,saidJosephFlora,hiscolleagueinthedepartmentofenglishandcomparativeliterature.“Noteverystudentlovespoetry,”Florasaid,“notevenenglishmajors.Hegivesstudentsasenseofwhyapoemhasendured;whileeventhoughit’stough,it’sstillworththeirtime.”

OnaDecembermorning,inthelastclassbeforefinalsbegan,LensingtalkedthroughaWilliamButlerYeatspoemaboutagingwithhisstudents,nearlyallbarelyoutoftheirteens.

“it’snotfair,”hesaidlater.“igrowolder,andtheystay20yearsoldeveryyear.”

Teachingkeepshimyoung,hesaid.“ilovetheinteractionwithstudents.Wheniteachaclasswheretheireyesarealertandthey’remakingresponsesandwritingthingsdown,idon’tknowanythingmoresatisfying.Youfeellikeyou’vegiventhemsomething.”

Oneofhisformerstudents,novelistSarahDessen,gavebackintheformofgivinghimacameoinoneofherteennovels.evermodest,hedidn’tletitgotohishead.“idon’tthinkmanyofmycolleagueshavereadDreamland,”hesaid.

Overtheyears,Lensinghastaughteverythingfromfirst-yearenglishtograduateseminars.Heplanstoteachonlyforafewmoreyears.He’llcontinuetodohisownresearch—hehaswrittenmoreaboutWallaceStevensthananyothercritic—andlookforotherwaystostayconnectedtotheUniversity.“it’sbeensuchabigpartofmylife,”hesaid.

“ilearnbyteaching.Agreatpoemisinexhaustible.There’salwayssomethingicanlearnfromit.” •

ABOVE: George Lensing and students examine

the works of Irish poet Seamus Heaney in the

Rare Book Collection of Wilson Library.

Erin Burns: Born to TeachBy JB Shelton

Teaching biology at West Charlotte High School is much more than a career in education for Erin Burns, who graduated from UNC in 2009 with a major in biology, a minor in entrepreneurship and N.C. teaching credentials.

“Even as a little girl, I understood the power of an educated mind,” she says. “Teaching fulfills my lifetime obsession to change the world for the better.”

The North Carolina Teaching Fellow graduated from High Point’s Southwest Guilford High School and began teaching at West Charlotte in August 2009. She is indefatigably passionate and has perfect timing, as one of the first graduates of the UNC-BEST (Baccalaureate Education in Science and Teaching) program, an innovative collaboration of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences and School of Education that enables science and math majors to simultaneously obtain their N.C. teaching credentials and their undergraduate degrees.

Burns origi-nally planned to be an inner-city biology teacher, becoming a missionary doctor by attend-ing medical night school. She admits to her naivete, “Little did I know there was no such thing as medical night school.”

Instead, she’s creating a teaching career — in a school with a 99 percent minority population and a 75 percent poverty level — where the kids consult her daily about health and personal issues.

“Teaching high-schoolers about their bodies, genetics and science is similar to working at a medical clinic,” says Burns. “Education is a powerful preventive medicine; students need to know about AIDS.” And they need to hear it from someone competent and comfortable in telling them.

RAp MUSIC IN THE CLASSROOM CSI LAB

UNC-BEST trained her to break down complex concepts into terms students could relate to. A senior, who’d flunked biology twice, told her, “Man, Ms. Burns, you’re the only teacher that makes it so that I can understand.” (Yes, he passed.)

Deoxyribonucleic acid is multi-syllabic genetic code mumbo-jumbo, but her students get her point that DNA is their bodies’ instruction manual. “We made and munched edible candy models of DNA and listened to ‘bio-rap’ — rap music with vocabulary about replicating DNA,” she says.

“Their favorite lessons,” adds Burns, “take place in our classroom CSI crime lab.” (Most teachers don’t start a school term

simulating a crime scene, complete with bloodied ketchup walls. Most teachers aren’t Erin Burns.) “Students gather evidence

and predict which pretend suspect broke into my classroom. Every student is 100 percent engaged, realizing the importance of science, imagining career paths toward forensics.”

ENTREpRENEUR’S CREATIVE SpIRITDuring the biotech unit, Burns

encourages students to think innovatively about creating solutions to world problems.

“I love to give them confidence-building assignments where there are no ‘wrong answers,’” she says. Her students vouch that she makes them feel smart, developing enough self-confidence to think finding a cancer cure could be in their futures.

Burns minored in entrepreneurship and

participated in an internship in Beijing where she taught art to migrant children.

“[The internship] gave her a whole new outlook on the world outside of North Carolina, with increased confidence in her talents and strengths,” says economics professor John F. Stewart, director of the entrepreneurship minor in the College.

Her ultimate dream is “combining my passion for entrepreneurship with my teaching experience to create a nonprofit group or charter school where entrepreneurial spirit and creativity collide.”

‘BORN TEACHER’“From my first interaction with

her, I knew Erin was a born teacher — unwavering, passionate, deeply committed to educating others and bringing about positive change through service,” says Ramona D. Cox, coordinator of teacher recruitment and retention licensure officer at UNC’s School of Education.

Cox and Burns worked together on a two-year service-learning project for Durham Public Schools, where she, students and members of the UNC chapter of the Student N.C. Association of Educators refurbished a school’s exterior and built a new school store.

“I know she will make a big difference in the lives of the students she encounters,” says Cox.

Burns’ students are already living proof.•

ABOVE: UNC-BEST graduate Erin Burns ’09 uses creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit in teaching biology to West Charlotte High School students.

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High NoteColleagues and students celebrate tenor’s long career

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32 years, Wing retired in June 2009. Over the years, his teaching and singing amassed a large and loyal following in Chapel Hill and beyond. His poignant Lieder recitals (art songs in German mainly from the 19th century), including Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Strauss and Mahler renditions, were highlights of the concert season.

He also taught and mentored a wealth of successful graduates, not only performers, but also teachers, musical directors and others who have prospered through his leadership, performance, teaching and service.

Terry Rhodes, UNC’s music department chair and director of opera, met Wing when she was an undergraduate in the 1970s. She has considered him a “dear colleague, incredible friend and mentor” throughout her 21 years on the Carolina faculty.

Rhodes described Wing as a beacon who led the voice area through periods of feast and famine with his “buoyant spirit, generous nature, warm smile and unstinting wisdom and guidance.”

Wing grew up in West Palm Beach, Fla., has degrees from Stetson and Louisiana State universities and studied at the Vienna Academy of Music. He came to UNC in 1969 from an illustrious career that embraced both classical and non-classical repertoire in concert, opera, musical theater, television, radio and recording.

Wing has performed as a soloist in Europe, the U.S and Canada, and has recorded with the Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna Symphony, the Vienna Pro Musica Orchestra and with Armor Artis in New York. He toured with the Music Theater of Lincoln Center and performed

Like many of the classic songs he sang and taught, Stafford Wing’s UNC career ended on a soaring note.

Colleagues, former students, fellow performers and admirers closed out the music professor’s 40 years at Carolina with a musical tribute in Hill Hall. Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Victoria Livengood ’83 was the headliner for the October celebration. Sharing the stage with her was a host of Wing’s former students from across the nation, from New York to California, and Florida to Alaska. For the finale of the show, all joined in singing Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from the musical Carousel:

When you walk through a storm Hold your head up high And don’t be afraid of the dark. At the end of a storm Is a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark ...

