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T Army ROTC 60th Anniversary International Day of Peace Deadline to remove incomplete Astronaut Charles Bolder, Harrison

N Celebration, Koury Convention grades received spring/summer 2007 Auditorium, 3 p.m., F

E “Chancellor & Company,” WNAA Center (Greensboro), $ V 90.1 FM, 5:30 p.m.

E SEPTEMBER 28 OCTOBER 5 Talented Tenth HBCU Tour featuring Deadline to apply for Certificate Deadline to submit applications Tavis Smiley, Harrison Auditorium, in Entrepreneurship for Homecoming Parade, $ 6 p.m., F, T Deadline to apply for Certificate OCTOBER 11-21 Aggie Club Athletics Scholarship in Waste Management Banquet, Speaker: Alumnus/ John Steptoe’s “Mufaro’s Beautiful NDAR of Daughters,” Paul Robeson Theatre, $

E NFL Hall of Famer Elvin Bethea, SEPTEMBER 30 Alumni-Foundation Event Center, Lyceum event featuring speaker/ 7:30 p.m., $ musician Gaynell Colburn, Memorial The N.C. A&T Ticket Sales Office is located in CAL Student Union-Stallings Ballroom, Brown Hall, corner of Laurel and Bluford streets. 7 p.m., F For information, call (336) 334-7749. TheAggie Report A Biweekly Newsletter for Faculty and Staff of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University VOL 9 • NO 3 • September 21, 2007

National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology Convenes at A&T

ome of the nation’s top agencies and decision makers in the fields of environmental science and industrial technology, as well as educators and students from across the nation, participated S in the Third National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology that was held at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Sept. 12-14. The conference provided a forum to address pollution prevention problems, solutions and research needs. Topics covered bioremediation, fate and transport of contaminants, pollution prevention/solvents and processes, innovative environmental technologies and sensors, and global climate change. Among the key speakers were Sherry L. Southern from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Operations Office; Thomas D. Parker, CMD, and Gregory A. Green, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Air Quality Planning and Standards Office in Research Triangle Park. The conference was sponsored by the N.C. A&T Waste The National Conference on Management Institute DOE Samuel Massie Chair of Excellence Program, Environmental Science and Technology National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center of provides a forum that addresses Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes, O’Brien & Gere, pollution prevention problems, solutions Allied Waste Industries, CDM, U.S. Department of Energy-Savannah and research needs. Pictured are Sherry River Operations Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National L. Southern, U.S. Department of Energy Savannah River Operations Office, Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Interdisciplinary Scientific Thomas D. Parker, CMD, and Godfrey Environmental Technology Cooperative Science Center, and the Mayor’s Uzochukwu, executive chair of the Office of Greensboro. conference organizing committee and For general information about the conference or the Stephanie Luster-Teasley director of the Interdisciplinary Waste Interdisciplinary Waste Management Institute at N.C. and Cecilia Worthington Management Institute at N.C. A&T. A&T, contact Godfrey Uzochukwu by email, uzo@ncat. view materials at the Third National Conference on edu, or telephone, (336) 334-7030, or visit the conference Environmental Science and website: www.ncat.edu/~wmi/conference/conf.html. Technology.

Alumni Homecoming Concert to Feature Three Acts

The Aggie Alumni Homecoming Concert returns to the Greensboro to No. 2 on the R&B charts. The band scored several times on the Coliseum Special Events Center Friday, Oct. 26, with performances charts during the mid-1980s, led by the double-platinum album No from Morris Day and The Time, Midnight Star and Parking on the Dance Floor in 1983. Zapp. The event, presented by the North Carolina Zapp (also known as The Zapp Band) was a soul and funk A&T University Foundation, Inc., begins at 8 p.m. band formed in 1978 that is renowned for its innovative, distinctive Morris Day and The Time burst onto the scene synthesized sound produced by recording vocals through a talk box fed with the group’s self-titled album, The Time, which by an electronic synthesizer. Perhaps best known for its huge 1980 R&B included hits “Get It Up,” “Cool,” and “Girl.” hit “More Bounce to the Ounce,” co-produced by Bootsy Collins, the The group went on to record three more albums group recorded five albums under the name Zapp. Founding member including What Time Is It?, featuring the hits “777- Roger Troutman recorded five others under his own name including hits 9311,” “Wild and Loose,” “Walk,” and “Gigolos such as “Dance Floor,” “Computer Love” and “I Want to Be Your Man.” Get Lonely Too,” and Ice Cream Castle, which Priced at $48 and $33, concert tickets may be purchased at included the hit “Jungle Love.” After three albums www.ticketmaster.com, via Ticketmaster’s charge-by-phone network Day launched his solo career releasing three at (336) 852-1100 in Greensboro and (336) 722-6400 in Winston- albums: The Color of Success, Daydreaming, and Salem, at Ticketmaster retail ticket center locations including FYE Guaranteed. and Macy’s stores in Greensboro, and at the Coliseum’s advance box Midnight Star exploded into the R&B office. Tickets also can be purchased at the N.C. A&T Ticket Office charts during the early 1980s with hit singles at (336) 334-7749. like “Hot Spot,” “I’ve Been Watching You,” For information on VIP table seats, contact Darlene Norman in “Operator” and “Freak-a-Zoid,” which climbed the N.C. A&T University Foundation office at (336) 433-5551. Clarence Page (left), former chairman of the University Staff Senate, administers the oath of office to newly elected officers (second left to right): Harry “Hap” Giberson, chair; Sharon Mitchell, co-chair; Trevor R. Taylor, parliamentarian; Greta Carter, financial secretary, and Regina FACULTnotesY & STAFF Ballard, secretary.

