News Release

Local angle: Johnson City, Tenn.

Briefs

Commencement families, others
invited to tour Wilson Library

The staff of Wilson Library will offer free tours of the library’s special collections and treasures beginning at 3 p.m. Friday (May 13).
Community members, visitors in town for commencement and all others are invited for 90 minutes of the stories behind the documents, memories recorded by UNC students and alumni and tales of Carolina in years gone by.

The tour will begin just inside the front door of the library, off South Road across from the Morehead Patterson Bell Tower. For more information, call 962-1143 or 962-1172.

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Cleftline 5K on May 21 to benefit
children born with facial birth defects

The Cleft Palate Foundation, affiliated with UNC’s School of Dentistry, is holding its Second Annual Cleftline 5K on May 21 to benefit children born with facial birth defects.

CPF is a nonprofit charitable organization based in Chapel Hill and is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for people affected by cleft lip and palate and other craniofacial disorders. Cleft lip and palate are the fourth most frequent birth defects nationwide, affecting an estimated one out of every 700 children a year.

Those interested in supporting the race may run or walk the 5K, volunteer on race day or be sponsors. The race begins at 9 a.m. at the Old Well on the UNC campus.

More information is available at www.signmeupsports.com or by contacting Kerry Callahan Mandaluk at cpf5k@cleftline.org.

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Classics major Joshua Smith
wins $1,000 scholarship

Joshua Smith of Johnson City, Tenn., a classics major at UNC, was one of just six students to win $1,000 scholarships from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

The association covers 31 states and three Canadian provinces. Members are university, college and K-12 teachers of Latin, Greek, ancient history and classical archaeology,

The scholarship will fund a study abroad for Smith next spring, said classics professor Dr. George Houston, who nominated Smith for the award. Smith, a rising junior, will study at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.

“Josh Smith is an outstanding student,” Houston said. “He came to UNC with a love of Latin and immediately began Greek as well. He knows Latin grammar well and is alert to the literary qualities of what he is reading and the historical problems it raises.”
For more information, contact Houston at 919-962-7646 or gwhousto@email.unc.edu.

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Nursing dean to receive honorary
doctorate in Nebraska

The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) will on Friday (May 13) award Dr. Linda Cronenwett, professor and dean of UNC’s School of Nursing, the 2005 honorary doctor of science degree in recognition of her accomplishments in improving the health of people through excellence in nursing.

Cronenwett’s special interest is translational research and the continuous improvement of practice.
She previously was Sarah Frances Russell distinguished professor at UNC’s School of Nursing. Before coming to UNC, she held faculty positions at Stanford University and the University of Michigan, and she served for 14 years as a nurse researcher and administrator at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.

Cronenwett is co-chairwoman of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, and is a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Transforming Care at the Bedside National Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

She also serves on the steering committee of the institute’s Health Professions Education Collaborative, a national effort to ensure that future health professionals will be committed to and capable of creating and constantly improving the quality and safety of the health-care delivery systems in which they work.

UNMC awards one honorary doctor of science award each year. Cronenwett will receive the recognition at commencement ceremonies held at the Qwest Center Exhibition Hall in Omaha before an audience of more than 600 UNMC health affairs students.

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Edenton native receives public health’s
Kaluzny Distinguished Alumni Award

Jerry Parks, an alumnus of UNC’s School of Public Health, was awarded the Arnold D. Kaluzny Distinguished Alumni Award at the recent 2005 Fred T. Foard Jr. Memorial Lecture.

The award recognizes graduates of the School of Public Health’s Public Health Leadership Program who have exhibited outstanding leadership in public health practice. Parks, a native of Edenton and the director of the seven-county Albemarle Regional Health Service, completed his master’s degree in public health through the program in 2000.

Parks’ public health career began in 1976, following graduation from East Carolina University with a bachelor’s degree in environmental health. His expertise in the field has made him sought after for service on committees overseeing North Carolina health issues.

N.C. Secretary of Health and Human Services Carmen Hooker Odom appointed him to the statewide Public Health Task Force in 2003-2004. He also has been asked by N.C. Gov. Mike Easley to serve a second term on the State Health Coordinating Council, which oversees the State Medical Plan. Additionally, Parks has served more than 14 years on the Edenton Town Council, including a term as mayor pro-tem.

The Arnold D. Kaluzny 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award honors Dr. Arnold D. Kaluzny, who retired in 2000 after 30 years of teaching at UNC’s School of Public Health. Kaluzny was one of the founders of the Leadership Doctor of Public Health degree program and the first director of the Public Health Leadership Program.

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News Services contact: L.J. Toler, (919) 962-8589 or Deb Saine, (919) 962-8415 or deborah_saine@unc.edu