The song fit the occasion with a couple of caveats. At the end of Wing’s busy and fulfilling career, the sky glowed not golden, but Carolina blue. And the sound Rodgers and Hammerstein set at the end of the storm instead rang through all of Wing’s years on stage and in teaching — the “sweet silver song” of his lyric tenor voice.

A well-loved voice professor who chaired the voice area in the music department for

at Carnegie Hall in New York and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

In the early 1960s, as an ensemble singer, Wing pulled off nearly 1,000 performances as a member of the chorus at Radio City Music Hall — singing four and five shows daily. “I once did 22 straight weeks without a day off,” Wing recalled. He also performed in the ensemble for NBC-TV Opera productions, and with the New York Philharmonic in concerts and in recordings under the direction of Leonard Bernstein.

At Carolina, Wing served as director of the UNC Chamber Singers in the 1970s, and in addition to teaching voice, taught general music appreciation, lyric dictions and the ever-popular opera appreciation. He received the Amoco Foundation Award for excellence in inspirational teaching of undergraduate students. During his teaching career, he continued to perform in recital, oratorio and opera not only on campus, but also in Europe and New York.

Nurtured by music every day, Wing said he owes a great deal of his success to the love and support of his wife of 54 years, Janice Tice Wing, who also was his first accompanist in high school.

“The opportunity to teach while continuing to sing has been an incredible gift. The students have kept me young,” he said. “I will always be interested in students and colleagues, and I hope to remain in touch with them.”

ONLINE ExTRAS: Read the program from Wing’s retirement celebration at college.unc.edu. •

“The opportunity to teach while continuing to sing has been an incredible gift. The students have kept me young. I will always be interested in students and colleagues, and I hope to remain in touch with them.”

ABOVE: UNC tenor Stafford Wing


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graduatestudenttohelpestablishsevenofthestationsnowinoperation.”

DrewColeman,associateprofessor,concursthatRogers’giftsextendbeyondthecheckbook.

“Johnhasbeenatremendoussupporterofundergraduateandgraduateresearch,”hesaid.“Hisinterestsaremultidisciplinaryinaclimatethatemphasizesspecialization.He

encouragesaholisticviewofscience,mixingresearchapproaches,researchareasandevenresearchdisciplines.”

ColemansaidthatRogershasbeenapioneerinencouraginggeologicaltechniquestowardsolvingarchaeologicalproblems.

“itisnotunusualtobeginworkingonaproblemwithastudentanddigintotheliteratureonlytofindapaperwrittenbyJohndecadesago.”

Rogers,anativeofLosAngeles,enrolledasachemistrymajorattheveneratedCaliforniainstituteofTechnology(becauseitwaswithindrivingdistanceofhishometown,hejokes),butswitchedafterhetookarequiredgeologycourseandthenhisgeologycoursesbegantooutnumberhischemistryclasses.

Heearnedhismaster’sdegreeattheUniversityofMinnesota,returnedtoCalTechin1952andcompletedhisPh.D.therein1954.HisfirstjobwastohelpcreatethegeologydepartmentatRiceUniversityinHouston.

JohnRogershaslefttheclassroom—butnotthestudents.

AndalthoughtheWilliamR.Kenan,Jr.Professoremeritusofgeologyretiredin1997after22yearsontheCarolinafaculty,heremainsengagedinresearch,bothhisownandthatofotherUNCgeologists.Hishealthpreventshimfromthephysicalchallengesofgeologicalfieldwork,buthismindcontinuestoexplorewithvigor.

“Thedepartmenthashiredsomeremarkablefacultyinthepastfewyears,”saidRogers.“Whileican’tworkinthefield,icansupportfacultyandstudentswithdollarsforequipmentandresearch.”

ThroughtheJohnandBarbaraRogersFundforgeochemicalexcellence,Rogersdirectshisgiftstoseedfundingforfacultyinthedepartment.Thismoneyhelpsattractevenlargerprivateandfederalgrantsandenablesundergraduatesandgraduatestudentstoconductimportantresearchthatotherwisewouldnothavebeenpossible.Forexample,arecentgiftenabledayoungfacultymembertopurchaseapelletpressusedtopreparerocksforanalysis,whichledtoaNationalScienceFoundationgrantforaspecialX-raymachinetoanalyzegeologicalelementsindetail.

RogersalsosteppedinwithcriticalfundingforassistantprofessorLaraWagner,whoseresearchinseismologyandtectonicsfocusesonhowtheBlueRidgeMountainssurvivetheravagesoftime.

“ihadfundsfor10broadbandseismicstations,butnomoneyforexpenseslikefuel,foodandlodging,”Wagnersaid.“Johnprovidedthisfundingandmadeitpossibleforfourundergraduatesanda

inadditiontoRogers’abundantscientificaccomplishments—sevenbooks,fellow

andpastpresidentoftheinternationalDivisionofthegeologicalSocietyofAmerica,fellowofthegeologicalSocietyofindia,andhonoraryfellowofthegeologicalSocietyofAfrica—heisagiftedadministrator.WhileatRice,heservedforfiveyearsasMasterofBrownCollege,awomen’sresidentialcollege.

Today,RogerslivesinDurhamwithhiswifeBarbara.Theyhavetwochildren,Tim,anewspapereditorinWilson,N.C.,andPeter,whostudieswildlifeconservationinAfricaandisonthefacultyofPaulSmith’sCollegeinNewYork.

Rogersrecentlycompletedco-authoringacollegetextbookonhowhumanhistoryhasbeeninfluencedbyearthanditsprocesses,includingclimatechangesandHurricaneKatrina.RogersevenmaintainsaFacebookpage.

“Johnactivelyseeksandfundsstudentsforallofhisresearchideas.Partofthisispractical.Henolongerhasthephysicalabilitiestofollowthroughonideas,”saidColeman.

“Theother[factor]ispassion.Johngetsimmeasurablesatisfactionfromworkingwithstudentsandwatchingthemsucceed.”

AndthankstoRogers,theycanmovemountains.•

ONLINE ExTRAS: More on Lara Wagner’s research and John rogers at college.unc.edu.

Moving MountainsGifts from retired geologist support faculty and student research

By Del Helton

ABOVE: John Rogers. LEFT: Lara Wagner (left) and students have benefited from John Rogers’ generosity.

“The department has

hired some remarkable

faculty in the past few years.

While I can’t work in the

field, I can support faculty

and students with dollars for

equipment and research.”



RachmaninoffandRickyNelsonshared12-year-oldLindaMoorePelletier’shi-fitime,thankstoasupplyofclassicalmusicalbumsfromherbeloveduncle“ArdreyLee.”

Longafterthepopstarsoftheearly1960sfellfromthecharts,Pelletier’sinterestinclassicalmusicandartflourished.

“Myunclegavemeculture,”saidPelletier,a1970UNCalumnaofVanWyck,S.C.,andlongtimeteacheratCharlotteCountryDaySchool.“Hewasmarvelous,educated,witty,andtotheend,hismindwasassharpasatack.”

