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FROM THE DEAN

A heart for the humanities

College of Arts and Sciences

In late August, Carolina heralded the arrival

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of 4,254 first-year students at an evening convocation in Carmichael Arena. A brief shower during the ceremony left a spectacular rainbow for all of us exiting the building to enjoy. I snapped a photo and posted it on Twitter (yes, I am on Twitter now — at @unccollegedean). To me, it symbolized the great things ahead for our newest Tar Heels. A few short weeks later, the College of Arts and Sciences formally launched a major new initiative, “Carolina’s Human Heart: Living the Kevin M. Guskiewicz Arts and Humanities,” to which most of this issue is devoted. Last spring, I asked Terry Rhodes, senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities, to spearhead this effort because I wanted to highlight the important work that our faculty, staff and students across the College are conducting on topics that add meaning and value to our lives, that provide historical context, that help us think creatively and approach big challenges in bold new ways. Those areas are reflected in the six subject themes of the initiative: social justice, an enlightened citizenry, tolerance and understanding, global engagement, food and the environment, and storytelling. In all, we have nearly two dozen academic departments and curricula and 10 interdisciplinary centers in the College devoted to the fine arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences (areas such as history, archaeology and anthropology that fall under the humanities’ broad canopy). Of course, these units are not alone in taking on issues of great importance. Our faculty in the natural sciences are approaching many of the same topics from different angles. I believe there is true strength and synergy when the arts and sciences work together to tackle complicated, multifaceted problems. That’s why I’m working to create more interdisciplinary opportunities in the College and bringing fresh approaches to team teaching, new courses and research endeavors. Last spring, when the College brought the eloquent Fareed Zakaria to campus to talk about the value of a liberal arts education — to a packed auditorium, I am proud to report — he told the audience, “Science alone cannot suffice to comprise the broad, deep education that the United States has always been very good at. We teach people how to think, and that may turn out to be a more successful skill at succeeding in life.” “Carolina’s Human Heart” is a yearlong initiative devoted to continuing that conversation. Best,

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Kevin Guskiewicz, Dean Chris Clemens, Senior Associate Dean, Natural Sciences Jonathan Hartlyn, Senior Associate Dean, Social Sciences and Global Programs Abigail Panter, Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education Robert J. Parker, Jr., Senior Associate Dean, Development, and Executive Director, Arts and Sciences Foundation Terry Rhodes, Senior Associate Dean, Fine Arts and Humanities Lachonya Williams, Interim Senior Associate Dean for Administration & Business Strategy

Arts & Sciences Foundation Board of Directors, Fall 2016 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

G. Munroe Cobey ’74, Chapel Hill, NC, Chair R. Duke Buchan III ’85, Palm Beach, FL, Vice Chair Kevin Guskiewicz, Chapel Hill, NC, President Jonathan Hartlyn, Chapel Hill, NC, Vice President Robert J. Parker, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC, Executive Director and Secretary Amy B. Barry ’91, Naples, FL Eileen Pollart Brumback ’82, New York, NY Sunny H. Burrows ’84, Atlanta, GA Courtney Miller Cavatoni ’93, Atlanta, GA Thomas C. Chubb III ’86, Atlanta, GA Mark P. Clein ’81, Chevy Chase, MD Ann Rankin Cowan ’75, Atlanta, GA Luke E. Fichthorn IV ’92, Brooklyn, NY Druscilla French ’71, ’78, Chapel Hill, NC J. Henry Froelich III ’81, MBA ’84, Charlotte, NC Cosby Wiley George ’83, Greenwich, CT John C. Glover ’85, Raleigh, NC Henry H. Hamilton III ’81, Katy, TX William T. Hobbs II ’85, Charlotte, NC Steven H. Kapp ’81, MBA ’90, Philadelphia, PA Heavenly Johnson ’05, Chicago, IL M. Steven Langman ’83, New York, NY Stacie Lissette ’89, Hanover, PA Wendell A. McCain ’92, Chapel Hill, NC Aurelia Stafford Monk ’85, Greenville, NC Andrea Ponti ’85, London, England R. Alexander Rankin ’77, Goshen, KY David S. Routh ’82, Chapel Hill, NC Tready Arthur Smith ’92 BSBA, Tampa, FL Benjamin J. Sullivan, Jr. ’75, Rye, NY Patricia Rumley Thompson ’66, Atlanta, GA Marree Shore Townsend ’77, Greenwich, CT Thomas M. Uhlman ’71, ’75, Murray Hill, NJ James A. Wellons ’86, Philadelphia, PA Elijah White Jr. ’84, Houston, TX J. Spencer Whitman ’90, Charlotte, NC Cecil W. Wooten III ’68, ’72, Chapel Hill, NC


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Carolina’s Human Heart The arts and humanities inform, inspire, energize and excite us. This fall, the College of Arts and Sciences kicks off a major new initiative that showcases the work faculty, staff, students and alumni are doing in the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences that enriches our lives. Our cover package is just a sampling; see much more at celebratehumanities.unc.edu.

Jump-starting conversations and collaborations 4

Documenting UNC’s black pioneers

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Popular minor connects philosophy, politics, economics 7

Food through a new lens

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Creativity, conflict and social change in the Congo 9

Exploring Muslim identities 10

Poets take on topics of justice 11

Departments

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Artists After Hours

20-24 Faculty, Alumni and Graduate Student Up Close

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PlayMakers at 40 revisits The Crucible

25 Chapter & Verse Plus: The 2016 presidential election and documenting the South in color.

26-31 The Scoop 32-36 Honor Roll inside back cover Finale

COVER PHOTO: Chérie Rivers Ndaliko, assistant professor of music, will host a conference about art and aid in Africa’s conflict regions as part of “Carolina’s Human Heart: Living the Arts and Humanities.” Photo by Steve Exum ’92.

Stay Connected to the College via web, social media Magazine: magazine.college.unc.edu News/Events: college.unc.edu Social media: @unccollege

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“Spoken word poetry and oral storytelling are at the core of what it means to be human,” says Will McInerney ’11. McInerney is one of three artists performing in the Process Series’ “Spoken Word/Spoken Justice” festival [story, page 11]. Storytelling is one of the six subject themes of the Carolina’s Human Heart initiative.

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CAROLINA’S HUMAN HEART

Living the arts and humanities The arts and humanities inform, inspire, energize and excite us. They bring context and meaning to the important issues of the day — and to our lives. This fall, the College of Arts and Sciences kicks off a major new initiative that amplifies and integrates the work that our faculty, staff, students and alumni are doing in the wide array of fields that the arts, humanities and qualitative social sciences embrace. In the following pages, read about events, lectures, conferences, new research, courses, performances, exhibitions and more, and bookmark our website: celebratehumanities.unc.edu.

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Jump-starting conversations and collaborations

Q&A with Terry Rhodes ’78, senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities “We know that the humanities and social sciences teach critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills that will help our graduates contribute to an increasingly global, interconnected world.”

Q: Many College departments

Q: You’ve chosen six

Q: There’s a big emphasis at

and entities have been providing

themes as the focus for “Carolina’s

Carolina on innovation and finding

arts and humanities programming

Human Heart”: social justice, an

solutions to the world’s greatest

for years. Why this dedicated

enlightened citizenry, tolerance and

problems. How are the arts and

initiative?

understanding, global engagement,

humanities contributing to that

food and the environment, and

conversation?

A: Our dean, Kevin Guskiewicz,

storytelling. Why these?

A: We drew inspiration from the

is a neuroscientist who understands

A: The steering committee

that the arts and humanities are

report, “The Heart of the Matter: The Hu-

essential to a well-rounded education.

of faculty, staff, undergraduate and

manities and Social Sciences,” complet-

From the outset, he wanted to make

graduate students thought it was

ed by the Commission on the Humanities

all of the important and exciting work

important to show how the arts and

and Social Sciences of the American

going on in these areas more visible to

humanities open people’s hearts

Academy of Arts and Sciences. (View a

everyone. “Carolina’s Human Heart”

and minds to different perspectives,

report summary: tinyurl.com/qfdnrh7).

is designed to promote and amplify

whether the subject is politics or the

that work.

environment.

We also wanted to encourage more

In this effort, we have capitalized

We know that the humanities and social sciences teach critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills that

conversation and collaboration — to

on the ethos of this campus. Our

will help our graduates contribute to

connect the dots across disciplines.

Carolina community has a passion for

an increasingly global, interconnected

Many of our programs already

social justice, for instance, and we are

world. We value the importance of

rely heavily on partnerships and

skilled storytellers, from our creative

learning a new language and of being

cooperative endeavors, such as the

writing program to the Southern

exposed to diverse cultures and

Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Oral History Program to PlayMakers

experiences. This is all a part of what

and the Program in the Humanities

Repertory Company. These six themes

makes Carolina great.

and Human Values, which provide

are in Carolina’s DNA.

support to faculty and offer enriching

In the pages that follow, you can

Q: As a former music depart-

programs to the region and the state.

read about some of the extraordinary

ment chair and a soprano who has

We hope this initiative can jump-

programming, courses, concerts, plays

performed all over the world, how

start even more of those types of

and other events happening on campus,

do the arts and humanities speak

partnerships.

which we’ve grouped by theme.

to you?

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A: This is my life’s passion. I’ve been a UNC faculty member for almost 30 years. I’m moving into my fifth year as senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities, and I’ve been teaching and performing for a long time. I see on a daily basis the way arts and humanities can create bridges of understanding. I know how a book or play or performance or oped can really have an impact and make significant differences in people’s lives. As a Fulbright artist-in-residence in Eastern Europe in the ’90s, I have been invited back to Macedonia this fall to present concerts and master classes as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Conservatory of Music in Skopje. My residency there over 20 years ago certainly provided transformative experiences for me and I believe also benefited those with whom I interacted, through exchanges that enabled us to have a deeper understanding of one another and of our respective cultures and societies. The humanities and arts continually provide these types of opportunities — enriching lives, bridging differences and Kristen Chavez

helping us understand what it means to be human. Terry Rhodes

— Interview by Kim Weaver Spurr ’88

SIGNATURE EVENTS:

Several stories in our cover package (pages 2-13) highlight events happening on campus

as part of “Carolina’s Human Heart.” Here are a few more of special note. You can find many more on our website, celebratehumanities.unc.edu. • Nov. 11: Debut of UNC’s new Carolina Bluegrass Band with the Steep Canyon Rangers • Nov. 18-19: Long Story Shorts One Act Festival • Feb. 25: Spectrum Concert (Hill Hall reopening celebration) • April 20: Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín • April 21: Maynard Adams Symposium on the Humanities: philosopher Martha Nussbaum

