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Toad Tracker ALSO INSIDE: • Student Superstars • Tift Merritt Talks • Top-Notch Teachers • Inside the White House CAROLINA arts& sciences S P R I N G • 2 0 0 9 Toad Tracker ALSO INSIDE: • Student superstars • Tift Merritt talks • Top-notch teachers • Inside the White House T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O R T H C A R O L I N A A T C H A P E L H I L L From The dean FromCarolina Arts & Sciences The • Spring 2009 dean How learning and discovery College of Arts & Sciences can change the world • Bruce W. Carney Interim Dean Spring is in the air in Chapel Hill, which means the • William Andrews ’70 MA, ’73 PhD Senior Associate Dean, Fine Arts and Humanities azaleas will soon be blooming around the Old Well and • Thomas Clegg another crop of Carolina seniors will leave to make their Interim Senior Associate Dean, Sciences mark on the world. • Karen Gil Senior Associate Dean, In the pages of this magazine, you will read about Social Sciences, International Programs five stellar students, who already have tackled infectious • Tammy McHale Senior Associate Dean, Finance and Planning diseases, environmental challenges, human rights • James W. May violations and quantum field theory — and that’s just Senior Associate Dean, Program Development; Executive Director, Arts & Sciences Foundation Bruce W. Carney for starters. Two of the students will head to Oxford • Bobbi Owen University on Rhodes Scholarships. Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Education You’ll also see how faculty and other students are changing their campus, their state and Arts & Sciences Foundation their world through learning and discovery. Board of Directors Biologist Karin Pfennig received a $1.5 million “new innovator” award from the National • Ivan V. Anderson, Jr. ’61, Charleston, SC, Chair Institutes of Health to support her research on the mate selection practices of spadefoot toads. • James L. Alexandre ’79, Haverford, PA, Vice-Chair Her findings shed light on how an organism’s genes interact with the environment to affect • Bruce W. Carney, Chapel Hill, NC, President species diversification, a central element of evolution. • William L. Andrews, ’70 MA, ’73 PhD, Chapel Hill, NC, Vice President Psychologist Abigail Panter and sociologist Ted Mouw have recently been named • Tammy J. McHale, Chapel Hill, NC, Treasurer Bowman and Gordon Gray Professors in honor of their extraordinary undergraduate • James W. May, Jr., Chapel Hill, NC, Secretary • D. Shoffner Allison ’98, Charlotte, NC teaching. Mouw believes most students crave engagement in the classroom, and he expects • R. Frank Andrews, ’90, ’95 MBA, Washington, DC every student to actively participate. In Panter’s advanced undergraduate research methods • Valerie Ashby, ’88, ’94 PhD, Chapel Hill, NC • Constance Y. Battle. ’77, Raleigh, NC course, she “gets into the trenches” with her students to show them how the research process • Laura Hobby Beckworth, ‘80, Houston, TX works from start to finish. • William S. Brenizer ’74, Glen Head, NY We also profile singer/songwriter Tift Merritt, now based in New York City, who recalls • Cathy Bryson ’90, Santa Monica, CA • Jeffrey Forbes Buckalew ’88, ’93 MBA, how Carolina helped her to become an artist; and graduate student Jason Sewall, who is New York, NY studying the power of high-speed computers. • G. Munroe Cobey ’74, Chapel Hill, NC • Sheila Ann Corcoran ’92, ’98 MBA, Los Angeles, CA With a new president in the White House, the air is also filled with politics. You can • Vicki Underwood Craver ’92, Cos Cob, CT read about two Tar Heel alumni who have been tapped for high-level posts in the Obama • Steven M. Cumbie ’70, ’73 MBA, McLean, VA • Jaroslav T. Folda, III, Chapel Hill, NC administration, or get an insider’s view from presidential transition expert Terry Sullivan about • Mary Dewar Froelich ’83, Charlotte, NC who gets to spend the most time with the commander-in-chief. • Gardiner W. Garrard, Jr. ’64, Columbus, GA • Emmett Boney Haywood ’77, ’82 JD, Raleigh, NC The air is also pungent with dire economic news. Eminent presidential historian William • William T. Hobbs, II ’85, Charlotte, NC Leuchtenburg looks back at Herbert Hoover’s struggle with an even greater economic • Lynn Buchheit Janney ’70, Butler, MD • Matthew G. Kupec ’80, Chapel Hill, NC meltdown, in a timely new biography noted on our books page. • William M. Lamont, Jr. ’71, Dallas, TX We also share exciting news about new gifts to support American studies, and physics • Paula R. Newsome ’77, Charlotte, NC • John A. Powell ‘77, San Francisco, CA and astronomy. As always — and now more than ever before during these challenging • Benjamine Reid ’71, Miami, FL economic times — we are grateful to our donors and friends for the private funds that make • H. Martin Sprock III ‘87, Charlotte, NC • Emily Pleasants Sternberg ’88, ’94 MBA, many of our academic opportunities possible. With your help, our students and faculty Greenwich, CT will continue to show how the seeds of learning and discovery in Chapel Hill can bear fruit • Thomas M. Uhlman ’71, MS, ’75 PhD, Madison, NJ beyond our campus. • Eric P. Vick ’90, Oxford, UK • Charles L. Wickham, III ’82 BSBA, London, UK Bruce W. Carney, Interim Dean • Loyal W. Wilson ’70, Chagrin Falls, OH T a B l e o F TaBle oF conTenTsconTenTs Carolina Arts & Sciences • Spring 2009 deparTmenTs inside front cover FROM THE DEAN How learning and discovery can change the world 2 HIGH ACHIEVERS North Carolina Awards, Heels in the White House, Tar Heel of the Year, NEH music fellowships, and more 21 PROFILE Graduate student Jason Sewall 18 is harnessing the power of high-speed computers. 