LuciusLeeArdreyMooreJr.diedinSeptember2007at84,leavinganotherlegacy,onethatwillinfluencegenerationsofCarolinastudents.Throughhisestate,hegavetheCollegeofArtsandSciences$880,000toestablishtheJacquesHardréDistinguishedProfessorshipinRomanceLanguages,thedepartment’sfirstpermanentprofessorship.TheHardréProfessorshipqualifiesforanother$334,000fromthestate’sDistinguishedProfessorsendowmentTrustFund,makingthetotalinitialendowment$1,214,000.itwillprovidethedepartmentwithannualincomeofmorethan$60,000forsalaryandresearchfunds.

“Lee’sgifthonorsaprofessorwhowasdepartmentalchairataverysignificanttimeofexpansion,andatthesametimewilladdtoourfacultyaverydistinguishedscholarofromancelanguages,”saidLarryKing,departmentchair.“itcouldn’tcomeatamorecriticaltimeasseverallongtimemembersofourfacultyareretiring,andwewillneed

A College FirstUNC alum creates first distinguished professorship in romance languages

By Del Helton

torecruitnewfacultyinahighlycompetitiveenvironment.”

MooreearnedfourCarolinadegrees,includingbachelor’sdegreesinchemistryandmedicaltechnologyin1949,amaster’sdegree(1950)andaPh.D.(1965)inpublichealth.HewasborninDavenport,iowa,butgrewupinClinton,N.C.,astheoldestoffourchildren.

AftercompletinghisPh.D.,MooremovedtoAtlanta,beginninga27-yearcareerattheCentersforDiseaseControlasaconsultantinparasitologyandtropicalmedicine.HetraveledoftentotheSouthPacific,CentralAmericaandtheCaribbeantotrainlocalhealthagenciesontreatmentstopreventanddetecttropicaldiseases,includingmalaria.

Apassionatechoristerofchurchmusic,hejoinedAtlanta’sCathedralofSt.Philipin1968,wherehemethispartnerof39years,JohnWilkerson.WilkersondiedjusttwomonthspriortoMoore’sdeath.

Overtheyears,thetwoentertainednumerousfriendsandfamilyintheirhistoricAnsleyParkhome,withannualmintjulepparties,easterchampagne

brunchesandNewYear’sDaydinnersoftraditionalhogjowl,Hoppin’John,collard

greensandMoore’sinfamousstewedtomatocasserole.

MoorehadalreadynamedCarolinainhiswill,butafriendsuggested

designatingthegiftinhonorofaCarolinafacultymemberwhomheheldingreatesteem.

ThatwasJacquesHardré,aFrenchprofessorandmentortoMooreduringhisstudentyears.

“Heliterallyturnedmyuncle’slifearoundandmadehimrealizehisself-worth,”saidPelletier,whocoincidentallywasaFrenchmajor.

HardrébeganteachingatCarolinain1945,wasnamedaKenanProfessorin1971,andretiredin1977.Hediedin1983at68.

AnativeofDinan,France,HardrébecameanaturalizedU.S.citizenin1956.From1942until1945,heservedasalieutenantwiththelegendaryFirstArmoredDivisionoftheFreeFrench,earninganumberofmilitaryawardsforhisservice.HardréearnedtwodegreesatCarolina,anM.A.in1941andaPh.D.in1948.

ForPelletier,thegiftisalastingreminderofheruncle’sremarkablegenerosityandhisdevotiontoaplaceheloved.

“ArdreyLeewassohappywhenhecouldhelpothers.AndheabsolutelyadoredChapelHill—whodoesn’t?”•

ONLINE ExTRAS: read the 1983 UNC Faculty resolution memorializing Jacques hardré at college.unc.edu.

ABOVE: Lee Moore as a student at Carolina. Through his estate, Moore established a professorship in honor of a favorite French professor.

“Ardrey Lee was so happy when he

could help others. And he absolutely

adored Chapel Hill — who doesn’t?”



asAmericanstudies,whichhasseveralotherfacultywhoworkwithvisualculture.”

BarrettcametoUNCfollowingaMellonPostdoctoralFellowshipinAmericanArtattheUniversityofChicago.Beforethat,hewasaWyethFellowattheCenterforAdvancedStudyintheVisualArtsattheNationalgalleryofArt.Barrettearnedmaster’sdegreesinarthistoryandmuseumstudiesfromSyracuseUniversityaftercompletinghisundergraduateworkattheUniversityofNotreDame.HereceivedhisPh.D.inarthistoryfromBostonUniversity.

Barrettsayshisfavoritepartofbeingaprofessoristeachingcollegestudents.

“ifindtheenergy,enthusiasmandinquisitivenessofstudentsexciting,”Barrettsaid.“it’sawonderfultimeoflife

forpeople,atimeofdiscovery.it’sexcitingtobearoundstudentswhenthey’rebringingthisenergy,spiritandenthusiasmtotheclassroom.itbuoysyou.”

inadditiontogeneralsurveycoursesonAmericanart,BarrettcurrentlyteachesanadvancedcourseontheCivilWarinAmericanart.Heisalsodeveloping

agraduatecourseinAmericanlandscapepainting,whichhewillteachforthefirsttimeinfall2010.

intheclassroom,Barrettworkstohelpstudentsunderstandtheinterconnectionofartwithothersocialforcesandculturalactivities.

RossBarrettremembershisfirstartexhibition.

Hewas7yearsoldwhenhisparentstookhimtotheLosAngelesCountyMuseumtoanexhibitionfeaturingFrenchimpressionistpaintings.Barrettrecallsbeingfascinatedbythebrightcolorsofthepaintings,especiallyMonet’s“gardenatSainte-Adresse,”withitscolorfulflagsandflowersonaseasideterrace.itwasthebeginningofalifelongpassionforart.

AstheinauguralDavidg.FreyDistinguishedFellowofAmericanArt,Barrettspecializesin19thand20thcenturyAmericanpainting.Hisinterestsincludeideology,violenceandpowerinAmericansocietyandart.

BarrettsaysthatthefocusoftheFreyFellowshipplayedanimportantroleinhisdecisiontojoinCarolina’sfaculty.

“NootherschoolshadthistypeofcommitmenttoAmericanart,”hesaid.“ThatwasincrediblyexcitingandsetCarolinaapartfromotherschools.”

MarySheriff,artdepartmentchairandW.R.Kenan,Jr.DistinguishedProfessorofArtHistory,saidBarrett’sappointmentcomesatanimportanttimeforthedepartment.

“TheadditionofaspecialistinAmericanartwascritical,”Sheriffsaid.“Theareaisnotonlyoneofthemostpopularwithstudentsbutisalsoastrongcomponentofdepartmentssuchasmusic,historyandenglish.WithBarrettjoiningthefaculty,wehaveincreasedourofferingsinAmericanartaswellasourcollaborationwithunitssuch

“Americansocietyisincreasinglyvisual,”hesaid.“iwantstudentstoengagewiththatlandscapecritically—toseeartimagesasproductsofadeeperhistory,boundwithsocial,economicandpoliticalstructuresandforces.Thekeyisthinkingofartasalensonamoment,notareflection.itgivesusaccesstothewayAmericansthoughtofmajordevelopmentsandcrisesoftheirtimes.”