Zerihun Assefa, associate professor of chemistry, is the lead author of a peer reviewed journal article, “Terbium(III) Tris [dicyanoargentate(I)] Trihydrate: a 4f -4d bimetallic coordination Polymer” (Acta Cryst, 2007, E63, 162).

LeAnder Canady, interim director of University Galleries, is serving on the North Carolina Museum of Art Board of Trustees. Canady’s appointment to the board was made by the North Carolina House of Representatives. His term expires June 30, 2009.

Jason DePolo, a lecturer and co-coordinator of composition in the English department, presented a paper titled “Linguistic Diversity and the African American Student” to the Seventh International Conference on Diversity Aggie BITS in Organizations, Communities, and Nations in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Join the Multicultural Student Center on International Day of Calling all former Aggie band members! If you were a member of Peace Friday, Sept. 21, at 12-1:30 p.m. in Holland Bowl Plaza for prayers the North Carolina A&T State University Bands Program, please add or Frostenia M. Milner has been and words of inspiration on peace. update your contact information by providing your current name (and appointed clinical coordinator maiden name if applicable), address, telephone number, fax, email for the School of Nursing. Milner The Student Government Association is hosting radio host and address, department/school and graduation year to Kenneth Ruff, is a loaned nurse executive author Tavis Smiley at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, in Harrison Auditorium director of bands, at [email protected] or (336) 334-7776. from Moses H. Cone Memorial for the Talented Tenth Tour. Online registration is required (www. Hospital. She is the director of tavistalks.com/events/signatureevents/talentedtenth). The event is free The NAACP Voter’s March will be held Tuesday, Sept. 25, 7-9 p.m., nursing services at Moses Cone Health System and open to the public. All A&T students and employees must register beginning at the February One Monument and ending on the steps and a legal nurse consultant. She also has over online and take the confirmation page to the Ticket Office to redeem of Memorial Student Union. The National Pan Hellenic Council is 10 years of combined experience as an adjunct for a ticket for entry into the event. Non-student registrants should sponsoring the activity. For information contact Robin Campbell, faculty at N.C. A&T and UNCG and over 30 years in print confirmation page and use it for entry to the event. (336) 256-2397. nursing administration.

Teresa J. Styles, professor Minding Mental Health of journalism and mass communication, attended During the spring semester, the N.C. A&T School of Nursing partnered with the Mental Health Association in “An Anatomy of a Hit” Greensboro (MHAG) to raise awareness about the positive trends affecting mental health in the community. – An Entertainment Business MHAG is an affiliate of the National Mental Health Association and a United Way member agency. It conducts programs Conference sponsored by Disney/ that promote better mental health, provides support to those who suffer from mental illness, and strives to reduce the stigma ABC and The Walt Disney Studios in association associated with mental illness through education and service. with the International Radio and Television Society Nineteen junior level nursing students collaborated with MHAG as part of the out rotation experience in their psychiatric Foundation, in the Burbank Studio Lot, Aug. nursing clinical. The primary purpose of the experience was to help the students learn and understand the language of mental 13-17. Styles was one of 40 select and diverse health recovery. college professors from across the country and In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech campus shootings, more than ever it is critical for our nursing students to learn not 20 diversity and fine arts organizational leaders. only about acute and chronic mental illnesses but also to understand the road clients can take to mental health recovery. Mental The conference focused on the creative process health recovery involves the process of recovering, getting well and staying well. With the assistance of mental health providers, behind television and film. The goal was to enable such as psychiatric nurses, clients can become who they want to be and make their life the way they want it. professors and organizational leaders to reach Through MHAG and its psychiatric mental health nursing theory course, the nursing students learned about the signs and out to under-represented student and alumni symptoms of common mental disorders and they were taught how to screen for anxiety and depression in the adult client. They populations and to establish a direct pipeline also gained insight into the world of psychopharmacology from a client’s perspective. In addition, the students attended peer led from this talent pool to the Disney/ABC support groups in Guilford County. Television Group. Contact Patricia Shelton, interim assistant dean, at (336) 334-7750 or [email protected] for more information.

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