Anna Wu succeeds in mostly male field of architecture. Event examines importance of 1918 flu epidemic. On April 6, Arts Everywhere Day goes to town. See RANKINGS page 11 See COMMUNITY page 11 3 6 12 MARCH 28, 2018 GAZETTE.UNC.EDU @UNIVGAZETTE CAROLINA FACULTY AND STAFF NEWS VOL. 43, NO. 6 Several graduate programs at Carolina received high rankings as part of U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 “Best Graduate Schools.” Among the rankings, the School of Medicine is first for its primary care program, following a second-place ranking last year. U.S. News ranks business, education, engineering, law, nursing and medical programs annually, while various disciplines and specialties in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and other areas, are only ranked periodically. This year, U.S. News ranked doctoral programs in criminology and criminal justice; master's degree pro- grams in social work, public affairs and related specialty areas; and doctoral programs in the sciences, specifi- cally in biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, mathematics, physics and statistics. The following are the complete University rank- ings and specialty listings. A comprehensive list of all rankings and data can be found at usnews.com/ best-graduate-schools. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Overall Primary Care, 1st Research, tied for 23rd Specialty area Obstetrics and Gynecology, 14th SCHOOL OF NURSING Overall Master’s Degree, tied for 14th Doctor of Nursing Practice, tied for 13th Specialty areas Nursing Administration, tied for 12th Nurse Practitioner: Family, tied for 12th Nurse Practitioner: Psychiatric/Mental Health, Across the Lifespan, tied for 9th Carolina programs ranked among ‘Best Graduate Schools’ In spring 2016, at an open house for the history center that documents the story of the Loray Mill in Gastonia, a “movie” was about to start and folks were lining up for a seat. The 1,100-square-foot history center and accompanying Digi- tal Loray online exhibit (loraydigital.prospect.unc.edu) are part of the largest public humanities project ever undertaken by Carolina, through the work of the Digital Innovation Lab. The refurbished textile mill has been transformed into modern apartments, offices and stores. On the wall of the history center is a series of huge arched windows, with each one divided into 12 mullions that create individual “projection spaces” for showcasing hundreds of still and animated images of life in the mill since 1902, said historian Robert Allen, the James Logan Godfrey Distinguished Professor of American Studies, who spearheaded the Loray project as co- founder and director of the digital lab from 2011 to 2016. He has been teaching at Carolina for 38 years. “We expected a hundred or so people to come by, but we esti- mated that 400 showed up,” Allen said. “What is going on is some- thing kind of profound because what we are doing is making vis- ible ordinary people whose lives would never appear in a history book, and we’re giving them starring roles in a new kind of movie,” Allen said. Allen grew up a short walk from Loray (later Firestone Mill), and both sides of his family worked at the mill a century ago. He is aware of the role textile mills played in hundreds of communities in the region and the sense of loss created by their closure since the 1980s. A promising avenue for this type of university outreach, he con- cluded, was to work with preservation organizations, local muse- ums and libraries, property developers and partnering Carolina units to make the adaptive reuse of iconic sites into catalysts for intensive community history initiatives. Today he leads an enthusiastic team of undergraduate and graduate students and archivists who are taking the lessons learned in Gastonia to create public humanities projects that will From textile mills to the state’s mental hospital, a team of Carolina's faculty, students and staff are engaging with North Carolina communities to tell their own complicated stories. Capturing community history American studies professor Robert Allen and the Community Histories Workshop team visited the State Archives of North Carolina in Raleigh in December to explore materials related to Dorothea Dix Hospital. DONN YOUNG
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Anna Wu succeeds
in mostly male field
of architecture.
Event examines
importance of
1918 flu epidemic.
On April 6,
Arts Everywhere Day
goes to town.
See RANKINGS page 11See COMMUNITY page 11
3 6 12
MARCH 28, 2018
GAZETTE.UNC.EDU
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CAROLINA FACULTY AND STAFF NEWSVOL. 43, NO. 6
Several graduate programs at Carolina received high rankings as part of U.S. News & World Report’s 2019
“Best Graduate Schools.” Among the rankings, the School of Medicine is first for its primary care program, following a second-place ranking last year.
U.S. News ranks business, education, engineering, law, nursing and medical programs annually, while various disciplines and specialties in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and other areas, are only ranked periodically.
This year, U.S. News ranked doctoral programs in criminology and criminal justice; master's degree pro-grams in social work, public affairs and related specialty areas; and doctoral programs in the sciences, specifi-cally in biological sciences, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, mathematics, physics and statistics.
The following are the complete University rank-ings and specialty listings. A comprehensive list of all rankings and data can be found at usnews.com/best-graduate-schools.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINEOverall
Primary Care, 1st Research, tied for 23rd
Specialty area Obstetrics and Gynecology, 14th
SCHOOL OF NURSINGOverall
Master’s Degree, tied for 14th Doctor of Nursing Practice, tied for 13th
Specialty areas Nursing Administration, tied for 12th Nurse Practitioner: Family, tied for 12th Nurse Practitioner: Psychiatric/Mental Health,
Across the Lifespan, tied for 9th
Carolina programs ranked among ‘Best Graduate Schools’
In spring 2016, at an open house for the history center that documents the story of the Loray Mill in Gastonia, a “movie” was about to start and folks were lining up for a seat.
The 1,100-square-foot history center and accompanying Digi-tal Loray online exhibit (loraydigital.prospect.unc.edu) are part of the largest public humanities project ever undertaken by Carolina, through the work of the Digital Innovation Lab. The refurbished textile mill has been transformed into modern apartments, offices and stores.
On the wall of the history center is a series of huge arched windows, with each one divided into 12 mullions that create individual “projection spaces” for showcasing hundreds of still and animated images of life in the mill since 1902, said historian Robert Allen, the James Logan Godfrey Distinguished Professor
of American Studies, who spearheaded the Loray project as co-founder and director of the digital lab from 2011 to 2016. He has been teaching at Carolina for 38 years.
“We expected a hundred or so people to come by, but we esti-mated that 400 showed up,” Allen said. “What is going on is some-thing kind of profound because what we are doing is making vis-ible ordinary people whose lives would never appear in a history book, and we’re giving them starring roles in a new kind of movie,” Allen said.
Allen grew up a short walk from Loray (later Firestone Mill), and both sides of his family worked at the mill a century ago. He is aware of the role textile mills played in hundreds of communities in the region and the sense of loss created by their closure since the 1980s.
A promising avenue for this type of university outreach, he con-cluded, was to work with preservation organizations, local muse-ums and libraries, property developers and partnering Carolina units to make the adaptive reuse of iconic sites into catalysts for intensive community history initiatives.
Today he leads an enthusiastic team of undergraduate and graduate students and archivists who are taking the lessons learned in Gastonia to create public humanities projects that will
From textile mills to the state’s mental hospital, a team of Carolina's faculty, students and staff are engaging with North Carolina communities to tell their own complicated stories.
Capturing community history
American studies professor Robert Allen and the Community Histories Workshop team visited the State Archives of North Carolina in Raleigh in December to explore materials related to Dorothea Dix Hospital.
In an unprecedented seven-round jump off, Carolina’s Nicole Greene won the women's high jump at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Cham-pionships on March 9 in the Gilliam Indoor Stadium at Texas A&M.
In so doing, she became the sec-ond Tar Heel to take home the NCAA title in the event since Sheena Gordon won it in 2006. She also became the program’s first national champion since 2007.
A jump off is the sport’s version of sudden death in which the final two competitors jump at consecutively lower heights. The winner is decided when one clears the bar and the other doesn’t.
Facing Greene in the jump off was Loretta Blaut of the University of
Cincinnati. It turned into an endur-ance test, said Carolina Head Coach Harlis Meaders.
