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INSIDE: Hodding Carter • Cross-Town Rivals, Not • Debunking DaVinci Code • Brilliant Bioinformatics

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The College breaks new ground — here and abroad I am delighted to introduce you to the first issue of Carolina Arts & Sciences, a new semi-annual magazine designed especially for alumni and donors of the College of Arts & Sciences.

For many, the College defines the “Carolina experience.” All Carolina students begin their academic careers in the College — the oldest and largest school on the UNC campus. Undergraduates spend at least their Photo by Will Owens first two years with us, and about 72 percent declare their major field of study in the College. About 22 percent of all graduate and professional students also receive their degrees from departments in the College. Our 700 professors are committed to excellent teaching, research and public service.

We hope that our new magazine will tell you about the faculty, students, alumni and friends of the College in a way that no other publication can.

As you turn these pages, you will travel 2,700 miles across the vast deserts and mountains of western China with Pablo Durana ’06, a Burch Fellow and budding filmmaker who set out to document the area’s extensive ethnic diversity. Pablo’s remarkable story and photos illustrate how international study has changed in the College as expanding opportunities bring our faculty and students to the world, and the world to Carolina. At least 60 percent of College faculty are engaged in international activities, and more than one-third of our undergraduates study abroad before obtaining their degrees. Still, we are committed to making international experiences available and affordable to all of our students, as vital preparation for leadership in a global society.

We are pleased to bring you exciting news about expanding study abroad scholarships and two new facilities that will enhance our international studies here and abroad. The Global Education Center on campus and the European Study Center in London will be open soon to faculty, students and alumni from across the University.

In these pages, you also will read about the pioneering spirit of the inaugural class of Robertson Scholars, who experienced “study abroad” in a different way as they bridged the great Carolina-Duke divide to find considerable common ground.

Each fall, we welcome new faculty to the College. You will meet three of them in this issue: former presidential aide Hodding Carter III, the University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy; Jeff Spinner-Halev, the Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics; and Crystal Feimster ’94, an alumna who is returning home as an assistant professor of history. We also feature news about faculty achievements, such as bioinformatics researcher Wei Wang’s Microsoft Fellowship and chemist Joseph DeSimone’s latest honors. As a special treat, we include an excerpt from religious studies scholar Bart Ehrman’s book debunking The DaVinci Code. Retaining and recruiting extraordinary teachers and scholars like these is a top priority for the College in the Carolina First fundraising campaign.

From Chapel Hill, Gastonia and Greensboro to Atlanta, London and Cape Town, the achievements of the people featured in these pages would not be possible without the extraordinary support of our alumni and friends, many of whom are listed in our Honor Roll.

Our faculty, students, alumni and donors bring us inspiration, encouragement and a sense of adventure, for which we are extremely grateful. Now we invite all of our readers to share in the journey.

Bernadette Gray-Little, Dean

THE COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES • Bernadette Gray-Little Dean • William Andrews ’70MA, ’73 PhD Senior Associate Dean, Fine Arts and Humanities • Bruce Carney Senior Associate Dean, Sciences • Arne Kalleberg Senior Associate Dean, Social Sciences • Tammy McHale Senior Associate Dean, Finance and Planning • James W. May Senior Associate Dean, Program Development, Executive Director, Arts & Sciences Foundation • Bobbi Owen Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education

Arts & Sciences Foundation Board of Directors • James G. Kenan III ’68, Lexington, KY, Chair • Willard J. Overlock ’68, Greenwich, CT, Vice-Chair • Bernadette Gray-Little, Chapel Hill, NC, President • James W. May Jr., Chapel Hill, NC, Secretary • James L. Alexandre ’79, London • Derek S. Allison ’98, Charlotte • Ivan V. Anderson Jr. ’61, Charleston, SC • William L. Andrews, ’70MA, ’73 PhD, Chapel Hill, NC • Vicki U. Craver ’92, Cos Cob, CT • Archie H. Davis ’64, Savannah, GA • Robin Richards Donohoe ’87, San Francisco, CA • Gail Fearing ’66, Chapel Hill, NC • Alan Feduccia, Chapel Hill, NC • David G. Frey ’64, ’67 JD, Grand Rapids, MI • Molly D. Froelich ‘83, Charlotte, NC • William T. Hobbs II ’85, Charlotte, NC • Lynn B. Janney ’70, Butler, MD • Matthew G. Kupec ’80, Chapel Hill, NC • Sallie A. McMillion ’59, Greensboro, NC • Catherine Bryson Moore ‘90, Santa Monica, CA • Paula R. Newsome ’77, Charlotte, NC • G. Kennedy Thompson ’73, Charlotte, NC • S. Thompson Tygart ’62, Jacksonville, FL • Thomas M. Uhlman, ’75 PhD, Murray Hill, NJ • Ralph Hanes Womble ’76, Winston-Salem, NC • Michael Zimmerman ’75, New York, NY

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FEATURES

FROM THE DEAN

The College breaks new ground — here and abroad

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HIGH ACHIEVERS

Distinguished chemist Joseph DeSimone, award-winning teacher Trudier Harris, new Thomas Wolfe Scholar Kendra Fish, and more

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12 • Cycling China

Sidney Rittenberg ’41,“The Man Who Stayed Behind,” builds bridges between the U.S. and China

16 • Going Global

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The College breaks new ground in international education

18 • Probing Public Discourse

7 HIGHLIGHTS

Burch Fellow Pablo Durana fulfills a bold dream

Hodding Carter III, the new University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy, wants to enhance public understanding and discussion of substantive issues

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20 • Cross-town Rivals, Not

24 • Mining A New Field

Microsoft recognizes bioinformatics innovator Wei Wang

26 • Democratic Dilemmas

Jeff Spinner-Halev, the new Kenan Eminent Professor, examines injustices within liberal democracies

Cover photo: Burch Fellow Pablo Durana cycles in the shadow of the Muztagata mountains near China’s westernmost border. (Photo by Maria Durana)

Entrepreneurship studies for liberal arts students, Heels go Hollywood, and more news about our faculty, students and alumni

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COLLEGE BOOKSHELF

The first graduates of the Robertson Scholars Program conquer the great Duke-UNC divide

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Stuart Albright ’01 recalls a lifechanging summer teaching inner-city youth in Camden, N.J.

Religious scholar Bart Ehrman reveals the truth and fiction behind The DaVinci Code, plus notes about new books from the arts and sciences

28 HONOR ROLL

We salute more than 900 alumni and friends for their generous support of the College of Arts & Sciences

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COMING SOON

Fred Chappell, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Christine Todd Whitman, Joan Didion and Frank Rich are among the luminaries speaking on campus in the coming months

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HIGH ACHIEVERS HIGH ACHIEVERS

“Wunderkind of chemical engineering” has a banner year

By JB Shelton

Joseph M. DeSimone has touched your life if you’ve ever scrambled eggs, had a suit dry cleaned or comforted a friend diagnosed with cancer.

At age 41, DeSimone’s work confirms the decade-ago vote of confidence from The New York Times calling him “a wunderkind of chemical engineering.”

Research breakthroughs may bedevil lesser men, but the prolific DeSimone leads graduate students and post-docs to connect laboratory science with real-world needs. In 2005, this scientist, professor and entrepreneur had a banner year.

DeSimone, William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences and at North Carolina State University, was elected to two prestigious societies this year. And he co-founded a new company, Liquidia Technologies.

DeSimone was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

“Joe is the rare kind of researcher who combines great scientific originality and imagination with an excellent sense of what is practical and what is needed,” said James W. Jorgenson, former chair of the chemistry department. “These qualities, in combination with his immense determination and drive, have guided him to create innovative new technologies at a truly astounding rate.”

“Astounding rate” is an understatement.

DeSimone is inventor of record for more than 100 patents. The majority are assigned to UNC-Chapel Hill. Several others are assigned to the start-up companies he founded to transform lab discoveries into commercial enterprises.

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LIQUIDIA TECHNOLOGIES DeSimone received the 2005 Entrepreneurial Excellence Award for Life Science Spin-Out of the Year for Liquidia Technologies.

The company combines biological science with state-of-the-art technology in medical research and applications, including cancer detection and treatment.

“We’ve partnered with Siemens,” said DeSimone, “to apply our methods and materials to PET (positron-emission tomography) scans.” The scans produce visual likenesses of human body parts for examination and diagnosis.

BIOSTENT DeSimone and Duke University cardiologist Richard Stack co-founded BioStent in 2002 to develop bioabsorbable, drug-eluting vascular stents that restore blood flow in patients with coronary artery disease and, incredibly, dissolve in 18 months. BioStent was a spin-out company from SyneCor, which is an incubator of medical device companies. After only eight months of existence, BioStent was acquired

by Guidant Corporation, a world leader in the treatment of cardiac and vascular disease.

MICELL TECHNOLOGIES DeSimone was chairman and cofounder of Micell Technologies, a company that makes life healthier for anyone who gets hungry and wears clothing. His lab research in pollution-prevention technology uses carbon dioxide (CO2) to replace water and polluting solvents in manufacturing and cleaning processes.

Micell, founded in 1996, pioneered an environmentally friendly dry cleaning method. It replaces detergent-based pollutants traditionally used to clean garments with a safe form of all-natural carbon dioxide (CO2) that doesn’t contaminate air, soil or water. Consumer Reports praised the technology as the “best dry cleaning method available.”

Joseph DeSimone

DUPONT PARTNERSHIP DuPont’s impressive Teflon plant in Fayetteville manufactures the best grades of Teflon ever produced. DuPont has licensed this technology and pays royalties to UNC for high performance, low surface energy coatings (think skillets). DuPont also bankrolls further research in DeSimone’s lab.

DeSimone leads a team of UNC researchers studying fuel cells for portable power applications for laptops, cell phones and Homeland Security. He is director of the National Science Foundation’s Science Technology Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes and the UNC Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology. Collaborating with the UNC School of Medicine, the DeSimone Lab group also is investigating gene therapy and targeted drug delivery.

But DeSimone isn’t all work and no play. He, wife Suzanne and teen-agers Emily and Philip, “think the best place to relax and share unpressured family time together is at the beach.” •

HIGH ACHIEVERS ISLAM EXPERT WINS MORE BOOK AWARDS Religious studies professor Carl W. Ernst traveled to Istanbul earlier this year to receive three more prizes for his book, Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (UNC Press, 2004).

He wrote the book to explain Islam to nonMuslims.

The Cenan Foundation for Education, Culture and Health honored Ernst for “outstanding achievement in the teaching of Sufism.” The Turkish Women’s Cultural Association of Istanbul recognized him with its Award for Excellence in Education.

The Turkish Economic and Social Research Foundation presented him with an award bearing the foundation’s name.

The honors were specially created for the first time to recognize Ernst and his work, which has drawn praise from around the world. Last year the book received the Bashrahil Prize for Outstanding Cultural Achievement in the Humanities and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine.

The book is available in English and Turkish and will be translated into French, Arabic, Persian, Korean, Indonesian and Malay.

OUTSTANDING STUDENTS Undergraduates and graduates of the College of Arts and Sciences won a slew of highly competitive scholarships this past year: • Rachel Mazyck ’02 from Laurel, Md., won the coveted 2005 Rhodes Scholarship for study at Oxford University in Great Britain, among the most competitive graduate awards. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English with highest distinction at Carolina, she earned a master’s degree in education policy and management at Harvard University. She plans to earn a doctorate of philosophy specializing in educational studies.

• Rebecca S. Williford, who graduated in December with a degree in political science with highest honors, won a Jack Kent

LEFT TO RIGHT: Carl Ernst, Rachel Mazyck, Richard Waters, Kendra Fish Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship, one of the nation’s most generous merit awards. The scholarship provides complete support for up to six years of graduate study.

Williford, who uses a wheelchair due to a chronic neurological and cardiovascular disorder, plans to earn a law degree at Carolina focusing on disability law. The third-generation Carolina graduate from Rocky Mount, N.C., served as secretary of the student body and vice president of both the Order of the Golden Fleece and the Order of the Grail-Valkyries, the University’s highest honor societies.

• Lauren McAlee, a Robertson Scholar from Crofton, Md., with a double major in public policy and philosophy, won the Truman Scholarship, for support of her senior year and graduate studies. After graduating in 2006, she plans to seek a master’s degree in public policy and education and to work to improve educational opportunities in lowincome communities.

• Nicholas R. Love ’05 of Brighton, Mich., won a Churchill Scholarship to support a year of graduate study at Cambridge University in England, where he plans to earn a graduate degree in zoology. A year earlier Love, a biology major, received a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, for sophomores and juniors who demonstrate commitment to careers in mathematics, sciences or engineering.

• Speaking of Goldwater Scholarships, four students who have been involved in undergraduate research won the 2005 award, the maximum allowed for any college or university. They are: Carrie Gibbons of Cary, N.C., who will graduate in 2006 with a degree in biology and distinction in public service; Kimberly Kalliance, a National Merit Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa member and biology major from Atlanta; James Mahaffey, a Smallwood Undergraduate Research Fellow and biology major from Raleigh; and Gregory Charville, a chemistry major, counsel on the student attorney general’s staff and College

Board Advanced Placement Scholar, also from Raleigh.

• Richard Waters, a Morehead Scholar from Morehead City, N.C., who graduated in May with a double major in chemistry and mathematics, won a George J. Mitchell Scholarship for graduate study in Ireland. He plans to earn a master’s degree in applied science at the University College Cork.

• John W. Steen IV of Winston Salem, who graduated in May with a B.A. in English with highest honors, won an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies for graduate school. He plans to seek a doctorate in comparative literature at Emory University in Atlanta.

SHORT STORY WRITER WINS WOLFE SCHOLARSHIP Kendra Fish, a short-story writer and nationally ranked debater from Castle Rock, Colo., is the new Thomas Wolfe Scholar in creative writing. The competitive award, which recognizes literary ability and artistic merit, supports four years of study at the University.