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Documenting UNC’s black pioneers “The professor told him that even though Mr. Womack worked hard and did well, that was the best grade he could give him,” Eure said. “The thing that really stuck with me the most after his interview was how palpable his pain still is after all this time. To bear witness to his pain was humbling and eyeopening.” The interviews will become part of the SOHP database (sohp. org) and will be adapted into a TOP: Karen Parker, the first African-American woman to enroll at UNC, performance by holds her diary from her time at Chapel Hill. BOTTOM: Edith Hubbard UNC alumni who (center) is surrounded by her daughter, Rhonda Hubbard Beatty (left), are professional and granddaughter, Nicole Beatty. actors for UNC’s teaching English in South Korea through Process Series (processseries. the Fulbright Program and eventually unc.edu), on Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. and Nov. hopes to teach social studies. She 6 at 3 p.m. at the Sonja Haynes Stone interviewed Hubbard for her project. Center for Black Culture and History. Ford said the University can learn a “It was particularly meaningful lot about the way African-American for our students to be talking to these students were treated in the past and Black Pioneers in a year when there how that can help shape the present. was so much discussion about race on “To have this opportunity to talk campus,” said Rachel Seidman, acting to people who not only experienced director of SOHP. “We are glad that this pivotal time in Carolina’s history their work will be shared with a much but had an impact on it — that was broader audience. It’s an important story incredible to be able to talk to them for us to tell.” about their lives.” Education major Alex Ford ’16 is

Last year, student interns at the Southern Oral History Program interviewed 16 of the “Black Pioneers,” African-Americans who attended UNCChapel Hill from 1952 to 1972 and were the first students to desegregate the University. The SOHP interns documented and performed staged readings of the stories of people like Karen Parker and Edith Hubbard, the first and second AfricanAmerican women to enroll at Carolina, and James Womack, UNC’s first AfricanAmerican cheerleader. Charlotte Eure ’16, a women’s and gender studies and communication studies double major, recalled how meaningful her interview was with Womack. In one of his classes, Womack received A’s on his papers and exams but was given only a C for his final grade, she said.

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Dec. 18, 1963 “We are now in a peak of tension over racial demonstrations here. … On Saturday, the 14th, I decided to go to jail. It was no fun at all. There were 3 of us … we went to Leo’s, were arrested and hauled to jail. The police were nice except for the one who dragged me into the car. … Last night 46 people were arrested. Tonight 28 were arrested. … The campus opinion on this, to me, is largely indifferent.” — From Karen Parker’s diary

UNC Communications

BY KIM WEAVER SPURR ’88


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Popular minor connects philosophy, politics, economics BY CYNDY FALGOUT

Courtesy of PPE minor

Steve Exum

Anyone interested in changing the world must understand how institutions and systems work, and how the political and social environments in which they operate shape them all. UNC’s Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program, known around campus as PPE, offers a minor designed to help students develop such understanding. “The PPE minor provides the tools needed to think fruitfully and articulately about how the world works and what can be done to improve it,” said PPE Director Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, MoreheadCain Alumni Distinguished Professor. UNC’s PPE program, launched in 2005, builds on Oxford University’s PPE Program, which began in 1924 and became the primary academic degree program for England’s leaders in government, nongovernmental organizations and business. Each year, UNC’s 270 declared PPE minors come from a wide range of majors — biology, business, economics, global studies, history, journalism, philosophy, political science, public policy and sociology. Many are attracted to the PPE minor because they “appreciate that it brings the social sciences and humanities together into a coherent program that is more than the sum of its parts,” SayreMcCord said. Any student, regardless of their major, may enroll in the PPE minor, which requires a gateway course, one course each in philosophy, politics and economics, and a capstone seminar. UNC’s PPE program collaborates with Duke University to co-convene the gateway and capstone courses. The gateway course introduces students to the quantitative techniques, conceptual tools and core principles of the three disciplines, emphasizing the ways they complement one another. The capstone seminar, typically taken in a student’s senior year, examines advanced issues at the intersection of the three disciplines, such as taxation, health care, climate change, globalization or human rights, shaped largely by the students’ interests. Students may also apply an interdisciplinary approach to examine a topic of their choosing. The PPE program offers an active extracurricular program including semester-long reading groups, intensive weekend seminars and a speaker series, all open to people outside the minor. A national undergraduate colloquium brings 20 outstanding PPE students from across the country to UNC each year to discuss a core topic with moral, economic and political dimensions — an initiative that has positioned UNC’s program as a national leader in PPE education. ➤ For more information, visit ppe.unc.edu. TOP: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord directs the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program. BOTTOM: The program sponsors a national undergraduate colloquium that brings top PPE students to the UNC campus each year.

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Food through a new lens BY KIM WEAVER SPURR ’88

Colin Thor West became interested in the lives of rural farmers and the challenges they face when he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa, from 1994 to 1996. Today he focuses his research on food insecurity issues in neighboring Burkina Faso. West and a graduate student assisting him traveled there this past summer, satellite maps in hand, to interview the indigenous Mossi people about how their environment is changing. “I work in a part of Africa where people often can’t grow enough food because of production and access issues, and a lot of CLOCKWISE, FROM LEFT: Colin Thor West (center) in Kongoussi, Burkina Faso. • Amanda Thompson these people are very poor,” measures infant body composition for a study of early diet and health in San Cristóbal, Galápagos. • said West, a UNC assistant Maize for sale at a Burkina Faso market. professor of anthropology. “I also touch on issues of local and global on commercial ranchers and farmers She and other researchers are examining climate change and drought.” in the southwestern United States and the impact of exposure to environmental The anthropology department Yup'ik salmon fishers in western Alaska. pathogens and an increasingly high-fat, launched a concentration a year Biological anthropologist Amanda inactive lifestyle on the development of ago in “Food, Environment and Thompson studies how people’s social inflammation and obesity in Chinese Sustainability,” dovetailing with the and physical environments shape their children, adolescents and young adults. beginning of UNC’s two-year academic health across their lifespan. In summer Thompson said the new theme, “Food for All: Local and Global 2015, she taught a study abroad course, concentration is a good fit for Perspectives.” West will teach an upper- “Ecology of Nutrition and Health in anthropology, because it highlights the level undergraduate course that mirrors the Galápagos.” She returned to the diverse work that many faculty have the concentration’s name in spring Galápagos this past summer for a been doing on these topics for years. 2017. Both undergraduate and graduate research project. “As anthropologists, we try to courses are offered in the concentration, “We’re hoping to understand how see the whole picture,” she said. “The including “Anthropological simultaneous exposure to high-fat diets concentration brings together faculty Perspectives on Food and Culture,” with limited fresh produce and poor members from all subfields within the “Archaeology of Food” and “Global water quality contribute to the high discipline — sociocultural, biological Health.” Another new course, “Intro to levels of obesity and chronic disease and archaeological — to answer common Food Studies: From Science to Society,” seen on the islands,” said Thompson, questions from unique perspectives, will be cross-listed in anthropology, UNC associate professor of anthropology. creating a fertile ground for new research nutrition and American studies. She has also been a part of the China and training for students.” West has also conducted research Health and Nutrition Survey since 2011. ➤ Learn more at go.unc.edu/b3F6Y.

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Creativity, conflict and social change in the Congo BY KRISTEN CHAVEZ ’13

27-28, “The Art of Emergency: Aesthetics and Aid in African Crises.” Ndaliko is partnering with a fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, Samuel M. Anderson, to bring together an interdisciplinary mix of scholars, artists, community organizers and students to examine the relationship between creativity and humanitarian aid in conflict regions.

Steve Exum

“As scholars of culture, we have very clear insight and recommendations that need to be considered on par with recommendations from engineers and doctors and economists.” Her new book on cultural activism and art in the Congo, Necessary Noise, will be published in October. and she appreciates that she has found a While some nongovernmental space for it in academia. As an assistant organizations and humanitarian agencies professor of music and interdisciplinary attempt to address problems, few of them scholar, Ndaliko researches and teaches engage with the local community enough about the intersection of creativity, to guide long-lasting change, she said. conflict and social change in Africa. What’s often lacking is an emphasis on In addition, she and her husband run developing critical thinking skills. Yolé!Africa, an organization he founded “That’s a prime example of the that provides youth in eastern Congo the value of a humanities education,” she space, skills and alternative education said. “As scholars of culture, we have necessary to thrive despite the deadly very clear insight and recommendations conflict in the region. that need to be considered on par with Ndaliko finds that the classroom recommendations from engineers and gives students a safe space to discuss doctors and economists.” social justice issues. “People who are at The conference is designed to be ina point in their lives where they’re really teractive and create discussions around trying to form their values and figure out best practices for social justice work. how they want to shape their adulthood “That kind of shift in thinking leads — having these kinds of conversations is directly to structural change,” Ndaliko really powerful,” she said. said. “It empowers people who are on the Such conversations will be part of ground to be owners and agents of that a conference at UNC-Chapel Hill Oct. change and to direct it as they see fit.”

Chérie Rivers Ndaliko and her husband, Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, run Yolé!Africa, which provides a space for youth in eastern Congo to thrive despite the region’s deadly conflict.

In 2010, Chérie Rivers Ndaliko and her husband, internationally acclaimed Congolese filmmaker and activist Petna Ndaliko Katondolo, traveled to 33 colleges and universities around the country to show their film, Jazz Mama, which documents the strength of Congolese women in the face of upheaval and violence. Before showing the film, she asked audience members if they knew anything about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Few, if any, raised their hands. Ndaliko knew she had more work to do. In the face of the economic conflict raging in Congo in which American consumers are complicit, “there’s no chance the political situation in the Congo is going to change when Americans have no idea that there’s anything even happening,” she said. Social justice is Ndaliko’s passion,

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Exploring Muslim identities BY CYNDY FALGOUT

Popular culture tends to view the world’s great religions as monolithic identities, when the complex history of religion encompasses a spectrum of beliefs based on location, culture and myriad other factors. UNC Islamic studies scholar Carl W. Ernst will lead an examination of the diversity of Muslim beliefs through an interdisciplinary conference to be held on the Carolina campus in October. A complementary 11-performance series hosted by Carolina Performing Arts will feature music and dance from four Muslimmajority nations.

“We hope these activities will stimulate critical reflection on campus about how we conceptualize the ‘Muslim World’ given the diversity of cultural expression among majority-Muslim societies,” said Ernst, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and co-director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. Seventh-generation Indonesian mask dancer Nani comes to UNC in January as Misconceptions abound, as do close connections part of Carolina Performing Arts’ Sufi Journey series. among the world’s religions, Ernst said. These will be explored through academic discussions and performances. Middle East scholar and history professor Beth Baron question the categories and concepts used to define Muslim from City University of New York, for instance, will discuss identities. The event will also serve as the annual Mideast the impact of Christian missionaries on Egypt’s Muslim conference of the Duke-UNC Consortium in Middle East Brotherhood. Members of that organization did not convert Studies. but adopted concepts and techniques the missionaries The yearlong CPA series, “Sacred/Secular: A Sufi espoused. Journey,” will feature performances reflecting the diversity Seventh-generation Indonesian mask dancer Nani will of Muslim identity and the inextricable link between local perform a dance rooted in indigenous Javanese culture that culture and religion. The series includes music and dance appears shamanistic but was, as she relates, introduced by from Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Senegal alongside artists Sufi missionaries. responding to the values of Sufism and the diverse views of The fall workshop, “Islam and Religious Identity: The culture and faith in the United States. Limits of Definition,” to be held Oct. 14-16, will feature ➤ For more on the conference, visit islamworkshop2016. leading scholars from diverse disciplines — religious studies, web.unc.edu. For tickets to performances in the CPA Sufi Journey history, anthropology and others — who will examine and series, visit www.carolinaperformingarts.org.