Over the first four heights—6 feet 2¾ inches (1.90 meters), 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 meters), 6 feet 1¼ inches (1.86 meters), 6 feet ½ inch (1.84 meters)—neither competi-tor was able to clear the bar. Finally, each cleared 5 feet 11½ inches (1.82 meters) before both missed 6 feet ½ inch (1.84 meters) again.
With the competition once again at 5 feet 11½ inches (1.82 meters) after both athletes had jumped 15 times, Blaut missed it. Greene was up.
The height was lower than Greene’s personal best of 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 meters), but it was of
greater difficulty given her level of fatigue. When she cleared the bar, she claimed the national title.
"The jump off is something that happens in our sport," Meaders said. "But I've never seen it happen at this magnitude where there are so many bars and so many opportunities to win it or lose it."
Nicole Greene wins national title in dramatic fashion
Floors 5 and 6 in Davis Library are the next areas affected by a building-wide infrastructure project now underway.
Floor 6 closed during the spring break and floor 5 closed March 24. Both will remain closed into the summer.
Several centers with offices on floors 5 and 6 of Davis Library have temporarily relocated, as follows:
Ancient World Mapping Center—to room 3053 Carolina Seminars—to room 216 Epigraphy Room—to room 4053
Meanwhile, floor 8 has reopened, and floor 7 is tenta-tively set to reopen at the end of March.
Staff will retrieve books from closed areas upon request, usually within 2 to 3 business days. Use the “Request” but-ton in the library catalog or visit the Library’s Carolina BLU delivery service page to place a request.
For questions about library operations, services, and materials during the project, contact Joe Williams at [email protected] or 919-962-1301.
Davis Library project shuts down floors 5 and 6
Nicole Greene
On the Ides of March, warm winds wafted the North Carolina state flag on its pole at South Building. But March was both lion and lamb as a sometimes warm winter turned into a chilly spring.
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The renovation of the Mary Ellen Jones building, across Manning Drive from the School of Dentistry, is a massive undertaking, a 30-month project with a $117 million budget. When the building reopens in 2019, not only will its 1978-era interior be replaced with modern research laboratory space and new mechanical, electrical and plumbing infrastructure, the nearly windowless pre-cast exterior will be exchanged for a new glass curtain wall system providing natural light.
The building will be the new home of the Neurosciences Center; the departments of dermatology and biomedical engi-neering; and research in thrombosis, computational medicine and pediatrics. It carries the name of a research pioneer, a bio-chemist who was the first woman to hold an endowed chair (Kenan Professor) at Carolina and the first woman to become a department chair at the medical school.
And at a point during the renovation’s design process, Asso-ciate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Services Anna Wu noticed something special about the team assembled to modernize Mary Ellen Jones.
“That team is a woman-led team,” Wu said. “It was great to walk into a meeting and realize the people around the table tackling this problem were all women. That’s a nice turnaround. I have enjoyed seeing that change.”
Wu has also been part of the change. Hired by the University in 1995 as a facilities architect, she was promoted in 2001 to University architect and director of facilities planning and in 2012 to University architect and assistant vice chancellor for facilities operations, planning and design. She was named asso-ciate vice chancellor for facilities services in 2015.
Over that time, she has overseen major planning, design and construction projects for the University, including the first Campus Master Plan, approved in 2001 and updated in
2006. She and her boss, former Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Services Bruce Runberg, led the transformation of campus known as the Dynamic Decade, when 6 million square feet of buildings were constructed and 1 million square feet of historic buildings were renovated during a 10-year, $2.3 billion capital program.
Now the Massey Award winner is leading the way again as the University adapts a new master plan, one that will be guided for the first time by a strategic framework, The Blue-print for Next.
MALE-DOMINATED PROFESSIONWu was first inspired to become an architect by her father, an
engineer who would let her trace drawings in his office when she was a child. He took the family from their home in the Mid-west to New York City to see interesting designs at the 1964 World’s Fair and the new Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
He passed away while Wu was still young, but her mother continued to encourage her studies, first at the University of Pennsylvania then at Harvard University, where she earned her master of architecture degree.
Wu said that her architecture class was about 40 percent female but that, as she progressed in her career, she saw fewer women in the field. That observation is borne out by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures that say—even now—while nearly half of architecture school graduates are women, only 18 percent of licensed practitioners are women. Contributing to the drop-off? Full-time female architects today still earn 20 per-cent less than male architects.
“It’s not starting in architecture that’s difficult for women. It’s staying in architecture,” Wu said. In addition to lower salaries and different expectations regarding work-life balance, women in architecture have few female peers or mentors in their field. But when those hires start getting made, the workplace changes. That’s what has happened at Carolina, Wu said.
Gradually, she has seen changes at the companies that do business with the University. “It used to be that the only women who would come as part of the consulting team were their marketing people,” Wu said. “And then, slowly but surely, you would see more women—not just junior architects, but sometimes the project manager or, in some cases, the principal.”
At Carolina, it also helps that there are “women in leadership positions,” she said. That number includes Wu. “I usually never really think of myself as being representative of any group,” she said. “But at some point, you have to live up to that. I’m still learning to be a role model in the workplace.”
Consciously or not, Wu had been a role model for most of her Carolina career, from representing the University at count-less public meetings and presentations to leading a large and diverse workforce as an Asian-American woman.
She spoke about that role at the University's 2017 Diver-sity THINKposium. "I hope that working in a division under the leadership of an Asian-American woman is some-thing that some of our housekeeping staff find as a source of pride. For that matter, I would imagine some of our build-ing services staff might relate to my gray hair," Wu told the audience.
"But it is my role to create an environment within Facilities Services in which my staff feel comfortable shar-ing and learning more about each other than just our race or age so that we can go beyond assumptions to make impor-tant connections."
A NEW APPROACHAs she did 17 years ago, Wu is once again leading the way in
developing a Campus Master Plan, but this time the plan will be shaped by The Blueprint for Next.
“The previous plans were primarily land use plans. The big-gest difference now is that we have the strategic framework that really is the lens we view implementation through. We haven’t had that in previous plans,” Wu said. “I actually think the way we’re doing it now is ideal.”
Wu will present the new campus master plan in May to the Board of Trustees.
The continued evolution of the campus based on The Blue-print for Next also illustrates a point that Wu made about women in the workplace.
“The way it is now is not the way it always will be,” she said.
– Susan Hudson, University Gazette
Anna Wu: ‘Still learning how to be a role model in the workplace’
Anna Wu has overseen major planning, design and construction projects for the University since she was hired in 1995. Wu became the associate vice chancellor for facilities services in 2015 and oversees a staff of nearly 1,000, who, in addition to planning, design and construction, are responsible for the overall maintenance and operations of the University’s facilities and grounds.
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Sexual harassment can take many forms, and so can ways to stop itMarch's Carolina Conversations session explored types of conduct that could be considered harassment and how to address it.
New policy management system set to launch March 29There are more than 4,000
colleges and universities in the United States and nearly all of them have their own distinc-tive approach to managing policies and procedures. Some work better than others.
Tinu Diver, the associate director of the Office of Ethics Education and Policy Manage-ment since January 2017, has been studying the policies at Carolina with an eye to making it easier for faculty, staff and students to find, understand and follow the polices that apply to them.
PolicyStat, the University’s new policy management sys-tem that will launch on March 29, is designed to do just that, she said.
Diver said she has spent much of her time over the past year reviewing existing Carolina policies and meeting with both the administrators charged with creating and managing those poli-cies as well as the various groups required to follow them.
