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March 13, 2003 -- No. 165 |
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Gamelon concert March 20
to feature Javanese musicThe town-gown ensemble Gamelan Nyai Saraswati will perform Central Javanese music in a free public concert at 8 p.m. March 20 in UNC’s Hill Hall Auditorium.
The 20-plus performers create the music by lightly hammering 70 hanging and racked gongs of cast, polished bronze, collectively called a gamelan. I.M. Harjito and Srihadeni Harjito from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., will join the performance as guest artists, said Dr. Sarah Weiss, ensemble director and a UNC assistant professor of music.
For more information, visit http://www.ibiblio.org/gamelan or call 962-1039.
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First Amendment Law Review to host
symposium on religious fundingThe UNC School of Law’s First Amendment Law Review, in cooperation with the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, will host a daylong symposium on March 28 examining state constitutional limits on government funding for religious institutions.
Renowned historians, constitutional scholars, attorneys and public policy experts will take part in the day’s events, to begin at 9 a.m. The symposium is free to the public and includes breakfast and lunch.
Registration is available online at www.falr.unc.edu/symposium.html or by calling (919) 843-6683.
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Golden honored for achievements in field of mood disorders
Dr. Robert N. Golden, professor and chairman of the UNC School of Medicine department of psychiatry, recently received the American College of Psychiatrists Mood Disorders Research Award.
This award, presented annually, honors individuals who have made major contributions in the understanding and treatment of mood disorders. Golden was recognized at the college’s annual meeting and 40th anniversary celebration in early March. He also presented a featured lecture on "Serotonin and Depression: From Basic Psychobiology to Clinical Relevance."
Golden’s research has focused on three aspects of depression: the role of serotonin systems in the pathophysiology of major depression, how antidepressant pharmacotherapies act, and the assessment and management of depression in medically ill people.
He is field editor for clinical psychobiology for Neuropsychopharmacology and associate editor of Psychosomatic Medicine. His honors include selection as a Ginsburg Fellow of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, a Laughlin Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, a Jefferson Pilot Fellow in Academic Medicine, the 1993 recipient of the Eugene Hargrove Mental Health Research Award and designation as "Teacher of the Year" by the UNC psychiatry residents on four occasions.
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Photo note: To download a photo of Golden, click on www.unc.edu/news/pics/faculty/golden_bob.jpg
School of Law contact
: Angela Xenakis, xenakis@email.unc.edu