During high school, Fish maintained a 4.0 grade point average, served as president of the Speech and Debate Club and earned a top 50 national debating ranking. She also worked on the school newspaper and excelled in courses in literature, creative writing, film and journalism.

“Writing is something that has always followed me, kind of like a sidekick you just can’t get rid of,” she said. “Now it’s following me to college, and I couldn’t think of a better place than UNC-Chapel Hill for the two of us to go.”

The scholarship honors renowned author and alumnus Thomas Wolfe. The award was established with a $2 million gift from alumnus Frank Borden Hanes Sr. ’42, a novelist, poet and retired journalist from Winston Salem, who founded the Arts and Sciences Foundation.

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HIGH ACHIEVERS CHEMIST ADVISING STATE DEPARTMENT ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISSUES

MILLER NAMED FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY

HARRIS WINS TOP TEACHING AWARD

Roger E. Miller, the John B. Carroll Trudier Harris, a distinguished Distinguished chemist Edward T. professor of chemistry, has been elected Fellow professor of English and a leading scholar Samulski is spending the year in the nation’s of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom. of African American literature and folklore, capital advising the U.S. Department of State Founded in 1660, the Royal Society won the UNC Board of Governors Award on science issues in the realm of foreign is the world’s oldest scientific academy. for Teaching Excellence. The awards, policy.

Previous and current fellows have included Sir including a bronze medallion and $7,500 Samulski, the Cary C. Boshamer Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Stephen cash prize, are given annually to a tenured professor of chemistry, is one of five Hawking. faculty member from each of 16 UNC tenured scholars nationwide to be tapped Miller has distinguished himself as campuses.

by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice as a a physical chemist, specializing in laser Harris, the J. Carlyle Sitterson Jefferson Science Fellow. The program brings spectroscopy. He attracted public attention professor of English, has received renowned science scholars to Washington, five years ago when he artificially created numerous honors for her work, including D.C. for one-year assignments, followed by a the world’s smallest pieces of ice. The ice three previous awards specifically for five-year consultancy outstanding after they return teaching to their academic — two from the careers.

University and “I think they one from the are interested in South Atlantic having people who Modern Language can look at a wide Association. range of scientific She has subjects analytically written or edited and anticipate the numerous books, implications for editions, book policy,” said Samulski. chapters and “This kind of problem articles and has solving is very been an invited appealing to me.” speaker and “Science is a presenter across universal language, the United States with the capacity and in nearly a to unite individuals dozen foreign LEFT: Chemist Edward Samulski RIGHT: English Professor Trudier Harris and nations around countries. Her the globe,” he said. most recent books “Its importance can only increase over the fragments he and then chemistry doctoral include: South of Tradition: Essays on coming decades as the world shrinks and the student Klaas Nauta made consisted of only six African-American Literature (2002), Saints, playing field levels. To be able to contribute molecules of water in flat hexagonal rings, just Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in to this future is an honor for me.” as ice exists in nature.

African American Literature (2001), and her Samulski is co-director of the multiTheir unusual achievement has resulted memoir, Summer Snow: Reflections from a university NASA Institute on Biologically in greater insights into the nature of water.

Black Daughter of the South (2003).

Inspired Materials, a consortium of research His current research group continues to institutions working to create new materials develop new methods for studying systems that might revolutionize civil aviation and that are important in atmospheric chemistry, space travel. combustion, biochemistry and nanoscience.

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PROFILE PROFILE

‘The Man Who Stayed Behind’ Sidney Rittenberg builds bridges between U.S. and China

By Kim Weaver Spurr ’88

It is hard to imagine when you see and hear Sidney Rittenberg ’41 today that he could have spent 16 years in solitary confinement in a Chinese jail, imprisoned twice by the Communists on charges of being an American spy.

At 83, Rittenberg has no traces of bitterness in his voice for the misery he endured, at times in total darkness. Physically, he is not a large man. He is, in fact, more gentle sage than angry victim. His animated eyes belie his age.

“Remember Samson’s hair? My ‘hair’ is sitting over there,” he points to his Chineseborn wife of nearly 50 years, Yulin, who herself spent three years in labor camps. “She and her whole family stood by me through thick and thin when it was not good to stand by me at all.”

Rittenberg’s life has all the makings of a riveting historical novel, yet it is true. He begins his 1993 memoir, The Man Who Stayed Behind, with the following: “I never meant to stay in China.”

But stay he did — for 35 years — after being originally sent there as a Chinese language interpreter during World War II. He marched with the revolutionaries across war-torn China. He came to know every major Chinese leader — Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, the notorious Gang of Four and Deng Xiaoping — and served as no less than Mao’s translator. He was the only American citizen accepted into the Chinese Communist Party, until the Cultural Revolution. He adopted a Chinese name, Li Dunbai.

It all began at UNC. “I grew up in Charleston, but spiritually, I was born in Chapel Hill,” he said. Carolina was the “first stage” in his education, China the second. He comes back to campus at least once a year to

participate in seminars through the College’s Program in Humanities and Human Values.

As a young student, Rittenberg began working for the causes of human rights, poverty and illiteracy. His mentor was former UNC President Frank Porter Graham, who knew Rittenberg’s grandfather. He recalled Sunday afternoons at the president’s mansion, chatting over tea.

“And then one morning my roommate and I saw in The Daily Tar Heel that two investigators from the Dies Committee had come down from Washington to investigate Frank Porter Graham for being sympathetic to communism,” he said. “I told my roommate, ‘They want communists, I’ll give them communists,’ and we went down and joined the party.”

Charges by Joseph Stalin, backed by Mao, sent Rittenberg to prison the first time in 1949. During his two terms in confinement, one for six years, the other for 10, Rittenberg said he recalled the tools he had been taught in philosophy and psychology classes at Carolina.

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“I remembered what I learned in a psychology class in New East: You can’t control the stimulus, but the response is largely up to you,” said Rittenberg, who during his second stint in prison in 1968 had to leave his wife and four young children behind. “I learned that we can learn to manage our moods and emotions. It’s not as simple as turning off a spigot of water, but we can do that.”

Today, this “incorrigible optimist,” as Rittenberg likes to call himself, has forgiven China. He was eventually cleared of all charges of being an imperialist spy. The slate has been wiped clean.

“It’s mainly not about the other guy. It’s about you,” he smiled broadly. “Forgiveness has nothing to do with the enormity of the crime. … I was lucky to survive, and I learned a lot from it.”

TOP: Sidney Rittenberg and wifeYulin hold granddaughter Shannon, who lives in New Bern.

BOTTOM: Sidney Rittenberg once served as a translator for Chairman Mao Zedong.

Twenty-five years after leaving China, Rittenberg is very much the capitalist. He and Yulin operate a thriving consulting business from their Fox Island, Wash. home, helping American businesses make inroads into the Chinese market. Clients have included Microsoft, Prudential Life Insurance, Nextel, Levis Strauss, Intel and InFocus.

Rittenberg counts veteran broadcast journalist Mike Wallace and the Reverend Billy Graham as friends. He and Yulin helped pave the way for Graham’s visit to China in 1988.

His past life, Rittenberg laughed, “is great for business. If we need to go and see someone at the top, it’s no problem. It’s like having an old-school tie.”

Today — as the eyes of the world are on China, the world’s most rapidly changing large economy and a burgeoning superpower — Sidney Rittenberg continues to see his role as a bridge-builder.

Twelve years after the publication of his book, the words Rittenberg penned in the epilogue still ring true: If there is one thing my life has taught me, it is that one can change, one can learn, one can grow. And that the surest way to happiness for yourself is to fight for the happiness of others. I find myself readier than ever to pursue this same task that led me to stay in China. • CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • FALL 2005 • 5

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Hard Lessons

violent word. He pulled his knees close to his chest, and

By Stuart Albright ’01 he brushed off the dirt from a day full of roughhousing. He The afternoon lessons had not gone stared at the swing set in front well.The kids wouldn’t listen, wouldn’t of us. sit down, wouldn’t stop shouting. My “He still gettin’ in head pounded and throbbed. Screams of trouble, and you ain’t done “Mister Stu! Mister Stu!” disrupted my nuthin’.

I can’t deal with this!” every thought. I was fed up with the shear I blinked.

She had just volume of noise they could produce. I tried slapped Kyle across the face, to remember why I wanted to work with spinning him sideways.

It was Durham teacher Stuart Albright also coaches high school football. children in the first place. I know I came swift and accurate, a motion to Camden with the desire to love these kids with all of my heart. I wanted to show perfected through experience. She spun him arms around me. She patted me on the head them how much there was to life beyond a again. And again.The sound echoed through and squeezed my neck.When I released Nykhia she ran to the waiting arms of her small circle of toys and simple pleasures. But the jungle gym and the swing set.

Del tried to stop her.

“Miss Hoover, father. He was taller than most of the parents these kids seem to be totally isolated from that’s not — ” I knew, and he looked dignified and kind. the outside world.Why was this so troubling “Don’t tell me how to raise my own Fatherhood seemed to lend him a sense of to me? I didn’t have the energy to think child, man.

Don’t you dare!

Come on, Kyle. maturity and purpose that was far greater about it right then. I couldn’t think about Stop crying like a damn baby.” than my own.We may have been the same anything, for that matter.

Mrs. Hoover dragged her son to a age, but Nykhia’s father was part of a world waiting car.

She was wearing a pair of black I could only imagine. He waved goodbye to I tried to remember why I wanted boots, and when they reached the car she me as I smiled wearily in return. to work with children in the first place. slid the right boot off.

Kyle shrunk back Rain began to fall as I drove down I know I came to Camden with the desire from the impending blow, from hard plastic Ferry Avenue.The sulfurous smell of garbage to love these kids with all of my heart. against a trembling cheek. soon drifted away, and I rolled the windows I wanted to show them how much “What you doin’, boy?

You know how down in my car.With an outstretched arm there was to life beyond a small circle this goes.”

I cupped the water in my palm and gazed of toys and simple pleasures.

Slowly, reluctantly, Kyle raised his head at the neighborhoods around me. Empty and his eyes picked a point in the distance. buildings stared back with hollow and dying And then it happened.

He was not crying anymore. eyes.The rain came down faster, and steam Del walked up with a stocky troubleMrs. Hoover lifted the boot in the air, hovered above the empty streets. I thought maker named Kyle Hoover by his side. Kyle and the bottom glistened in the sunlight.

At about Nico, Max, and Nykhia. Most of all I was in Miss Jessica’s seven- and eight-yearthe last moment, Del pulled the child away thought about Kyle and his sad, vacant face. old class, and had a habit of talking back. from the blow.

My own tears mingled with the falling Kyle’s mother stood off to the side. A “It’s alright!

He can come tomorrow. rain. look of profound impatience crossed Mrs. It’s alright.”

Excerpted with permission from Blessed Hoover’s face as Del told her that Kyle Del looked down at me with sweat Returns, Stuart Albright’s new memoir of a was going to be suspended yet again. She drenching his face and his shirt.

“See that, life-changing summer teaching at an inner-city immediately exploded, slipping into a rage Stu? What can we do?

What can we do?” community center in Camden, N.J. in 1999. A that could only come from the deepest pain, I shook my head, not knowing what I native of Gastonia, N.C.,Albright graduated suffering, and despair. could possibly say. from Carolina with a major in English/Creative “What the hell’s wrong with you, Kyle?

Most of the kids had already gone, so I Writing and received a master’s degree in What the hell!” And then she scowled at prepared to leave as well.

I unlocked my car education from Harvard University. He teaches Del.“I can’t watch him, can’t afford to take door, and I heard a faint voice behind me.

American literature and creative writing, and care of him.What you doin’? What you “Mister Stu, Mister Stu.” coaches football, at Jordan High School in doin’ here? Can’t even leave my son a full It was Nykhia.

The shy grin had Durham, N.C. Learn more online: www. f___ing day!” returned to her tiny face, and she threw her mckinnonpress.com. • Kyle sat by my side, listening to every 6 • FALL 2005 • CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES

HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS

CEI encourages entrepreneurship for arts and sciences students

Heels go Hollywood

Entrepreneurship is not just for business majors. Now students in the College of Arts and Sciences can choose a new entrepreneurship minor offered by the department of economics beginning this fall. It’s all part of the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI), an $11 million program to infuse entrepreneurial approaches to education campuswide and help faculty, staff and students launch ventures of all kinds — commercial, social and artistic.

About 60 students requested Entrepreneurship is not permission to fill 50 slots for the new minor, which is directed just for business majors. by economics professor John Stewart. Officials hope to expand the program over four years to accommodate 100 students per year.

Entrepreneurship made a big splash in other news: • The Princeton Review and Forbes.com ranked Carolina the nation’s top university for fostering entrepreneurship last October.

• In April, officials announced winners of the Carolina Challenge entrepreneurial business–plan competition. Undergraduates Lindsay Johnson (communications and English), Patrick Elliot (political science) and Leah Peroutka (music), along with Zach Clayton (business administration) won the $7,000 first–place award in the social venture category for New Worlds through Literature.

• Faculty will explore development of a concentration in artistic entrepreneurship thanks to a $38,000 development grant from the CEI Innovations Fund. Elliot McGucken, lecturer of physics and programming, received the grant to lead development of a proposed Artistic Entrepreneurship Initiative.

• Three faculty in the College won the first Kauffman Faculty Fellowships, which support entrepreneurial activities to enhance teaching and research. Harvey Goldstein (city and regional planning), Dorothy Holland (anthropology) and Francesca Talenti (communication studies) will be awarded research leaves during spring 2006 through the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

The CEI, based in the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, is funded in part by a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

[BELOW] Communication studies students pose outside the Disney Studios in Burbank. Calif., with Carolina alum Dave Krinsky, executive producer of “King of the Hill.” Students learned the inside scoop through show-business internships this summer via the UNC Hollywood Media Industries Program. Interns worked at film production companies, camera rental houses, TV networks, animation studios, special effects houses and post-production facilities. The 2005 internship program is funded in part by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and UNC alumnus Ken Lowe of Cincinnati, president and chief executive officer of E.W. Scripps Co.