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Misconceptions abound, as do close connections among the world’s religions. These will be explored through academic discussions and performances.


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Poets take on topics of justice

Courtesy of Kane Smego

Doaa Dorgham

BY KIM WEAVER SPURR ‘88

Smego has traveled to Zimbabwe and Thailand with the Next Level Program, an international musical exchange and diplomacy initiative sponsored by the U.S. State Department and UNC’s music department. He’ll serve as site manager for a residency in Brazil in 2017. McInerney’s piece will focus on a podcast he produces for WUNC, “Stories with a Heartbeat,” which “helps us understand the complexity of the human condition in conflict and seeks to humanize dehumanizing situations,” he said. Previous podcast episodes have examined the Chapel Hill shootings. McInerney said spoken word poetry is such a powerful form of storytelling because “it’s at the core of what it means to be human.” “Long before stories were ever written down, they were spoken aloud. On every continent and in every culture, you can find a legacy of the oral tradition of storytelling. … Stories affect the way we think, speak and act every day. Spoken word poetry taps into this power.” ➤ Read Q&A’s with the poets

a San Diego-based computer engineer. “I also hope this work provides a platform to engage our community on topics that are oftentimes not easy to navigate. By providing a human glimpse into loss, suffering and discrimination, perhaps we can more easily and honestly tackle these issues.” Moussa will be one of three poets featured in the festival, with performances Feb. 10-12 in Swain Hall Studio 6. Moussa’s two friends, UNC graduates Will McInerney (peace, war and defense ’11) and Kane Smego (Spanish ’10), will perform their own works and hold workshops for students. TOP: Mohammad Moussa’s work, “Shattered Glass,” is a In 2011, the three reflection on the tragic shootings of his three friends last year. collaborators traveled to BOTTOM: Kane Smego says his piece will be “an exploration of Tunisia and Egypt while my life through hip-hop and poetry.” McInerney and Moussa were still students to document the close friend of the three Muslim Arab Spring uprisings as part of the students slain in Chapel Hill in 2015 series “Poetic Portraits of a Revolution” will bring a multimedia performance for National Public Radio affiliate he created in their honor to the UNC WUNC-FM. The poets said they are campus in the spring. excited about reuniting at UNC. “Shattered Glass,” by NC State Smego’s piece “is an exploration graduate Mohammad Moussa (B.S. ’12, of my life through the whirlwind of M.S. ’13), will be part of the Process hip-hop and poetry. It seeks to address Series’ “Spoken Word/Spoken Justice” the question: What does it mean to festival. Moussa’s piece will be performed on be a white kid in Durham who loves hip-hop and is raised by a mother in Feb. 10 — the anniversary of the death an interracial relationship? How did of Deah Barakat; his wife, Yusor Abuhip-hop culture guide my personal Salha; and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha. experience, and how does it affect “I hope that through this piece the experiences of other young artists the legacy of Deah, Yusor and Razan around the world?” will inspire others,” said Moussa, now

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s director of OASIS, I lead a group of about 25 information technology professionals in the College of Arts and Sciences who focus on direct client support, systems administration, web and application development, and instructional technology. When I was a kid, I fell in love with the organ by watching our parish organist play. I remember being in awe over his ability to operate this really complex instrument and being amazed by the variety of sounds he could produce by it. Were it not for his example and encouragement, I often wonder if I would’ve still been so serious about this instrument. I started out on the piano when I was 7 and then transitioned to the organ around age 12. I continued to study the organ as an undergraduate and later went on to get a master’s in music in organ performance. I continue to build my repertoire and skills by occasionally traveling to the University of Michigan to study with one of the best teachers in the country. And I just returned from the International Organ Academy in Haarlem, the Netherlands, where I studied 19th-century French repertoire from an expert in the field. I’ve been very fortunate to play at some great venues, such as Washington National Cathedral and at various locations in Europe, including

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the Notre Dame Cathedral. For a week in the summer of 2015, I was in Toulouse, France, where I had unrestricted access to a really important historical instrument in the Basilica of St. Sernin. About 15 years ago, I decided to take up the flute as a secondary instrument. Andy Lang (with the organ in Chapel of the Cross While I like the sound and on Franklin Street) says music brings balance to his the repertoire of the flute on technology-intensive life. its own, the organ might be thought of as a collection of flutes, and so in some ways learning flute by its beauty and nuance, I think the flute helps me to get closer to the gymnastics can be the same way when organ’s innate character. it’s done really well. I’ve learned that I also have an interest in when you attempt to do something gymnastics. This is something I that you admire, even if you never have wanted to do since I was a become any good at it, the level of your child. Eight years ago, I looked in the appreciation for someone who does it mirror and said, “I need to do this.” really well increases dramatically. Since then I’ve gotten involved in the For me, life is all about balance. gymnastics club here at UNC, which This is why I enjoy so many things is a co-ed group of folks at all skill outside technology. I think that if I levels. Besides practicing our skills, were to do just technology, I would we compete with other schools. I feel out of balance; similarly, if I don’t compete myself, but because were to do just music, I wouldn’t others keep encouraging me to do so, feel balanced either. And where the I just might someday. More recently, arts are concerned, being involved I volunteer as a scorekeeper at varsity gives you an unfettered avenue for team meets, so come and look for me creativity that can only benefit all the at our home meets in Carmichael other aspects of your life. It really does Arena! represent a good way to live. I view my interest in gymnastics ➤ Know someone we should as a kind of analog to why I took up feature? Send suggestions to the flute. Just as I was drawn to the college-news@unc.edu.

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Introducing Artists After Hours, an occasional feature in which we interview faculty, staff and students who pursue artistic avocations in areas not directly related to their day jobs and studies. Profiles are archived at celebratehumanities.unc.edu.


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PlayMakers at 40 revisits The Crucible Courtesy of UNC Library

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n 1976, PlayMakers Repertory Company became the professional theater-in-residence on the UNC campus and brought Arthur Miller’s gripping play, The Crucible, to life among its first offerings. As the company celebrates 40 years, PlayMakers is once again performing the landmark drama, taking a fresh look at this searing political allegory about the responsibilities of citizenry and the slippery slope of mass hysteria. The Crucible (this photo is from the 1976 production) runs Oct. 19-Nov. 6. For more, visit playmakersrep.org. The Program in the Humanities will host an Oct. 22 Adventures in Ideas seminar, “History, Social Commentary and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible,” in collaboration with the production. To register, visit humanities.unc.edu.

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THE POLITICS OF POLARIZATION

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he road to the White House is usually rocky. But this time the pavement has been split wide open by extreme polarization — and not just between Democrats and Republicans. The landscape within the parties has also fractured into the mainstream and the mavericks. Major polls overseen by UNC alumnus Tom Jensen at Public Policy Polling showed more than half of voters disapproved of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump after their parties officially nominated them to run for president. And all of this occurred during an election season rocked by mass shootings, anxiety about terrorism, and violence against African-Americans and police officers. Only one thing seems clear as Nov. 8 approaches: Fault lines have shifted beneath the political parties. How this shakes out may affect the balance of power in national politics for at least a generation, according to four UNC experts.

[ TRUMP ’S APPEAL ] When flamboyant developer Donald J. Trump rose to the top of the GOP ticket, pundits struggled to explain his sudden appeal. The conventional wisdom was that his “Make America Great Again” campaign was attracting disaffected white working-class conservatives concerned about lost jobs and stagnating wages. But it’s not that simple, said UNC political scientist and alumnus Jonathan Weiler (Ph.D. political science ’99), coauthor of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics. (The 2009 book won the American Political Science

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Association’s Philip E. Converse Book Award this year.) Trump’s base is indeed largely white, but it includes both working class and professional voters who may not consider themselves traditional conservatives, said Weiler. What they share, he added, is a “highly authoritarian” perspective that has solidified during the increased polarization of Americans over the past generation. This has resulted in “the sorting of people with very different worldviews into two major political camps,” Weiler explained. When Bill Clinton was first elected president in 1992, authoritarian-minded voters were about as likely to vote Democratic as they were to vote Republican. But by 2004, authoritarian-leaning voters had fled the Democratic Party and joined the GOP. And non-authoritarians who once voted Republican had shifted to the Dems. Those trends have solidified during the Obama years. Weiler says highly authoritarian people tend to: • See the world in simplistic, black-and-white terms, with little room for nuance. • Hold an us-vs.-them view that is intolerant of out-groups, whom they blame for the unraveling of America’s social fabric (African-Americans, immigrants, gays, Muslims). • Believe in the need to project strength in the most straightforward, uncompromising way possible. “That, in a nutshell, is Trump’s campaign,” said Weiler, a senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the curriculum in global studies. “Non-authoritarians,” meanwhile, have settled into the

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[ O n l y o n e t h i n g s e e m s c l e a r a s N ov. 8 a p p ro a c h e s : Fa u l t l i n e s h ave s h i f te d b e n e a t h t h e p o l i ti c a l p a r ti e s . H ow th i s s h a ke s o u t m ay a f f e c t th e b a l a n c e o f p owe r i n n a ti o n a l p o l i ti c s f o r a t l e a s t a g e n e r a ti o n . ] Democratic Party. Weiler says they tend to: • Be concerned about fairness and accuracy. • Have an aversion to prejudicial thinking and judgments. • Value personal autonomy over social conformity. • Be broadly opinionated.

[ C L I N TO N ’ S C H A L L E N G E ] The Democratic Party has also experienced internal strife, with voters splitting their support between a mainstream candidate (Hillary Clinton) and a maverick calling for a political revolution (Bernie Sanders). Although Clinton clinched the nomination with strong support among Hispanics and African-Americans, she knew she needed to broaden her support to ensure a general election victory. She began to reach out to more mainstream Democrats, as well as Republicans disenchanted with Trump, while trying to ensure that a critical mass of progressive Sanders voters turn out to pull the lever for her in November. Ongoing concern about American safety and security could be the wildcard in the race. After police were killed following the “Black Lives Matters” protests, Trump began calling himself the “law and order candidate.” Clinton underscored her “stronger together” theme, focusing on the need for all sides to unite to address violent crime and heal tensions between police and minorities. The ability of Clinton and Trump to broaden their appeal will affect the down-ballot races. While Trump is the clear favorite of highly authoritarian voters forming the GOP base, they make up only about a third of the general electorate, said Weiler.

