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The UNC-CH Rare Book Collection is exhibiting a historic sampling of travel literature from centuries past.

"Globe-Trotting and Armchair Tourism: 19th-Century Travel Literature By and For Americans" will run through Sept. 30 from 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. Saturdays in the Rare Book Collection Exhibition Area at Wilson Library. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

The display draws from the library's 1,100-volume travel collection, the bulk of which was acquired in 1993 from a private collector's 860 rare travel titles. The materials, most of which are first editions and rare limited productions, include a blend of history, journalism, literature, personal narrative and memoir, collected letters and sketches and accounts of scientific expeditions. They also include the sparks of capitalism, as entrepreneurs such as Thomas Cook began to sell package tours, giving rise to a flourishing tourism industry in America.

The UNC-CH Carolina Connection site on the World Wide Web recently won a 1998 Award for Excellence for first place technical innovation from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

The association annually recognizes the best publications, films or videos, educational programs and technical innovations produced by colleges and employers that aid college students in their career planning and job searches.

Carolina Connection is a web-based data base of UNC-CH alumni who have volunteered to help the university's students and graduates with career planning and job placement. The data base is accessible to anyone using a computer with a UNC-CH domain or with a password issued by the university's career center.

Institute of Government faculty win endowed professorships

Three Institute of Government faculty members at UNC-CH received awards July 1 for excellence in teaching, research and writing.

Joan Brannon won the Charles Edwin Hinsdale Professorship, a lifetime professorship; Bob Joyce won the Albert and Gladys Hall Coates Term Professorship for Teaching Excellence; and Frayda Bluestein won the Albert and Gladys Hall Coates Term Professorship for Outstanding Junior Faculty Achievement.

The Hinsdale professorship was established in 1993 as a gift from his estate. Hinsdale was a faculty member for 20 years until retiring in 1981. The Coates awards, established by a gift from the late Paul and Margaret Johnston of Chapel Hill and named for Institute founders, last for two-year terms. All are newly created awards.

Researchers at the UNC-CH department of psychology are looking for senior citizens to participate in studies on how people use words and understand and respond to information. Participants will be paid between $7 and $15 for sessions lasting one to two hours.

Participants should be healthy and age 60 or above. For more information, call Dr. Ute Bayen (919) 962-6729 or Dr. Marilyn Hartman, 962-2124.

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