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HIGHLIGHTS History Grad Comes Home to Carolina

Summer Bridge turns 25 This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Summer Bridge Program, which provides academic support and guidance to new students during a seven-week intensive campus residency before they begin the fall semester at Carolina.

Each year about 60 students from small and medium-sized high schools in North Carolina get a jump start on their college studies through the program. Students take a math and an English course with up to 12 students per class. They work one-on-one with tutors, practice group study habits, and learn note-taking, test-taking and problemsolving skills. They also make friends before the school year gets under way.

“They bond very quickly here, and they become friends for life,” said Fred Clark, director of Summer Bridge and associate dean of academic services.

Over the last quarter century, more than a thousand students have benefited from Summer Bridge. About 83 percent of students in the program graduate within five years, according to statistics from the year 2000 — the same graduation rate for the University as a whole.

Jeffrey Richardson ’00 graduated from Mount Zion Christian Academy, a small private school in Durham. He is proud to be a Summer Bridge alumnus.

“Summer Bridge eased me into the Carolina environment,” he said. “This [program] is one of the unsung heroes that not many people know about, but it’s had such an impact.”

Richardson, who works for an adolescent pregnancy prevention program based at Howard University, hopes to start a Summer Bridge alumni group. Graduates may contact him at JEFFDRNC@aol.com. Summer Bridge faculty also are hoping alumni will “adopt” a student to mentor from the current 25th anniversary class or consider a private gift to help support the program. E-mail Shade Little, shadekey@email.unc.edu.

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Feimster credits Summer Bridge with helping her to succeed

By Kim Weaver Spurr ’88

When Crystal Feimster ’94 of Statesville, N.C., got her acceptance letter from Carolina, she had good grades, six advanced placement credits — and no idea how tough college math Crystal Feimster ’94 could be. Fortunately, she had a chance to brush Photo by Martha Stewart up on math through the Summer Bridge Program, a seven-week intensive residency on the Chapel Hill campus, before the school year began. (See sidebar.)

“I’d never had a tutor or asked for help before, but it forced me to realize it was OK to ask for help,” she recalled.

Thanks to academic support and guidance provided by the program, and faculty mentors she encountered as a history and women’s studies major, Feimster thrived at Carolina.

“Summer “Summer Bridge really kicked me into gear and Bridge really kicked set the foundation for the rest of my career at UNC. me into gear and set The discipline really paid off once the semester started.” the foundation for the rest of my career at UNC,” said Feimster.“The discipline really paid off once the semester started.”

The career that began with Summer Bridge continued with graduate school at Princeton, teaching at Yale and Boston College, and now comes full circle as Feimster plans to return home to Carolina next year as an assistant professor of history.

After graduating from UNC, she earned a master’s and a Ph.D. in history at Princeton, studying with renowned Southern historian and former UNC professor Nell Painter, who was her dissertation adviser.

Feimster’s book, Southern Horrors:Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching in the American South, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. It explores the diverse ways in which blacks and whites were involved in rapes and lynchings between 1800 and 1940.

“Most people do not know that women were lynched, and that women also participated in mob violence,” she said.

As she comes home to UNC, Feimster said she is grateful for the “amazing” experience she had as an undergraduate.

“I remember Dean Carolyn Cannon [former Summer Bridge director and current associate dean of academic advising] often saying,‘It should be a part of your academic career to ask for help, to go to office hours and to take advantage of the Writing Center.’ And I had professors in women’s studies and history who really supported me.”

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HIGHLIGHTS African American literature alumni and mentors gather It was like a grand family reunion.

Invitees came from 22 states and as far away as Japan and Spain.When they converged in Chapel Hill – nearly 100-strong, including many who had never met before – they realized something extraordinary was taking place.

In fact it was the first reunion of faculty, graduates and students associated with Carolina’s storied African American literature program.“The Gathering:A Symposium on African American Literature and Literary Scholarship,” held June 9-11 at Carolina, provided a unique opportunity for scholars to exchange ideas about research and teaching.

“There were four generations of us gathered in one place,” said J. Lee Greene, UNC professor of English ’74 Ph.D., who

retired in July after teaching classes in African American fiction at Chapel Hill for 30 years.“I got to see the people who taught me, the people I taught, and the people my students taught. It was an opportunity to assess how successful the program has been over the years.”

The late Blyden Jackson, grandson of a slave and the first tenured black professor at the university, established the study of African American literature as a field of undergraduate and graduate work at UNC in 1969.

Last year, U.S. News and World Report ranked the program fifth in the nation, and first among all public universities.

[ABOVE] The Gathering: Some of the 100 faculty, graduates and students of African American literature at Carolina who attended their first reunion on campus in June.

Astronomy grant benefits students statewide North Carolina students from kindergarten through graduate school will Daniel Reichart be able to use remote access technology and high-power telescopes to observe gamma-ray bursts and other astronomical phenomenon, thanks in part to a major National Science Foundation (NSF) award to a UNC astronomer.

Daniel E. Reichart, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has received the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early career-development activities for teacherscholars. The CAREER award, a five-year, $490,000 grant by the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program, will support Reichart’s research on gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions known in the universe since the Big Bang.

The award also supports plans for students at Carolina and at other universities and schools statewide to have remote access to high-tech telescopes in Chile. The educational activities are made possible by existing collaborations with 11 other institutions involved in developing six NSF-funded Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes (PROMPT) in Chile. Collaborators include: Appalachian State University, Elon University, Fayetteville State University, Guilford Technical Community College, N.C. Agricultural and Technical State University, UNC-Asheville, UNC-Charlotte, UNC-Greensboro, UNCPembroke and Western Carolina University, as well as Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia.

Activities for public school students will be available through programs led by Reichart and colleagues at the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Editor’s Note: This excerpt is reprinted with

times in the Gospels of the New Testament

permission from Bart Ehrman’s book, Truth

(as opposed, for example, to Peter’s name,

and Fiction in ‘The Da Vinci Code’ (Oxford

which occurs over ninety times), and often

University Press, 240 pages, $20). The scholar

these are in parallel passages (e.g., where

answers Dan Brown’s best-selling yarn with

both Matthew and Mark say the same thing

an equally engaging, but historically accurate,

about her in a story that Matthew borrowed

look at the life of Jesus. Ehrman, a leading

from Mark). If we are looking for stories

authority on early Christianity, is the James

found independently in more than one

A. Gray distinguished professor and chair

source, on the assumption that multiple

of the department of religious studies.

attested traditions are more likely authentic,

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we can say the following things about Mary.

www.oup.com/us.

The name Magdalene, as I pointed out, is

Debunking ‘The DaVinci Code’

By Bart D. Ehrman

AN EXCERPT

used to differentiate her from other Marys,

This view that Jesus had an especially close

Mary of Bethany (sister of Martha). She [Mary

relationship with Mary [Magdalene] has its

Magdalene] is said in two separate accounts

ancient roots in some of our second- and

to have accompanied Jesus on his travels to

third-century sources, such as the Gospels

Galilee (Mark 15:41; Luke 8:1-3), and to

of Philip and Mary … (though I should

have provided funds for his itinerant ministry

emphasize that even in these sources Jesus

out of her own pocket (along with other

is never said to be married to Mary or

women, some of them left unnamed). All

to have had sex with her.) But here I am

three of our earliest Gospels, Matthew, Mark,

interested in the historical situation, as this

and Luke, indicate that she came (together

can be discerned not in these later legendary

with other women) with Jesus to Jerusalem

accounts but in our earliest surviving sources.

in the last week of his life, and saw him

What do we know of Mary Magdalene from

crucified and buried (Matt. 27:56, 61; Mark

them?

15:40, 47; Luke 23:55). And all four of our

including Jesus’ mother and his acquaintance

canonical Gospels, and the Gospel of Peter,

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As I have indicated, Mary does not in fact

indicate that it was she who discovered Jesus’

appear very often in the Gospel traditions

empty tomb and learned … that he had

about Jesus: her name is given just thirteen

been raised. In one of the accounts she alone

COLLEGE BOOKSHELF learns this (Gospel of John), in the others it is in the company of other women, some of whom are sometimes named. She (and the others) then testified to the empty tomb and are, as such, the first witnesses to the resurrection. In some of the accounts Jesus actually appears to her before he appears to the disciples, after his resurrection.

And that, I’m afraid, is about all that we can find in multiple attested traditions about her. It is easy to wish that there were more information, and there is always the temptation to invent more when none is available. But historians can only go on the basis of the evidence there is, and they shouldn’t make up evidence when none exists. There is no evidence to suggest that she was “from the Tribe of Benjamin” … and even if she were, this would not make her related to royalty (lots of people came from the tribe of Benjamin, including the apostle Paul; Phil. 3:5); there is nothing to suggest that Jesus entrusted the mission of his church to her (not even the Gospel of Mary indicates this), that he married her, that he had sex with her, or that she ever traveled to France.

-- Bart Ehrman is the author of many books, including Lost Christianities, Lost Scriptures and Jesus, Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millenium (all from Oxford University Press).

BOOK BRIEFS • A Southern Tragedy, in Crimson and Yellow (Zuckerman Cannon Publishers) by Lawrence Naumoff, instructor of English. Much more than a fictional exploration of the devastating 1991 poultry plant fire in Hamlet, N.C., Naumoff’s latest novel explores the diminished hopes of workers and employers in a troubled Southern community.

• Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South (The University of North Carolina Press) by Marcie Cohen Ferris, associate director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and assistant professor of American studies. Through richly illustrated anecdotes, oral histories and more than 30 recipes, Ferris explores the ways in which southern Jews have sustained and adapted their culinary traditions in a land where forbidden barbecue, shrimp, oysters and crab are often on the menu.

• Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (UNC Press) by Heather Andrea Williams, assistant professor of history. Williams details the untold story of how blacks persevered and pursued education before and after emancipation, despite hardships and laws that made it a crime for them to learn.

• The American South in a Global World (UNC Press), edited by James L. Peacock, Kenan professor of anthropology and comparative literature; Harry L.Watson, professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of the American South; and Carrie R. Matthews, Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature. This collection of 18 essays approaches the specific effects of globalizing forces on the South through a variety of subjects, including local communities, local industries, immigration, race and ethnicity.

• Tantalus in Love (Houghton Mifflin) by Alan Shapiro,W.R. Kenan, Jr. distinguished professor of English. In his latest collection of poems, the Kingsley Tufts Award winner explores jealousy, lust, vulnerability, romantic abandon and the resilience of love after loss. Shapiro won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his poetry collection, Mixed Company, and was a finalist for the national Book Critics Circle Award for his memoir, The Last Happy Occasion.

• The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster (Oxford University Press), co-edited by Lawrence J.Vale at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Thomas J. Campanella, assistant professor in UNC’s department of city and regional planning. In this collection of case studies assembled in the aftermath of Sept. 11, historians, architects and urban studies experts recount the stories of cities all over the world that have recovered from major disasters.

• Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage and Integration after Communism (Oxford University Press) by Milada Anna Vachudova, assistant professor of political science. Oxford scholar Timothy Garton Ash offers high praise:“A scrupulous, clearly organized and highly informative analysis of one of the great success stories of our time.

Vachudova combines the methods of comparative politics and international relations to explore the very direct connections between political change in Central and Eastern Europe and the influence of the EU over the 15 years from the velvet revolutions of 1989 to the eastward enlargement of the EU in 2004.”

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CYCLING

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CHINA Burch Fellow fulfills a bold dream

By Dee Reid

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Photographs by Pablo Durana & Maria Durana

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Maria and Pablo Durana at Karakul Lake near their journey’s end; Tibetan nomads, Gansu Province;Tibetan motorcyclists, Qinghai Province; Maria and Pablo discussing where to go next, near the Pamir mountains, Xinjiang Province; surprising look from a Tajik lad.

ablo Durana had an impossible dream.A communication studies major with a burning desire to document diverse cultures, he envisioned a filmmaking expedition to the far reaches of northwestern China, home to some 55 ethnic minority groups.

Never mind that he didn’t speak the language and the only way to get there was to bicycle across uncharted deserts and snowy mountain ranges. He had this dream and was prepared to do whatever it took.

Fortunately for Durana, alumnus Lucius Burch III, ’63, likes to help students fulfill their boldest visions.Thanks to his gift to the College of Arts and Sciences, every year five or six undergraduates win competitive Burch Fellowships and grants of up to $6,000 to pursue their academic passions through independent projects in the U.S. and abroad.

Last year, Durana became a Burch Fellow.

On July 16, 2004, Pablo and his older sister Maria, a savvy adventurer interested in studying China’s rural architecture, embarked on an audacious journey. Maria’s travel was supported by a scholarship from McGill University, where she received a graduate degree in architecture.

After 118 days and 2,700 miles of challenging cycling, team Durana returned home with two battered mountain bikes, 30 hours of videotape, countless new friendships, and a new understanding of China’s diversity.

Nearly a year later, Pablo has completed a National Geographic Television internship and produced a brief documentary of the trip,“China by the Mile.” He plans to produce a longer version of the film this year.

“I am fascinated by other cultures, things I have no idea about, how people live on the other side of the world,” he said.“It was a chance to explore and put yourself in a situation where you don’t have entire

control. Interesting travel is where you get out of that comfort zone and kind of expose yourself.”

We did not have detailed plans, just look at our map, point to an interesting road, and hope for the best.

– Pablo Durana in the introduction to his documentary.

Pablo and Maria began their bicycle trek in the city of Chengdu, with a population of nearly 10 million, in the subtropical Sichuan province of central China.They traveled north of Tibet, crossed the Qinling Mountain Range, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the Taklamatan Desert, and ascended the Pamir Mountains in the far west, ending up in Kashi, population 190,000, in the Xinjiang province near the border with Tajikistan..

Over the course of four months they encountered Tibetans, a polytheist group continued

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LEFT: Pablo poses with Tajik villagers in the far western region and, RIGHT, cycles in a canyon in the Pamir mountains near the end of the journey. known as Miao, and four groups of Muslims -- the Tajiks, Uygurs, Kyrgys and Hui. Bicycling turned out to be a great way to get to know people, including many who had never met anyone from another land, said Pablo.

