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Orchestra’s concert to feature student competition winners

The UNC Symphony Orchestra will perform concerti by Beethoven, Bach and others March 5, featuring winners of music student competitions last year. The free public concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Hill Hall Auditorium.

Student soloists will be seniors Marie Burns of Greenville (flute) and Dan Colston of Rocky Mount (violin) and Rebekah White of Virginia Beach, who graduated in December (flute). The three won the music department’s annual undergraduate concerto competition last year over 22 others who entered. The prize for winning is a chance to play with the orchestra at one of its four annual concerts, said music professor and conductor Tonu Kalam.

"It’s nice to feature the student winners, and that’s what this concert is all about," he said. "This is the one time of the year that we’re really showcasing our undergraduate talent. It’s a testimony to the level of work that goes on here in the department."

For more information, call Kalam at (919) 966-1330.

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Library science expert Sarah Thomas to speak to UNC librarians’ association

Sarah Thomas, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, will speak about "Bold Choices: Information Services and the Intrepid Librarian" March 18 at UNC’s William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education.

The 9 a.m. talk will be the keynote speech for "Libraries in an Uncertain World," a one-day conference presented by LAUNC-CH: The Librarians’ Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Thomas chairs the Digital Library Federation and serves on the board of directors of several leading national library science associations. She has written and lectured on advances in information technology and worked at the Library of Congress and Harvard University, said UNC social sciences librarian Brenda Ambrose-Fortune, the conference chair.

Besides Thomas’ speech, the conference will include lectures and panel discussions on the preservation of library materials, staff recruitment and management, emerging library technologies and library security.

Participants must register before the conference day, Ambrose-Fortune said. Registration forms can be found at www.unc.edu/lib/launcch/conf2002.html. Registration is $40 for LAUNC-CH members and UNC (SPA) staff, $20 for students and retirees and $50 for others. Lunch will be available at the Friday Center for $9. For more information, call Ambrose-Fortune at (919) 962-0153.

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Law school lecture to focus on capital for emerging companies

Mitch Mumma, a general partner with Intersouth Partners, will discuss "Raising Capital for Emerging Companies" at the UNC School of Law on Wednesday (Feb. 27).

Mumma’s lecture, free to the public, will be at noon in room 4004 of the School of Law. Parking will be available at the visitor lot located three blocks from the school on N.C. 54.

Intersouth Partners is one of the most active and experienced early stage venture funds in the Southeast. Mumma joined Intersouth in 1989 and has significant full-cycle private equity investment experience working with three of the firm’s startup companies in the Intersouth Fund I portfolio, all of which subsequently went public.

He also is director and former president of the North Carolina Council for Entrepreneurial Development, the largest entrepreneurial membership organization in the United States.

Mumma’s lecture is the first in a series focusing on entrepreneurial law issues, sponsored by the law alumni’s Council for Entrepreneurial Law and two student groups: the Entrepreneurial Law Association and The North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology. For more information, call (919) 962-8415.

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