MANAGING COMPLEXITYThe challenges, as Diver reported to Faculty Council earlier
this year, are many.Like other large research universities, Carolina operates in a
decentralized and sometimes disconnected manner. Policies are
not widely communicated and are often hard to find. As a result, policies are not implemented on a consistent basis, and some
“undocumented policies” are put in effect within some units that can put the University at risk.
“Compared to our peers, we appear to be an outlier in terms of the number of policies we have and the complexity of the pro-cesses that we use to review and approve those policies,” Diver said in a recent interview.
BALANCING THE CULTURETo be fair, Diver said, the policies that are needed at a large
public research like Carolina are inherently vast and complex. Creating and managing those policies, she added, requires balancing the culture of shared governance at Carolina with requirements from the UNC System, the state legislature and the federal government. In addition, the University is subject to more than 40 accreditation bodies tied to various schools, departments and programs.
“We have some policies that bubble up and others that flow down,” Diver said. “That is why having a clear process of what con-stitutes a legitimate policy is just as important as the policy itself.”
Diver said PolicyStat can be viewed as a two-sided coin. The side facing the public is the central repository of all University policies that anyone can access online at unc.policystat.com.
The other side of the coin operates as an automated work flow system for people who play a role in creating, approving or managing policies, Diver said. Each user will be able to log in to specific sites, based on their specific roles.
In each unit on campus, a senior administrator has been
assigned to serve as a policy liaison. “The presence of the liai-son gives us the benefit of their subject matter expertise and feedback about how the operationalization of a policy or policy change actually will impact people in real life,” Diver said.
A REFLECTION OF VALUESDiver said she understands that policy and procedure man-
agement isn’t everyone’s favorite thing to talk about. On the other hand, keeping policies current and easy for users to find reduces risks for the University and eliminates surprises for users.
There is more to making policies accessible than just putting them on a website, Diver said. “We also have to make sure that they are written in plain English and that is one of the things we talk about at our policy review committee.”
PolicyStat also sets up a review cycle for all policies that Diver welcomes. “That is a good thing because there are a lot of existing policies that haven’t been revised or reviewed in quite some time.”
In the end, Diver said, the policies a University puts into effect are like the budgets that control how money is spent. Each, in its own way, is an expression of what the University values, she said.
“That is why it is so important for us to have a transparent, clear and consistent process for how those policies are created, com-municated and managed,” she said. “And that is what we intend to do.”
Training information will be posted at policies.unc.edu/training. Send requests for additional group or one-on-one training to [email protected].
– Gary Moss, University Gazette
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People can think they are just being funny by telling a story or joke when they may be actually offending people or making them uncomfort-able without realizing it.
But a lack of awareness—or intent—is not a defense, said Brandon Washington, director of the University’s Equal Opportunity and Com-pliance Office. They can still be asked to stop or face consequences if they refuse.
Figuring out what to do in this situation and others was the topic of this spring’s first Caro-lina Conversations session titled “Navigating Unlawful Harassment and Uncomfortable Situ-ations in the Workplace.”
The University Office of Diversity and Inclu-sion hosted the session March 21 in the Student Union’s Aquarium Lounge.
Washington, along with Adrienne Allison, director of Title IX Compliance and Title IX coordinator, explored types of conduct that could be considered sexual harassment and the range of options available to people should they be subjected to it.
WHAT IS SEXUAL HARASSMENT?Sexual harassment, by definition, is “unwel-
come sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal, physical or electronic conduct
of a sexual nature” that is so severe, persistent or pervasive that it “creates a hostile, intimidating or abusive environment,” Allison said.
It can also occur, she said, when “submitting to or rejecting the conduct is used as the basis for decisions that affect the person’s participa-tion in the University’s programs and activities.”
Knowing what to do can be difficult, Wash-ington said, because sexual harassment can sometimes be hard to define and even harder to prove. Many people hesitate to com-plain about harassment because of the fear of retaliation.
Throughout the discussion, audience mem-bers were presented with a hypothetical sce-nario in which a graduate student, Sam, tells you about an assistant professor named Max who has a habit of telling sexual jokes about women, which makes Sam uncomfortable.
Was Max’s conduct problematic?Yes, Washington said. Attempts at humorous
behavior, including ridicule or jokes that per-petuate stereotypes, can be considered hostile environment harassment, he said.
As the scenario between Sam and Max unfolds, Sam finds herself on a coffee date with Max when he starts asking her a lot of questions about her personal life. At one point, he places
his hand on her leg and suggests they meet at his house to work on a project.
AN ‘ACTIVE BYSTANDER’If you were a friend or colleague of Sam,
what would you do? Allison suggested the best way to help is to learn to become “active bystanders” when a friend or colleague is faced with sexual harassment.
One way to do that is to confront the offender and ask them to stop, she said Another way is to interrupt the behavior as it occurs. Active bystanders can also document what is
going on and report it—either to a supervisor, law enforcement or the EOC. Another way is to simply offer support when it is needed.
Impacted employees and students also should be aware of the range of options they have, both for confidential counseling and emotional support, and for where they can go to officially report a complaint, Washing- ton said.
If an impacted employee or student files a report to the EOC office, it would trigger an
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Adrienne Allison, director of Title IX Compliance and Title IX coordinator, discusses sexual harassment at the March session of Carolina Conversations.
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WHAT’S A TYPICAL DAY LIKE IN YOUR JOB?I wear multiple hats, but my main job is inspections and teaching classes on fire safety. On any given day, I may
be writing an article for the emergency coordinator newsletter, responding to a call about a hazardous chemical spill with the emergency response team, talking to building occupants about how to keep exits clear or teaching a fire extinguisher class. Our department offers classes twice a year in the Pit for students and the public: one during the Week of Welcome and one during our Fire Safety Fair in September.
HOW DOES YOUR WORK SUPPORT CAROLINA’S MISSION?In 2009 and 2011, I wrote two FEMA grants that earned the University and the department of housing and
residential education about $440,000 for educational materials and stovetop devices to eliminate kitchen fires. Fire department responses and residential fires decreased in the five-year grant period. Overall, it made the Univer-sity safer.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT YOUR WORK?I really like being on campus because it’s a very social atmosphere. It allows me to learn about other people and
hear their stories. I’m a writer at heart, so I enjoy hearing those stories.
HOW DID YOU COME TO WORK IN THIS POSITION?I became a firefighter in 1990. I worked on a truck and all of that, then became an inspector and fire marshal,
then got the position here as a fire safety professional. James Moeser was chancellor then, and the University had received a really cool grant to start the Employee Part-Time Undergraduate Degree-Completion Program, so I was able to transfer my coursework to Carolina and finish my creative writing minor. I haven’t looked back after that.
WHAT'S SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR JOB THAT OTHERS MIGHT NOT KNOW?I write all of the emergency coordinator newsletter articles. We have 250 emergency coordinators on campus
who oversee evacuations, and they need to be trained, so the newsletters function as a training tool. There are 20 newsletters on our website that I’ve written. It was so much fun to put them all together. I love to write, so that part of my job allows me to use that skill. I’m also Carolina’s only level three state-certified fire inspector.
Carolina People is a regular feature in each issue of the Gazette that asks one of your fascinating colleagues five questions about the work they do for the University. Do you know someone with an interesting or unique job at Carolina? Please email your suggestions to [email protected] and put Carolina People in the subject line.
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Phyllis Petree to retire as director of internal auditPhyllis Petree, the University’s chief audit officer, will retire at
the end of September after 23 years of service to Carolina. Petree will conclude her tenure having served five chancellors and doz-ens of other University leaders.
Petree earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Carolina in 1978 and returned to the University in 1995 as the director of internal audit. She has transformed the audit func-tion to meet the growing needs of the campus community and to ensure that the University remains accountable to the taxpayers of North Carolina. Under her leadership, the internal audit office has provided expansive consulting and advisory services across the University.
