News Release

CHAPEL HILL -- Three University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professors have received the first Kauffman Faculty Fellowships, which support entrepreneurial activities to enhance teaching and research.

Fellows will be awarded research leaves during the spring 2006 semester through the College of Arts and Sciences’ Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

The fellowships are a component of the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative, or CEI, a university program promoting a culture of entrepreneurship across academic disciplines to benefit students, faculty and society.

The CEI launched in spring 2004 with diverse programs designed to promote entrepreneurship among faculty, staff and students. The $11 million program is funded in part by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, managed by the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and led by faculty and staff representing a variety of disciplines.

"One of the most fundamental beliefs of a humanistic education is that the mind has the ability to help us identify and describe a problem, bring together resources and collaborate with others to address that problem in a way that benefits everyone," said Dr. Martha Crunkleton, executive director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.

"By becoming more entrepreneurial, our faculty will add to the intellectual economy of our society, bring new creative energy into our classrooms and model entrepreneurship for our students."

Faculty members, all from the College of Arts and Sciences, selected for the fellowships are:

· Dr. Harvey A. Goldstein, professor of city and regional planning, who will conduct a research study on changes in the behavior and attitudes of higher education faculty and research staff regarding academic entrepreneurship. He will examine the commercialization of academic discoveries and the dissemination of new ideas, such as methods of teaching. Goldstein will host colloquia on academic entrepreneurship and develop a new graduate and undergraduate course on the topic.

· Dr. Dorothy Holland, distinguished professor of anthropology, who will work to combine the front-line experience of social entrepreneurs from N.C. nonprofit organizations with the knowledge of university researchers. She will identify and seek to remove communication barriers between the groups and establish workshops focused on increasing the value of academic social science research for communities statewide.

· Francesca Talenti, associate professor of communication studies, who will use her fellowship semester to plan the business aspects of a feature film interpretation of Shakespeare’s "The Tempest." Her script will incorporate the legend of North Carolina’s Lost Colony. Filming and production will take place after the fellowship.

Each fellowship provides $20,000 to the faculty member’s academic department to cover teaching responsibilities during the research leave, $5,000 for the research project, and support from a panel of advisers. Kauffman Fellows will meet periodically to discuss and support each other’s ideas and experiences.

UNC faculty members interested in applying for the spring 2007 Kauffman Faculty Fellowships should contact Crunkleton at mcrunkleton@email.unc.edu or (919) 843-2658. More information on the CEI is available at www.unc.edu/cei.

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