Most of the time he and Maria ate and slept in modest private dwellings, ranging from a nomad’s tent or yurt to a villager’s mud hut or wooden cottage.A typical encounter would begin with someone waving the cyclists down. Pablo and Maria would share photos of the trip and let the locals ride their bicycles. Soon the siblings would be invited for a meal or to spend the night.

“It was pretty remarkable how much we could communicate without sharing a common language,” said Pablo.

I could not be more amazed and humbled by the landscapes and the people we have seen and met.. . I have thrown myself into a world I knew little about, have started learning the language, and began to make friends….

I love waking up not knowing what the road will be like, who we will meet, or where we will sleep.

– Pablo Durana e-mail from Golmud, about halfway on the journey.

Born in Bogotá, and raised in Miami and Montréal, Pablo and Maria are comfortable crossing cultural and geographical borders.Their mother is a United Nations 14 • FALL 2005 • CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES

interpreter and their father imports flowers from Colombia. Pablo founded the Carolina Language Partnership, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching English as a second language to immigrant university employees.The siblings had been to India and Maria had traveled to China before and was familiar with Mandarin.

The brother-and-sister team began the bike trip in excellent physical condition.

Pablo is an accomplished runner who competes on UNC’s varsity cross-country and track teams. He brought two pairs of running shoes along on the China trip and ran about five mornings a week.

“He just keeps on going after others quit,” said track and field head coach Dennis Craddock in a statement to TarHeelBlue. com.“He does everything with a passion, never putting himself above the task at hand. I can honestly say that in all my years as a coach and a teacher, I have never had a student-athlete or person like Pablo.”

Still, no amount of cross-cultural experience, conditioning and planning could prepare the Duranas for the grueling challenge of biking across vast unknown territory.

They had never bike-toured before.

After consulting friends and experts in Canada, they purchased two steel-framed Jamis mountain bikes with gear racks on the front and rear.They carried all-weather clothing, cameras, film, cooking and camping equipment, bike tools, food, water treatment

tablets and antibiotics. Pablo carried close to his own weight.

Though the bicycles held up well and they only experienced one flat tire, their racks broke countless times, usually far from a repair shop.They would improvise until they could find a town large enough to have a blacksmith or welder.

When they didn’t have a home to stay in, they would pitch a tent off the side of the road, sleep under the open stars and, occasionally, find a cheap hotel. Once they huddled under an overpass.

While crossing the desert they would swelter during the day and freeze at night.

They cycled on rough, often unpaved, roads.At times they would pedal over two mountain passes a day.

Many times they were not sure what road to take, said Pablo.When they would reach a crossroad with no sign or with a sign in a language they could not understand, they would just follow their instincts and hope for the best.

The toughest part was getting sick.

They each succumbed one time to an extended bout of fever, chills and major gastrointestinal distress.

“I got very sick in the desert. I was completely dehydrated, but we had to get to the next village,” Pablo recalled.“I had to bike 22 km in the desert and stop every 2 km to be sick. Finally, I was able to rest a bit, and then we accepted rides to a larger city where I rested some more.”

LEFT: Pablo and Uygur men compare loads and modes of transportation nearYecheng in the Xinjiang Province.

RIGHT:Young Tibetan yak herders, Gansu Province.

Delayed by Pablo’s weakened condition, they decided to take a combination of bus and truck rides across the remainder of the central desert, so that they could spend more time in settled communities further to the west, where they continued cycling.

Despite these challenges, they never once considered quitting or felt endangered, said Pablo. No matter how difficult it was, the siblings knew they could rely on each other. “It takes someone special to do something like this,” said Pablo of his sister.

“We share a lot of common interests in the sense of what we wanted out of the trip.We travel well together.”

As a custom, after a hand-shake people place their hand over their heart.They seem impressed that I already know how.

– from Pablo’s blog.

The extraordinary moments greatly outweighed the challenges. Pablo and Maria enjoyed stunning sunrises, canyons, ridgetop vistas, waterfalls and lakes, but the best part of all was befriending strangers from diverse cultures.

They visited a Tibetan monastery and ended up spending the entire day painting a colorful house in the village.

Along the way they stopped to grind flour, milk goats, and herd sheep, and they learned to cook with barley and yak cheese.

One afternoon in Langmusi (in the Gansu

Province) they witnessed a “sky burial.”

The deceased was laid on top of the burial ground so that vultures could eat the body, carrying it to the next life.

Maria and Pablo helped a family erect a mud wall for a new house.And they spent a day helping to pull roots from a field to prepare for planting.Afterwards they were invited to share a dinner of sheep lungs, kidneys and intestines.

Pablo’s favorite time was in a Tajik community, where a man named Turdeniaz introduced them to the entire village and invited them to stay in the home he had built with wood and mud.The home’s interior was decorated with hand-woven carpets.“Light came in through a hole in the ceiling and a small stove fueled by dried corn cobs and animal dung heated the room,” Pablo wrote.

Afterwards, Pablo and Maria donned traditional costumes and danced with the villagers.When the siblings finally left, Turdenaiz gave them a carpet that his mother had woven 25 years earlier.

Completely self-sufficient, they diverted a stream to water their crops, they use another to push one wheel that gives them electricity and another that grinds their wheat; they have small nets to catch fish, they take turns leading their livestock up a small valley to graze for weeks. Everything they eat is freshly grown from the village.

– from Pablo’s blog.

Pablo said they learned many lessons from the journey. First, they were surprised by the diverse physical traits found among the ethnic populations.They saw a redheaded boy who looked like he grew up in Ireland, and men and women dressed in Muslim robes and headwear.

The siblings were impressed with the resilience of people who had no monetary riches but were able to grow their own food, create hydroelectric power, provide their heating fuel and build their own homes.

“It is difficult to clearly express the significance of these past months,” said Pablo.“I leave with a thirst for exploration, learning and understanding far greater than the one I had to begin with.

“Destinations are secondary to the actual journey. It will be hard in the future to travel any other way.”

– Earlier this year, Pablo Durana was named to USA Today’s All Academic Team, in recognition of his academic achievements, Englishlanguage tutoring on campus, and venturing across western China by bicycle. He plans to graduate in December 2006. • LEARN MORE: Pablo’s blog and documentary clips college.unc.edu Burch Fellows Program www.burchfellows.unc.edu

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GOING GLOBAL The College breaks new ground in international education

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hirty years ago international study was primarily for language majors and students considering foreign-service careers.

How times have changed. In an increasingly global society, many students are eager to understand the politics, economics and cultures of other regions, and the role of the United States in the world. Now Carolina undergraduates can gain a global perspective through an expanded curriculum in the College of Arts and Sciences that addresses complex international issues and extends from Chapel Hill to the far corners of the world: u More than a third of Carolina students study in other countries before they graduate — a higher rate than any other public university in the nation.The College offers 300 programs in more than 70 countries from Argentina and Austria to South Africa,Vietnam and New Zealand.

The College seeks additional private funds to support programs and scholarships so that all students who wish to study abroad can do so. u At least 60 percent of College faculty are engaged in international activities —research, teaching, service or professional contacts — and virtually all academic departments offer courses on campus that draw on professors’ international expertise or tap into global topics and resources.Videoconferencing technology allows students in Chapel Hill to connect to classrooms abroad. u When the new general education curriculum becomes effective in 2006, new students will be required to engage in experiential education, including research, service, internships or study abroad.

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classes in more than 40 languages (even more through a consortium with Duke). In addition to French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, students can learn Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Swahili, Urdu and The Global Education Center more. u The curriculum in international and area studies is among the most popular academic majors. programs now spread across the College, Students also enhance their understanding including: the study abroad office, the of other regions through majors, minors curriculum in international and area studies, and courses involving the study of Africa, and research centers focusing on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle Asia, Eastern Europe,Western Europe, East.

Latin America, and the Middle East and u Tying these initiatives together are Muslim civilizations.The building also will two new facilities: a state-of-the-art Global include the international studies center, Education Center being built on campus international student and scholar services and a European Study Center in London. and a research center for visiting faculty.

“International study has moved way “By bringing our international beyond stand-alone study-abroad tours,” programs together in one facility, the said Arne Kalleberg, senior associate dean Global Education Center provides more overseeing international studies in the than much-needed classroom and office College.“It involves faculty whose global space,” said Bernadette Gray-Little, dean expertise informs and engages our students of the College of Arts and Sciences.“The here and abroad, and a range of curricular center will be a tangible and stunning and study-abroad choices that match expression of our deep commitment to students’ international interests with their internationalization and our belief that a academic and career goals.”

Carolina education must necessarily be “This is all part of our commitment about the world.” to prepare all of our students for citizenship Construction of the center, located and leadership in our global society, a top prominently on Pittsboro Road south of priority for the College and the University.” the Carolina Inn, will be financed in part by $20 million in state bond revenues and GLOBAL FACILITIES $7.5 million in private funds to be raised by When completed in 2006, the the College.

Global Education Center will be a one“Carolina is already a global leader of-a kind hub of intellectual and social in many international areas,” said David activity for faculty, students, alumni, the McSpadden ’83, chair of the Advisory local community and visiting scholars Board for International and Area Studies from near and far.The 80,000 square-foot supporting the fundraising effort.“The building, designed by Boston architect challenge is that each of our centers of Andrea Leers, will house international excellence is isolated within traditional

’85 and Peter Mallinson ’81, MBA ’83, the College has raised $3 million toward this goal, including a generous gift from alumnus James H. Winston ’55, to name for his family the facility in which the Center will be housed.

“The Center will link study abroad and research initiatives across Europe and present exciting new opportunities for Carolina students, faculty and alumni,” said James Leloudis, associate dean for Honors.

“It will be a powerful vehicle for taking Carolina to the world, and for bringing the world home to Carolina.” academic boundaries across the university.

The Global Education Center creates a venue where the interchange of ideas can flow — not merely through planned meetings, but through hallway conversations, chance interactions and shared events.”

In other exciting news, the College has acquired property on historic Bedford Square, the last remaining complete Georgian garden square in London, for the new European Study Center.The 4,400 square-foot facility will serve the Honors Program in London beginning in January.

Soon it will be open to faculty, students and alumni from across the university.The center includes classrooms, faculty offices, a computer lab/reading room, a student lounge, a faculty residential suite and a patio garden.

Alumni will be able to visit the center for enrichment activities and to share with students their knowledge of work and study opportunities abroad. Faculty and graduate students will hold academic conferences there with European colleagues, and stateof-the-art instructional technology will link classes in Chapel Hill, London and other locations.

The European Study Center will be financed by $5 million in private gifts.

Through the efforts of the Honors Advisory Board, chaired by Peter Grauer ’68, and the Carolina First European Campaign Committee, co-chaired by Lucia Halpern

THE NEW STUDY ABROAD The popularity of international studies may be attributed to heightened student interest in the world after 9/11 and an expanded international curriculum on campus and abroad, said Robert Miles, director of the study abroad office since 2000.

Lots of colleges and universities have study-abroad programs that encourage students to travel overseas, but often they don’t integrate students’ international experiences into the curriculum, said Miles. Carolina’s programs respond to the academic goals of faculty and students.

Study-abroad offerings include programs led by UNC faculty experts and distinguished peers from leading universities abroad.They include opportunities for undergraduate research, honors studies, independent studies and internships in other countries.There are programs for language students as well as those who are not fluent in another language.

Several programs are geared to the special requirements of science students. For example, Carolina students and faculty have conducted research at a major telescope installation atop a mountain in Chile.

Carolina students are increasingly choosing study-abroad programs beyond the familiar terrain of Europe, North America or Australia, said Miles. Last year 31 percent studied in Africa, Asia, Latin

America and the Middle East, compared to only 24 percent two years earlier.

Still, the College is striving to ensure that study abroad is affordable for all undergraduates.Thanks to financial support from alumni and other donors, the College continues to expand study-abroad scholarships.To date, over $18 million has been raised for this during the Carolina First Campaign. Several scholarships are specifically designed to assist N.C. students, including: an anonymous $5 million bequest; the Charles Garland Johnson Sr. Study Abroad Scholarship established by Mary Anne Dickson ’63 and Neal Johnson ’76; and a $1 million commitment from the Dickson Foundation and Harris Teeter to establish the Harris Teeter Study Abroad Scholarship.

Funding from donors also has helped to create unique programs. A gift from Alston Gardner ’77 launched the Carolina Southeast Asia Summer Program in 2003, providing scholarships for 25 students a year to study in Asia at the end of their freshman year.This venture has inspired other immersion programs in Santiago, Chile and Amman, Jordan, and plans are under way for a similar type of program in Africa.

The study abroad office has been building upon its other successful programs.The popular undergraduate exchange with Kings College in London is being expanded to include exchanges for graduate students and faculty, and eventually a program allowing participants to graduate with a joint degree from Kings and Carolina.

“We’re about breaking down boundaries, encouraging students to leave the geo-political boundaries of the United States and to cross disciplinary boundaries to broaden and deepen their understanding of a subject and a region,” said Miles.

“A Carolina education is no longer limited to Chapel Hill.We have extended the curriculum to Beijing, Paris, Santiago, Moscow, Cape Town and beyond, where you may study with UNC faculty or their distinguished international colleagues.That’s a distinct advantage for our students.” • CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • FALL 2005 • 17

Discour Probing Public

Hodding Carter wants to enhance public understanding and discussion of substantive issues

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odding Carter III is passionate when he talks about the erosion of public discourse in the United States.The Southern-born former newspaper editor, foundation executive and press spokesman for President Jimmy Carter recalls when times were different: Political candidates debated critical issues and exchanged honest disagreements about capital punishment, diplomacy versus military action, tax, energy and education policies, and the role of the federal government in regulating personal conduct for the common good.

Now, public debates focus on flag-burning, gay marriage, the Ten Commandments and wardrobe malfunctions at the Super Bowl.