Over the past two decades, Petree streamlined University audit processes and developed the first internal audit charter; internal audit manual; and finance, infrastructure and audit com-mittee charter. She implemented risk-based internal audit sched-ules and projects. She developed a strategic plan and key perfor-mance indicators for the internal audit office. She also commis-sioned the first external quality assessment review to evaluate the internal audit office’s conformity with the International Stan-dards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing.
“I appreciate Phyllis’ countless contributions that have enhanced and improved University operations. Phyllis is a trusted adviser to me, our senior administrators and the Board of Trustees. Phyllis has always approached her work with the utmost integrity, and her keen understanding of campus
operations and steady guidance will be missed,” Chancellor Carol L. Folt said. “I know all campus leaders will join me in thanking Phyllis for the depth and breadth of her counsel, careful analysis and attention to detail in every matter.”
Petree holds certifications in accounting, internal audit and internal controls audit. She is a member of the Institute for Inter-nal Auditors.
Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Jonathan Pruitt will chair the search committee for the next chief audit officer. Petree will remain in the position until her successor is hired.
Phyllis has always approached her work with the utmost integrity, and her keen understanding of campus operations and steady
guidance will be missed.
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initial assessment by the EOC with the support of the Department of Public Safety, the Office of the Dean of Stu-dents and the Office of Human Resources, as appropriate.
They should also be aware of interim me sures that the EOC can help put in place to protect them, which include no-contact orders, changes to work assignments or changes to class assignments and housing.
The EOC team, Washington said, can help a person decide what to do each step of the way.
For instance, Washington emphasized that a victim of sexual harassment can choose not to participate even if the EOC finds sufficient reason to investigate an incident.
That approach, he said, protects both the person sub-jected to harassment and, at the same time, safeguards other people from becoming victims in the future.
To learn more about how to respond appropriately to disclosures about sexual harassment, sexual violence, interpersonal violence or stalking, sign up for Haven train-ing at safe.unc.edu.
Haven is a three-hour workshop that provides attendees with the skills to listen effectively, respond compassion-ately and connect survivors to resources on campus and the community.
– Gary Moss, University Gazette
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Gillings School partners on a banner symposium exploring the 1918 flu pandemicOne hundred years ago, an invisible killer
swept the planet.First appearing in the spring as a relatively
mild disease, the 1918 flu pandemic struck the bulk of its victims in the fall, flared again in 1919 and 1920 before fading as mysteriously as it arrived. By the time it ran its course, it infected 500 million people, roughly a third of the world’s population, and killed between 50 and 100 million people.
Among the dead in North Carolina were Carolina's President Edward Kidder Gra-ham, who died Oct, 26, 1918, at age 43, and his successor Marvin Hendrix Stacey, who succumbed to the disease Jan. 21, 1919, at age 41.
ARE WE READY?One hundred years later, scientists are still
trying to understand what happened. Questions remain about the flu’s origins,
its unusual epidemiologic features (it was
especially deadly for healthy young adults, for example) and the basis of its pathogenicity.
But one thing is certain. In 1918, authorities were caught by surprise and slow to react. Some of that is understandable. So little was known about the nature of infection, how it was caused and how it could be prevented. World War I was raging in Europe, and soldiers from the United States were being trained and deployed as quickly as possible, housed in barracks and ships never meant to hold so many people. If an outbreak of this scale happens again, public health experts around the world must be prepared.
To mark the 100th anniversary of the 1918 flu—and to assess the threat that an outbreak of this scale poses today—the Gillings School of Global Public Health and its partners will host an interdisciplinary symposium April 4–6 titled “Going Viral: Impact and Implications of the 1918 Influenza Flu Pandemic.”
“The Gillings School, in collaboration
with our co-sponsors, sought to create an interdisciplinary experience that examines the impact of the 1918 flu perspective from the lens of such varied disciplines as medi-cine, English, epidemiology, history, com-munications, veterinary medicine and other fields,” said Barbara K. Rimer, dean of the Gillings School.
Co-sponsors are Carolina’s Institute for Global and Infectious Disease as well as RTI International, UNC Libraries and the N.C. Museum of Natural History, which will host its own free presentation on April 7. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural
History is also partnering on some aspects of the symposium and after-events.
The keynote speaker will be New York Times journalist Gina Kolata, best-selling author of Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It.
Other speakers include Chancellor Carol L. Folt; former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Friedan; Gill-ings School and School of Medicine profes-sors David Weber, Myron Cohen and Ralph
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This poster of a Red Cross nurse with a gauze mask over her nose and mouth was published by the Illustrated Current News in Connecticut in October 1918, the height of the influenza pandemic.
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All candidates for all positions including elected standing committees of the faculty and the Faculty Council are listed below. The date of initial appointment at UNC–CH appears in parentheses before each name. More information about the committees, Faculty Council and individual candidates
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if you have any ques tions, ple ase contact the office of facult y governance at 919-962-1671.
F A C U L T Y - W I D E P O S I T I O N S(al l facu lt y vote for the se)
Chancel lor ’s Advisory Commit tee
Appointments , Promotions and Tenure Commit tee
Educat ional Pol icy Commit tee
Facul ty Assembly Delegat ion
Facul ty Athlet ics Commit tee
Facul ty Execut ive Commit tee
Facul ty Grievance Commit tee
Facul ty Hearings Commit tee
Financial Exigency and Program Change Commit tee
Honorary Degrees and Awards Commit tee
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Division 1. Fine Arts Division of the College of Arts and Sciences: Administrative Board of the Library, Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee
Division 2. Humanities Division of the College of Arts and Sciences: Administrative Board of the Library, Faculty Council (Tenured)
Division 3. Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division of the College of Arts and Sciences: Administrative Board of the Library, Faculty Council (Nontenured)
Division 4. Social Sciences Division of the College of Arts and Sciences: Administrative Board of the Library, Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee, Faculty Council (Tenured), Faculty Council (Nontenured)
Division 5. University Libraries: Faculty Council
Division 6. School of Information and Library Science: None
Division 7. Kenan-Flagler Business School: Faculty Council (Nontenured)
Division 8. School of Education: Faculty Council (At-large)
Division 9. School of Media and Journalism: None
Division 10. School of Law: None
Division 11. School of Social Work: None
Division 12. School of Government: None
Division 13. School of Medicine: Faculty Council (Tenured), Faculty Council (Nontenured)
Division 14. School of Dentistry: None
Division 15. School of Nursing: None
Division 16. Eshelman School of Pharmacy: None
Division 17. Gillings School of Global Public Health: None
Division 18. Retired Faculty: Faculty Council
Chancellor’s Advisory Committee (Vote for 3)
Guillory, Ferrel (3/1/1997) Professor of the Practice, School of Media and Journalism
Maynor Lowery, Malinda (7/1/2009) Associate Professor, History
Myers, Richard (7/1/2004) Distinguished Professor, Law
Taylor, Beverly (7/1/1977) Professor, English and Comparative Literature
Vigil, Ariana (7/1/2011) Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies
Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee: Arts and Sciences (Vote for 2)
Battaglini, Claudio (8/19/2004) Professor, Exercise and Sport Science
Carter, Tim (7/1/2001) Distinguished Professor, Music
Mitran, Sorin (7/1/2002) Professor, Mathematics
Pfennig, Karin (7/1/2004) Professor, Biology
Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee: Medicine (Vote for 1)
Clarke-Pearson, Dan (9/5/2005) Distinguished Professor, Obstetrics Gynecology
Dotti, Gianpietro (3/2/2015) Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee: Professional Schools Other Than Medicine (Vote for 1)