[ TURNOUT IS KEY ] Trump’s animosity to Muslims, immigrants, women and free trade have turned off moderate Republicans and traditional conservatives, and could cause some to stay home on Election Day, affecting not only the presidential race but important battles for Senate seats in swing states. “With a more traditional candidate, the GOP would have had a very good chance of winning the White House while maintaining control of Congress and continuing a conservative majority on the Supreme Court,” said Jason Roberts, associate professor of political science and an expert on congressional politics. “It would have been a huge opportunity to maintain political power for generations.” That’s unlikely to happen if the Democrats succeed in portraying Trump as too reckless for the presidency. Clinton, on the other hand, must overcome lingering doubts about her trustworthiness (those emails) among traditional Democrats, independents, Sanders supporters and

anti-Trump Republicans to influence down-ballot races. A big enough turnout could give the Democrats majority control of the Senate — the key to unjamming gridlock and securing a liberal majority on the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time since the Nixon presidency, according to Roberts. Anxiety about Trump among liberals, minorities and women could enhance Democratic turnout, despite mixed feelings that some have about Clinton. “Trump makes the choice between the two parties starker than usual, even if many of the policies espoused by Trump are not typical of a Republican platform,” said assistant professor of political science Sarah Treul, who studies Congress and the courts. “The choice of voting for Clinton or Trump is more than a vote for a party — it’s a vote for the future direction of the country — and the choices could not be more disparate.” This could have long-term implications for the GOP, especially as millions of children of Latino immigrants become old enough to vote, said Roberts. “Trump could be handing over a generation of new voters to the Democrats.”

[ AT S TA K E : T H E S U P R E M E CO U R T ] The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to weigh in on several major issues during the next president’s term, said associate professor of political science Isaac Unah, author of The Supreme Court in American Politics. The court is expected to review cases involving immigration, affirmative action, abortion rights, campaign financing and voting rights. Since Supreme Court justices are appointed to life terms, the November elections could affect the balance of power on the court for generations. Even a narrow win by Trump would likely mean the GOP maintains control of the Senate and a relatively easy path for confirming conservative appointments to the court, said Unah. If Clinton wins narrowly and the Democrats do not gain majority control of the Senate, Unah said the Republican majority in the Senate could approve Obama’s nomination of moderate Merrick Garland, filling the vacancy left by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. If Clinton wins big and the Democrats gain the Senate, the Republicans could still decide to approve Garland before Clinton takes office in January, he said. Obama could decide to withdraw the Garland nomination, although Unah thinks that is less likely. Under that scenario, Clinton could win approval of her own nominee to fill Scalia’s seat — and perhaps fill other vacancies during her term — tipping the balance of the court to liberals for the first time since the Nixon presidency.

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THE SOUTH IN COLOR How do you make fresh pictures of

a place so often photographed, that place we know as ‘the South?’” Tom Rankin writes in the foreword to The South in Color: A Visual Journal. “You start early and you keep at it, you stay in it for the long haul while others come and go.” This succinctly describes the path William Ferris, folklorist and scholar, took to produce this body of work. These 100 photographs from the 1960s and ’70s were selected from the more than 80,000 he has archived at the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC. The South in Color completes an informal trilogy Ferris began with Give My Poor Heart Ease and The Storied South. The earlier works featured his black-and-white photographs of Southern musicians and writers; this is his first book of color photographs. Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. He is the former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Images from The South in Color: A Visual Journal by William Ferris (The University of North Carolina Press, 2016). I N S E R T: William Ferris

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O P P O S I T E P A G E : • LEFT: William Ferris Sr., hay field, Warren County, Mississippi, 1963 T H I S P A G E : • TOP: Louvennia Willis and Nora (a neighbor’s child), Crystal Springs, Mississippi, 1974 • BOTTOM: James Bottom, Ross Road, Warren County, Mississippi, 1975

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O P P O S I T E PAG E : • TOP LEFT: The California Club, Belzoni, Mississippi, August 1975 • BOTTOM LEFT: S. M. White & Son Crossroads Store, Reganton, Mississippi, 1974 T H I S PAG E : • TOP LEFT: Aden Fisher White, S. M. White & Son Crossroads Store, Reganton, Mississippi, 1974 • TOP RIGHT: Pecolia Warner with her “P” quilt, Yazoo City, Mississippi, 1975 • BOTTOM: Otha Turner, Senatobia, Mississippi, August 1976

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Russia expert Donald Raleigh makes working with graduate students a top priority. He won the 2016 Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring.

A scholar and a mentor Russia scholar’s next big project is Brezhnev bio BY MICHELE LYNN

“Growing up in Dr. Strangelove’s America, with the Cold War in my face, had an impact on my interest in Russian studies,” said Donald J. Raleigh, Jay Richard Judson Distinguished Professor of History. “Studying the Russian language was remote, mysterious and difficult — qualities that made it appealing to me.” In 1971, as a senior Russian area studies major at Knox College in Illinois, Raleigh was chosen to be in the third group of American undergraduates to spend a semester at Leningrad University. “It was very hard, the living conditions were grim, and I was hospitalized due to a parasitic infection for 10 days in a 19th-century military hospital with very poor conditions,” Raleigh said. “It was a tough experience but one that confirmed my interest in Russian studies, Russian culture and my commitment to the field.”

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Afterward, Raleigh enrolled in the Ph.D. program at Indiana University, where he became the first Anglo-American scholar to write about the Russian Revolution in provincial Russia. “Up to that point, all of our scholarship was based on the capital city, but I thought, ‘What about the Des Moines of Russia or the Peoria of Russia?’” he said. Raleigh has written extensively about the revolution, with an emphasis on the local history of the Saratov region. The city of Saratov was physically off-limits to foreigners until 1990, when it was opened thanks to Gorbachev and perestroika. “I had a fellowship in 1990 at the National Humanities Center to write my second Saratov book, but I had the chance to go to Saratov for the first time and have access to Russian archives,” he said. “I made the decision to start the project over and spent the following 10 summers researching in that provincial city.” The result was his book Experiencing Russia’s Civil War: Politics, Society and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917–1922. Raleigh, director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies at UNC, is currently researching a biography of Leonid Brezhnev, who led the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, longer than any other Soviet leader besides Stalin. “One of the interesting things about Brezhnev is that since the start of the new millennium, he is the most popular Russian leader of the 20th century, according to annual public opinion surveys, but there is no academic biography of him,” said Raleigh. This past summer, Raleigh spent three weeks in Kazakhstan, where Brezhnev was a party boss from 1954 to 1956. His research has already taken him to Moldova and Russia. Next year he will work in archives in Ukraine. Raleigh has had access to Brezhnev’s diary, which is not available to the public. “I was invited by several Russian historians to help publish the diary this year in Moscow,” he said. Raleigh wrote about Brezhnev’s foreign policy for the introduction of the published diary. He also wrote “Leonid Brezhnev: Soviet Man of Peace,” an English-language article that will be published in Kritika, an international journal of Russian studies. While Raleigh loves his research, working with graduate students is a top priority. This commitment was recognized this spring when he was awarded the 2016 Faculty Award for Excellence in Doctoral Mentoring. “I’m obviously very humbled and delighted by the award and the fact that former students took the time to nominate me,” he said. Raleigh has mentored 22 Ph.D. students. Each year, he organizes a get-together for them during the annual Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies conference. “A multigenerational group of my current and former students from all over the world come together for a meal,” he said. “I am particularly proud that my students are shaping the field, creating new knowledge about Russia and fostering networks of support for one another.”

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She is skilled at imaging tissue “stiffness,” or viscoelasticity, since changes in tissue viscoelasticity are associated with disease. For example, breast tumors have stiffness three to 10 times greater than normal tissue. Viscoelasticity projects include: studying cell-to-cell interactions to understand the mechanics of earlystage breast cancer, developing and using a new type of ultrasound imaging to detect blood clots at a very early stage, and imaging the biomechanics of mucus-thinning cystic fibrosis therapies. In addition, she is working with UNC biologists on a new project to detect possible receptors on sea turtles that guide their precise navigation back to nests. She also partners with UNC otolaryngologists to map the size and shape of the upper airway for sleep apnea and airway narrowing in pediatric patients. “Accurate pictures are important to guide treatment decisions,” she explained. In 2014, Oldenburg received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, its most prestigious, to support her work in breast cancer. As part of the NSF award, she codirects the ADMIRES program (Assisting in Development and Mentoring an Innovative Research Experience in Science), in which area eighth- and ninth-graders partner with UNC mentors to conduct research in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Oldenburg partners with UNC’s Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs on this effort. “A scientific education gives you a way of critically evaluating information and the world and the ability to solve complex problems,” she said. As a new member of the National Institutes of Health’s scientific review study section on Biomedical Imaging Technology, Oldenburg describes her research as “pushing the envelope. We’re always striving to create the next best imaging system but also to tailor it to a specific biological question we want to answer.”

Physicist Amy Oldenburg developed an interest in biomedical optics because she wanted “to apply what I knew about physics to medical applications.”

Shedding light Physicist uses noninvasive biomedical optics to see inside tissue BY DIANNE GOOCH SHAW ’71

Amy Oldenburg is a highperformance driver, whether behind the wheel of her metallic midnight blue Nissan 370Z or in her Chapman Hall lab.

area that actually impacts human health is tremendously exciting.” She founded UNC’s Coherence Imaging Lab when she came to campus in 2008. Optical Coherence Tomography Using light and/or sound to capture (OCT) is a noninvasive imaging method images inside the human body, the that uses light to create multidimensional associate professor of physics and images of tissue, cells and other astronomy conducts innovative biomedical subsurface biostructures. research in a variety of areas from breast “We use infrared lasers to look at cancer to cystic fibrosis. She also visits tissue,” she said. “Just as mirrors reflect the Virginia International Raceway in light, cells inside your body also reflect Alton several times a year to hone her light. We use that information to build driving skills. a very detailed image not just of the “I always liked math, and my father surface of the tissue, but inside the tissue. was a high school physics teacher. I didn’t If you’ve ever seen a pathology slide, want to study physics just because of that’s what OCT gives you, but without my dad, but it drew me in,” she explained. having to cut into tissue.” “I’ve always liked fast cars, and there’s a Oldenburg, a faculty member of the lot of physics in high-speed driving.” Biomedical Research Imaging Center, Her interest in biomedical optics is an active collaborator with scientists developed during her postdoctoral across campus. The imaging needs of training. “I wanted to apply what I knew individual projects require her to tailor about physics to medical applications. and develop specific technology and Bringing those fundamental insights to an methods.

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Giffin Daughtridge ’11 and a partner won Harvard Business School’s New Venture Competition for the startup UrSure.