Barrettworkstobridgethegapbetweentheartthestudentsarestudyingandtheworldaroundthem.Heoftenshowsads,cartoonsandpopularprintsfromtheerastheystudytohelpprovidethemwithacriticaltoolboxforviewingtheworldtoday.

BarrettreceivessalarysupportandresearchfundingfromtheDavidg.FreyDistinguishedProfessorshipinAmericanArt,oneofthreeprofessorshipsestablishedbyDavidFrey(’64BAenglish,’67JD.)Abankerbytrade,Freycreatedprofessorshipsinart,dramaticartandmusicbecauseheviewstheliberalartsasthefoundationofanundergraduateeducation.

FreysaidheselectedAmericanart,specificallytheperiodfromthe1820sto1945,becauseoftherecentgrowthinthefieldaswellashisinterestasacollector.

“Americanartisanemergingdiscipline,fromateaching,aswellasacollecting,standpoint.i’mexcitedthattheuniversityfoundarisingstarinthisarea,”Freysaid.“it’sgratifyingthatstudents,graduatestudentsandothersoncampuswillbeabletohaveahigherandperhapsmorethoroughappreciationoftheartistsspanningthelasttwoorthreecenturiesofAmericanart.”•

Artistic LensNew Frey Fellow uses art as a critical toolbox for viewing the world

By Joanna Worrell Cardwell (M.A. ’06)

ABOVE: Ross Barrett is the first David G. Frey Distinguished Fellow of American Art. He specializes in 19th and 20th century American painting.

“American society is increasingly visual. I want students to engage with that landscape critically — to see art images as products of a deeper history, bound with social, economic and political structures and forces. The key is thinking of art as a lens on a

moment, not a reflection. It gives us access to the way Americans thought of major developments

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theirshellsoutofcalciumcarbonate)atvariouslevelsofCO2

predictedtooccuroverthenextseveralcenturies.WhenCO2

combineswithwater,itproducescarbonicacid,raisingthe

overallamountofcarboninseawaterbutreducingtheamount

ofthecarbonateionusedbyorganismsintheircalcification.

Sevenspecies(crabs,lobsters,shrimp,redandgreen

calcifyingalgae,limpetsandtemperateurchins)showeda

positiveresponse,meaningtheycalcifiedatahigherrateand

increasedinmassunderelevatedCO2.Tentypesoforganisms

(includingoysters,scallops,temperatecoralsandtubeworms)

hadreducedcalcificationunderelevatedCO2,withseveral(hard

andsoftclams,conchs,periwinkles,whelksandtropicalurchins)

seeingtheirshellsdissolve.Onespecies(mussels)showedno

response.

Suchchangescouldhaveseriousramificationsforpredator

andpreyrelationshipsthathaveevolvedoverhundredsof

millionsofyears,saidRies,assistantprofessorofmarinesciences.

“Thereisnomagicformulatopredicthowdifferentspecies

willrespond,butonethingyoucanbesureofisthatecosystems

asawholewillchangebecauseofthesevariedindividual

responses,”hesaid.•

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seawaterbecomesmore

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atmosphericcarbon

dioxide,someshelled

marinecreaturesmay

actuallybecomebigger

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aUNCstudy.

Thefinding,based

onresearchbyUNCmarinescientistJustinRies,couldhave

importantimplicationsforoceanfoodwebsandthemulti-billion

dollarglobalmarketforshellfishandcrustaceans.

Previousresearchhasshownthatoceanacidification—the

termforfallingpHlevelsintheearth’soceansastheyabsorb

increasingamountsofcarbondioxide(CO2)fromtheatmosphere

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dissolvetheshellsofsuchcreatures.

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intheDecemberissueofthejournal

Geology,suggeststhatsediment-dwelling

marineorganismsmayexhibitawider

rangeofresponsestoCO2-induced

acidificationthanpreviouslythought:

somemaygetweakerwhileothers

becomestronger.

Researchersalsofoundthatcreatureswhoseshellsgrew

themost,suchascrabs,tendedtopreyonthosewhoseshells

weakenedthemost,suchasclams.

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politicsinLatinAmerica.ForhisdoctoraldissertationinhistoryattheUniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego,hefocusedonindigenousperceptionsinAyacucho,Peru,from1940to1983,precedingtheriseoftheShiningPathguerillainsurgency.

HeisapostdoctoralfellowatUNCandwilljointhetenure-trackfacultyJuly1.

• Gabriela Valdivia,assistantprofessorofgeography,studieshuman-environmentalinteractionsinLatinAmerica.ForherinterdisciplinarydoctoraldissertationattheUniversityofMinnesota,sheexploredthepoliticalandenvironmentalclaimsofNativeAmazoniansintheecuadorwho

EdITOR’S NOTE: one of the top priorities of the College is to ensure that our students get a truly global education by studying with teachers and scholars who are experts in key regions of the world. that means maintaining our considerable faculty expertise in Latin America and europe, while expanding the number of faculty who focus on Asia, Africa and the Middle east. thanks to a combination of public and private support, and interdisciplinary partnerships, the following international scholars joined our faculty in the fall.

Latin America

• Zaragosa Vargas,aleadingscholarinU.S.andLatino/alaborhistory,istheWilliamR.KenanDistinguishedProfessorofHistoryandLatino/aStudies.HegrewupinMichigan“intheshadowoftheautoindustry,”hesays,wherefamilymembersworkedforgeneralMotors.HisdoctoraldissertationattheUniversityofMichiganfocusedonearlyMexicanfactoryworkersinDetroitandtheindustrialMidwest.Theauthoroffivebooksandnumerousarticlesandessays,hepreviouslytaughtatYaleUniversityandtheUniversityofCaliforniaatSantaBarbara.AtCarolina,heiscollaboratingwithoralhistorianJacquelynHall,theJuliaCherrySpruillProfessorofHistory,ontheearlycivilrightsmovement.

• Miguel La Serna,assistantprofessorofhistory,isinterestedinindigenousrevolutionarymovementsandtheconnectionsbetweenculture,violenceand

wereaffectedbypetroleumdevelopment.SheisnowstudyinghowagrariandecisionsinthelowlandsofBoliviaareaffectedbychangesinpolitics,institutionsandproductionrelationsassociatedwithlandreform.

Asia

• Yong Cai,assistantprofessorofsociologyandfellowoftheCarolinaPopulationCenter,isanexpertontheimpactofChina’ssocialandpoliticalchangesonfertility,mortalityandgenderinequality.Nowconsideredarisingstarinhisfield,hegrewuponafarminruralChinaandgraduatedfromPekingUniversityinBeijing,wherehewasastudentduringtheTiananmenSquareprotests.HehasaPh.D.insociologyandanM.S.degreeinstatisticsfromtheUniversityofWashington.BeforecomingtoCarolina,hetaughtattheUniversityofUtah.HeissupportedinpartbyaFreemanFoundationgranttohelptheCollegeexpandfacultyexpertiseinAsia.