Lang, Mark (7/1/1994) Distinguished Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Yeo, SeonAe (1/1/2007) Professor, School of Nursing
F A C U L T Y - W I D E P O S I T I O N S(al l facu lt y vote for e ach of the se)
Educational Policy Committee (Vote for 3)
Bardeen, Angela (8/1/2007) Associate Librarian, University Library
Beck, Melinda (10/1/1991) Professor, Gillings School of Global Public Health
Feldman, Evan (7/1/2008) Associate Professor, Music
Haggis, Donald (7/1/1993) Professor, Classics
McGrath, Patia (7/1/2015) Assistant Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Faculty Assembly Delegation (Vote for 1)
Stenberg, Carl (10/1/2003) Distinguished Professor, School of Government
Wilhelmsen, Kirk (1/15/2009) Professor, Genetics
Williams, Megan (7/1/2006) Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Faculty Athletics Committee (Vote for 4)
Hartzell, David (7/1/1988) Distinguished Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Johnson II, Daryhl (9/1/2011) Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgery
Juffras, Diane (1/1/2002) Distinguished Term Professor, School of Government
Kalleberg, Arne (9/1/1986) Distinguished Professor, Sociology
Navalinsky, David (7/1/2011) Associate Professor, Dramatic Art
Shields, Edgar (7/1/1974) Associate Professor, Exercise and Sports Science
String, Tania (7/1/2010) Associate Professor, Art & Art History
Faculty Executive Committee (Vote for 4)
Byerley, Julie (6/24/2002) Clinical Professor, General Pediatrics
Cox, Wendy (9/12/2005) Clinical Associate Professor, Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Entwisle, Barbara (7/1/1985) Distinguished Professor, Sociology
Garcia, David (7/1/2005) Associate Professor, Music
Joyner, Benny (7/1/2009) Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Perelmuter, Rosa (7/1/1978) Professor, Romance Studies
Phillips, Ceib (9/1/1978) Professor, Orthodontics
Zomorodi, Margaret (7/1/2008) Clinical Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Faculty Grievance Committee: Assistant Professor/Assistant Librarian (Vote for 1)
Fraga Rizo, Cynthia (7/1/2013) Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Richotte Jr., Keith (7/1/2014) Assistant Professor, American Studies
Faculty Grievance Committee: Associate Professor/Associate Librarian (Vote for 1)
Álamo, Juan (7/1/2017) Associate Professor, Music
Divaris, Kimon (5/1/2012) Associate Professor, Pediatric Dentistry
McLaughlin, Chris (8/1/2008) Associate Professor, School of Government
Faculty Grievance Committee: Professor/Librarian (Vote for 1)
Hannig, Jan (7/1/2008) Professor, Statistics and Operations Research
Roush, Chris (7/1/2002) Distinguished Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Faculty Grievance Committee: Fixed-Term (Vote for 1)
Cowell, Glynis (7/1/1995) Teaching Professor, Romance Studies
Kumar, Priya (8/1/2009) Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology
Faculty Hearings Committee (Vote for 3)
Aikat, Deb (7/1/1995) Associate Professor, School of Media and Journalism
Belger, Aysenil (12/1/1999) Professor, Psychiatry
Huber, Evelyne (7/1/1992) Distinguished Professor, Political Science
Otey, Carol (7/1/1998) Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology
Wissick, Brent (8/15/1982) Professor, Music
Financial Exigency and Program Change Committee: Academic Affairs (Vote for 2)
Boettiger, Charlotte (7/1/2007) Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
Conway, Patrick (7/1/1983) Professor, Economics
Copenhaver, Gregory (12/1/2001) Professor, Biology
O’Neill, Hugh (7/1/1993) Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Financial Exigency and Program Change Committee: Health Affairs (Vote for 2)
Barros, Silvana (5/13/1995) Associate Professor, Periodontology
Linnan, Laura (9/1/1999) Professor, Gillings School of Global Plublic Health
Palmer, Mary (1/1/2002) Distinguished Term Professor, School of Nursing
Popkin, Barry (1/1/1977) Distinguished Professor, Nutrition
Honorary Degrees and Special Awards Committee (Vote for 2)
Figueroa, Monica (9/1/2016) Assistant Librarian, University Library
Versenyi, Adam (7/1/1988) Professor, Dramatic Art
Yaghoobi, Claudia (1/8/2013) Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
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DIVISION 1. Fine Arts Division of the College of Arts and Sciences
Administrative Board of the Library (Vote for 1)
Figueroa, Michael (7/1/2014) Assistant Professor, Music
Kim, Heidi (6/1/2010) Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature
Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee (Vote for 1)
Owen, Bobbi (Roberta A.) (8/1/1974) Distinguished Professor, Dramatic Arts
Rovine, Victoria (7/1/2014) Professor, Art & Art History
DIVISION 2. Humanities Division of the College of Arts and Sciences
Administrative Board of the Library (Vote for 1)
Figueroa, Michael (7/1/2014) Assistant Professor, Music
Kim, Heidi (6/1/2010) Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature
Faculty Council, Tenured (Vote for 1)
Boon, Jessica (7/1/2011) Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Perucci, Tony (7/1/2007) Associate Professor, Communication
DIVISION 3. Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division of the College of Arts and Sciences
Administrative Board of the Library (Vote for 1)
Sathy, Viji (7/1/2008) Teaching Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
Stotts, David (1/1/1993) Professor, Computer Science
Faculty Council, Nontenured (Vote for 1)
Aikat, Jay (9/1/2016) Research Professional, Renaissance Computing Institute
Churukian, Alice (8/15/2007) Teaching Associate Professor, Physics and Astonomy
DIVISION 4. Social Sciences Division of the College of Arts and Sciences
Administrative Board of the Library (Vote for 1)
Crescenzi, Mark (7/1/1999) Professor, Political Science
Hsiao, Li-Ling (7/1/2002) Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Arts and Sciences Advisory Committee (Vote for 1)
McNeil, Genna (7/1/1990) Professor, History
Scarry, C. Margaret (1/1/1995) Professor, Anthropology
Faculty Council, Tenured (Vote for 2)
Cai, Yong (7/1/2009) Associate Professor, Sociology
Clegg, Claude (7/1/2015) Distinguished Professor, African, African American and Diaspora Studies
Song, Conghe (7/1/2001) Professor, Geography
Watson, Harry (7/1/1976) Distinguished Professor, History
Faculty Council, Nontenured (Vote for 1)
Krome-Lukens, Anna (7/1/2015) Teaching Assistant Professor, Public Policy
Vaidyanathan, Geetha (7/1/2008) Teaching Associate Professor, Economics
DIVISION 5. University Libraries
Faculty Council (Vote for 1)
Rudder, Julie (9/30/2015) Associate Librarian, University Library
Williams, Joe (7/1/2013) Librarian, University Library
DIVISION 6. School of Information and Library Science
No election in this division
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DIVISION 7. Kenan-Flagler Business School
Faculty Council, Nontenured (Vote for 1)
McGrath, Patia (7/1/2015) Assistant Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School
McNeilly, Mark (6/1/2006) Professor of the Practice, Kenan-Flagler Business School
DIVISION 8. School of Education
Faculty Council, at-large (Vote for 1)
Sawyer, Keith (7/1/2013) Distinguished Term Professor, School of Education
Walter, Meghan (7/1/2014) Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Education
DIVISION 9. School of Media and Journalism
No election in this division
DIVISION 10. School of Law
No election in this division
DIVISION 11. School of Social Work
No election in this division
DIVISION 12. School of Government
No election in this division
DIVISION 13. School of Medicine
Faculty Council, Tenured (Vote for 1)
Major, M. Ben (6/15/2009) Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology
Thorpe, Deborah (1/1/1999) Associate Professor, Allied Health
Faculty Council, Nontenured (Vote for 7)
Cope, Brian (8/13/2013) Clinical Assistant Professor, Urology
Elsherif, Laila (7/1/2012) Research Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
Fromke, Michael (7/29/2016) Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Gentzsch, Martina (9/1/2005) Research Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology
Gilchrist, Michael (7/1/2009) Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine Hospitalist
Halladay, Jacqueline (8/1/1997) Research Associate Professor, Family Medicine
Levine, Amy (7/1/1990) Clinical Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Platts-Mills, Timothy (9/1/2007) Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Serrano Donado, Ricardo (8/5/2013) Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
DIVISION 14. School of Dentistry
No election in this division
DIVISION 15. School of Nursing
No election in this division
DIVISION 16. Eshelman School of Pharmacy
No election in this division
DIVISION 17. Gillings School of Global Public Health
No election in this division
DIVISION 18. Retired Faculty
Faculty Council (Vote for 1)
Falvo, Donna (2003) Clinical Professor Emerita, Allied Health
Pukkila, Patricia (7/1/1979) Professor Emerita, Biology
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Baric, who are all internationally known virology and infec-tious disease experts; Zack Moore, state epidemiologist for North Carolina; and historian Howard Markel, director of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.
“FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD”The symposium will also feature a day-and-a-half of panels and
presentations with dozens of internationally recognized experts who will explore the implications, past and present, of such a dev-astating infectious disease outbreak.
“Understanding what happened in 1918 and how to prevent it is clearly for the public good,” Rimer said. “Public health can be a great convener of people, crossing boundaries to forge conversa-tions for the public good. That’s one of our goals.”
The 1918 flu, for instance, swept across a world that was already awash in turmoil and tens of millions of deaths as a result of World War I. Part of the reason the outbreak spread so far so fast was because of the increase in international travel and the crowded conditions that war-mobilized populations encountered.
There are reasons to believe that a similarly virulent epidemic today would be far worse because there are more people today who are more connected than ever before, Rimer said.
Elizabeth French, Gilling School’s assistant dean for strategic initiatives who helped put the symposium together, said the enor-mity of the 1918 flu led to the creation of modern health systems and to the rise of schools of public health like the Gillings School, which was established in 1940.
“This topic seized the imagination of so many of us planning the symposium,” French said. “In terms of public health history, it is a sentinel event.”
It also spotlights the need for, and value of, teamwork across academic disciplines to solve the world’s greatest challenges, French added.
That need is deeply etched in The Blueprint for Next, the chan-cellor’s strategic framework for Carolina. One of the initiatives is The Great Convergence, a campus-wide call for collaboration across disciplines.
The symposium was developed with that idea in mind, French said.
“This was a core part of the vision for this sympoisum,” French said. “We are an eminent public health school. We should be lead-ing the charge of thinking in the broadest terms about what are the big public health problems facing us now and who can be at the table to think about and develop solutions for these big problems.”
As part of the event, on April 4, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Bob Blouin will host the free presentation “O Lost! The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Thomas Wolfe and
the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918” at Wilson Library. Addi-tional distinguished speakers at the symposium on April 5–6 include health communicators, historians, biostatisticians, epide-miologists, virologists and others.
“’Going Viral’ reflects today’s imperative for interdisciplinarity across disciplines, sectors, people and ideas,” Rimer said. “It is the actualization of Carolina’s low stone walls.”
The event is open to the public and some portions are free, but seating is limited. Continuing education credits are available. More information on the full program of events can be found at sph.unc.edu/nciph/1918-flu-symposium.
– Gary Moss, University Gazette
Public health can be a great convener of people, crossing
boundaries to forge conversations for the public good.
BARBARA RIMER
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Clockwise from top left, the first reported military camp flu outbreak was at Camp Funston, Kansas, in 1918; stricken soldiers receive care in November 1918 in Mare Island, California; the women in this U.S. office wore cloth masks to avoid catching the disease; the 1918 flu claimed two University presidents, Edward Kidder Graham, and his successor, acting president Marvin Hendrix Stacy, who died three months later.
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Join the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies as they welcome Piotr Wilczek, the ambassa-dor of Poland to the United States and the Common-wealth of the Bahamas, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nelson Man-dela Auditorium at the FedEx Global Education Center. This event is part of Polish Week at UNC.
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The Gazette welcomes your story ideas and calendar announcements. To make sure your information reaches us in time for the next issue, please submit it at least 10 days before our publication date. You can find our latest publication schedule online at gazette.unc.edu/about.
The next Gazette will be published April 11. To announce events occurring April 12–25, please submit your information no later than April 2. Email us at [email protected] or submit through the Got News? page on our website (gazette.unc.edu/got-news).
GOT NEWS?
The Coastal Resilience Center and the department of city and regional planning will host Branda Nowell, an associate professor at N.C. State University for Wildfire Vulnerability and Creating more Fire-Resilient Com-munities at 5 p.m. in New East Hall. Nowell will discuss the past wildfire season and her work assessing com-munity resilience to wildfires. More information on this series can be found at coastalresiliencecenter.unc.edu.
Join PlayMakers Repertory Company for the world premiere of Carolina alum Mike Wiley’s From Eden. A story of racial tension, immigration and economic crisis in a small North Carolina town, this unearthing of yesterday yields a hopeful hymn for the future. To purchase tickets, visit playmakersrep.org or call 919-962-7529. Faculty and staff are eligible for a 10 percent discount on tickets.
Carolina Public Humanities presents its latest weekend seminar, The French Revo-lution: Politics, Violence, and Polarization, beginning at 9 a.m. The lively “intel-lectual team” from Caro-lina Public Humanities will explore how modern politi-cal polarization emerged in Revolutionary France and how the revolution’s legacy still appears today. Faculty and staff are eligible for a 50 percent discount on tuition. Register at humanities.unc.edu/register or by calling 919-962-1544.
The family of former Tar Heel play-by-play announcer Woody Durham and the University will hold a celebration of Durham’s life at 2 p.m. at Carmichael Arena. Durham, the voice of the Tar Heels for 40 years from 1971–2011, died at the age of 76 on March 7. The memorial ser-vice is open to the public and is expected to last an hour. Seating in Carmichael will be first-come, first-served except for some reserved seats for Carolina bas-ketball and football lettermen. The doors will open at 1 p.m.
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April 1. University Communications is looking for great stories to share on UNC.edu, social media and the University Gazette and to pitch to the media leading up to Commencement. We are particularly interested in those who have made an impact on campus or in the community; are finding a way to serve in rural areas of North Carolina or have experienced unique opportunities at Carolina they might not have found elsewhere. We are also looking for stories related to public service, research, innovation and entrepreneurship, diversity, and access and affordability. If you know a student, faculty or staff member who you think would make a good profile, please send your ideas to [email protected] by April 1.
DEADLINES TO WATCH
UNC’s Process Series presents Un-Becoming Ailey: Construct-ing a Creative and Feminist Trans*masculinity… by Dan-iel Coleman Chávez at 8 p.m. in Swain Hall Studio 6. Un-becoming Ailey is a Performance as Research project that centers blackness as the moving geography through which transness emerges. Admis-sion is free, but seating is limited. If you would like to reserve a seat you can do so for a $5 donation. Go to processseries.unc.edu to learn more.
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Alice Rivlin will speak on Fixing Our Broken Policy Process: The Case for Bipartisan Consensus on Economic Policy at 3:15 p.m. at the Carolina Inn. The former director of the Office of Man-agement and Budget and founding director of the Congressio-nal Budget Office was selected to deliver the 2018 Deil S. Wright Lecture. Rivlin currently serves as a senior fellow in Economic Studies and the Center for Health Policy at the Brookings Institu-tion and is a visiting professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.
