April 1999 Archives

April 1999

Ervin appointed chancellor’s assistant, Office of Minority Affairs director (April 30, 1999)
UNC-CH technical staff honored at awards banquet (April 30, 1999)
Workshop to help owners of closely held businesses keep strategies fresh (April 30, 1999)
UNC-CH professor elected to National Academy of Sciences (April 29, 1999)
Distinguished Service Awards presented to UNC-CH medical school colleagues and alumni April 23 (April 29, 1999)
Retired professor gives $100,000 for black cultural center buildingUNC-CH professor elected to National Academy of Sciences (April 29, 1999)
Kathrine Everett estate gives $14 million to UNC and Duke law schools (April 29, 1999)
10 dental students leaving for summer service project in Mexico (April 29, 1999)
Doughton establishes scholarship honoring North Carolina’s first printer (April 28, 1999)
Wood named associate dean for external affairs at Kenan-Flagler Business School (April 28, 1999)
Knight Foundation gives $500,000 to Journalism-Mass Communication School (April 28, 1999)
Misdiagnosis looms as demand increases for new breast cancer biopsy (April 28, 1999)
Genes found that label cell proteins for disposal (April 28, 1999)
Wegner accepts two-year fellowship at higher education think tank (April 27, 1999)
150 UNC-CH students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (April 27, 1999)
UNC-CH creative writing program announces scholarship winner (April 26, 1999)
Study confirms girls’ belief: More fat means fewer dates (April 26, 1999)
UNC-CH anesthesiologist receives Distinguished Faculty Award (April 26, 1999)
McCoy accepts labor code panel’s recommendations (April 23, 1999)
Betts wins Thomas Jefferson Award for service to the university and state (April 23, 1999)
PlayMakers auctions 1974 Cadillac during production of ‘Violet, A Musical’ (April 23, 1999)
Scientists show proteins function individually as part of DNA repair (April 23, 1999)
Nichol recommended as next dean of UNC-CH law school (April 22, 1999)
UNC-CH department of computer science gets two new graphics systems (April 22, 1999)
UNC-TV to air students’ reports on depression, alcoholism (April 21, 1999)
Houpt to chair provost search panel (April 21, 1999)
UNC-CH names four distinguished individuals to receive honorary degrees at commencement (April 21, 1999)
UNC-CH to offer environmental studies undergraduate degrees (April 21, 1999)
Education, clean environment critical for economic well-being - OPINION-EDITORIAL - (April 21, 1999)
Ackland opens annual master’s of fine arts degree show April 18 (April 21, 1999)
Professors and teaching assistants honored by UNC-CH students for teaching excellence (April 20, 1999)
Sixty-two students receive academic, service, leadership awards at UNC-CH (April 20, 1999)
Fifth-graders study courtrooms, stage trial of Goldilocks April 29-30 (April 19, 1999)
UNC-CH students win Goldwater scholarships for achievements in math, science and engineering (April 19, 1999)
UNC-CH student to teach Internet skills in South America this May (April 19, 1999)
Hooker to undergo experimental treatment at NCI (April 16, 1999)
Scholar details how white writers shed racist influences in the South (April 16, 1999)
Physician-playwright to examine fact and fiction of Tuskegee Syphilis Study April 23 (April 16, 1999)
Grant starts Center for International Business Education and Research at Kenan-Flagler (April 16, 1999)
UNC-CH Jazz Band to host centennial celebration of Ellington’s birthday (April 16, 1999)
UNC Institute on Aging appoints statewide fellows (April 16, 1999)
School of Public Health to honor Daniel Okun and his contributions to environmental engineering April 23 (April 15, 1999)
Statesville’s Monika Moore wins $30,000 Truman Scholarship (April 15, 1999)
Study: home environment matters more, but day-care quality still important (April 15, 1999)
UNC-CH forecaster says U.S. economy keeping up astonishingly robust growth (April 14, 1999)
Fund-raiser to showcase stepping, offshoot of ancient African dance (April 14, 1999)
Distinguished Teaching Award winners announced (April 14, 1999)
Noted children’s author to speak May 1 at second annual Steinfirst Memorial Lecture (April 13, 1999)
Reed Sarratt lecturer to address recent, future trends in media (April 13, 1999)
UNC-CH students to raise funds to fight hunger, homelessness (April 13, 1999)
New study finds blacks face 38 percent higher stroke risk (April 13, 1999)
Study: among heart failure patients, women survive twice as long as men (April 12, 1999)
Six UNC-CH students awarded Class of ’38 travel scholarships (April 12, 1999)
Knight Foundation gives $500,000 to UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass Communication (April 12, 1999)
Experts to appraise, discuss historic currency April 17-18 (April 12, 1999)
Walkers may register through April 17 for Black Cultural Center walk (April 12, 1999)
Four employees earn prestigious Massey award (April 12, 1999)
Carolina seniors take poetry to the people on local buses (April 8, 1999)
Study of children’s fillings finds no mercury exposure (April 8, 1999)
Full text of bus poems in Poets in Transit (April 8, 1999)
UNC-CH child development staff volunteering for Special Olympics (April 7, 1999)
Dr. Jeffrey Dangl receives John Lassiter Sanders Teaching Award (April 7, 1999)
Pharmacy school center provides care, not just prescriptions, at Kerr Drug store (April 7, 1999)
Mushroom expert to lead hunt for morels April 10 (April 6, 1999)
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Wilbur to be 1999 Morgan Writer-in-Residence (April 6, 1999)
Study: birth defects decrease survival, childbirth, boost risk of similar defects (April 6, 1999)
Lydian String Quartet will perform April 10 at UNC-CH (April 6, 1999)
Burch fellows given opportunities for study outside of UNC-CH (April 6, 1999)
Brooks named acting provost (April 5, 1999)
Who's on first? not who you expect, says UNC statistician in new book on baseball (April 5, 1999)
UNC-CH School of Nursing co-sponsors national conference on chronic illness (April 1, 1999)
Director of the federal Centers for Disease Control to deliver School of Public Health’s 1999 Foard Lecture (April 1, 1999)
Reading to children boosts literacy, future success in school, experts say (April 1, 1999)
Renowned researchers in genetics, health policy and medical ethics to join UNC-CH forum April 15 (April 1, 1999)
Leading scientist to speak at UNC-CH about genetics, faith (April 1, 1999)