Embracing business and medicine Alumnus’ startup ensures adherence to important HIV drug BY NANCY E. OATES

The things we might accomplish if we didn’t spend our free time binge-watching TV serials or playing Pokémon Go and instead used our discretionary time like Giffin Daughtridge did.

get them to continue taking it, that’s what has kept me going.” UrSure has its roots in Daughtridge’s experiences as a Fulbright Scholar in Bogotá, Colombia, after he graduated from UNC with bachelor’s degrees in He devoted the leftover minutes of his biology and Spanish. He credits Carolina day — while attending medical school for guiding him through the Fulbright in one state and pursuing a master’s selection process and ensuring that he degree in another — to inventing a submitted a competitive application. medical diagnostic test and turning it While researching Hepatitis B into a business. vaccination rates in the Amazon, he Daughtridge ’11 and his business learned that sex workers were not partner, Helen Koenig, won Harvard vaccinated for the sexually transmitted Business School’s 2016 New Venture disease. In his free time, he started a Competition in April for UrSure Inc., vaccination program with the secretary their startup that offers a urine test they of health in Bogotá and a nonprofit to developed that can determine whether at- vaccinate sex workers against Hepatitis B. risk men are taking the drug PrEP daily to Upon returning to the United protect themselves from contracting HIV. States, Daughtridge enrolled in medical “In some circles, people don’t think school at the University of Pennsylvania HIV is a big issue because it’s no longer a and commenced a master’s in public death sentence; it’s a chronic disease that policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of can be managed,” Daughtridge said. “But Government. While at Penn, he crossed it’s a huge problem; it’s very prevalent and paths with Koenig, a physician who very expensive. The opportunity to get this specializes in HIV. The two started an drug to the people who need it most and HIV prevention program in Philadelphia,

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distributing PrEP. But to validate the efficacy of the program, they needed to know whether participants were taking the medication regularly enough to protect against infection. “You have to take the pill every single day for it to be maximally effective,” Daughtridge said. “Taking a daily medication is very difficult. I’ve done it, and I’ve had a lot of trouble with it.” Daughtridge was diagnosed with testicular cancer as a teenager. The care he and his family received from his surgeon influenced him to pursue a career in medicine. The average rate of adherence to PrEP in the United States ranges from 20 percent to 40 percent. The program Daughtridge and Koenig started in Philadelphia, where they field-tested and continue to use UrSure, has an 80 percent adherence rate. Neither Daughtridge nor Koenig had business experience, yet the venture competition required them to submit a business plan. Daughtridge took an entrepreneurial finance class at Harvard, then took online courses in finance management, operations, and marketing and sales so he could “at least speak the language” when pitching UrSure to venture capitalists. Daughtridge and Koenig are using the $50,000 prize money from the New Venture Competition to begin developing a point-of-care test, similar to a home pregnancy test that gives an immediate answer. Their current test requires that specimens be processed at a lab, and it takes a few days to get the results. Next May, Daughtridge will graduate with his M.D. and a master’s in public policy. Rather than pursue a residency that would enable him to practice as a physician, he plans to work full time to grow UrSure. “We’ve had great traction lately,” Daughtridge said. “I get the most excitement and fulfillment out of working on the startup and approaching health care from the entrepreneurship and policy side.” Imagine what he can do with more than just his spare time.


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Max von Essen ’96 as Henri in An American in Paris on Broadway. He received a Tony nomination for the role.

Broadway breakthrough Von Essen enjoys his moment in the spotlight BY PAMELA BABCOCK

When Max von Essen’s parents took him to see Liberace at Radio City Music Hall, the second-grader couldn’t believe his eyes. He loved all the glitz and glamour as the lavish performer rolled on stage in a custom Rolls-Royce and played a rhinestone-studded piano with fountains in the background choreographed to the music. But more important, von Essen was amazed at how Liberace’s fingers ran up and down the keys. After the show, he returned to his piano lessons in earnest. “It was the most colorful, out-of-this world thing I had ever seen,” said von Essen (music/economics ’96). “It may sound cheesy, but I came home and I was just so inspired, I practiced like you couldn’t believe.” Seeing Liberace helped to foster von Essen’s love of music and theater. He’s currently starring in An American in Paris on Broadway, a musical adaptation of the classic 1951 movie,

which garnered four Tony Awards. A native of the New York City area, von Essen fell in love with UNC after auditioning for the music department: “The vibe was amazing, and I knew I was going to really have a home there.” After graduation, he returned to New York and waited tables before landing a yearlong gig as a backup singer for Liza Minnelli. “It was pretty surreal to be 22 and touring Monte Carlo, Vegas and L.A. in limos and on stage with her,” von Essen recalled. Von Essen made his Broadway debut as the understudy for Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, toured Europe playing Tony in West Side Story and starred in Dance of the Vampires, an admitted flop. In Les Miserables on Broadway, von Essen played revolutionary leader Enjolras. And in the last Broadway revival of Evita, von Essen performed as Agustín Magaldi and frequently stepped in for singer Ricky Martin in the role of Che. After the 9/11 attacks in New York, von Essen took a break from the stage and looked inward. His father, Thomas Von Essen, was the city’s fire commissioner. The city was suffering. The younger von Essen was asked to sing the national anthem at events and memorials. “I was truly beaten down,” von Essen said. “Yet it was amazing to be this New York actor and singer and also the son of the fire commissioner and to somehow bring that together. I was honored to lend my voice.” Von Essen’s most fulfilling role is his current one as Henri, a Parisian aristocrat, which gave him his first Tony Award nomination, for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. Von Essen had always loved classic Hollywood film musicals featuring Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Judy Garland, and An American in Paris is from that tradition. It also features the work of George Gershwin, one of the first composers von Essen discovered. His mother often took him to music stores to buy Gershwin anthologies. In the production, his showstopper is “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise,” in which a small jazz club is transformed into Radio City Music Hall in a high-kicking number replete with showgirls and chorus boys. An American in Paris got a rave review in The New York Times. The newspaper called von Essen “a gifted actor… who here gives a hard-earned breakthrough performance of great sensitivity and charm.” The show will close Oct. 9. What’s next? Von Essen isn’t sure, but he isn’t worried, either. Maybe another Broadway show. Or more television and film — he’s done guest spots on The Good Wife and Boardwalk Empire. He’s also booking a one-man show to take on tour. And best of all, he’s doing what he loves. “I always sort of land on my feet.”

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together a story one word at a time. It is crucial training for archaeology majors and a unique hands-on experience for students outside the field.” Beeby, a native of Turkey, came to UNC from Florida State University, where she earned a master’s in classical archaeology. She received some pedagogical training at FSU, but Beeby thinks she has learned most by observing other teachers. “I have been extremely lucky to have been the teaching assistant of some excellent professors in our classics department,” she said. “I picked up little tricks-of-the-trade from each.” Janet Downie, assistant professor of classics, observed Beeby teaching “Ancient Cities,” an introductory-level class. “I was Cicek Beeby supervises UNC students during a dig at the Azoria site in Crete. She says they so impressed by her engagement with the “love experiencing the thrill of discovery and gradually putting together clues to understand material, her ease in the classroom, her archaeological contexts.” sense of presence and her rapport with the students in this large lecture class that I immediately thought that her success with the course was worthy of recognition,” Downie wrote to the nomination committee. Graduate assistant gets her hands dirty explaining archaeology “We often talk of the valuable role BY GENEVA COLLINS our graduate students play in advancing the work of our renowned faculty, and certainly they are making important Teaching is a dirty job — at “When we came across an unusual research contributions on their own. But least the way Cicek Beeby deposit in our trench, Cicek would call sometimes does it, standing at us all over and ask what we thought was we don’t talk nearly enough about what an excellent job our graduate students the bottom of a big hole show- going on,” said Mallory Melton ’14, who do in the classroom, educating our ing her undergraduate students is now studying anthropology at the undergraduates with skill and passion,” a freshly unearthed artifact University of California, Santa Barbara. said Kevin M. Guskiewicz, dean of the from the Early Iron Age. “[We] became students in a classroom College. “The Tanner Awards shine a light Beeby has been traveling to Crete of her own creation, in which discovery, on our emerging stars.” every summer since 2012 to work as a detailed explanation and hands-on Beeby will return to Greece this spring trench supervisor on the Azoria Project, learning were paramount.” to do more research for her dissertation. an excavation led by one of her mentors, Students participate in all stages of Donald Haggis, Nicholas A. Cassas Term the Azoria Project, from excavation in the She hopes to continue teaching after she receives her Ph.D. The most important Professor of Greek Studies. Her research is field to processing plant remains, animal thing her students have taught her, she in burial customs of ancient Greece. bones and pottery in the laboratory. said, is “to look at things with a fresh and The Ph.D. student and teaching “As a trench supervisor, I usually assistant in classics was recognized with work with three to four student assistants unbiased mind.” ➤ Note: In addition to Beeby, two a 2016 Tanner Award for Excellence in in the field, guiding them through all other graduate teaching assistants in the Undergraduate Teaching. Many of those aspects of digging and record-keeping College were recognized with 2016 Tanner who nominated Beeby praised not only at an archaeological site,” Beeby said. Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate her ability to present complex ideas in “Students love experiencing the thrill of easily understandable terms in large discovery and gradually putting together Teaching: Noah Greifer in the department of psychology and neuroscience and lecture classes but her adeptness in clues — pottery, soil layers, architecture, recognizing “teachable moments” during plant and animal remains — to understand Jonathan Foland in the department of communication. archaeological digs. archaeological contexts. It’s like putting

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Courtesy of Kurt Gray

what they appear to be.” In the book, he and Wegner postulate that we characterize minds along two sets of mental abilities: experience and agency. Experience encompasses most feelings — fear, pain, pleasure, pride and desire, to name a few. Agency represents mental abilities such as self-control, morality, emotion recognition, communication and thought. More advanced minds have both more experience and agency, but often there is a separation between these two dimensions, like a border between countries. Gray and Wegner write about all types of human-created cryptominds, from RealDolls — life-size mannequins that double, for some people, as intimate life partners — to the MIT-created “Kismet,” a robot with the emotional capacity of a young child. “If you have ever passionately kissed an inanimate object, you are not alone,” they write. Creepy concepts don’t bother Gray — his favorite chapter is on the dead. When our loved ones die, the minds of the deceased stay in our thoughts and we say things like: “Grandma would approve of this.” Gray experienced this phenomenon himself after Wegner’s death from ALS (a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord) in 2013. Gray’s coauthor had been diagnosed shortly after submitting the book proposal in 2010, and as “a last request of a dying man,” Gray finished the work. “I was constantly trying to perceive Dan’s mind — wondering how he would phrase something or what joke he might make,” he said. “I think Dan was comfortable passing away without finishing the book because he knew that I would do it for him. … He knew that he had trained me to think and write in his image. I think he would approve of the book.” ➤ A longer version of this story appeared in Endeavors (endeavors.unc. edu). Find more books by Carolina alumni and faculty at magazine.college.unc.edu.

Kurt Gray, left, finished the book begun by his longtime colleague, Daniel Wegner, after the latter was diagnosed with ALS. The two are shown at Gray’s wedding.