Professor Antony G. Hopkins of the University of Cambridge will present Was There Ever an American Empire? as part of the Krasno Events Series at 5:30 p.m. in the Pleasants Family Room at Wilson Library. Hopkins specializes in the economic history of Africa, European colonialism, empires and globalization. Carolina professor Michael H. Hunt will offer a discussion. For more information, visit krasnoevents.com.
The School of Information and Library Science will host the 2018 Susan Steinfirst Community Lecture in Children’s Literature, featuring bestselling Latina author Meg Medina at 6:30 p.m. at TheArtsCenter in Carrboro. Medina’s talk will explore personal events that have become fictionalized in her award-winning work. A book signing will follow the lecture with books available for purchase from Flyleaf Books. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit sils.unc.edu/news/2018/medina-steinfirst-lecture.
Self-taught artist Theresa Gloster will visit the Stone Center for a public conversation at 5:30 p.m. in the Hitchcock Assembly Room. Her visit is part of the 2018 Caldwell Family Artists-in-Residence Program in the depart-ment of American studies. Gloster’s paintings chronicle her childhood years in the small Afri-can-American community of Bushtown.
Join the N.C. Botanical Garden for a family-friendly celebration of spring and the garden’s natural wonders with hands-on activities and nature play, including frogs, carnivorous plants, bird games and crafts, flower art, gnome home building, a scavenger hunt and more. $5 per person (no fee for children ages 2 and younger). Register at ncbg.unc.edu.
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For Carl Ernst, Islamic studies is about much more than study-ing the languages and cultures of the Middle East—it’s about fostering a much-needed awareness of an area of the world with which many people in the United States are unfamiliar.
Early in his career, he became convinced it was an area that needed better understanding in U.S. society. “I was fascinated by certain cultural features like poetry in Persian and Arabic, and wanted to gain a better understanding of them,” Ernst said.
As the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies and co-director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, Ernst has made it his mission to encour-age interest in Islamic studies and develop opportunities for students to learn more about this region, both within and outside of the classroom.
Most recently, this desire to build connections and under-standing between the Carolina campus and the Middle East brought Ernst to the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival in late Janu-ary. Hailed as the “greatest literary show on earth,” the festival brings together the world’s most renowned literary talents across a number of fields and subject areas for intellectual discussion, thoughtful debate and more.
For Ernst, who was invited to speak on his book Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond, the event was an opportunity to engage with other scholars in the field and connect Carolina to the larger global community. “It’s a great occasion to celebrate culture, creativity and critical thinking,” Ernst said.
After his presentation, Ernst met with graduate students in the history department at the University of Delhi in northern India.
“It really indicated to me how eager people are for deeper conversations about these subjects,” Ernst noted about his visit with students. “We need to increase our connections with India and the Middle East. There are some difficult issues coming to light, and it’s important for scholars and universities to provide some illumination on these issues that will broaden our sense of humanity rather than limit it.”
Ernst—in close collaboration with Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations co-director
and sociology professor Charles Kurzman—works tirelessly to do just that.
Since the center was established in 2004, they have secured funding for its initiatives and strengthened relationships with University partners across the globe. Ernst has also taught courses in Islamic studies for a program in Istanbul during the summer, organized scholarly research around Indian and Persian cultures and continues to teach a research seminar on Sufism to undergraduate students, which is perhaps one of the roles he enjoys most.
“This subject is not well illustrated for students before coming to UNC–Chapel Hill, and so it’s very empowering for them to understand they can learn about these areas that are often pre-sented in stereotyped ways,” he said.
Next on Ernst’s agenda is coordinating a workshop on reli-gious studies timed around the Salam Music Festival, a confer-ence on Sufi music sponsored by renowned musician Youssou N’Dour that will be held in Dakar, Senegal, at the end of May.
“Islam is a subject that has received a lot of negative attention in the media environment, and it’s important to acknowledge that for many Muslims it’s a rather different situation,” Ernst said. “These cultural types of events are important for us, because it’s a way to create opportunities for connections which are often unavailable through standard media representations, and that is a lot of fun.”
Visit the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival’s YouTube page at youtube.com/JprLitFest to watch Ernst’s full presentation and the panel discussion on Persian and Arabic calligraphy, Reading Between the Lines: Calligraphy and Custom.
– Jamie Gnazzo, UNC Global
Carl Ernst connects Carolina to the Middle East
Carl Ernst, second from right, delivered a talk about his book on Sufism at the 2018 ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival, where he was also a panelist during a session on Persian and Arabic calligraphy with (from left to right) moderator Riya Sarkar, art historian B. N. Goswamy, Sufi shrine representative Syed Salman Chishty and author Sadia Dehlvi.
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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKOverall
Tied for 5th
KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL
Overall 19th
Specialty areas Accounting, 11th Executive MBA, 16th Finance, 29th Management, tied for 20th Marketing, tied for 15th
SCHOOL OF LAWOverall
45th
Specialty area Legal Writing, tied for 12th
SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONOverall
Tied for 30th
Specialty areas Administration/Supervision, tied for 14th Curriculum/Instruction, 17th Secondary Education, 14th Special Education, tied for 11th
PUBLIC AFFAIRSCarolina has programs and specialty areas
within several units based in the School of Govern-ment, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Gill-ings School of Global Public Health with master’s degree programs that are ranked by U.S. News as part of a public affairs category.
Overall Tied for 23rd
Specialty areas Environmental Policy and
Management, 14th Local Government Management, 3rd Public Finance and Budgeting,
tied for 20th Public Management and Leadership,
tied for 15th Public Policy Analysis, tied for 32nd
SCIENCES Biology, tied for 33rd Biostatistics, tied for 8th Chemistry, tied for 15th Analytical Chemistry, 2nd Inorganic Chemistry, 10th Computer Science, tied for 25th Earth Sciences, tied for 54th Mathematics, tied for 34th Physics, tied for 47th Statistics, 19th
Methodology: U.S. News first ranked gradu-ate programs in 1987 and has done so annually since 1990. Each year it ranks professional pro-grams in business, education, engineering, law, nursing and medicine. Those rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinion on program excellence and statistical indicators that mea-sure the quality of a school’s faculty, research and students. Its periodic rankings of addi-tional disciplines and specialties in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and other areas are based solely on the ratings of peer academic experts, including deans, program directors and faculty.
The data come from statistical surveys sent to administrators at more than 1,970 graduate programs and from reputation surveys sent to more than 16,500 academics and professionals in the disciplines. Surveys for the 2019 rankings were conducted during the fall of 2017 and in early 2018.
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COMMUNITY from page 1
illuminate pieces of a community’s past in Rocky Mount, Raleigh and beyond. The historians are part of the Community Histories Workshop, or CHW, housed in the College of Arts & Sciences’ Center for Urban and Regional Studies.
ROCKY MOUNT MILLS REVITALIZATIONRocky Mount Mills, the second-largest and longest-running
textile mill in the state, closed its doors in 1996 after 178 years of operation. Capitol Broadcasting Co. is developing the mill into a multi-use project, with loft apartments, offices, restaurants and more. About 60 mill houses are also being renovated.
Supported by an initial grant from Capitol Broadcasting, the CHW began work in October 2016 to recover the complex sto-ries of Rocky Mount by collecting and transcribing more than 20 oral history interviews with former workers and families affected by the mill’s closure. Last spring, CHW was recognized by the archivist of the United States through a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and the group has received additional support from Capitol Broadcasting to further its research.
CHW is developing a digital platform that will showcase the history of the mill and surrounding community with maps, photos and oral history interviews. CHW is also optimizing Prospect, a data visualization tool for use in community history and archiving.