• Xi Chen,assistantprofessorofpoliticalscience,iscompletingagroundbreakingbookabouttheincreasinglevelofsocialprotestsinChinaandthegovernment’sresponsetothem.AsaformerattorneyinChina,hehadextraordinaryaccesstointernalreportsfrompoliceandpoliticalpartysourcesinhisnativeHunanProvinceandwasabletoconductin-depthinterviewswithpoliceaswellasprotestorspetitioning

Growing global expertise

Zaragosa Vargas

Anna Agbe-Davies

Miguel La Serna

Ahmed El Shamsy

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HigHligHtsthegovernment.HereceivedaPh.D.inpoliticalsciencefromColumbiaUniversity,hadapostdoctoralfellowshipatHarvardandpreviouslytaughtatLouisianaStateUniversity.

• Sara Smith, afeministgeographer,conductedalandmarkstudyofthecomplexpoliticsofmarriageandfertilityalongthevolatileindia-PakistanborderforherdoctoraldissertationattheUniversityofArizona.DuringayearofintensefieldworkintheLadakhregion,shefoundthatincreasingtensionsbetweenBuddhistsandMuslimshavecomplicatedreproductivedecisionsandchoicesregardingmarriage,asindividualsrespondtopressurestoenhancetheirpopulationbaseforpoliticalpurposes.Smithconducted200surveys,includingin-depthinterviewswithmembersofBuddhistandMuslimhouseholds,andwithpoliticalandreligiousleaders.

Africa

• Anna Agbe-Davies, assistantprofessorofanthropology,focusesonthehistoricalarchaeologyofcolonialisminAtlanticAfricaandslaveryintheCaribbeanandsoutheasternUnitedStates.HerresearchandteachingspanAfrican,African-AmericanandAmerican/Southernstudies.SheobtainedaPh.D.inanthropologyattheUniversityofPennsylvania,previouslytaughtatDePaulUniversityandservedasanarchaeologistfortheColonialWilliamsburgFoundation.

• Colin Thor West, assistantprofessorofanthropology,isengagedininnovativeresearchonthehumanimpactsofdevelopmentandclimatechangeinAfricaandAlaska.Hehasstudied

SINGLE ATOM CONTROLS MOTION NEEDED FOR BACTERIAL INFECTION

UNCresearchershavediscoveredthatasingleatom—acalcium—cancontrolhowbacteria“walk.”Thefindingidentifiesakeystepintheprocessbywhichbacteriainfecttheirhosts,andcouldonedayleadtonewdrugtargetstopreventinfection.

Bacteriastrollalongsolidsurfacesusingtinyfibrouslegscalledpili.Thismotilityenablessomepathogenicbacteriatoestablishinfections—suchasmeningitis—thatcanbelethal.

Byresolvingthestructureofaproteininvolvedinthemovementoftheopportunistichumanpathogenpseudomonas aeruginosa,scientistsidentifiedaspotonthebacteria,thatwhenblocked,canstopitinitstracks.

“Whenitcomesdowntoit,asingleatommakesallthedifference,”saidseniorstudyauthorMatthewR.Redinbo,professorandchairofthedepartmentofchemistryintheCollege,andprofessorofbiochemistryandbiophysics.Hisfindingsappearedintheproceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

RedinboandhisteamhavebeencollaboratingwithMatthewC.Wolfgang,anassistantprofessorofmicrobiologyandimmunologyandamemberoftheCysticFibrosis/PulmonaryResearchandTreatmentCenteratUNC.Theyaretryingtofigureouthowbacteriamovewiththeirlegs.TheynoticedthatTypeiVpiliarelong,densefibers.

“Thesepiliactasgrapplinghooks—thebacteriaextendthefibersout,thefibersattachorsticktoasurface,andthenareretractedbackintothebacteria,pullingitalong,”saidWolfgang.

TheresearchwasfundedbytheNationalinstitutesofHealthandHowardHughesMedicalinstitute.•

A single atom — calcium (shown in blue)

— can control how bacteria walk.

howenvironmentalchangeaffectshouseholdsustainabilityinBurkinaFasoandhowfluctuationsinsalmonharvestsimpactcommunitiesintheArctic.HegraduatedfromtheUniversityofChicago,volunteeredinAfricaforthePeaceCorps,earnedaPh.D.inanthropologyattheUniversityofArizona,andservedasaNOAA(NationalOceanicandAtmosphericAdministration)post-doctoralfellowattheUniversityofAlaska,Anchorage.

Africa/Middle East:

• Ahmed El Shamsy, assistantprofessorofhistory,isconsidereda“trail-blazing”scholarofpre-modernislamiclawandcultureinnorthAfricaandtheMiddleeast.Heisworkingonabookabouttheearlyevolutionofislamiclawinegypt.Hegrewupingermany,receivedaB.A.withhonorsinArabicandpoliticsfromtheSchoolofOrientalandAfricanStudiesinLondon,andearnedamaster’sdegreeininternationalrelationsfromtheLondonSchoolofeconomicsandaPh.D.inhistoryandMiddleeaststudiesfromHarvardUniversity.•

— the College also recently hired a Chinese film expert as a lecturer-adviser in communication studies and five additional lecturers to expand our teaching in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean language and literature classes. this year we are seeking to recruit six tenure-track professors with expertise in areas such as British history, Brazil, Japan, sub-Saharan Africa, Korea, and peace, war and defense. We are also hiring a lecturer in international and area studies, and another in Arabic language and literature.

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CELEBRATING FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS

RonBilbaowasbornandraisedinMiamitoimmigrantparentsfromVenezuelaandColombia.NowasenioratUNC,heisthefirstpersoninhisfamilyheadeddownthepathtocollegegraduation.

“Myfatherhadtoactuallydropoutofcollegewhenhewasyoungertogotowork,but[myparents]knewthevalueofaneducationandwantedtopassthatontotheirkids,”saidBilbao.

About20percentofundergradu-ateswhoenteredCarolinainfall2009arefirst-generationcollegestudentslikeBilbao.

Newinitiatives—includingaWebsite,studentorganizationandgraduationrecognition—arecelebratingthesuccessofthesefirst-generationstudents.

“Nationally,thenumberoffirst-generationcollegestudentsattendinguniversitiesisontherise,”saidCynthiaDemetriou,retentioncoordinatorintheOfficeofUndergraduateeducationintheCollege.“Thegoalofthesenewinitiativesistohelpretainfirst-generationstudentsbyfurtherintegratingthemintotheacademicandsocialcultureoftheUniversity.”

TheWebsite(firstgeneration.unc.edu)featuresvideointerviewswithfirst-generationstudentsincludingBilbaoaswellasalumniandfaculty;informationaboutthenewCarolinaFirstsstudentorganization;astudentblog;aphotogallery;tipsforsuccess;supportservicesforstudents;andmore.

AnewinitiativebeginninginMaywillrecognizegraduatingfirst-generationcollegestudentswithapinthatsays“CarolinaFirsts,”aswellasacelebratorybreakfast.

inApril,forthesecondyear,theOfficeofUndergraduateAdmissionswillholdaneventforfirst-generationstudentswhohavebeenadmittedforfall2010.•

Fromprofessionalathletestoweekendwarriors,theconditionknownas“runner’sknee”isapainfulandpotentiallydebilitatinginjurysufferedbymillionsofpeople.Untilnow,ithasbeenunclearjustwhatcausesit.

NewUNCresearchhaszeroedinonwhatappeartobethemainculpritsofthecondition,formallyknownaspatellofemoralpainsyndrome.