Welcome to the Mind Club BY ALYSSA LAFARO

This past spring, the Cincinnati Zoo made international headlines when a 3-year-old boy climbed into the enclosure of a gorilla named Harambe. Zookeepers made the heart-rending decision to kill the endangered gorilla to rescue the boy. In the uproar that followed, those who opposed killing the gorilla emphasized Harambe’s vulnerability; those who supported the action focused on the vulnerability of the child. Humans generally perceive the minds of both children and animals as “vulnerable feelers” and deserving of protection, according to Kurt Gray, UNC assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience. That’s what made the situation so untenable: Our hearts melted for both but the zookeepers could protect only one. “Vulnerable feelers are passive minds with moral rights that have actions done to them, like the minds of puppies, medical patients and babies,” Gray said. This is why animal lovers give their pets emotions and feelings — and why they’re

outraged when harm is done to them. “‘Thinking doers’ are active minds with moral responsibility that do actions — minds like corporations and gods.” In the case of Harambe and the child, the “thinking doers” are the zookeepers. “Our tendency is to see animals through human lenses,” Gray said about the tragedy. “We can’t imagine what it’s like to actually be a gorilla. We can only imagine what it’s like to be us being a gorilla.” Gray has termed difficult cases of mind, like those of animals and babies, “cryptominds” — a subject he and coauthor Daniel Wegner unwrap in their book, The Mind Club: Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why it Matters (Penguin Group, 2016). Gray and the late Harvard University psychology professor discuss what it means to have a mind and who (or what) belongs in “the mind club.” “A mind is not an objective fact as much as it is a gift given by the person who perceives it,” Gray said. “Mind is a matter of perception with members being granted admission into the mind club based not on what they are but on

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ABOVE: Steve Kapp’s gift to the Dean’s Innovation Fund will help support initiatives like BeAM. This makerspace in Murray Hall is the largest of three in the BeAM network. RIGHT: Steve Kapp

Alumnus’ gift supports faculty and student innovation

students who want to build and create a better world,” said Kevin Guskiewicz, dean of the College. “By directing financial resources to these areas of study, we can enhance the potential for innovation that strengthens our liberal arts tradition. We’ve already seen a number of successes. The Kapp Family Dean’s Innovation Fund makes it possible for even more students and faculty to work together and spur critical thinking in new ways.” Kapp, principal at Maverick Capital, a New York-based investment partnership, first set foot on the Carolina campus in fall 1976. A senior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, he had no family connections to Carolina, but was drawn to UNC because of its academic reputation. While he enjoyed his humanities and social sciences classes as an undergraduate — a history course with Carlyle Sitterson was particularly engaging — Kapp developed an aptitude for numbers and investing. A memorable Carolina moment came when, as a junior economics major, he had the opportunity to

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Steve Kapp is not a doctor or scientist, but he could have a role in the discovery of new cancer treatments. He’s not a professional musician or athlete, but his generosity could inspire students to create new music or manage Olympic competitors decades from now. Kapp ’81 (MBA ’90) is among the first donors to the College of Arts and Sciences to establish a Dean’s Innovation Fund to support a range of academic disciplines, including biomedical engineering, applied physical sciences, the Be A Maker (BeAM) initiative, or any of the nine tracks — such as arts and sports — in the minor in entrepreneurship program. Students and faculty across the College will benefit from the endowment, which will fund research, equipment, travel to academic and professional conferences, and other funding needs as they emerge. “Steve’s gift will open doors for generations of Carolina faculty and

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pick up a guest lecturer at the Raleigh-Durham airport. The speaker was Arthur Laffer, known as the father of supply-side economics, an adviser to Ronald Reagan (who would be elected president the following fall). After graduation, Kapp spent six months in Aspen, Colorado, before joining Advantage International, a sports marketing and management firm in 1983, where he represented professional tennis players. By 1988, he was looking for a career change that reflected his growing interest in finance. Kapp returned to Chapel Hill and earned his MBA at KenanFlagler Business School in 1990. In 1993, he was a co-founder of Longwood Partners, a private investment partnership. In 1996, Kapp joined Carolina classmate Lee Ainslie (MBA ’90) at Maverick, a highly successful hedge fund company with offices in New York, Dallas, Philadelphia and San Francisco. At Maverick, he managed the healthcare investment portfolio. Kapp also supports the College of Arts and Sciences through the Steve and Courtney Kapp Endowment Fund for Academic Leadership, and gives to Kenan-Flagler Business School through the Steven H. Kapp MBA Fellowship, in addition to annual support for both units. Kapp also serves on the Arts and Sciences Foundation Board of Directors. As a financial professional, Kapp was drawn to Guskiewicz’s vision for the fund and the results-oriented focus of the disciplines it supports. “Intellectual capital is the engine of growth, and I’m delighted to be able to support students and faculty who have the potential to find creative solutions to societal problems,” Kapp said.


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$7.5 million bequest will fund new professorships BY DEL HUNT HELTON

more distinguished professorships in the College of Arts and Sciences. The donor, a longtime supporter of the College, directed his gift to create professorships in the departments of communication and history, two of the larger academic departments at Carolina. The gift will be made upon the death of the donor. Endowed professorships help recruit or retain outstanding faculty by providing salary support and research funding. Professorships funded at $2 million or more provide the most flexibility and are especially needed as competition increases nationwide for top faculty. Rob Parker, senior associate dean for development and executive director of the Arts and Sciences Foundation, said that the donor’s own experience at Carolina and his knowledge of the key role that outstanding faculty have in transforming students’ lives led him to make such a visionary gift. “A gift of this magnitude will have a profound influence on the quality of teaching for our undergraduates and in attracting first-rate graduate students to Carolina,” Parker said. “Exceptional faculty inspire students, who in turn become thoughtful global citizens. We are grateful to the donor for helping ensure the continued strength of our faculty in these two departments.”

#THROWBACK An audience gathers for a car concert outside Hill Hall in the 1970s. Do you have fond memories of Hill Hall, which re-opens in January, or being involved in music at Carolina? Share your stories by emailing college-news@unc.edu.

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Isolated coral reefs are not healthier

Elkhorn coral, photographed in 2014 in Akumal, Mexico, is listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Nature journal Scientific Reports, shows that local management efforts to mitigate impacts of activities like fishing and tourism cannot alone restore coral reef populations. One striking example is the massive bleaching of hundreds of kilometers on the northern and central Great Barrier

Reef in Australia, Bruno said. “Our work illustrates the truly farreaching effects of global warming and the immediate need for drastic and sustained cuts in carbon emissions,” he said. ➤ Watch a video of graduate student

White, to establish a permanent settlement in the New World. Just three years later, when ships returned to bring supplies to the settlement, the island was deserted. Archaeologists recently uncovered a clue that doesn’t shed light on what happened to the lost colonists, but it may reveal more about their life on the island. Eight pottery fragments of a single blue and white apothecary jar were found along the shoreline, about 75 yards from an earthen mound on Roanoke Island. J. Eric Deetz, an adjunct lecturer in the anthropology department who serves on the board of directors of the nonprofit First Colony Foundation, identified the fragments.

Deetz said it’s an important ceramics find — a type of tin-glazed Dutch pottery that dates between 1570 and 1630. “These little cylindrical jars were used by doctors, physicians and others to collect things or hold ointments and salves,” he said. “Since this was an exploration of the island, they brought along scientists like Thomas Harriot, and they were looking for minerals and botanical materials and other exploitable resources.” Deetz added: “It’s important to stress that this doesn’t solve the Lost Colony mystery, but it’s a very exciting find and now we have another area we can look at on the island that may prove to be significant.” ➤ Read a longer story by Kim Weaver

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keeps getting gloomier. Although it’s widely assumed that both local and global factors are contributing to their decline, new research shows that isolated reefs far from human activities are in fact not healthier than those in more densely populated areas. The work, led by John Bruno, a UNC professor of biology, marks the first global test of the hypothesis that isolated reefs are suffering from less damage. “We often mythologize isolated coral reefs as pristine and safe from harm,” said Bruno. “In fact, coral loss on some of our isolated reefs is just as dramatic as coral decline on reefs adjacent to more densely populated islands.” Bruno and co-author Abel Valdivia (a former UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student, currently a research scientist for the Center for Biological Diversity in Oakland. Calif.), analyzed data from 1,708 reefs around the world from the Bahamas to Australia collected from 1996 to 2006. The research, reported online in the

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Eric Deetz identified new pottery fragments that may be tied to the Lost Colony.

A Lost Colony find

The Lost Colony is a mystery that has captivated North Carolinians for centuries. In 1587, more than 100 English settlers came to Roanoke Island, commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I and led by Gov. John

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Spurr ’88 at magazine.college.unc.edu.


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Transforming graduate education in the humanities

UNC-Chapel Hill is one of 28 universities taking part in a major national initiative to transform graduate education in the humanities. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the initiative looks beyond “the academic-focused future we’re accustomed to training graduate students for,” said NEH Chairman William D. Adams. Institute for the Arts and Humanities Director Mark Katz worked with colleagues from across the University to propose “Re-envisioning the Humanities PhD,” a yearlong campuswide conversation on graduate education in the humanities, which will be funded by a $25,000 NEH planning grant and matched by UNC. The project is organized around four

main themes, each of which will be explored by committees of faculty, administrators, graduate students and alumni: • Careers. Graduate programs in the humanities have traditionally trained students solely for university professorships. This committee will investigate the wide range of career options for which humanities Ph.D.s are qualified. • Collaboration. In conjunction with broader efforts to “de-silo” the university and academia in general, this committee will explore ways to promote collaboration in the humanities. • Curriculum and Dissertation. What should humanities Ph.D. programs teach? What is the purpose of a

dissertation? This committee will ask these simple but challenging questions with an eye toward discovering what works and what does not. • Data. Working with UNC’s Odum Institute, this committee will collect and analyze data on the state of graduate education in the humanities at UNC. This work will result in a much clearer perspective on the success and shortcomings of UNC’s graduate programs.

‘That fearless spirit of innovation’

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Joseph DeSimone’s scientific career has revolved around creating utilitarian technology. With every innovation — the engineering of a drugeluding heart stent, the creation of new 3-D printing methods, revolutionizing the development of next-generation vaccines and medicines — the ability to apply his work to the real world and make an impact on lives has always been the focal point. “For us, it’s all about serving and doing,” said DeSimone, Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry. “You can do a lot of things in a laboratory, but if it doesn’t get outside the Chemist Joseph DeSimone received the National Medal of lab, it really doesn’t do anyone any good. So we’re very Technology and Innovation from President Barack Obama. interested in trying to find better and more effective ways for taking what we do in the lab and trying to impact people, improve their lives and increase their livelihood and create jobs.” DeSimone’s years of innovative and beneficial work in material science was honored by President Barack Obama on May 19 with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. DeSimone’s citation also recognized his innovation and inclusive leadership in higher education and entrepreneurship. “It’s humbling and exciting,” said DeSimone, who is also William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at NC State and of Chemistry at Carolina. “It’s surreal. It certainly adds wind to the sail. I think there’s still so much to do, and this is not a point to look back.” The country’s highest award for technology and innovation, the medal was created by statute in 1980 and is administered for the White House by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Patent and Trademark Office. ➤ Story by Brandon Bieltz. Read more and watch a video at magazine.college.unc.edu.