“I think the state of civic health and political dialogue in this country is at one of its periodic lows and it’s a bad time, but it’s not the first time and it won’t be the last time,” said Carter, who begins a new chapter in his career when he joins the Carolina faculty as the University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy in January.

“It’s my strong belief that you must combine a passionate commitment to principles and political ideals and policies with a constant remembrance that in a democratic society, compromise, conciliation and constant communication across lines is essential,” Carter continued.

Carter speaks from experience, given his extensive background in international affairs, public policy, media and leadership.

Born in New Orleans, he graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and later served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.

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He spent his formative years in Mississippi, where he began his journalism career as a reporter with his family-owned Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Miss.

His father was a publisher and editor whose courageous editorials on racial tolerance won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1946.

Hodding Carter later became editor and associate publisher.

In 1965, he attended Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow and later had stints with two successful presidential campaigns: Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1976. He also was a friend and political ally to Terry Sanford in his 1972 bid for the Democratic nomination for president.

“It’s my strong belief that you must combine a passionate commitment to principles and political ideals and policies with a constant remembrance that in a democratic society, compromise, conciliation and constant communication across lines is essential.”

For four years, Hodding Carter served as state department spokesman for President Carter — notably during the Iran hostage crisis. He served as spokesperson at a time when tensions escalated with the Soviet Union.The Soviets had invaded Afghanistan and the president responded by pulling the U.S. out of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

Carter went on to become a nationally known television commentator. In the 1980s, he won four Emmy Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award for

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documentaries for “Inside Story,” a media criticism series. A decade later, he was a chief correspondent for “Frontline” on PBS. Carter also was a panelist on “This Week with David Brinkley,” and appeared frequently on many other major networks, cable programs and the BBC. Carter also was a Washington opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal and has been a frequent contributor to The NewYork Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. He has authored two books, The ReaganYears and The South Strikes Back.

Carter held the Knight Chair at the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland from 1995 to 1997, focusing on public affairs reporting. Most recently he served as president and chief executive officer of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, a position he assumed in 1998.

He also has longtime connections with both the people and ideas in and around Chapel Hill, and in particular with UNC President Emeritus William C. Friday, who served until recently as chair of the foundation’s Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

“It was Bill who suggested the idea [of coming to Carolina] and the minute he did, I jumped,” Carter recalled.“I’m a deep Southerner, and to me, Chapel Hill was a beacon of light for decades, a place that did all the great thinking and research on Southern society.”

At Carolina, Carter will teach an undergraduate and graduate seminar in public policy in the College’s department of public policy and serve as a consultant to

rse the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life, a unit of the Center for the Study of the American South.

Carter also will help organize two major public policy lectures a year to be jointly sponsored by the department of public policy and the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life.

He is expected to use his vast network of global, foundation and governmental contacts to draw high-profile speakers to campus.

Michael Stegman, distinguished professor and chair of the public policy department, called Carter “a giant in the public policy field” who will draw attention, resources and excitement to the College and the department of public policy.

“Can you imagine sons and daughters of North Carolinians coming to this campus and having the opportunity to take a seminar with someone like Hodding Carter?” said Stegman, the Duncan MacRae’09 and Rebecca Kyle MacRae professor of public policy and business.“I can’t tell you how excited we are in the department. He will become the face of public policy here, and the role he is going to play on campus will really help bring this department to the next level.”

Carter is described as open, forthcoming and informal.

“I think his personality and engagement style is going to be something that students will really appreciate,” Stegman observed.“There’s nothing standoffish about him.There are many foundation presidents that might hide behind the desk, but he’s really right out there. I think

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Hodding Carter (right) is pictured with UNC President Emeritus Bill Friday at a January 2004 meeting of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

people will see him walking around campus and find him very approachable.”

While it’s hard to top being a key aide to a U.S. president, Carter said he’s perhaps most proud of the work he did as a newspaper editor in Mississippi in a time of racial turmoil and fundamental change.

“The single most fulfilling period of my life was in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, trying to run an honest newspaper with editorial integrity at a time of intense pressure,” Carter reflected.

Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life, said Carter will help elevate public policy and Carolina’s engagement with public leaders to a new level.

“Now is an increasingly important time as the South and North Carolina

lead the nation in issues like education and economic development,” Guillory said.

“And it seems the University has a great opportunity to position itself at the center of this.”

Certainly Carter has enjoyed some of life’s great advantages: a Princeton education, wealth from the sale of his family-owned newspaper, prominent Washington positions and a career as a respected journalist.

But Carter said he remains committed, as always, to working with his fellow Southerners to make the region all it can be.

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LEFT TO RIGHT: Kavitha Kolappa works with children in Cuba. • UNC Scholar ‘07 Sorell Massenberg in a Duke T-shirt and cap with Duke Scholar ‘05 Pauline Wong sporting a Carolina top. • Johanna Rankin (top), Melissa Anderson (bottom).

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hank you for having faith that we can change the world, Mr. Robertson.”

Kavitha Kolappa scrawled those words at the bottom of a typewritten letter to New York investment manager Julian Robertson ’55 and his wife, Josie, in a scrapbook compiled by the inaugural class of Robertson Scholars.

Kolappa of Washington, N.C., and 26 of her fellow Scholars proved that the shades of Carolina and Duke blue are not really that far apart when they graduated in May. The unique, collaborative, joint-scholarship program, they said, changed their lives.

Excerpts from the scrapbook, which is filled with letters and photographs from their journeys, bear testament to that sentiment: • “The Robertson Program has had an immeasurable impact on my life.”

• “Each summer pushed me in directions I did not expect.”

• “I truly began to understand what it means to be a global citizen.”

• “I feel like I have seen the world and been changed by it.”

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agendas … but rather applauded the choices that students make on their own.”

The pioneering idea began five years ago with a $24 million gift from the Robertsons and a two-part goal: How do we close the divide down Tobacco Road and foster alliances between two of the nation’s best universities? How do we support and encourage leadership in young people?

The Robertsons created an undergraduate scholarship program where half of the recipients matriculated at Duke, half at UNC. The Scholars took courses at both institutions, were given laptops and had community-service-focused summer experiences.The Robertson Scholarship paid for tuition, room, board and living stipends at UNC, full tuition at Duke and free summers of international and domestic travel.

“I had sons at Carolina and Duke … and I just thought that there were so many talented people at both schools,” said Julian Robertson. “I thought it would be good to promote an interchange between the two [universities].”

But perhaps the most unfathomable idea of all for two long-time athletic rivals was this: Students were required to spend the second

semester of their sophomore year living on the “sister” campus.

It was a “study abroad” experience of sorts — only 10 miles away. A free Robertson Express bus — designed not just for the Scholars, but for anyone who wanted to ride it — helped to pave the way.

At Duke, UNC Scholar Kolappa took an anthropology class and began working in an HIV/AIDS lab. During her third summer with the Program, she continued her interest in fighting HIV at a vaccine lab in Cape Town, South Africa, and she attended the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok,Thailand.

Kolappa is headed to Washington, D.C., to work with the Global Health Council on building and strengthening a network of global health advocates in different universities, focusing on AIDS. She hopes to attend medical school.

“The switch semester experience for me was defined by organic chemistry, she said. “I took organic chemistry [at Duke] with professor Eric Toone. I have to admit the class was extremely challenging, but that’s why I loved it. The academic intensity of science classes at Duke is incredible.”

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ROBERTSON SCHOLARS CONQUER THE GREAT DUKE-UNC DIVIDE

LEFT TO RIGHT: Ann Warshaw fashions wire scorpions with Mexican farmworkers in Newton Grove. soccer to kids in Cape Town, South Africa.

Fellow UNC Scholar Johanna Rankin of Gastonia, N.C., will travel to Benin, West Africa, on a Fulbright Scholarship with a shared passion of fighting the AIDS epidemic. She’ll work with Population Services International to study how HIV-prevention messages in Benin might be strengthened. She spent her second Robertson summer volunteering with Treatment Action Campaign, an AIDS activist organization in Cape Town.

The Robertson Scholars Program sharpened her analytical mindset. It made her think about how her education fit into the bigger picture and about the choices she is making with her life, Rankin said. “[It made me] think about my education, and what I want to get out of it,” she said.“Where am I going? What’s my responsibility? What’s my lasting legacy? …

These are the kinds of questions I’m asking myself now.”

If it seems like these are serious questions and weighty topics for twentysomethings to ponder, it just exemplifies the spirit of the Robertson Scholars, said Program Director Eric Mlyn.

“They are students who challenge,

they probe, and they don’t take anything at face value,” said Mlyn, who has “watched them grow up over four years.” He taught the senior capstone course on leadership and ethics to the 2005 class.“They’re the kind of students everybody would want in a classroom. … They pop off the page.”

THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED

The first class of Scholars will begin their post-graduation lives in nine different states and 11 countries.They have chosen an amazing variety of career paths — exploring issues of poverty in Hong Kong and the Southeastern United States, pursuing graduate degrees in law, history, comparative literature and economics, and working in business consulting, investment banking and journalism. Many of the Scholars received prestigious fellowships to continue their passions.

Duke Scholar Pauline Hoi-Ying Wong returned to Hong Kong to work for Oxfam, the international poverty relief organization. She is originally from Kowloon, Hong Kong.“I see Oxfam as training ground for future work in the nonprofit world,” she said. “As a large-scale

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agency, the lessons learned here are multiple and invaluable.”

The Robertson Program helped UNC Scholar Britt Peck of Greensboro, N.C., explore his interest in “community art and the ability for youth to express themselves in different ways.” He spent a summer studying animation and the media industry in Los Angeles. Now the sociology major is applying to art schools.

“I realized that I really want to teach art and work with kids in dealing with lots of social issues and to teach them to [deal with those issues] in a creative way,” he said.

UNC Scholar Ann Warshaw of Wyoming, Ohio, is working at Chapel Hillbased MDC Inc. on an Autry Fellowship, learning about the independent research organization’s work in fighting poverty in the Southeast.

“MDC is really good at taking things from the ideas level and making those things happen — that’s what I’m hoping to be exposed to now,” said Warshaw, who spent her exploration summer teaching English to Mexican farmworkers in Newton Grove, N.C. continued

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Julian Robertson said he and his wife have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the Scholars, particularly the inaugural class.

“They’re very, very impressive, and I think they’ve gotten a lot out of the service they’ve performed,” he said.“I think they will be people who by a wide margin will make this world a better place.They’re very public-spirited.”

WELCOME TO THE SWITCH SEMESTER

UNC Scholar Melissa Anderson, who will be working in strategy and operations at Deloitte Consulting in Atlanta, was the first student to take another class on the “sister” campus.And she did it during the first semester of her freshman year.

“I took a philosophy of law class.

That was among the most challenging things for me, because there were still glitches to be worked out, like buying books and setting up e-mail,” she said.

During the switch semester experience in her sophomore year, Anderson said the most memorable experience was camping out at Duke for tickets to the Duke-UNC basketball game.

“Cameron [Indoor Stadium] is a very different atmosphere, and I wore a UNC T-shirt,” said Anderson, who is from Charlotte, N.C.“It was a fun experience, and it’s a real part of Duke student life. I just wanted to have a chance to do it.”

UNC’s Peck, who met his girlfriend at Duke, designed a Robertson Scholars T-shirt with reverse logos on the front:A Carolina ram on the letter “D” and a Duke Blue Devil on the letters “NC.” On the back, the gray T-shirt reads:“Confused? Or Just Enlightened.”

Duke Scholar Crystal Sanders of Clayton, N.C., said she was enlightened by the switch semester, calling it “the best of both worlds.” She became involved in the Black Student Movement and the Campus Y at UNC. A history class led her down the path toward a summer exploration experience touring slave forts in Ghana.

Before becoming a Robertson Scholar, she had never traveled internationally.

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pictures of when he visited the slave forts of Ghana,” said Sanders, who will pursue a doctorate in history at Northwestern University this fall on a Mellon Fellowship.

“I wouldn’t have gone to Ghana if I hadn’t taken his class.”

The Robertson Express buses have done much to bring the two campuses together, students acknowledged.While the buses have become a visible symbol of collaboration, many things are happening to forge new alliances between the two universities, thanks to the seeds that were planted through the Program.The Robertson Scholars Collaboration Fund is in its fifth year of funding collaborative projects between Duke and UNC faculty, staff and students.

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transition. He’ll begin law school this fall at the University of Texas.

“It ended up working out well, [although] whenever I had to give out my e-mail address to Duke students, it was a “unc.edu” e-mail address, so I was nervous at first to give that out,” said Beasley, who calls Columbia, S.C., home.

Wong said she enjoyed taking classes at UNC in departments that Duke didn’t have, such as journalism, international studies and folklore.

“For the most part I was able to hide my Duke identity when meeting new friends in classes, but sometimes when the truth had to come out, I’d get a ribbing about Duke’s basketball team,” she said.“My fondest memories of UNC are of basketball.

Not watching, but playing the game in Fetzer and Woollen gyms with a bunch of friends.”

SUMMERS FOR ENRICHMENT AND EXPLORATION

“That first year, we were the only people on the bus,” Sanders said.“But one day during my senior year, I was running late and I needed to go to Carolina.There were only two seats on the bus, and none of the other people were Scholars.That lets you know how recognition of the Program has grown and how people are taking advantage of that.”

In a September 2003 survey by UNC’s Office of Institutional Research, most of the 2005 Scholars reported a positive experience during the switch semester.When asked about similarities between the two campuses, nearly all respondents indicated that “both were excellent schools with strong academics and research, talented students and faculty, and a student body that was interested and engaged.”

UNC Scholar Zack Beasley admitted that initially it was hard getting to know a new campus, but he enjoyed his Duke professors, and having a community of fellow Scholars around helped ease the

As an integral part of the Program, Scholars are required to spend enriching summers working in groups focused on community service and cultural immersion.

They spend one summer in the United States and one abroad.

Today’s Scholars choose from domestic projects in Atlanta, New Orleans, the Mississippi Delta or Appalachia, Ky., and international work in Argentina, South Africa or Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam.They are required to submit online postings on the themes of courage, leadership and ethics.

