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Slide program at UNC to trace histories of Playmakers Theater, dramatic art

CHAPEL HILL -- The histories of UNC's department of dramatic art, Playmakers Theater building and the Carolina Playmakers will be traced in a slide presentation on campus March 8.

David Hammond, a UNC professor of dramatic art and artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, will present the free public program beginning at 4 p.m. inside the theater. The building, constructed in 1851 for use as a library and ballroom, is on Cameron Avenue just west of South Building, on Bynum Circle.

Now a National Historic Landmark, the building was converted for use by the Carolina Playmakers in 1925. The Carolina Playmakers were the forerunners of today's PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater company in residence at UNC. Notables who acted or wrote for Carolina Playmakers included Thomas Wolfe, Andy Griffith and Paul Green.

The UNC department of dramatic art and the Chapel Hill Historical Society will sponsor the program. For more information, call 962-1133.

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Tuggle wins Fulbright to study in Argentina

Charles Tuggle, a UNC assistant professor of journalism and mass communication, has received a Fulbright Senior Specialists grant in his field at Argentine Catholic University. Tuggle also is faculty adviser to Carolina Week, a student-produced news broadcast in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

"I'm going to work with them on curriculum development in broadcast journalism," said Tuggle, who will be in Argentina during the first two weeks of May. "I'll be working with news professionals, professors and students."

The senior specialists program offers two- to six-week grants to leading U.S. academics and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at academic institutions in 140 countries.

Created to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, which began in 1946, the senior specialists program aims at increasing the number of faculty and professionals who have the opportunity to go abroad on a Fulbright.

The original program is sponsored by the U. S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and managed by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. The program’s purpose is to increase mutual understanding among people of the United States and of other countries.

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Saye teaches in Slovenia as a Fulbright Scholar

The history of the book in the Western Hemisphere and the organization of information are among topics being taught this semester by UNC's Dr. Jerry Saye in the department of library and information science and book studies at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Saye, a professor in the UNC School of Information and Library Science, was named a Fulbright Scholar for the semester under the Fulbright's teacher and administrator exchange program. Part of the original Fulbright program begun in 1946, sponsored by the U. S. Department of State, the exchange seeks to promote understanding among people of the United States and other countries.

Saye won the Association for Library and Information Science Education's 2002 Award for Excellence in Teaching and the UNC school's Outstanding Teacher Award in 1998.

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Contact: L.J. Toler, 919-962-8589, laura_toler@unc.edu