John Mebane, president of the mill at the time of its closure, gave the CHW team invaluable insight into the demographic change in the mill’s workforce after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Prior to the act, the only African-Americans employed by the mill were a small number of men working on the loading dock. Three decades later, the workforce was nearly 80 percent African-American men and women.
This information helped inform the direction of CHW’s efforts, said Nicole Coscolluela, project coordinator for the Rocky Mount Mills project.
“The mill is very much ingrained into the story of labor history and race in Rocky Mount,” she said.
Bernetiae Reed is another member of the CHW team. For over 30 years, she was a labor and delivery nurse before deciding to go back to school to pursue her passion for preserving African-American history. She received a master’s degree in library and information studies from UNC-Greensboro in 2015. She now
works for the Southern Historical Collection and is part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Community Driven Archives Team.
Reed has a personal connection to the Rocky Mount Mills story.The mill was founded in 1818 by Joel Battle, a local planter,
and the Battle family had multiple ties to the University. Reed will be researching Battle family slave genealogies, trying to trace the lives of five slave families from the past into the present.
“My great-great-grandmother was owned by the Battle fam-ily and taken into Texas, and then from there, into Louisiana,” Reed said.
DOROTHEA DIX’S HISTORYAs they began a comprehensive new project, Allen and mem-
bers of the CHW team visited the State Archives of North Caro-lina in December to explore materials related to Dorothea Dix Hospital, the state’s principal mental hospital from 1856 until it closed its doors in 2012. The City of Raleigh plans to develop 308 acres of the Dix campus into a destination urban park.
Aided by support from the Dix Park Conservancy Board, CHW is helping the board’s legacy committee chronicle the long history of the site, which extends at least 150 years prior to its use as a mental hospital. Their historical research will inform and inspire the master plan and programming of the future park and will be presented to the architectural firm, Michael Van Valken-burgh Associates.
The CHW team will be combing through a red leather admis-sions ledger that lists every patient admitted to the hospital well into the 20th century; they’ll be exploring records from 1865 to 1917.
“The red-volume admissions ledger is our Rosetta Stone. You open it up, and it’s like a 19th-century spreadsheet,” Allen said. “We will be looking at the etymology of mental health lan-guage, asking what it meant to be committed to an insane asy-lum because of domestic trouble, reversal of fortune, religious excitement, childbirth. What you’re witnessing is the birth of modern psychiatry.”
Allen and team members are working on individual case studies, following patients through census enumerations, death certificates, digitized newspapers and other sources.
This spring, CHW is partnering with English and compara-tive literature professor Jordynn Jack’s medical humanities class to create a Dix Hospital learning experience based on the 19th-century admissions ledger.
The CHW projects “are coming out of the needs presented to us by communities,” Allen said. “These are not problems that I go in and fix. This is a long-tail, open-ended, generative, unpre-dictable set of relationships—always complicated, but always more than you imagined it could be.”
Learn more at communityhistories.org.
– Kim Weaver Spurr, College of Arts & Sciences
These nurses, photographed in 1946, worked at Dorothea Dix Hospital, the state’s principal mental hospital from 1856 to 2012.
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April 6–7 10AM– 8PM109 E. FRANKLIN ST.
For the Monumental Voices project, organizers will pass out squares of canvas for participants to illustrate their answers to the questions “What does equality look like?” and “How do we acknowledge truth in our history in a constructive way?” The canvas squares will then be stitched together to form a quilt and displayed April 8 at the Town of Chapel Hill's Near and Far Festival, and then throughout the community.
April 6–10 10AM– 2PMHOUSE UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the House Undergradu-ate Library, Chapel Hill artist Mary Carter Taub will install Right Angles, a colorful work made entirely of tape placed on the library façade to reflect the creative activity that takes place inside every day. Community members are invited to participate in the creation of the installation inside the library.
April 6 12PM– 1PMTHE PIT
PlayMakers Repertory Company and student groups will perform for the lunchtime crowd.
April 6 1:30PM– 2PMSCHOOL OF DENTISTRY, KOURY ATRIUM
In a collaboration that merges opera and live painting, bass-baritone Marc Callahan, assistant professor of music, will sing excerpts from Shubert’s Die Winterreise while visual artist Andrew Myers accompanies him through live drawing.
April 6 6PM– 8PMKENAN MUSIC BUILDING
Arts Everywhere Day will close with the free concert Jazz Reflections on 1965–75 with The Greg Glassman/Dave Schnitter Quintet. The concert wraps up the day-long 6th annual Global Africana Conference on Global Black Music and Politics from 1965–1975.
April 6 will be a day for living the arts, no matter where you go on campus or on Frank-lin Street.
In its second year, Arts Everywhere Day expands its reach to downtown Chapel Hill and broadens its scope to include hearing nature and picturing equality. It will be a day to hang out in a wooden igloo in the arboretum, lis-ten to live performances by PlayMakers Rep-ertory Company and students, decorate the House Undergraduate Library with fluorescent tape and chalk up what you want to do before you die.
The day-long event will feature more than 50 performances, exhibitions, hands-on activities and announcements. For more information, visit artseverywhere.unc.edu or download the Arts Everywhere app at the App Store or on Google Play.
Chancellor Carol L. Folt launched Arts Everywhere in 2016 as a way to demonstrate how the arts are an essential tool for learning and engaging communities. This ground-breaking campus-wide initiative invests in sus-tained creative practice, live arts experiences and arts learning, with the goal of making Car-olina a leader in transforming the 21st-century liberal arts education.
“It’s Arts Everywhere Day again! With colorful installations and pop-up performances, it will be a day of dancing, singing, artistic expression and creativity. Through the wonder of the arts, the campus will come to life. I can’t wait to see you there, ” Folt said.
Arts Everywhere is a strategic initiative that supports the Innovation Made Fundamen-tal pillar of The Blueprint for Next strategic framework and also a signature initiative in the
University’s $4.25 billion fun-draising effort, the Campaign for Carolina.
“The second annual Arts Everywhere Day reflects the growing partnerships that are critical to all that we do throughout the year,” said Emil Kang, special assis-tant to the chancellor for the arts. “The day is a way for us to celebrate the power of the arts to bring people together across disciplines, interests and backgrounds. The collabora-tions featured extend all across campus and into the greater Chapel Hill community.”
For the first time, Arts Everywhere Day includes downtown venues. One of 10 painted Campus and Community Keys pianos will be
installed for passersby to play on the Social Jus-tice Plaza. The Monumental Voices project will be set up on Franklin St. where organizers will pass out canvas for participants to illustrate.
Celebrate the arts on April 6, Arts Everywhere Day
Live and learn
March 31–April 8COKER ARBORETUM Chill in a Seussian wooden igloo created by artist Nicholas Chatfield-Taylor and placed in the springtime bower of Coker Arboretum. Microphones set up nearby will amplify the sounds of nature. This is a collaborative project with LEVEL Retreat supported by the Orange County Arts Commission.
April 5–19 OUTSIDE THE STUDENT UNION
The Before I Die installation is a giant chalkboard on which visitors complete the statement “Before I Die…” Led by Carolina senior Rachael Purvis, this is part of a global project developed by artist Cindy Chang created in more than 70 countries.
April 3–24 LOCATIONS ACROSS CAMPUS & FRANKLIN ST.
Campus & Community Keys—pianos painted by students and community members and installed outdoors—will be played by passersby and, during class changes, by student musicians (12:05 p.m., 1:10 p.m. and 2:15 p.m.).
April 6 11AM– 2PMPOLK PLACE
Polk Place becomes the ArtsQuad for a day, with hands-on art making activities. Highlights will include on-demand poems with the Poetry Fox, the creation of an art installation for the Campus Health building and life-size Jenga.
