UNIVERSITY GAZETTE | October 1, 2008 | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Holden Thorp is installed as Carolina's 10th chancellor

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From left, Patti Thorp, Chancellor Holden Thorp and President Erskine Bowles lead a University Day crowd in “Hark the Sound.”	posted 10/12 Holden Thorp is installed as Carolina's 10th chancellor Carolina’s future success will come from aspiring to academic excellence on a global scale while remaining firmly committed to serving North Carolina’s people and communities. Chancellor Holden Thorp shared that vision Oct. 12 with an enthusiastic University Day crowd during his installation as Carolina’s 10th chancellor. “Throughout our history, our leaders have held true to a concept so bold, so audacious and so challenging — to aspire to global academic excellence while focusing our teaching and our service on North Carolina’s students and people,” Thorp said. “We’re the university of both — and: Both academic prominence and a commitment to our state.” Thorp said Carolina must be “the best place to teach, learn and discover” — a goal that can be reached because students, faculty, staff and alumni share the belief that the University can transform the future. Click here for the text of Thorp’s speech and video highlights when they become available.
	posted 10/2 Flu shots offered for employees Employee Flu Clinics will be held at locations across campus from Oct. 9 through Nov. 13. Follow this link for complete information and to register for an appointment.
	posted 10/2 free dental clinic offered oct. 10-11 The School of Dentistry will sponsor a two-day clinic providing free dental care at the Big Barn Convention Center in Hillsborough Oct. 10-11. Patients will be treated on a first-come, first-served basis each day, with registration beginning at 6 a.m. and continuing until capacity is reached. Students and faculty members from the school and other practitioners will provide patient care, with assistance from school staff members as well. Students, through the school’s student-led volunteer organization ENNEAD, are largely coordinating the event. The clinic will be held in partnership with the N.C. Missions of Mercy (MOM) portable free dental program, a branch of the Open Door Dental Clinic of Alamance County. The Dental Alumni Association is providing funding and community groups are providing food and other assistance.
	posted 10/2 quantum chemistry pioneer wins top award Robert G. Parr, a professor emeritus of chemistry, has been awarded the 2009 Award in Theoretical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes innovative research in theoretical chemistry that either advances theoretical methodology or contributes to new discoveries about chemical systems. Parr, a previous winner of a National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences, has been a pioneer in the field of quantum chemistry since the 1950s. His work has influenced thousands of chemists, physicists and other scientists. In 1988, Parr and colleagues published an improved method of approximating correlation energy (a mathematical expression that accounts for how electrons in a many-electron system interact with one another). The Lee-Yang-Parr method has been cited more than 22,000 times and remains the most widely used method. It has been cited in papers ranging from nanotechnology developments to the synthesis of antibiotics. Parr joined Carolina’s faculty in 1974 and was named Wassily Hoeffding Professor of Chemical Physics in 1990. He retired in 1991.
	posted 10/2 chemistry's ernest eliel dies sept. 18 Ernest L. Eliel, the W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, died Sept. 18th. Eliel had a far-reaching impact on chemistry, science, science policy and people. He cared deeply about all aspects of what he did and was able to quietly influence all those things in a positive way. Some of Eliel's many honors included being a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow and receiving the Lavoisier Medal of the Chemical Society of France. He served as president of the American Chemical Society and received its highest recognition, the Priestley Medal, in 1995. Read more ...

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