A bulletin board in the Robertson Program office is peppered with postcards from their experiences.

Their third summer is spent on an optional “exploration” project of their choosing, modeled in part after UNC’s Burch Fellows Program. Beasley spent his exploration summer in Prague, conducting independent research on the effects of Radio Free Europe on Czechoslovakians during the Cold War. He developed an oral history project on the program, which he has posted to a Web site, www.unc.edu\~rbeasley.

“Without the help of the Robertson Program, I would never have been able to do that,” he said.“What I’ll remember the most

COLLABORATION FUNDS SUPPORT NEW PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS PROGRAM

$2,500 Robertson Scholars collaboration grant helped to jumpstart an innovative undergraduate curricular initiative undertaken by Duke and UNC. An interdisciplinary program in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) allows students to study the intersection of these three fields via an undergraduate minor at UNC or a certificate program at Duke.

“It’s a terrific chance for students to get a broader context that will make their classical training in economics or philosophy or political science much more practical.

It will give them a wider exposure to other disciplines,” said UNC philosophy professor Douglas MacLean, who is associate director of the program. MacLean and Duke philosophy professor Alex Rosenberg were the recipients of the 2004-2005 grant from the Robertson Collaboration Fund.

“Programs like this have been in place at institutions like Oxford for a very long time,” MacLean added. “Philosophy, politics

and economics have always shared a common intellectual core.”

Australian professor Geoffrey Brennan, who was named the first Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at UNC and Duke in October 2004, directs the PPE program. Brennan spent spring 2005 splitting his time between UNC and Duke. In the spirit of collaboration that the Robertson Scholars Program has ignited, half of the $3 million needed to create the professorship was pledged as a challenge by Julian and Josie Robertson. The William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust provided the remaining $1.5 million.

Brennan will return in spring 2006 from Australian National University to teach the senior capstone course and continue his work in developing the PPE program.

“The thing that attracted me to trying to develop a PPE program was the strength of the two campuses — the strength of the UNC philosophy department in moral philosophy and of the strong ‘rational choice theory’ presence in the Duke poli sci department,” Brennan said.

“I think we have the scope to establish at Duke and UNC a truly world-class PPE program, the rival of any program anywhere.”

The Robertson Express bus was an essential element in organizing the

introductory “gateway” course, “The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Distributive Justice,” across the two campuses, Brennan said.

“The course was taught at Duke until spring break and at UNC thereafter, so half the students had to use the bus all the time,” he said. “I’m not sure that any such arrangement would have been feasible without the Robertson bus.”

The Robertson Scholars Program funds collaborative ventures each year between faculty, students and staff at UNC and Duke.

A fund-raising climb up Mount Mitchell, a camp for children whose parents are battling cancer, ballroom dancers on rival campuses, medical students who will learn about Latino culture — these are among the 24 projects that will be carried out in 2005-2006 thanks to $45,000 in collaboration grants.

To be eligible for a Robertson grant, a project must have at least one applicant each from Duke and UNC. Priority is given to projects that can make lasting impacts on the two universities and further collaboration between them.

“We believe that one plus one equals three, and that Duke and UNC together are better than they are individually,” said Eric Mlyn, director of the Robertson Scholars Program. •

are the things I was able to do during the summer — living in Prague where I didn’t speak the language and coaching soccer in South Africa.”

Peck spent one summer volunteering at arts center Appalshop in Whitesburg, Ky. “I met a friend there who grew up without running water and with a dirt floor. I saw coal trucks every day leaving that region to provide electricity for people in cities,” he said.“It opened up my thinking as to how our style of living affects other people.”

Anderson also spent a summer in Eastern Kentucky, working for the Community Action Council, which focuses on alleviating poverty.

Anderson wrote this about a trip to Mudlick Hollow:“We drove along an unpaved road forever through there.The houses were absolutely falling down, some

with plastic or felt on the roofs and straight pipe sewers in the creek. … It was a sobering day about the reality of how some people still live in the United States.”

Scholars say the summer experiences were a unifying force, where the lines between being a Duke or a UNC student blurred even further.

“It really enhanced the mission of collaboration,”Anderson said.“UNC and Duke students are put together in these summer placements, and by far the Duke Scholars I’ve gotten to know the best are the ones I had summer placements with.”

“There were Duke Scholars that I was closer to than some of the UNC Scholars,” added Rankin. Her parents hosted a retreat for the Scholars at their Gastonia, N.C., farm after graduation.

In fact, Rankin wrote this in her

scrapbook thank-you letter to the Robertsons: “The Robertson Scholarship has allowed me to develop the deepest friendships that I have ever had with people of my age.”

“We discovered in one another sounding boards for discussing many controversial issues … no topic was spared.Thank goodness for this community of people that truly cares about being intellectually curious and voicing our opinions.”

Sanders said the Program has been a constant reminder to her that “to whom much is given, much is required.”

“We were given a lot. Now we have the opportunity to put the resources the Robertson Program gave us into practice.We are going to many different parts of the globe, but the commitment to service will stay with us all — not to mention the friendships that will last through the years.” •

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MINING “Proteins are the building blocks of life.

MINING

A NEW FIELD

Microsoft recognizes a bioinformatics innovator By

Lisa

H.

Towle

W

ei Wang left the corporate

world for Carolina because she could no longer ignore the fact that contributing to

day arrived a little sooner than expected, and

science. Recipients, who also are offered

in a totally unexpected way.

the option of exploring collaborations with

In May, Microsoft Research, the computer Microsoft’s researchers, have the luxury of

science was much more important to her than

science research organization of Microsoft

deciding how their funds will be spent. They

contributing to the profits of a large company.

Corp., announced the five inaugural winners

can, for instance, use the money to hire

So it is a delicious bit of irony that she’s been

of its New Faculty Fellowship Program. Wei

research assistants, buy equipment, or travel

rewarded by one of the biggest companies of

Wang was one of them. (The other fellows, all

in order to meet with scientists with mutual

them all for her work within academe.

of whom, like Wang, are assistant professors,

interests. In return, the fellows are asked to

represent Harvard, MIT, the Georgia Institute

think broadly, take risks and send Microsoft a

staff position at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research

of Technology and the University of California-

semi-annual report on the progress they are

Center, where she had filed seven patents,

Berkeley.)

making.

Three years ago Wang left her research

to join the faculty of the department of

Selected after a rigorous review of 110

When announcing the fellowships, Rick

computer science where she was free to use

nominations from universities across the United Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft

her intellect, creativity and industriousness to

States, each Microsoft Fellow will receive a

Research, noted each new faculty member

further science and learning, and, if all went

$200,000 grant in two annual installments

had been tagged an “exceptional talent [who]

well, to one day make a “big impact.” That

to pursue innovative research in computer

in his or her own way, is moving computer

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UCLA, Jia at Cornell), Wang went to work for

in a principled way, to find patterns that may

IBM while her sister accepted a job at AT&T.

explain how proteins function. I think this

Wang, who specializes in data mining, a

will change the way biologists and others do

branch of computer science which focuses on

their research because they will have more

finding patterns within vast data collections,

information for better hypotheses and lab

was drawn to UNC because of its established

experiments. Ultimately, I think this will save

bioinformatics program.

years of time and millions of dollars when it

Jan Prins, chair of the computer science department, explains that UNC was interested

comes to things like finding cures for illnesses.”

Wang is not alone in her efforts to link

in Wang becoming a part of the Carolina

proteins to their functions. Since her arrival in

Center for Genome Sciences.

Chapel Hill she has established several research

“Her position was one of several

collaborations with biomedical researchers at

created in the College of Arts and Sciences

UNC who provide her with expertise and data

reflecting the central role of quantitative

that drive the development of new data mining

methods in this effort,” Prins said. “Wei’s

and analysis techniques in direct support of

research is in data mining — which in

biomedical research.

the context of bioinformatics means the

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If we want to understand many of the mysteries of life, if we want to cure diseases, then we need to understand the dimensions and complexity of proteins.”

Further, said department chair Prins,

extraction of potentially significant patterns

“Wei’s data-driven research is attracting a lot

from large quantities of noisy and incomplete

of interest from students in our department as

experimental data. Wei’s strong background

well as among students in other departments.

in algorithms, database and statistics research,

This has allowed her to rapidly build up a re-

and her accomplishments at IBM in these

search group, take on new collaborations, and

areas, made her an ideal candidate for the

train many students at all levels and in a variety

position.”

of disciplines.”

Wang teaches in traditional classroom

The year 2005 has been good to

settings, of course. In addition to graduate

Wang, who has previously published one

courses in data mining and bioinformatics,

monograph and more than 70 research papers

research in exciting new directions and is

this fall she is teaching a new undergraduate

in international journals and major peer-

destined to become a thought leader in our

class on bioalgorithms. However, it is Wang’s

reviewed conference proceedings. Earlier this

profession.”

research involving proteins which piques

year, she also received a prestigious Career

In fact, strange as it may sound, it’s

interest and passion, for it is what she and

Development Award from the National

difficult to avoid the thought of destiny when

others believe has the potential to benefit

Science Foundation. This five-year grant will

considering the early-career computer science

humankind.

support her research concerning pattern

professor. Wang, who has an identical twin,

“Proteins are the building blocks of life. If

Jia, was born and raised in China. Academic

we want to understand many of the mysteries

achievement was a given. Both their parents

of life, if we want to cure diseases, then we

her research “is moving faster than I thought,”

are professors (dad teaches math; mom,

need to understand the dimensions and

is not cause for a self-congratulatory pause. “As

electrical engineering), and members of the

complexity of proteins,” said Wang.

I work, other science evolves. This creates new

extended family also are well-educated.

“We have always been there to help

“There are a huge variety of proteins,” she continued. “A molecular biologist can

recognition in large, complex datasets.

Yet even this coupled with the fact that

challenges for computation,” Wang said.

Advancing the state of the art — and

each other and to compete with each other

spend an entire career studying one protein.

science — requires a single-mindedness she’s

— but in a healthy way,” said Wang with

I think we can find computational methods

happy to provide because, she said, “there are

a laugh. After earning their Ph.D.’s (Wei at

to analyze the structure of multiple proteins

so many interesting problems to pursue.” •

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sk Jeff Spinner-Halev to cite his career “elevator message” — that is, how he explains what he does in the time it takes to ride up three floors in an elevator — and he just laughs.

DEMOCRATIC DILEMMAS Political science professor examines injustices within liberal democracies

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“I’d try to change the subject,” he said.

That’s because — as Spinner-Halev is the first to admit — his work might seem abstract to the average layperson. Recently appointed the new Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics in the department of political science, Spinner-Halev focuses on how and why injustices arise within liberal democracies and what might be done to alleviate them.

“I’m a political theorist and in general, political theorists ask abstract questions about the nature of justice, the nature of rights, the nature of obligation — for example, where do laws come from, are we obliged to follow them, where do rights come from and what is the meaning of justice?” he said.

The term liberal democracy refers to the doctrine with its origins in Hobbes, Locke and the founding fathers, Spinner-Halev said. In liberal democracies, an individual has certain rights that the government must respect, the government’s powers are limited, and there is broad religious tolerance.

“While I teach all those kinds of questions, I research questions that are theoretical and abstract but also have an applied aspect to them — specifically, what is the nature of group life in liberal democracies, with liberal meaning a small ‘l’ and not a Ted Kennedy capital ‘L’,” he added.

“How does group life fit within a liberal democracy? What happens when you have a cultural or religious group that doesn’t adhere to liberal ideals? Does the liberal state have an obligation to intervene, or should it leave the group alone?”

An example of this occurred in Wisconsin, when a group of Amish parents chose not to send their children to public high school. (The Amish send their children to public elementary schools, but not to public middle or senior high schools.) In this situation, Spinner-Halev said, there weren’t enough high-schoolers for the Amish community to establish a school for them, so

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their parents kept them home.The state took the Amish to court to force them to send the children to public school, and the court sided with the Amish.

Spinner-Halev began working at Carolina July 1. Until recently, he served as the Schlesinger Professor of Social Justice in the University of Nebraska’s political science department. He is the author of The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in the Liberal State (1994) and Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship (2000) and co-editor of Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity (2005).

Spinner-Halev spent the 200304 academic year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem — first, as a visitor within its political science department, and then as a member of the law and pluralism group at the university’s Institute for Advanced “I’m a political theorist and in general, Studies.The Institute invites foreign political theorists ask abstract questions scholars to join Israeli scholars in about the nature of justice, the nature discussing and critiquing each other’s of rights, the nature of obligation — research.The group Spinner-Halev for example, where do laws come from, joined included five Israelis, another are we obliged to follow them, American and a scholar from India. where do rights come from and what That experience provided is the meaning of justice?”

Spinner-Halev an opportunity to study questions dealing with new broke out.The minorities were afraid the democracies — specifically how majorities majority would assert itself, and often it did. rule and assert power over religious or So my research focuses on why majorities ethnic minorities. feel the need to do this. Is this an inevitable “James Madison and the other fathers part of society, or can it be stopped? If it can of our country imagined shifting majorities be stopped, should it be stopped?”

— that there would be one majority on this Jonathan Hartlyn, professor and chair issue, but it would coalesce into a different of the department of political science, said majority on a different issue.They imagined Spinner-Halev’s comparative research into a society of several different factions,” he said. multiculturalism and emerging democracies “It turns out that in nationally hetero- will complement UNC’s growing geneous countries —and besides Iceland, commitment to global studies. there are few ethnically homogeneous “The political science department at countries — there are these shifting majori- UNC has long been known as a center for ties, but often there is one ethnically or na- the study of democratic theory and practice, tionally homogenous majority that tries to both in the United States and in countries assert its power over the others,” he added. across the globe,” he said.“Because Jeff’s “Take Iraq, where the Sunnis are afraid work is so strongly comparative in character the Shiites will use their democratic power — he has studied how democracies in over them. Or the former countries within Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North the Soviet Union where so much fighting America deal with cultural differences

— his work will add to a special strength of our department.”