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Listen in to new UNC podcasts

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rab your headphones and tune in to new podcasts from UNC-Chapel Hill, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and the Southern Oral History Program. The University’s new podcast, “Well Said,” features students, faculty, staff and alumni discussing life in classrooms, labs and around campus — and how it pertains to local, national and international headlines. Episodes have highlighted the intersection of politics and the Olympics, hurricanes and storm surges, terrorism, and social media and adolescence. The “IAH Podcast” features in-depth conversations with faculty fellows on their research on such topics as humanities and democratic engagement, the 2016 elections, the magic of photography, the American Revolution, and music and cultural diplomacy. “Press Record” focuses on “the joys and challenges of learning history by talking to those who have lived it.” SOHP field scholars have discussed LGBTQ oral histories in North Carolina, feminism and oral history, and understanding segregation in the rural South. ➤ Search for the podcasts on unc.edu, at soundcloud.com or download the SoundCloud app.

UNC among top five public universities for 16 years

For the 16th year in a row, UNC-

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Chapel Hill placed fifth among national public universities in U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” rankings, published Sept. 13. Carolina was ranked 30th overall, the same spot as last year, among both public and private universities and colleges. U.S. News also recognized Kathryn Hunter-Williams’ first-year seminar focuses on documentary theater. Carolina has UNC under “Programs to Look been repeatedly recognized for its first-year experiences in U.S. News & World Report. For”— outstanding examples of academic programs that lead to student success. The university was lauded for its first-year experience, service learning and undergraduate research/ creative projects. The First Year Seminars Program and the Office for Undergraduate Research are in the College of Arts and Sciences. In other ranking news, UNC-Chapel Hill recently ranked 35th in the world and 25th in the United States among global universities, according to the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities.

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New mosaics discovered in Galilee excavations summer in the Late Roman (fifth century) synagogue at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel’s Lower Galilee, have revealed stunning new mosaics that decorated the floor. The excavations are directed by Jodi Magness, a UNC religious studies professor, along with assistant director Shua Kisilevitz of the Israel Antiquities Authority. The mosaic panels decorating the floor of the synagogue’s nave (center of the hall) portray two biblical stories: Noah’s Ark This panel depicts Pharaoh’s soldiers being swallowed by large fish during the parting of the Red Sea. and the parting of the Red Sea. The panel with Noah’s Ark depicts ancient synagogues,” said Magness, continued each summer. Excavations are an ark and pairs of animals, including Kenan Distinguished Professor. “The only scheduled to continue in summer 2017. elephants, leopards, donkeys, snakes, other examples that have been found UNC-Chapel Hill, Baylor University, bears, lions, ostriches, camels, sheep and are at Gerasa/Jerash in Jordan and Brigham Young University and the goats. The scene of the parting of the Mopsuestia/Misis in Turkey (Noah’s Ark), University of Toronto are project Red Sea shows Pharaoh’s soldiers being and at Khirbet Wadi Hamam in Israel sponsors. Financial support for the 2016 swallowed by large fish, surrounded by and Dura-Europos in Syria (the parting season was also provided by the National overturned chariots with horses and of the Red Sea).” Geographic Society, the Memorial chariot drivers. Mosaics were first discovered at the Foundation for Jewish Culture and the “These scenes are very rare in site in 2012, and excavations have since Carolina Center for Jewish Studies.

Cohen named assistant dean for facilities in the College

J Cohen became assistant dean for facilities, space resource planning and capital projects in the College of Arts and Sciences on July 1. Cohen is responsible for the oversight, planning and strategy of the College’s facilities operations, space resources and capital projects. The facilities portfolio includes 55 buildings and over 3 million square feet of space, including University and leased space in several locations. Cohen has had an extensive career in the private sector consulting to design architects Kristen Chavez

and institutions, and in the public sector, directing one of the largest design and construction management units in the New York City Department of Design + Construction. J Cohen

Prior to coming to UNC, Cohen was senior project manager and staff engineer for the Office of Project Management at Duke University’s facilities management department.

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Honor Roll 2016

Cornerstone Society ($25,000 and Above) • Laura and John Beckworth, Austin, TX • John Daniel Binnie and Michelle Arthur Binnie, Greenwich, CT • Eva Schaff-Blass and Josef Blass, Chapel Hill, NC • Dr. Ryan F. Boland, Savannah, GA • Dr. Richard Kenneth Brail and Ms. Nancy Manger Brail, Beach Haven, NJ • Mr. Karl Franklin Brumback and Mrs. Eileen Pollart Brumback, New York, NY • Lee and Sunny Burrows, Atlanta, GA • Ann W. Burrus, Richmond, VA • W. Lowry and Susan S. Caudill, Durham, NC • Latta Chapman, Alexandria, VA • Aimee and Tom Chubb, Atlanta, GA • Mark P. Clein, Chevy Chase, MD • Rebecca and Munroe Cobey, Chapel Hill, NC • Sheila Corcoran, Midlothian, VA • Vicki U. and David F. Craver, Riverside, CT • Rose and Steve Crawford, Bronxville, NY • Stephen Cumbie and Druscilla French, Chapel Hill, NC • Robin Richards Donohoe, San Francisco, CA • Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Dorn, Washington, DC • Mr. and Mrs. Steven S. Dunlevie, Atlanta, GA • Mr. and Mrs. Michael Elliott, Charlotte, NC • Mr. John Gray Blount Ellison, Jr., Greensboro, NC • Luke E. and Katherine Bryan Fichthorn IV, Brooklyn, NY • Dan Fitz, London, England • Dr. and Mrs. Jaroslav T. Folda III, Chapel Hill, NC • David G. Frey, Grand Rapids, MI • Molly and Henry Froelich, Charlotte, NC • Duvall and Rex Fuqua, Atlanta, GA • Lisa and Robert Gfeller, Winston-Salem, NC • Ms. Joan Heckler Gillings, Chapel Hill, NC • John and Sallie Glover, Raleigh, NC • Peter T. and Laura M. Grauer, New York, NY • Matthew Michael Guest and Paige McArthur Guest, Maplewood, NJ • Wendy R. Hamburger-Langman and M. Steven Langman, New York, NY • R.M. Hanes, Charlottesville, VA • D. Brian Hargrove, New York, NY • Tom and Lisa Hazen, Chapel Hill, NC • Mr. Anthony John Houghton and Ms. Isabel Woods Houghton, Riviera Beach, FL • John C. and Susan M. Hoyle, Washington, DC • Glenn H. Hutchins, Rye, NY • Barbara and Pitt Hyde, Memphis, TN • Stephen Howard Israel and Nina Vera Zemo-Israel, New York, NY • Kathy and Kenneth John, Arlington, VA • William D. and Dr. Sally C. Johnson, Raleigh, NC • Bob and Molly Joy, Vonore, TN • Steven H. Kapp, Philadelphia, PA • Thomas Stephen Kenan III, Chapel Hill, NC • Lisa and Ted Kerner, Jr., MD, Winston-Salem, NC • Mr. Michael Krimminger and Ms. Deborah A. Phillips, Derwood, MD • Dr. Michael Jeffery Lea and Ms. Teresa Baker Lea, Cardiff by the Sea, CA • Mr. Nolan Delano Lovins, Lenoir, NC • Ken Lowe, Knoxville, TN • Douglas and Shawn Mackenzie, Palo Alto, CA • Stephen Nabeil Malik and Kathleen Kitts Malik, Raleigh, NC • William Robert Mark, Mountain View, CA • William Howard McAllister IV and Kathryn P. McAllister, Newport News, VA • Mr. Robert Weller McCarthy, Boulder, CO • Daniel and Anita McClernon, Cary, NC • Dr. and Mrs. C. Curtis Meltzer, Amelia Island, FL • Mr. Peter Mallinson, London, England • Mr. and Mrs. Joseph N. Modisett, New York, NY • Mr. R. Christian Moise and Ms. Allison B. Moise, Franklin, TN • Ralph and Juli Mosley, Nashville, TN • T. David Neill and Scottie G. Neill, Winston Salem, NC • Leonid Nevzlin, New York, NY • Stephen Nislick and Linda Marcus Nislick, New York, NY • Mr. and Mrs. Willard J. Overlock, Jr., Greenwich, CT • Paul Gray Parker and Andrea Jane Hagan, New York, NY • Mr. Gary Wilton Parr, New York, NY • Kim and Phil Phillips, Chapel Hill, NC • Mr. and Mrs. James B. Pittleman, McLean, VA • Suzanne S. and Charles T. Plambeck, Princeton, NJ • John A. Powell, New Orleans, LA • Dr. Scott Robin Rehm, Greensboro, NC • Benjamine and Jennie Lou Reid, Coral Gables, FL • Ms. Alice Deemer Remigailo and Dr. Richard Vladimir Remigailo, Atlanta, GA • Mr. Julian H. Robertson, Jr., New York, NY

THANK YOU! The College of Arts and Sciences gratefully thanks the 12,089 donors who supported its students, faculty and programs in fiscal year 20152016. This year the College had its most successful fundraising year ever, with gifts and commitments totaling $68,502,572. This includes nearly $1.4 million in annual fund gifts to the College, another record. The 2016 Honor Roll recognizes donors who made gifts to the College of Arts and Sciences between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2016, qualifying them for membership in the following giving societies: • Cornerstone Society — $25,000 and above • Chancellor’s Circle — $10,000 to $24,999 • 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 — Students: $250 Classes 2006 to 2010: $1,000 and above Classes 2011 to 2015: $500 and above 1,438 donors provided support at the Dean’s Circle level or above, giving our students more of the crucial, real-world experience they need and employers seek, expanding graduate student funding to help bring the brightest and most innovative thinkers to the College, and promoting innovation in and out of the classroom. These gifts afford students the environment, tools and support they need to bring their ideas to life and make a difference in the world. The Honor Roll does not include pledges, bequests or other planned gifts to the College. This list has been prepared with great care to ensure its accuracy. To report a mistake, please contact Ashlee Bursch at 919-8439853 or ashlee.bursch@unc.edu. Thank you, once again, for generously supporting the College of Arts and Sciences at Carolina! *Deceased

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Mr. S. Epes Robinson and Ms. Anne Lobdell Robinson, Charlotte, NC Martin L. and Carol Fri Robinson, Charlotte, NC Cathy Rollins and Arthur Rollins, Atlanta, GA Frances P. Rollins, Durham, NC Mr. David M. Rubenstein, Washington, DC Lee Ann and Peter Rummell, Jacksonville, FL Nelson Schwab III, Charlotte, NC Cecil and Linda Sewell, Raleigh, NC Mr. and Mrs. James B. Shuford, Charlotte, NC Edward M. Strong and Laurel Durst Strong, New York, NY Frank and Shelayne Sutton, Chapel Hill, NC Mr. and Mrs. Crawford L. Taylor, Jr., Vestavia, AL John Lothrop Thompson and Patricia Rumley Thompson, Atlanta, GA Mr. and Mrs. John L. Townsend III, Greenwich, CT J. Vann and Jennifer Vogel, Asheville, NC Elijah White, Jr., Spring, TX Nancy and Monty White, Raleigh, NC Clarence E. Whitefield, Chapel Hill, NC Mr. and Mrs. John R. Wickham, Charlotte, NC Ted Wieseman, Jersey City, NJ Mr. Charles Alexander Williamson and Ms. Louise Howard Williamson, Richmond, VA Loyal and Margaret Wilson, Chagrin Falls, OH James H. Winston, Jacksonville, FL Libby and Jenner Wood, Atlanta, GA Mr. and Mrs. Leonard W. Wood, Atlanta, GA L. Brian Worrell, Schenectady, NY