Thestudyisbelievedtobethefirstlarge,long-termprojecttotrackathletesfrombeforetheydevelopedrunner’sknee,saidstudyco-authorDarinPadua,associateprofessorofexerciseandsportscience.

TheresearchappearedintheNovemberissueoftheAmerican Journal of Sports Medicine.

Runner’sknee—thebaneofmanytypesofexercise,fromrunningtobasketballtodance—affectsoneinfourphysicallyactivepeople.ifunchecked,itcanleadtomoreseriousproblemssuchaspatellofemoralosteoarthristis.

Paduaandhiscolleaguesstudiedalmost1,600enrolleesfromtheUnitedStatesNavalAcademy.Researchersanalyzedparticipants’biomechanicswhentheyfirstenrolledattheacademy,thenfollowedthemforseveralyearstoseeiftheydevelopedthesyndrome.

Atotalof40participantsdevelopedthesyndromeduringthefollow-upperiod.

PinPoinTinG THE CauSE oF ‘runnEr’S KnEE’

Thestudyfound:•Participantswithweakerhamstring

muscleswere2.9timesmorelikelytodevelopthesyndromethanthosewiththestrongesthamstrings.

•Thosewithweakerquadricepmuscleswere5.5timesmorelikely.

•Thosewithweakarcheswere3.4timesmorelikely.

•Participantswithsmallerkneeflexionangle(thosewhosekneesbentlessonlandingduringajumptest)were3.1timesmorelikely.

Thestudyappearstoconfirmthatifpeoplecanchangethewaytheymoveandimprovetheirlegstrength,theycanpreventorcorrecttheproblem,Paduasaid.

everydayathletescanalsospotforthemselveswhethertheyareatrisk.Forexample,iftheirkneecrossesoverthebigtoewhensquatting,ifthearchesoftheirfeetcollapsewhenlandingfromajump,andiftheydonotbendtheirkneesmuchwhentheyland,theystandagreaterchanceofdevelopingthesyndrome,Paduasaid.

Theresearchersarenowlookingintowhichexercisesarebestforimprovingthebiomechanicsinvolved.

Thestudy’sleadauthorwasMichelleC.Boling,aUNCdoctoralstudentatthetimeofthestudy,nowanassistantprofessorattheUniversityofNorthFlorida,Jacksonville.•


h i g h l i g h t sHigHligHtsDISPLAYING WORKS OF HEART

About100piecesfrom20artistswereshowcasedattheNovemberopening

ofTheArtery,anewstudent-rungalleryprovidinganopportunityforstudentartiststodisplaytheirwork.

TheArteryislocatedintheBankofAmericaCenterat137e.RosemarySt.inChapelHill.

FoundersofthegalleryincludeHallieRingle,aseniorarthistorymajor;NataliaDavila,ajuniorartmajorandchemistryminor;andgavinHackeling,aseniordoublemajorinartandpoliticalscience.RingleandDavilaarepresidentandvicepresident,respectively,ofKappaPi,theartand

arthistoryhonorsfraternity.

Whentryingtofindpotentialbuild-ingstohousethegallery,thetriosentletterstothosethathadvacancysigns.Soonafter,theBankofAmericaCenteragreedtoletthemusethespaceforfree.

TheideacameasaninspirationfromJeffWhetstone,

directorofundergraduateartstudiesandanassistantprofessorintheartdepartment.Whetstonetoldthestudentsaboutastudent-runartgallerythatopenedin2003.Althoughthatgallerysurvivedforonlyafewmonths,theorganizersofthenewgalleryseeTheArteryasalong-termproject.

Theorganizershopethatthegallerywillalsointerestthosenotnormallyinvolvedinartandthoseinterestedinarthistoryandcuratingexhibits.•

Report identifies strategies to head off ’home-grown’ terrorism

TheshootingsatFortHood,therecentarrestsoffiveyoungmeninPakistanandlastsummer’sarrestsofterrorismsuspectsinNorthCarolinamarkatroublingincreaseinterrorism-relatedactivitybyMuslim-Americans.

ButanewreportbyscholarsatUNCandDukeUniversity,whichanalyzestheextentofterroristviolencebyMuslim-Americanssince9/11andidentifiesstrategiestoheadoff“home-grown”terrorism,saysthenumberofradicalizedMuslim-Americansisstillsmall.

SincetheterroristattacksofSept.11,2001,139Muslim-Americanshavecommittedviolentterroristacts,beenconvictedonterrorismchargesinvolvingviolenceorbeenarrestedwithchargespending.Ofthatnumber,fewerthanathirdsuccessfullyexecutedtheirviolentplots,andmostofthosewereoverseas.

Thereportrecommendsthatpolicymakersreinforcesuccessfulanti-radicalizationactivitiesnowunderwayinMuslim-Americancommunitiestoaddressthislow—butnotinsignificant—levelofterroristactivity.

“Muslim-Americanorganizationsandthevastmajorityofindividualsthatweinterviewedfirmlyrejecttheradicalextremistideologythatjustifiestheuseofviolencetoachievepoliticalends,”saidco-authorDavidSchanzer,directoroftheTriangleCenteronTerrorismandHomelandSecurity.

Thereport,“Anti-TerrorLessonsofMuslim-AmericanCommunities,”wasco-authoredbySchanzer,associateprofessoratDuke’sSanfordSchoolofPublicPolicyandadjunctassociateprofessorofpublicpolicyatUNC;CharlesKurzman,professorofsociologyatUNC;andebrahimMoosa,associateprofessorofreligionatDuke.itsummarizestwoyearsofresearchinMuslim-AmericancommunitiesinSeattle,Houston,BuffaloandRaleigh-Durham.

“Muslim-American organizations and the vast majority of individuals that we interviewed firmly reject the radical extremist ideology that justifies the use of violence to achieve political ends.”

”Muslim-Americancommunitieshavebeenactiveinpreventingradicalization,”saidKurzman.“ThisisonereasonthatMuslim-Americanterrorismhasresultedinfewerthanthreedozenofthe136,000murderscommittedintheUnitedStatessince9/11.”

Theresearchshowsthatdenunciationsofterrorism,internalself-policing,communitybuilding,government-fundedsupportservicesandpoliticalengagementcanallreducerisksofradicalization.

TheauthorsnotedthatMuslim-Americans“arefeelingthestrainoflivinginAmericaduringthepost-9/11era”andpoliciesthatalienateMuslim-Americancommunitiesinanefforttocrackdownonterrorismarelikelytoexacerbate,notreduce,thethreatofhomegrownterrorism. •

LEFT: Charles Kurzman co-authored a report on “home-grown” terrorism. RIGHT: Students (from left) Natalia Davila, Hallie Ringle and Gavin Hackeling co-founded The Artery.

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PROGRESS MADE IN TURNING METHANE GAS INTO LIQUID FUEL

ResearchersatUNCandtheUniversityofWashingtonhavetakenanimportantstepinconvertingmethanegastoaliquid,potentiallymakingitmoreusefulasacleanfuelandasasourceformakingotherchemicals.

Methane,theprimarycomponentofnaturalgas,isplentifulandisanattractivefuelandrawmaterialbecauseitismoreefficientthanoil,produceslesspollutionandcouldserveasapracticalsubstituteforpetroleum-basedfuelsuntilrenewablefuelsarewidelyuseableandavailable.

