News Release

‘Thursdays on the Terrace’ continues; next event, ‘Soul Notes,’ is this week

This semester’s "Thursdays on the Terrace" series at UNC offers performances as diverse as bluegrass and opera.

The series, sponsored by the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in Graham Memorial, is free to the public. Each concert is noon to 2 p.m. on the center’s Educational Foundation Terrace.

Remaining dates and performances include:

• Thursday (March 3): "A Taste of ‘Soul Notes’," featuring excerpts from a musical written by UNC senior Creighton Irons that explores issues of race with the sounds of reggae, blues, rock, gospel and bluegrass;
• March 24: Classical and modern American music with a jazz or Latin feel from the Triangle Tuba Quartet;
• April 7: Bluegrass from Big Fat Gap, the group The Independent named "band of the month" in April 2004;
• April 14: Selections from theater and opera performed by baritone Casey Molino Dunn, accompanied by Jeremy Peterman on piano;
• April 21: A performance from renowned multi-instrumentalist and award-winning songwriter Darrell Scott.
  

"Thursdays on the Terrace," organized and administered by the Johnston Center, began in fall 2001. For more information, visit www.johnstoncenter.unc.edu or call (919) 966-5150.

FTC, UNC to host one-day advertising law workshop

The Federal Trade Commission and UNC’s schools of law and of journalism and mass communication will host a one-day "back-to-basics" workshop about complying with truth-in-advertising laws on April 19.

"Green Lights and Red Flags: FTC Rules of the Road for Advertising Law" will be held at UNC’s William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., and the program will run from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The workshop will address the latest issues in advertising law and feature speakers from the FTC, the N.C. Attorney General’s Office and the Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division.

Topics to be covered include: advertising law basics; special issues for online advertisers; substantiating health and safety claims; "free" offers, rebates and other promotional issues; telemarketing and "do not call"; visits from the FTC and state attorney general’s office; and self-regulation and alternatives to litigation.

The registration fee is $99 and includes continental breakfast, lunch and a CD-ROM of all course materials. Continuing legal education credits will be reported to the N.C. State Bar Board of Continuing Legal Education for an additional fee of $40.

To register, visit http://www.jomc.unc.edu/executiveeducation/FTC2005, or call (919) 966-7024 or, toll-free, (877) 668-0674.

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Waag Carlson receives Gordon H. DeFriese award

Dr. Barbara Waag Carlson, an assistant professor and associate director of the biobehavioral laboratory at UNC’s School of Nursing, recently received the Gordon H. DeFriese faculty-staff award at the Aging Exchange program.

The award recognized Carlson’s great promise as a researcher working in the area of aging: Her work concentrates on the relation of sleep to cognitive impairment in vulnerable elderly people and the biobehavioral measurement of human physiological responses.

The award, sponsored by UNC’s Institute on Aging, honors Dr. Gordon DeFriese’s three-decade career in research to improve the lives of aging North Carolinians.

The Aging Exchange is an annual research day on the UNC campus, sponsored by UNC’s Institute on Aging in collaboration with other health affairs units.

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News Services contact: Deb Saine, (919) 962-8415 or deborah_saine@unc.edu