Chancellor’s Circle ($10,000 to $24,999) • Nancy Robertson Abbey and Douglas Dix Abbey, San Francisco, CA • Mr. John Leslie Atkins III and Mrs. Sandra Kelly Atkins, RTP, NC • Mr. David Barnebl, Bedford, NY • Keith C. Berryhill and Diane L. Lidz, Marietta, GA • Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Bielsky, London, England • Peter and Heather Boneparth, Lawrence, NY • Mr. and Mrs. Edwin B. Borden, Jr., Goldsboro, NC • Richard Grant Brady, Pelham, NY • Stephen G. Brantley, MD, Tampa, FL • Mr. and Mrs. William S. Brenizer, Glen Head, NY • R. Duke Buchan III and Hannah Flournoy Buchan, Palm Beach, FL • Mark Joseph Buono, Waldwick, NJ • Douglas E. Caton and Nancy Artis Caton, Charlottesville, VA • Sanford A. Cockrell III, Madison, CT • Ann Rankin Cowan, Atlanta, GA • Keith O. Cowan, Atlanta, GA • Michael F. and Monica Longworth Coyne, New York, NY • Robert Denniston Crews, San Carlos, CA • Stephen and Linda De May, Charlotte, NC • Ms. Juli Dewar and Mr. Henry H. Dewar II, Dallas, TX • Mr. Michael A. DiIorio, London, England • Beth and Chuck Duckett, Winston Salem, NC • Dr. Linda Dykstra Hylander, Fries, VA • Rob and Leigh Edwards, Charlotte, NC • Mike and Mindy Egan, Atlanta, GA • Ms. Jennifer L. Ellison, Charlotte, NC • Douglas R. Evans, Dallas, TX • Nancy J. Farmer and A. Everette James, Chapel Hill, NC • Mr. Jonathan Bernard Fassberg and Mrs. Edith Fassberg, New York, NY • Pamela Hicks Ferguson, New York, NY • John A. Fichthorn, Darien, CT • Mr. Alan S. Fields, Lexington, MA • Dr. Seymour Fisher, Kemah, TX • Paul Fulton, Winston Salem, NC • Dr. and Mrs. J. Brooke Gardiner, Mountainside, NJ • Margaret and David Gardner, Washington, DC • N. Jay Gould, New York, NY • Mrs. Julia S. Grumbles and Mr. William Henry Grumbles, Chapel Hill, NC • Robert H. Hackney, Jr. and Shauna Holiman, New Preston, CT • Mr. Henry H. Hamilton III, Houston, TX • Ruth and Ben Hammett, Palo Alto, CA • Dr. William Happer and Ms. Barbara Baker Happer, Princeton, NJ • Mr. and Mrs. William B. Harrison, Jr., Greenwich, CT • Richard and Ford Hibbits, Raleigh, NC • William T. Hobbs II and Elizabeth Gilman Hobbs, Charlotte, NC • Howard Holsenbeck, Houston, TX • Mr. James W. Howard Jr., Atlanta, GA • Robert Luther Huffines and Lisa Goddard Huffines, New York, NY • Mr. Manuel E. Jackson and Mrs. Susan Scott Jackson, Charlotte, NC • Derek Overbeck Jacobson, New York, NY


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Carolina Society ($5,000 to $9,999) • Mr. John Graves Aldridge Jr. and Mrs. Leah Stanton Aldridge, Atlanta, GA • Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Alford, Jacksonville, NC • R. Franklin Andrews, Bethesda, MD • Daniel Armstrong III, Washington, DC • Dr. Q. Whitfield Ayres, Arlington, VA • Gregory Arthur Baer, Chevy Chase, MD • Mr. and Mrs. Ian Banwell, Charlotte, NC • Mr. James A. Barham, Chicago, IL • Mr. and Mrs. Todd W. Barr, Raleigh, NC • Mr. Richard D. Batchelder Jr. and Ms. Margaret Fazzano Batchelder, Boston, MA • Mr. David D. Beischer and Mrs. Michelle B. Beischer, Durham, NC • Win and Rosanah Bennett, Chevy Chase, MD • Gary Sterling Berger, Chapel Hill, NC • Dr. and Mrs. Ben W. Bolch, Nashville, TN • Mr. and Mrs. Martin M. Boney, Raleigh, NC • Mr. and Mrs. W. Lee Borden, Goldsboro, NC • Ms. Lana M. Bridges Phillips and Mr. Kevin Wayne Phillips, Bronxville, NY • Jefferson Whittaker Brown and Cantey Sutton Brown, Charlotte, NC • Drs. Jay Bryson and Margaret Commins, Charlotte, NC

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Mr. David Michael Krinsky, La Canada Flintridge, CA Dr. Robert Lee Kuykendal and Ms. Kathryn Robinson Kuykendal, Chapel Hill, NC Tom and Donna Lambeth, Winston Salem, NC Ms. Dina Eisinger and Dr. Marc Lange, Chapel Hill, NC Mr. Oren Mitchell Lang-Furr and Dr. Mary B. Lang-Furr, Seattle, WA Mr. Kenneth William Langley and Ms. Ashley Richardson Langley, Apex, NC Eugene Y. Lao, Burlingame, CA Eleanor Wright Lindemann, Charlotte, NC Mr. Daniel Linville, Apex, NC Dr. Myron B. and Mrs. Anne Cone Liptzin, Chapel Hill, NC Ms. Elizabeth Pankey Lotspeich, Miami, FL Julia Hobbie-Low and John Frederick Low, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC Matthew and Rebecca Lowell, Los Altos, CA Mr. Rhett Nicholson Mabry and Ms. Virginia Glascock Mabry, Davidson, NC Mr. Wendell Carlton Maddrey, Upper Montclair, NJ Robert and Vivian Manekin, Owings Mills, MD Ms. Sarah Robbins Mars, Melville, NY D. G. and Harriet Martin, Chapel Hill, NC Dr. Eddie R. Mayberry, Hilton Head Island, SC John and Lee McColl, Atlanta, GA Miriam Ferebee McFadden, Nashville, TN Alec and Margaret McLean, Memphis, TN Robert A. McMillan, Martinsburg, WV Mark Williams Mealy and Posey Mealy, Charlotte, NC Molly Monk Mears, Atlanta, GA Jim and Carol Medford, Greensboro, NC Mrs. Natasha B. Mickelson and Mr. Andrew M. Mickelson, New Haven, CT Brent Marriott and Ann James Milgrom, Charlotte, NC Bertram Goodwin Minisman, Jr. and Carol S. Minisman, Vestavia, AL Elizabeth Lynn Mitchell, Arlington, VA Mr. Preston L. Mitchell, Arlington, VA Nikhil Mittal and Pritha Mittal, New York, NY Dr. Christopher Brent Mizelle, New Bern, NC Peter C. Moister, Atlanta, GA Frederick Karl Molen, Garnet Valley, PA Ms. Jane Swain Molster, Richmond, VA Dr. Jeffrey M. Morrison and Dr. Suzanne DePalma Morrison, Raleigh, NC Shawn Healy Morton and Emily SooHoo, Charlotte, NC Dr. Xinming Mu and Dr. NingLing Jiang, La Jolla, CA Danny and Margaret Mullis, Mount Pleasant, SC Royce and Mirtha Murray, Chapel Hill, NC Sally Marie Murray, Lubbock, TX Mr. Chan Namgong, Raleigh, NC Alan S. Neely, Sr. and Butchie Neely, Atlanta, GA Kurt Douglas Newman, Bethesda, MD Mr. and Mrs. Leon S. Niegelsky, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC Charles E. Noell, Monkton, MD Dr. Laura Huber Nutter and Dr. Ron Nutter, Hanover, IN Ms. Lori Collins O’Brien and Mr. Daniel J. O’Brien, Memphis, TN Thomas LaFontine Odom and Carmen H. Odom, Manteo, NC Dr. Edward M. Olefirowicz and Mrs. Karri A. Olefirowicz, Titusville, FL Paul Oliver and Sheila Barry-Oliver, Pinellas Park, FL Richard Osborne, Charlotte, NC Mr. Rodney Aaron Overcash and Ms. Francine M. Overcash, Minneapolis, MN Mr. Willard Joseph Overlock III and Ms. Colleen Overlock, New York, NY Maccy and Don Paley, Lawrence, NY Mr. David M. Parker, Chapel Hill, NC Bill and Luann Parmelee, West Palm Beach, FL Mr. Michael Wayne Parrish, Charlotte, NC Ms. Pam D. Parrish, Winnetka, IL Josie Ward Patton, Chapel Hill, NC Sallie Boyle Phillips, Palm Beach, FL Mrs. Anne Rothbaum Pizer and Dr. William Aaron Pizer, Durham, NC Caleb Joseph Pollock, Grapevine, TX Edwin and Harriet Poston, Chapel Hill, NC Mr. E. Allen Prichard, Charlotte, NC Kristine Karen Forney and William Flaville Prizer, Westlake Village, CA Frank and Ellen Proctor, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong R. M. Propst and D. L. Wood, York, SC Dr. Lilian P. Pruett, Chapel Hill, NC Mr. Alfred Purrington* and Dr. Suzanne Townsend Purrington, Raleigh, NC Shayne Gad and Novie Beth Ragan Gad, Cary, NC Mavis Mann* and Benjamin F. Reeves, Huntsville, AL


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FINALE

ALLPURPOSE RUB Many rub recipes are for particular kinds of meat, but here’s an all-purpose rub that’s good with everything from chicken to pork, beef to bologna. Shoot, it’s even good on popcorn. • 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar • 1/2 cup kosher salt • 1/2 cup sweet paprika • 1/4 cup seasoned salt (such as Lawry’s) • 1/4 cup freshly ground black pepper • 2 tablespoons cayenne pepper • 2 tablespoons onion powder • 2 tablespoons garlic powder • 2 tablespoons chili powder • 1 tablespoon ground cumin Makes a bit less than 3 cups. Mix the ingredients thoroughly. This keeps indefinitely, sealed and refrigerated.

Kristen Chavez

From Barbecue by John Shelton Reed, a “Savor the South” cookbook (The University of North Carolina Press, 2016). Reed, Kenan Professor of Sociology Emeritus, is co-founder of The Campaign for Real Barbecue (TrueCue.org). His many books include Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue (now in paperback), also published by UNC Press.


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