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Governor Perdue will give UNCG commencement speech SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE North Carolina's first female gover nor, Beverly Perdue, will be the com mencement speaker for The University of North Carolina at Greensboro on Friday, May 15. Chancellor Linda P. Brady will offi ciate at UNCG's 1 17th graduation at 10 a.m. in the Greensboro Coliseum. The university will recognize students who have completed undergraduate, mas ter's and doctoral degrees. Honorary degrees also will be presented. In her successful and history mak ing bid for the governor's office. Perdue announced her candidacy in October of 2007. She won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in May of 2008, defeating State Treasurer Richard H. Moore and Dennis Nielsen. She went on to defeat Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory on Nov. 4, 2008, to win the state's top elected post. Drawing on her experience as a teacher, Perdue says she is working to transform North Carolina schools, with efforts on increased technology in the classroom and a statewide online school initiative - steps she feels are critical to preparing students to enter the global workforce. Perdue served two terms in the N.C. House of Representatives and five terms in the Davis from page A1 regarded as the history of extraordinary individuals ... mostly male" Davis, a controversial author, activist and educator, participated in a series of public lectures, workshops and master classes at UNCSA known as The Kenan Writers' Encounters. A project of The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, The Kenan Writers Encounters is now in its fifth and final year. Liz Lerman, founder of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, will round out the 2009 series, themed "The Word is Women," with a lec ture slated for this evening (April 2) at the school. Ellen Rosenburg, The Kenan Writers' Encounters project director, called Davis a "hero" in her introduction. "She has gone on to change just about every part of the social fabric of the world, by addressing injus tice when she sees it," Rosenburg told the audience. "It thrills me that she (is) here ... it fulfills my vision of the program." Davis, 64, made headlines in 1970 when a shotgun reg istered in her name was used in an attempt to free a group of men known as the "Soledad Brothers." who were standing trial in connec tion to the stabbing of a prison guard. She spent a brief period on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List as a result, and was apprehended after two months on the run. Davis was charged as an accomplice to conspiracy, kidnapping and homicide. but was eventually acquitted. A firestorm pf protests marked her notorious trial. Over the decades, she has used her fame to fight for equal rights for all. She has authored eight books and is currently a Professor of History of Consciousness and Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Davis spent part of her lecture talking! directly to the droves of artists in the audi ence. Artists, she believes, play a vital role in move ments for social justice by giving voice to invisible pop ulations. "This is to me one of the important tasks that artists accomplish," she comment ed. "They tear away that veil (of apathy). They urge us to ask questions about things that we would otherwise take for granted." The prison system, and the plight of those entangled in it, remains a source of con cern for her. "It is important that we understand the institution of prison and the way it affects the lives of those inside ... but also how it affects the lives of those in the so-called 'free world,'" Davis stated. "The existence of a prison creates the very problems it presumes to solve." The University of North Carolina School of the Arts Kenan Writers Encounters series will continue today, April 2, with a lecture by Liz Lerman at 7:30 p.m. at the Main Theatre, ACE Complex on the school's campus. Tickets are free, hut required. For more information, call (336) 721-1945. Atkins from page A5 tion to students at Atkins High School," Macosko said. "Through the magie of computer animation, the observer will fly from the outside of a body into an organ, down into a cell, and land at the loca tion where each student's chosen molecular machine performs its function. Other students (throughout the state of North Carolina) who view these ani mations will be able to learn about biotechnology through a medium they are accus tomed to watching for enter tainment. We hope this leads many of them to consider training for careers in biotechnology, a field with a need for more trained work ers." Macosko developed the project idea through his work advising a group of Wake Forest student entre preneurs, who after taking his freshman seminar on biotechnology formed a company called BioBotz that produces educational games, cartoons, toys and story books aimed at getting youngsters interested in biotechnology. Atkins Academic and Technology High School, a mammoth school on Old 1 n - i uiccusuuru ixudu, upcucu 111 the fall of 2006. It Macosko is named for Atkins High School, which educated genera tions of African Americans before the school was closed in the 1970s. Atkins Academic and Technology operates schools of biotechnology, computer teen ana pre-engineering. Macosko said Atkins was the ideal partner because of its prox imity to the various institu tions providing scientific and animation expertise, and because it is the only high school in North Carolina with programs in both com puter visualization and biotechnology. 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