However,methaneisdifficultand

Whilesomestudentsmayhavespentlastsummerrelaxingatthebeach,UNCseniorMaggieWestcreatedamicrofinanceprogramtohelpthehomelessinChapelHillandCarrboro.

West,apublicpolicyandLatinAmericanstudiesmajorfromRaleigh,ledthepilotlaunch,workingwiththeCommunityempowermentFund(CeF).Thestudent-runorganization,affiliatedwiththeCampusYandtheUNCCenteronPoverty,WorkandOpportunity,givesloanstothosewhoarealreadyhomelessoratriskofbeinginthatsituationandhelpsthembuildtheirfinancialassets.

WestwasinspiredtohelpfromherinvolvementwithHOPe(HomelessOutreachPovertyeradication),aCampusYgroup,whichgaveherthechancetoformrelationshipswiththehomeless.

ShereceivedaSummerUndergraduateResearchFellowship(SURF)fromtheOfficeforUndergraduateResearchintheCollegetofundthe

Senior creates microfinance program for homeless

programandevaluatetheresults.“iwillalwaysbedriven

tothiskindofworkbythestrengthofthecommunityitselfandthecourageandcon-victionihavewitnessedinthiscommunitytoovercomechallengeafterchallenge,”Westsaid.“iamdriventodelvethisdeepandworkforsystemicchangebecauseihavebeensohumbledbyallthatihavelearnedfromthosewhomihavemetintheshelterandonthestreets.ibelievewealldeserveabettersystem.”

Volunteersandstudentsservedasloanofficersforthenewproject.Thefundswereprimarilyusedforhousingdeposits,startingasmallbusiness,buyingcellphonesorpayingforbuspassesforwork.

Lastsummer,CeFreceived18applicationsfortheprogram,andapprovedfiveofthem.Thosefiveborrowerswereeligibletoreceiveinitialloansfrom$100to$300.Whenthosewerepaidoff,theywouldbeabletoreceiveloansfrom$600to$1,000.

ifborrowershadtodefertheirpayment,theywereabletoworkitoffforafewhoursas“sweatequity”throughtheCampus

Y’sHOPegardens.Thehomelessplantandharvesttheirowncrops,whicharethensoldatfarmersmarketsandontheUNCcampus.

Applicantswhowerenoteligibleforloanswerenotdeniedassistance.CeFprovidedthemwithaconnectiontootherservices,suchasfoodpantries,housingassistanceprograms,healthcareproviders,aswellasskilldevelopmentsuchasresume-building,job-searchingandcomputerliteracy.

DurhamCountyisinterestedinreplicatingtheidea.CeFisworkingwithDukeUniversity,theDurhamRotaryClubandDurhamCountyDepartmentofSocialServicestointroduceanewpilotforthehomelessthere. •— By Kristen Chavez ’13

costlytotransportbecauseitremainsagasattemperaturesandpressurestypicalontheearth’ssurface.

NowUNCandUWscientistshavemovedclosertodevisingawaytoconvertmethanetomethanolorother

liquidswhichcaneasilybetransported,especiallyfrom“remote”siteswheremeth-aneisoftenfound.Thefindingwaspub-lishedintheOct.23,2009issueofScience.

Studyco-authorMauriceBrookhartisW.R.KenanJr.ProfessorofChemistryinUNC’sCollegeofArtsandSciences.

Methaneisvaluedforitshigh-energycarbon-hydrogenbonds,whichconsistofacarbonatomboundtofourhydrogenatoms.Thegasdoesnotreacteasilywithothermaterialsandsoitismostoften

simplyburnedasfuel.Burningbreaksallfourhydrogen-carbonbondsandproducescarbondioxideandwater,saidKarengoldberg,aUWchemistryprofessorandco-author.

“Theideaistoturnmethaneintoaliquidinwhichyoupreservemostofthecarbon-hydrogenbondssothatyoucanstillhaveallthatenergy,”shesaid.

Brookhartsaidcarbon-hydrogenbondsareverystrongandhardtobreak,butinmethanecomplexes,breakingthecarbon-hydrogenbondbecomeseasier.

“Thenextstepistouseknowledgegainedfromthisdiscoverytoformulateothercomplexesandconditions,whichwillallowustocatalyticallyreplaceonehydrogenatomonmethanewithotheratomsandproduceliquidchemicalssuchasmethanol,”Brookhartsaid.•

ABOVE: Maurice Brookhart


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The Box“I need you to understand how ordinary it all was. At night the phone would ring after

supper. My father would say a few quiet words into the receiver. A three, he would say. Or a four. When he put down the phone, he’d turn and look right at me. There would be a strange pleasure in his look, a gladness. He would ask me to perform this one small task; he’d tell me to go fetch him his box. The hair on the back of my neck would rise up and I’d run down the stairs to the basement where the furnace was. The stairs were just planks nailed to boards, no backs or sides to them, and when I was younger I used to be afraid that I’d slip and fall through to the dark underneath …

“The box would be where it always was, on top of a stack of Daddy’s old Citizens’ Council magazines piled up on a table and so covered in dust you couldn’t even read the print …

“Tonight, when Daddy takes the box from my hands, I can see how he loves the exchange, the way I know how to bring him exactly what he wants. … Now he will hold the box to one side, kiss me hard on the top of the head, and slip through the front door into the night …”

— Excerpted with permission from The Queen of Palmyra (Harper Perennial), a debut novel by Minrose Gwin, Kenan Eminent Professor of English. The story takes place in the segregated south of 1963 in fictional Millwood, where young Florence gradually comes to learn the cost of seeing and not seeing, knowing and not knowing. Barnes and Noble named Queen a “Discover Great New Writers” book, and author Lee Smith calls it, “the most powerful and also the most lyrical novel about race, racism, and denial in the American South since To Kill A Mockingbird.” Read an interview with Gwin about the book at college.unc.edu.

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•Secret Daughter(William Morrow)byShilpiSomayagowda’92.Thispowerfulbraideddramaunwindsfrommultipleperspectives:theimpoverishedindianparentsgivingawaytheirnewborngirl,thecomfortableAmericancoupleraisingher,andthedaughterexploringherroots.TheauthorgottheideaforherfirstnovelasaUNCMoreheadScholarandundergraduateworkinginanorphanageinindia.

•To right These Wrongs (UNC press)byRobertR.KorstadandJamesL.Leloudis.TwoCollegealumniandSouthernhistorianswhoteachatDukeandUNCrespectivelyhavewrittenthedefinitivestoryofthephilanthropicNorthCarolinaFund.ThengovernorTerrySanford,anotheralum,establishedthefundin1963toprovideabetterlifeforthe“tensofthousandswhosefamilyincomeissolowthatdailysubsistenceisalwaysindoubt.”illustratedbyphotographerandalumnusBillyBarnes.

•The Boy Who loved Tornadoes(Algonquin press)byRandiDavenport,executivedirectoroftheJamesM.JohnstonCenterforUndergraduateexcellence.inthismovingmemoirasinglemothernavigatesabrokenhealthcaresystemtobringherautisticsonbackfromthebrinkofpsychosis.WriterLeeSmithcallsit“abraveandbeautifulstorybyabornwriter.”