Hartlyn also praised SpinnerHalev for being one of the country’s leading researchers into democratic political theory, particularly regarding conflicts posed by differences of race, ethnicity and religion.

“Anyone who is interested in how democratic states meet the challenge of multiculturalism must come to terms with Jeff’s work,” he said.“And in addition to being widely known for his writings, he is an award-winning teacher.We are delighted that he’s joined our faculty.”

In addition to his books, Spinner-Halev has published articles in peer-reviewed journals including Ethics, the Journal of Political Philosophy and Perspectives on Politics. His latest article,“Hinduism, Christianity and Liberal Religious Toleration,” recently appeared in Political Theory.

Spinner-Halev has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, a Lady Davis Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, also at Hebrew University. He has served on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association.

He received his bachelor’s degree and doctorate from the University of Michigan.

The $3 million Kenan Eminent Professorship is among the largest endowed professorships in the University’s history. It is part of a $27 million commitment to the Carolina First campaign from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust.

Besides pledging to create five eminent professorships at Carolina, the Kenan Trust will match contributions from other donors to create an additional five eminent professorships.

The Kenan Eminent Professorships were created at the launch of the Carolina First Campaign to help address the University’s urgent need to recruit and hire top scholars and teachers in their fields. • CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES • FALL 2005 • 27

HONOR ROLL HONOR ROLL 2005

Thank You! The College is grateful to the more than 12,000 donors who chose to support the arts and sciences at Carolina in 2004-2005. Each gift enhances the educational opportunities for students and faculty, and strengthens the liberal arts tradition.

Giving societies recognize the importance of contributions to the College. Those who give most generously become members of the Dean’s Circle and set the standard for alumni, parents and friends. In 2005, 935 donors contributed at this level or higher, providing the Dean with resources critical to maintaining a first-rate academic experience at Carolina.

Donors to the College of Arts & Sciences are recognized in the 2005 Honor Roll in these giving societies: • Chancellors’ Circle — $10,000 or more • Carolina Society — $5,000 to $9,999 • 1793 Society — $2,000 to $4,999 • Dean’s Circle — $1,500 to $1,999 Young Alumni Levels Classes 1990 to 1994 — $1,000 or more Classes 1995 to 1999 — $500 or more Classes 2000 to 2004 — $250 or more This listing includes gifts made to the College between July 1, 2004, and June 30, 2005.

It does not include bequests to the College.

It also omits donors who want their gifts to be anonymous. While every effort has been made to ensure that all donors are accurately represented, mistakes are possible. Please submit corrections to Kim Goodstein at the Arts and Sciences Foundation, 919/962-1682, or kim.goodstein@unc.edu.

Thank you for supporting the College of Arts & Sciences at Carolina!

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CHANCELLORS’ CIRCLE • Nancy Robertson Abbey, San Francisco, CA • Dr. G. Shuford Abernethy,* Greensboro, NC • Penny Daum Aldrich, Chapel Hill, NC • James Lawrence Alexandre, London, England • Jeffrey Alan Allred, Atlanta, GA • Mr. and Mrs. Ivan V. Anderson Jr., Charleston, SC • Drs. Q. Whitfield and Rebecca I. Ayres, McLean, VA • John P. Barker, Lumberton, NC • Edward T. Baur, St. Louis, MO • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Beasley, Burns, TN • Laura Hobby Beckworth, Houston, TX • McKay and Nina Belk, Charlotte, NC • Leslie Benning and Dr. Rafael Bejarano, New York, NY • Gilchrist B. Berg, Jacksonville, FL • Dan and Ann Bernstein, Bronxville, NY • Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Bilbro, Raleigh, NC • Laszlo Birinyi Jr., Southport, CT • Peter and Heather Boneparth, Lawrence, NY • Dr. and Mrs. R. Lewis Bowman, Winchester, MA • Michael L. Boyatt, Beech Mountain, NC • Margaret S. Boyer, Pittsboro, NC • Harry G. Brainard,* Rocky Mount, NC • Stephen G. Brantley, M.D., Tampa, FL • William S. Brenizer, Glen Head, NY • Anne Faris Brennan, New York, NY • Amy W. Brinkley, Charlotte, NC • Mr. and Mrs. David Bronczek, Memphis, TN • Vaughn and Nancy Bryson, Vero Beach, FL • Mr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Burnett, Greensboro, NC • Mr. and Mrs. John W. Burress III, Winston-Salem, NC • Timothy S. Cage, New York, NY • Hacker Caldwell and Katherine Stark Caldwell, Chattanooga, TN • Dr. and Mrs. Eric D. Carlson, Los Gatos, CA • Professor John B. Carroll,* Fairbanks, AK • Nicholas A. Cassas, Coral Springs, FL • Mr. Max C. Chapman Jr., Scarborough, NY • Mark Paul Clein, Chevy Chase, MD • Munroe and Becky Cobey, Greenwich, CT • Harvey Colchamiro, Greensboro, NC • Robert F. and Helen H. Conrad, Hillsborough, NC • Dr. Henry L. Cox, Seminole, FL • Steve Cumbie and Druscilla French, Vienna, VA • Hildegarde O.R. Dahl, Pt. Pleasant Beach, NJ • Dr. Lucy C. Daniels, Raleigh, NC • Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Dixon, Atherton, CA • Joseph S. Dormagen, Gurnee, IL • Mr. Joseph W. Dorn, Washington, DC • Alan S. and Gail Margolis Fields, Lexington, MA • Dan Fitz, London, England • Joel Lawrence Fleishman, Durham, NC • Henry and Molly Froelich, Charlotte, NC • Mr. and Mrs. David H. Gardner, Alexandria, VA • J. Alston Gardner and Barbara Lee, Carbondale, CO • Lawrence L. and Carol G. Gellerstedt, Atlanta, GA • Timothy Martin and Cosby Wiley George, Greenwich, CT

• Mr. Gordon P. Golding Jr., Paris, France • Leonard Goodman, New York, NY • Kim and Bruce Gottwald, Richmond, VA • Peter T. and Laura M. Grauer, Greenwich, CT • Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Gray, Atlanta, GA • Andy and Cindi Griffith, Manteo, NC • Robert H. Hackney Jr. and Shauna Holiman, New Preston, CT • Jennifer Lloyd Halsey, Menlo Park, CA • Frank T. Hamilton III, Cincinnati, OH • Henry Haywood Hamilton III, Katy, TX • F. Borden Hanes Jr., Winston-Salem, NC • Jane Craig and Frank Borden Hanes Sr., Winston-Salem, NC • Anthony S. and Hope Harrington, Easton, MD • John and Deborah Harris, Charlotte, NC • Mr. Alan Bernard Heilig, Aventura, FL • W. Lee Hemphill II, Mamaroneck, NY • Leonard and Rose Herring, North Wilkesboro, NC • William T. Hobbs II and Elizabeth Gilman Hobbs, Charlotte, NC • Burt Cleveland Horne Jr., Blacksburg, VA • Jerry Leo Horner Jr., Raleigh, NC • Barbara R. and Pitt Hyde, Memphis, TN • Lynn Buchheit Janney and Stuart Symington Janney, Butler, MD • George H. and Janet J. Johnson, Atlanta, GA • Dr. and Mrs. M. Ross Johnson, Chapel Hill, NC • Ms. Neal Johnson, Charlotte, NC • Mr. and Mrs. William D. Johnson, Raleigh, NC • Lyle V. Jones, Pittsboro, NC • William R. and Jeanne H. Jordan, Fayetteville, NC • Fred N. Kahn, Asheville, NC • Leonard J. and Tobee Wynne Kaplan, Greensboro, NC • Frank* and Betty Kenan, Chapel Hill, NC • Mrs. Sterling Holt Kenan, Palm Beach, FL • Thomas S. Kenan III, Chapel Hill, NC • Willis and Nancy King, Summit, NJ • David F. Kirby and Evelyn Debnam Kirby, Raleigh, NC • Seymour and Carol Levin, Greensboro, NC • Ken Lowe, Cincinnati, OH • Mr. and Mrs. Moses M. Malkin, Sun City Center, FL • Peter G.C. Mallinson, London, England • Robert and Vivian Manekin, Owings Mills, MD • Mr. and Mrs. Mark Manis, Rome, GA • Thomas Hill Mann, Raleigh, NC • Sally Danica Mays, Durham, NC • Mr. and Mrs. William O. McCoy, Chapel Hill, NC • Charles A. McLendon Jr., New York, NY • William D. McLester, Fayetteville, NC • Molly Monk Mears, Atlanta, GA • William P. Minervini, Bordentown, NJ • Peter C. Moister, Atlanta, GA • Douglas D. Monroe III, Richmond, VA • John and Tatiana Moore, Setauket, NY • Mr. and Mrs. William M. Moore Jr., Chapel Hill, NC • Mr. and Mrs. Allen Morgan Jr., Memphis, TN • Ralph and Juli Mosley, Nashville, TN

• Mr. and Mrs. Philip V. Moss, Allendale, NJ • Charles E. Noell III, Monkton, MD • Paula D. Noell, La Jolla, CA • Stephen Preston Oliver, Hingham, MA • Gary W. Parr, New York, NY • Florence and James L. Peacock, Chapel Hill, NC • Mrs. J. Stevenson Peck, Baltimore, MD • Ken and Anne Phelps, Atlanta, GA • James Arthur Pope, Raleigh, NC • Mr. and Mrs. John W. Pope Sr., Raleigh, NC • Dr. Edwin T. and Nancy Preston, Chapel Hill, NC • William G. Rand, Raleigh, NC • Mr. and Mrs. David M. Rapp, Hilton Head, SC • Kenneth Reckford and Charlotte Orth, Chapel Hill, NC • Betsy and Sam Reeves, Fresno, CA • Mr. and Mrs. Benjamine Reid, Miami, FL • Ambassador and Mrs. Mercer Reynolds III, Cincinnati, OH • Paul D. Rheingold, Rye, NY • Lewis S. Ripps, Bayonne, NJ • Dr. William Willis Ritter Jr., Chapel Hill, NC • Cathy Rollins, Atlanta, GA • Nelson Schwab III, Charlotte, NC • Debra and Gerald Schwartz, Miami Beach, FL • Mr. and Mrs. John R. Sears Jr., Dallas, TX • Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Shaffer Jr., Atlanta, GA • Minor Mickel Shaw, Greenville, SC • Garnett A. Smith, Naples, FL • Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood H. Smith Jr., Raleigh, NC • David Sontag, Chapel Hill, NC • Ann Lewallen Spencer, Winston-Salem, NC • Sara Crown Star, Chicago, IL • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Story III, Atlanta, GA • Mr. Robert B. Strassler, White Plains, NY • Mr. and Mrs. James R. Strickland Jr., Durham, NC • Peace Sullivan, New York, NY • Mr. and Mrs. James T. Tanner, Rutherfordton, NC • Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Taylor Jr., Birmingham, AL • John A. and Marguerite B. Taylor, Winston-Salem, NC • Mr. and Mrs. John L. Townsend III, Greenwich, CT • Tom and Betsy Uhlman, Madison, NJ • David and Nancy Webb, Greenwich, CT • Emeritus Professors Charles M. and Shirley F. Weiss, Chapel Hill, NC • Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wells III, Atlanta, GA • Alice M. Welsh, Chapel Hill, NC • Nancy and Monty White, Raleigh, NC • Mr. and Mrs. John R. Wickham, New York, NY • Dr. William L. Wilbur,* Dekalb, IL • Loyal Wilson, Chagrin Falls, OH • Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Winston Sr., Raleigh, NC • Thomas M. Woodbury, New York, NY • Lee Polk Woody Jr., Baltimore, MD CAROLINA SOCIETY • Jamey Aebersold, New Albany, IN • Mr. and Mrs. Weston M. Andress, Charlotte, NC • Jules Baron and Elizabeth Baron, Pittsboro, NC

• Ms. Elizabeth C. Baskin, Atlanta, GA • Philip D. Bennett, London, England • Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Borden Jr., Goldsboro, NC • John L. Brantley, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL • John D. Brewer Jr., Pensacola, FL • Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey F. Buckalew, New York, NY • Lucien D. Burnett III, Rye, NY • Bill Canata, Westfield, NJ • Mark E. and Kimberly B. Carpenter, Charlotte, NC • Tom and Nancy Chewning, Richmond, VA • Sanford A. Cockrell III and Louise H. Cockrell, Darien, CT • Mr. and Mrs. James L. Copeland, Chapel Hill, NC • Laura Brown Cronin, Acton, MA • Mr. and Mrs. Scott M. Custer, Wrightsville Beach, NC • Archie H. and Sally J. Davis, Savannah, GA • W. Christopher Draper Jr., Califon, NJ • Michael N. Driscoll, Manassas, VA • Steven S. and Katherine S. Dunlevie, Atlanta, GA • Michael J. Egan III, Atlanta, GA • Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Elliott, Charlotte, NC • Mr. and Mrs. John Gray Blount Ellison Jr., Greensboro, NC • Randal B. Etheridge, Baltimore, MD • David S. Evans, Greensboro, NC • Ms. Kathleen M. Faherty, Hillsborough, NC • Mrs. Gail McGregor Fearing, Chapel Hill, NC • Dr. Jaroslav and Linda Folda, Chapel Hill, NC • Thomas Leonard Fonville, Raleigh, NC • Dr. James A. Fyfe, Durham, NC • David and Maeda Galinsky, Chapel Hill, NC • Mr. and Mrs. William E. Garwood, Haddonfield, NJ • Thomas Joseph Gawronski, Winter Park, FL • Dr. Dennis and Joan Gillings, Durham, NC • Dr. and Mrs. Voit Gilmore, Pinehurst, NC • Drs. R. Barbara Gitenstein and Donald B. Hart, Ewing, NJ • Howard G. Godwin Jr., Tarrytown, NY • Mr. and Mrs. Steven Goldstein, Toronto, Ontario • Steven and Gail Grossman, Chapel Hill, NC • Mr. Gerard J. Hall, Durham, NC • W. Clay Hamner and Margaret S. Hamner, Chapel Hill, NC • Gordon G. Hamrick, Shelby, NC • Edward and Ellen Hardison, Charlotte, NC • Mr. and Mrs. William B. Harrison Jr., Greenwich, CT • John L. Hatcher, Wilmington, NC • Branson Hobbs, Chapel Hill, NC • Judge Truman and Joyce Hobbs, Montgomery, AL • Luther and Cheray Hodges, Chapel Hill, NC • William E. Hollan Jr., Winston-Salem, NC • Mr. and Mrs. David L. Hood Jr., Charlotte, NC • James W. Howard Jr., Mableton, GA • Gayle W. and Ronald W. Hyatt, M.D., Chapel Hill, NC • Michael J. Jordan, Highwood, IL

• Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Kalagher, Manhasset, NY • Gary S. and Beth D. Kaminsky, Haverford, PA • Tom and Janet Kean, Norwood, NC • Mr. and Mrs. Richard Krasno, Chapel Hill, NC • Alvin E. Levine, Matthews, NC • Grey W. Lineweaver, Greensboro, NC • Dr. and Mrs. Robert Machemer, Durham, NC • D.G. and Harriet Martin, Chapel Hill, NC • Karol V. Mason, Atlanta, GA • S. Spence McCachren Jr., Maryville, TN • Glenn and Patricia McKenzie, Hampton, NH • David and Christine McSpadden, San Francisco, CA • Dr. Catherine H. Messick, Winston-Salem, NC • Dena F. Moore, Richmond, VA • Mary N. Morrow, Chapel Hill, NC • Dr. William Gray Murray Sr.,* Greensboro, NC • Alan S. Neely Sr. and Helen Neely, Atlanta, GA • C. Toms Newby III, Burlingame, CA • Mr. John H. Northey III and Ms. Christine E. McLeod, Charlotte, NC • Mr. and Mrs. McKee Nunnally Jr., Atlanta, GA • Mr. and Mrs. H. Patrick Oglesby, Chapel Hill, NC • Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Pappas, Durham, NC • Bailey W. Patrick, Charlotte, NC • Mr. and Mrs. Michael Patterson, Raleigh, NC • Glenna B. Patton, London, England • Dr. Ceib Lorraine Phillips, Hillsborough, NC • Thomas A. Pritchard, Atlanta, GA • James T. Pritchett Jr. and Cynthia Arnold Pritchett, Sarasota, FL • R.M. Propst and D.L. Wood, York, SC • John S. and Ann Sherill Pyne, New York, NY • Jonathan and Ashley Reckford, Edina, MN • Eugene H. Reilley Jr., Woodstock, GA • Merle Umstead Richey, Durham, NC • Dr. and Mrs. Todd Robbins, Memphis, TN • Lisa Shaw Robinson, St. Louis Park, MN • John M. and Elizabeth S. Ryan, Chapel Hill, NC • Dr. Edward T. Samulski and Mrs. Carol Shumate, Chapel Hill, NC • Mr. and Mrs. James Terry Sanford Jr., Durham, NC • James D.* and Alison P.* Sapikowski, Chapel Hill, NC • Donald S. Schlenger, Jupiter, FL • Robert Schwartz, Longboat Key, FL • Cecil and Linda Sewell, Raleigh, NC • Robert and Pearl Seymour, Chapel Hill, NC • Charles L. Stafford, Bedford, NY • Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Bryan Taylor, Charlotte, NC • Jenkins and John Trotter, Pawley’s Island, SC • Mr. and Mrs. S. Thompson Tygart, Jacksonville, FL • Diane Viser and Paul Edward Viser, M.D., Clinton, NC • Mr. and Mrs. David L. Ward Jr., New Bern, NC • George W. and Helen Wood Weaver, Plantation, FL • Ms. Sandy Wetmore, Manhattan Beach, CA • William A. and Jane R. Whitaker, Atlanta, GA

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• Mr. and Mrs. James G. Whitton, Salisbury, NC • Charles Leigh Wickham III, London, England • Mr. and Mrs. J. Blount Williams, Raleigh, NC • Richard J. C. Wilmot-Smith, Kent, England • Laura Anderson Wright, Beltsville, MD • Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Zimmerman, Greenwich, CT 1793 SOCIETY • Ed Adkins and Hulene Hill, Chapel Hill, NC • M. Steven Alexander, Mendham, NJ • John and Betty Allison, Lewisville, NC • Dr. Christopher M. Armitage, Chapel Hill, NC • Daniel M. Armstrong III, Washington, DC • Caroline D. Ashford, New Bern, NC • William Joseph Austin Jr., Raleigh, NC • Lucile C. Awalt* and F.G. Awalt Jr., Chapel Hill, NC • Harry H. Ballard, M.D. and Dolly Grant Ballard, New Bern, NC • David Griggs Bannister, Owings Mills, MD • Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Battle Jr., Atlanta, GA • Christina E. Benson, Alexandria, VA • Frederick D. Benton, Aiken, SC • Ellis and Ellen Berlin, Greensboro, NC • Dr. Thad L. Beyle and Patricia C. Beyle, Chapel Hill, NC • Hyman and Marietta Bielsky, London, England • Mr. and Mrs. William J. Blair III, Wrightsville Beach, NC • Mr. J. William Blue Jr., Chapel Hill, NC • Robert H. and Victoria T. Borden, Greensboro, NC • Dr. Alvin Boskoff, Atlanta, GA • Mr. and Mrs. George S. Branch, London, England • Mr. and Mrs. F. Sebert Brewer Jr., Deer Isle, ME • David E. Brown, White Plains, NY • Wilson M. and Anne E. Brown III, Wyndmoor, PA • Joseph M. Bryan Jr., Greensboro, NC • Harry Miller Bryant Jr. and Holly Reid Bryant, Charlotte, NC • Drs. Jay Bryson and Margaret Commins, Charlotte, NC • Ann Williams Burrus, Richmond, VA • Robert B. Butler, Phoenix, MD • George and Barbara Campbell, Charlotte, NC • Mr. Richard Donald Carriker, Huntersville, NC • Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Castiaux, Castro Valley, CA • Hugh M. Chapman, Atlanta, GA • Dr. Scott J. Childress, Philadelphia, PA • Kenneth and Mary Sue Coleman, Ann Arbor, MI • Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cone Jr., Greensboro, NC • Arthur Williams Coston, Chapel Hill, NC • Melissa Daniel Coyle, Washington, DC • Richard S. Craddock Jr., San Francisco, CA • Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Cramer, Winston-Salem, NC • Anne Peper Daffern, Bellevue, WA • John M. Darden III, Atlanta, GA • Josephine R. and Thomas F. Darden II, Raleigh, NC

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• Rebecca Wesson Darwin and Cress Darwin, Charleston, SC • Mr. and Mrs. J. Haywood Davis, New York, NY • Ms. Karen L. Davis, Washington, DC • Anna Deak-Phillips, Charlotte, NC • Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Deering, Charleston, SC • Glen and Dwan Dorman, Winston-Salem, NC • Ruth L. Doyle, Warrensburg, MO • Cynthia Ann Dy, Menlo Park, CA • Debra Easter, Winston-Salem, NC • Stuart E. Eizenstat, Chevy Chase, MD • Jennifer Langfahl Ellison, Charlotte, NC • Nora G. and Steven W. Esthimer, Chapel Hill, NC • Eli N. Evans, New York, NY • Mary Ann and Spencer Everett, Wilmington, NC • Luke E. and Nancy P. Fichthorn III, Lake Mary, FL • Michael H. Fleisher, Naples, FL • William T. Fleming, Boston, MA • Peter R. Formanek, Memphis, TN • David Gardner Frey Jr., Grand Rapids, MI • Mr. and Mrs. Julian B. Friday Jr., Greensboro, NC • Paul A. Frontiero, Raleigh, NC • Susan McDonald Gaddy, Greenville, SC • Robert S. and Margaret P. Galbraith, Raleigh, NC • Peter S. Gilchrist III, Huntersville, NC • Philip Ray Gillespie, Bernardsville, NJ • James Sevier Gilliland Jr., New York, NY • Raymond H. and Susan S. Goodmon III, Raleigh, NC • Mark Roy Graham, Colorado Springs, CO • William A. and Barbara S. Graham, Cambridge, MA • Roslyn D. Grand, Atlanta, GA • Sarah Reckford Gray, Atlanta, GA • Ms. Olive Greenwald, Efland, NC • Dr. Robert L. Grubb Jr. and Julia D. Grubb, Glendale, MO • Julia Sprunt Grumbles, Atlanta, GA • Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Gump, Johnson City, TN • Leesie and Bill Guthridge, Chapel Hill, NC • Richard Edward Guthrie Jr., Asheville, NC • Mr. and Mrs. Owen Gwyn Jr., Chapel Hill, NC • Dr. Donald C. Haggis, Chapel Hill, NC • Dede W. Hall and Thomas P. Lynch, Carrboro, NC • Adrian R. Halpern, Chapel Hill, NC • Mrs. Carol Cuthbertson Hamrick, Charlotte, NC • Mrs. Margaret T. Harper, Durham, NC • Mr. and Mrs. Nat T. Harris, Burlington, NC • Dr. and Mrs. Hubert B. Haywood III, Raleigh, NC • Jim and Pam Heavner, Chapel Hill, NC • Dr. L. Kenneth Hiller Jr. and Barbara A. Bentson, Chaska, MN • Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Hinson, Princeton, NJ • Patricia Jenny and Kent Hiteshew, Montclair, NJ • Robert and Laura Hobbs, Southern Shores, NC • Edward J. Hockfield, Long Grove, IL • Steven A. Hockfield, Charlotte, NC • Dr. Steve E. Hoffman, Littleton, NC • Harriet T. Holderness, Hinsdale, IL

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ARTS & SCIENCES Executive Editor Dee Reid Director of Communications Editor Kim Weaver Spurr ’88 Assistant Director of Communications Graphic Designer Linda Noble Contributing Writers Pamela Babcock JB Shelton Karen Stinneford BA ’87, MBA ’02 Lisa H. Towle Contributing Photographers Maria Durana Pablo Durana ’06 Lisa Helfert Will Owens Dan Sears ’74, UNC News Services Photographer Martha Stewart Special thanks to Stuart Albright ’01 and Bart D. Ehrman, the James A. Gray distinguished professor of religious studies, for permission to publish excerpts from their books.

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COMING SOON COMING SOON

The College of Arts & Sciences will host a range of distinguished speakers on campus in the coming months, with significant support from alumni and friends. Here is a sample of several upcoming presentations, which are free and open to the public without reservations. For more information on these and other events throughout the year, please check our calendar online at: college.unc.edu.

Oct. 6: FRED CHAPPELL 7:30 p.m., Morehead Banquet Hall The 2005 Thomas Wolfe Prize will go to Fred Chappell, the former North Carolina Poet Laureate, whom writer Lee Smith calls “our resident genius, our shining light.” Born in the mountains of Canton, N.C., Chappell has produced 30 books of poetry and fiction in 40 years and won dozens of prizes, including the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers from the Academie Francaise, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry from Yale University, and, eight times, the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry.

The Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture honor the memory of North Carolina’s most famous writer, alumnus Thomas Wolfe ’20, author of Look Homeward, Angel. The annual lecture series is sponsored by the Morgan Writer-in-Residence Program, the Thomas Wolfe Society and the department of English. Alumnus Ben Jones ’50 endowed the medals and prize money for the annual award.

Feb. 13: CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN 7:30 p.m., Location TBA After serving as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for President George W. Bush and as the 50th Governor of New Jersey, Christine Todd Whitman, a moderate Republican, has much to say about the future of the Grand Old Party. She will discuss her book, It’s My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America, and her concerns about the hard-right turn the party has taken in recent years.

Whitman will be on campus as one of two Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professors.

The professorship was established in 1989 by the Frey Foundation to bring to campus distinguished leaders from a variety of fields including government, public policy and the arts. The foundation, established by Edward J. and Frances Frey of Grand Rapids, Mich., is chaired by their son, alumnus David Gardner Frey, BA ’64, JD ’67.

March 1: JOAN DIDION 7:30 p.m., Memorial Hall

A keen observer of politics and culture, Joan Didion has been a prolific essayist, journalist, novelist and screenwriter for four decades. She is the author of seven books of non-fiction and five novels, including: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Play It As It Lays, and her newest work, The Year of Magical Thinking. Her essays Oct. 25: JOCELYN BELL BURNELL appear in The New York Review of Books, The New 7:30 p.m., Hanes Art Center Auditorium Yorker and other major magazines.

One of the most remarkable astronomical Her visit to Carolina is sponsored by the discoveries of modern times was made by a 24Morgan Writer-in-Residence Program in the English year-old woman. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a Ph.D. department, established in 1993 by alumni Allen student of physics monitoring radio transmissions at and Musette Morgan of Memphis, Tenn., to bring a Cambridge University telescope in 1968, when she writers of distinction to the campus for classes and noticed unusual signals. At first she playfully called public presentations. them LGM’s (for Little Green Men), later recognizing that the signals came from the first known pulsar, a March 6: FRANK RICH rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out regular 7 p.m., Location TBA bursts of radio waves and other electromagnetic Longtime leading drama critic and arts radiation. Her Cambridge advisor, Anthony Hewish, commentator for The New York Times, Frank received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery. Rich won a coveted position on the newspaper’s A resident of the United Kingdom and expanded opinion pages in April. His popular visiting professor at the University of Oxford, Bell weekly essays offer thoughtful and provocative Burnell has won numerous honors for her work insights on the often volatile intersection of arts, including, this year, election as a Foreign Associate culture and politics — the theme for his remarks in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a rare on campus. honor reserved for top scientists. She will discuss Before joining The Times, Rich was a film the modern challenges of astronomy as well as her and television critic at Time magazine, a film critic experiences as she worked on pulsars. Her visit for the New York Post, and a senior editor of New is sponsored by the department of physics and Times magazine. He is the second 2005-2006 Frey astronomy, the curriculum in women’s studies and Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor (see the College of Arts & Sciences.

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