Philip Gerard,
chair of creative writing, is being presented the 2012 Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award. He will receive the award from St. Andrews University on Feb. 23. The Sam Ragan Award was created in 1981 to honor Samuel Talmadge Ragan, North Carolina's first Secretary of Cultural Resources. It is presented annually to one or more persons for outstanding contributions to the Fine Arts of North Carolina.
More on the award - http://books.blogs.starnewsonline.com/15338/local-author-to-get-fine-arts-award/
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Steven Errante,
music, will conduct the 25th anniversary concert of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, Feb. 11 in Kenan Auditorium. The event will feature music by Dvorak and Bruch; soprano and UNCW faculty member Nancy King; baritone Benjamin Horrell; concerto competition winners David Haskins and Colm O'Reilly, violins, and soprano Heather Bobeck.
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Gary L. Miller,
chancellor, moderated a discussion during the recent Wilmington BizTech keynote lunch that featured former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt and Pharmaceutical Product Development founder Fred Eshelman. Each stressed the need for funding public education in the Tar Heel state.
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Chris Fonvielle Jr.,
history, recently wrote for the StarNews about efforts to prove through archeology that the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge was fought at the site of the Moores Creek National Battlefield, operated by the National Park Service.
Read his story - www.starnewsonline.com/article/20120107/COLUMNIST/120109764.
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A poem by Lavonne Adams,
CRW, entitled "Disparity," appears in the Winter 2012 issue of CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women.
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Dante Calabria,
athletics, was recently featured on ESPN's North Carolina Basketball Blog -
http://espn.go.com/blog/north-carolina-basketball/post/_/id/4455/catching-up-with-dante-calabria.
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Terry Curran,
academic affairs, participated in a meeting of the Committee on College Completion on Jan. 30 in Washington, DC. The 50 person committee was comprised of 15 researchers and 35 practitioners representing community colleges, public and independent colleges, universities and profit institutions.
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Andrea Bourdelais,
CMS, received a $250,000 multidisciplinary research grant from The North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Her work tackles a major hurdle in the development of new drug therapies – getting them inside cells and to their site of action. She's developing substances called ladder frame polyethers to act as drug carriers with improved ability to enter cells.
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William "Woody" Hall,
CSB, was funded $26,821 by New Hanover Regional Medical Center to conduct an economic impact study of the annual operations of the medical center. The study will estimate various measures of the amount of local economic activity supported by their operations.
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Sean Ahlum,
student affairs, has been appointed to a three-year term of office as the Southeast Region representative to the National Student Exchange Council.
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Richard Ogle,
psychology, was quoted in a New Bern Sun Journal article adding a clinical viewpoint regarding four marines who urinated on Taliban corpses. It can be read in its entirety at - www.newbernsj.com/news/marines-103544-video-troops.html.
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