•The Clinton Tapes(Simon & Schuster)byTaylorBranch’68.ThePulitzerPrize-winningMartinLutherKingbiographerandUNCCollegealumnuswasinvitedtorecordaseriesofsecretWhiteHouseconversationswithBillClintonfrom1993to2001.ThePresidentkeptthetapes,butthehistorianpublishedhisrecollectionsofwhatwassaid,basedonhispersonalnotesandrecordingsmadeonthedrivehome.Theresultisafascinatingthoughcompli-catedglimpseofanirrepressiblepolitician’s

perspectiveonourtime.Theauthor’stapes,transcriptsandnotesareavailabletoresearchersthroughtheUniversityLibraries’SouthernHistoricalCollection.

•The librarian(Main Street rag publishing Co.)byRuthMoose.Banishyourstereotypeofwhatyouthinkalibrarianthinks,andpreparetobesurprised,tickledandmovedbythisdelightfulcollectionfromthelongtimecreativewritinginstructorandpoet.

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•The old north State bytheRedClayRamblers.Beforewarned:ThislatestCDfromtherollickingChapelHillstringband,includingUNC’sBlandSimpson’70,willmakefar-flungTarHeelsextremelyhomesick.SimpsonisBowmanandgordongrayDistinguishedTermProfessorofCreativeWriting.Youcansampleandorderonlineatwww.redclayramblers.com.

•Boosting Paychecks(Brookings institution press)byDanielgitterman,associateprofessorofpublicpolicy.Theauthor,aseniorpolicyadvisertoN.C.governorBevPerdue,illuminatesacommonlyneglectedpartoftheAmericansafetynet—taxandwagepoliciesthatcouldsupportlow-wageworkersandtheirfamilies—atatimewhentheyareneededmorethanever.

•a Vietnam War reader(UNC press)editedbyMichaelH.Hunt,professorofhistoryemeritus.Thiscollectionofprimarysourcesprovidesadocumentaryhistoryoftheconflictfromallsides,includingCommunistleaders,Vietnamesepeasants,SaigonloyalistsandNorthVietnamesesoldierstoU.S.policymakers,soldiersandcriticsofthewar.

•Down Home: Jewish life in north Carolina(UNC press)byLeonardRogoffenglishPh.D.’76.Throughoralhistories,originaldocumentsandfascinatingprofiles,theauthorandUNCalumnusprovidesthefirstcomprehensivesocialhistoryofitskind.RogoffishistorianfortheJewishHeritageFoundation

ofNorthCarolinaandpresidentoftheSouthernJewishHistoricalSociety.

•Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters(harperone) byOmidSafi,professorofreligiousstudies.TheMuslim-Americanauthorandislamscholarprovidesathree-dimensionalportraitofMuhammadandhisimportancetomodernMuslimsaroundtheworld.

•Becoming rasta(New York University press)byCharlesR.Price,associateprofessorofanthropology.TheJamaican-Americanscholardrawsonin-depthinterviewsandstoriesofelderstoexplainwhyandhowtheyjoinedtheRastafarimovement.

•love in infant Monkeys(Soft Skull press)byLydiaMillet’90.Lions,monkeysandcelebrities,ohmy.Thisfirstshort-storycollectionbythePeN-USAAward-winningnovelistandformerUNCcreativewritingstudenthumorouslycapturesMadonna,JimmyCarter,NoamChomsky,Thomasedisonandotherheadlinersinencounterswithadeadpheasant,alegendaryswamprabbit,harriedhamsters,anelectrocutedelephantandmore.

•red Holocaust(routledge)byStevenRosefielde,professorofeconomics.AmemberoftheRussianAcademyofNaturalSciences,theauthorassessesthegrimcarnageassociatedwithStalinandhisforces,includingatleast60milliondeathsbymassacre,famine,imprisonmentandothercrimesagainsthumanity.

•relationship Banker: Eugene W. Stetson, Wall Street and american Business, 1916-1959(Mercer University press)byJamesL.Hunt’81’88.TheUNCCollegeandLawSchoolalumnustellshowayoungbankerfromgeorgiarosetodirectguarantyBankanditsmergerwithMorgan,leadingtoJPMorganChase,thelargestbankintheworld.Theauthor,aprofessoroflawandbusinessatMercerUniversity,showshow—longbeforeourlatestbankingcrisis—personalrelationshipsdeterminedwhogotcapital.

•Hôtel Dieu(Sheep Meadow press)byStephanosPapadopoulos’98.inhissecondcollectionofpoems,thegreek-Americanpoet,translatorandUNCclassicsalumnusexploreslove,joyandlossfromChileandguatemalatogreece,NewYorkandNorthCarolina.PapadopouloslivesinAthens.

ONLINE EXTRAS: More on books at college.unc.edu.

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Final PointF i n a l P O i n tCarolina

a r t s& s c i e n c e sCarolina Arts & Sciences • Spring 2010

Director of Communications Dee ReidEditor Kim Weaver Spurr ’88 Assistant Director of CommunicationsEditorial Assistant Kristen Chavez ’13 Graphic Designer Linda NobleContributing Writers• Pamela Babcock• DeLene Beeland• Joanna Worrell Cardwell (M.A. ’06)• Del Helton• Nancy Oates • JB SheltonContributing Photographers• Robert Breen• Joanna Worrell Cardwell (M.A. ’06) • Amber Clifford• Sarah Collman• Steve Exum ’92• Jon Gardiner• David Gilmore• Justin Ries• Lars Sahl• Dan Sears ’74, UNC News Services Photographer• Bruce Siceloff• Jason Smith• Donn Young

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Michelle Hicks is a senior English major,

with minors in comparative literature

and creative writing, from Lafayette, La.

She wrote the poem as a member of

the year-long senior Honors in Poetry

Writing course. Lady Mechanic appeared

in the fall ’09 issue of Cellar Door,

the undergraduate literary magazine.

Cellar Door awarded her poem the first

prize in poetry.

Lady Mechanic

tellsmehoney, it’s by the spirit

and grace of the Good Lord

that car’s still running, ’cause

mechanically i just don’t see

how it could be. Shehasalaugh

likeacough.Thoughitisonly8a.m.,

shetriestoservechocolatecake

tome.itellherthecarstartsfine

andshesays, well, honey, do you

pray?icantellshe’sagod-fearing

ladysoitellherthatipray—

’cause it seems Jesus is answering

your prayers,shesays,somehow

or someway. Shehandsmeamug

ofcoffee,mixednearlywhite

withsugarandcream.idon’tthink

thatshehasthesamegodasme.

Buttodayitseemsthathergod

istheonlygod:godofgrease,

godofinternalcombustion

whosegloryitselfisacontained

explosion,whosemiraclesonly

thetrainedmechaniccansee.

Becausesometimesidopray.

iprayforanendtoblindness,

andtowar,andtotheworld’sdecay.

iprayextratoMary,hoping

onherwoman’sgrace.instead,iget

asparkplugthatworksagainst

allodds.Atransmissionthatshifts

thoughthegearsaremisaligned.

Abatterythatjustwon’tdie.

— B Y M I C H E L L E H I C K S

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