22 HIGHLIGHTS FeaTures New gifts to American studies and physics, UNC mentor takes teen group 6 • 2GTBT? to inauguration, improving prostate (Too Good to Be True?) cancer treatment, helping sea turtles Nope, the Carolina seniors we find their way home, new center studies profile in these pages are the real thing. natural disasters, and more 12 • Evolutionary 30 INSIDER VIEW Revelations A UNC political scientist gives the “New innovator” Karin Pfennig inside scoop on who spends the wins major award to support her most time with the president. research on spadefoot toads. 6 31 COLLEGE BOOKSHELF Eminent presidential historian William 15 • Top Notch Leuchtenburg on Hoover and FDR, Abigail Panter and Ted Mouw plus Tar Heel voices from the past, (pictured at right inside the and faculty revelations on obesity, Cuba, UNC Bell Tower) earn high marks Hemingway, democratic revolutions, for great teaching. the Drug War, the power of positivity, the writing life, African-American 18 • A New Chapter perspectives on the South, and more. for Tift Merritt It’s been an exciting year for the inside back cover Carolina-bred singer/songwriter Music hits the right note with the now based in the Big Apple. 15 opening of the Kenan Music Building. Cover photo: UNC biologist Karin Pfennig studies the mating habits of spadefoot toads. (Photo by Steve Exum) CAROLINA ARTS & SCIENCES฀฀฀•฀฀฀SPRING 2009฀฀฀•฀฀฀COLLEGE.UNC.EDU฀฀฀•฀฀฀1 highhigh achieversachievers Two win top N.C. TOP LEFT AND RIGHT: Michael Chitwood and Daniel Wallace won N.C. Book Awards for poetry Book Awards and fiction. BOTTOM, LEFT TO RIGHT: Philip Gura was named a distinguished scholar by the Modern Language Association. Michael Chitwood and Daniel Maurice Brookhart and Charles Wallace, members of UNC’s creative writing Frazier won the state’s highest faculty, have won the top awards for poetry civilian honor. Steve Exum and fiction from the N.C. Literary and Historical Association. Chitwood, a lecturer in the English department, received the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry for Spill (Tupelo Press, 2007), his sixth collection of poems. Carolina faculty have won the Roanoke- Chowan award six times out of the past nine years. It’s the second The William Roanoke-Chowan Award for Chitwood; he S. Newman won in 2003 for Gospel Road Going (Tryon Distinguished Publishing, 2002). Professor of Wallace, the J. Ross Macdonald Professor American Literature of English and Creative Writing, received the and Culture, Gura Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction for Mr. has been teaching Sebastian and The Negro Magician (Doubleday, at UNC since 2007). 1987. He holds Chitwood’s Spill was also named as a appointments in 2008 finalist for ForeWord Magazine’s poetry English, American book of the year. In addition to his six books of studies and religious studies. winning teacher and mentor. His advances in poetry, Chitwood is the author of a collection In 2007, he was a nonfiction finalist for organometallic chemistry and polymerization of essays and a book of essays and short stories. a National Book Critics Circle Award for his have provided practical solutions to complex Wallace is the author of four novels and book, American Transcendentalism: A History. problems, with commercial applications. For one children’s book. His 1998 book Big Fish He is also a fellow of the Society of American example, he discovered one of the building was made into a movie of the same name in Historians. • blocks of Nylon-66, a thermoplastic resin 2003 by Tim Burton; in the film Wallace plays with wide use in automotive, electronic and the part of a professor at Auburn University. Winning state’s highest industrial components. Brookhart is an elected He was featured in the fall 2008 issue of honor member of the National Academy of Sciences, Carolina Arts & Sciences. • among the highest honors accorded to UNC chemist Maurice Brookhart and American scientists. Language Association 1973 English alum and best-selling author Frazier looked to what he knew best — recognizes Gura Charles Frazier won 2008 North Carolina the mountains of North Carolina — to write Awards, the highest civilian honor the state can his first novel, Cold Mountain, a National UNC American literature scholar Philip bestow.
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