Briefly United Way honors two Wells Fargo's Stan Kelly and the Forsyth Medical Center Foundation's Dr. Elms Allen have been honored for their voluntarism and contributions to hetterino the community. The recognitions were made by United Way of Forsyth County's TocqueviQe Leadership Society during a reception at the Reynolds House on Oct. 30. The Tocquevilk Leadership Society is comprised of more than 200 local households who give $10,000 or more annually to United Way. Kelly, regional presi dent of Wells Fargo's Carolinas Community Banking, was the recipient of the Paul Fulton Tocqueville Leadership Society Award, which is given to an outstanding volunteer who has demon strated untiring commit ment, visionary leadership, resourcefulness and creativity in meeting the needs of our com munity. Allen, vice president for major gifts at the Forsyth Medical Center Foundation, received the inaugural Tocqueville Council Volunteer of the Year Award, which was established to rec ognize one of these excellent volunteers for their dedication, persistence and impressive results. AUen K.Uy LIS master's offered online The Department of Library and Information Studies (LIS) in the UNCG School of Education is now offering its Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) degree online. The fully online MLIS comple ments the face-to-face program on the UNCG campus. TL- J'- k _ 1 lie JU-UCU1I I1UUJ MLIS, accredited by the American Library Association and the Natiooal Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, can be completed full-time in four semesters and prepares graduates for careers in public, aca demic, school, corpo J J rate ana specialized libraries as well as other information settings locally, nationally and internationally. The MLIS-School Library Media Specialization is nationally reviewed and recognized by the American Association of School Librarians as a program in the School of Education, which is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. "Online delivery of our MLIS is not just an opportunity to provide our quality program beyond our geographic area," says department chairperson Clara M. Chu. "Through e-Hubs our online students will have the same oppor tunities as those on the Greensboro campus to connect and learn with our extensive profes sional and academic network." lb learn more about the online MLIS, visit lis.uncg.edu, download a brochure at http://learnmore.uncg.edu/mlis-brochure download/ or email lis@uncg.edu. Ckm Smith named PULSE Fellow North Carolina A&T University associate professor and Department of Biology Chair Dr. Mary A. Smith has been selected to serve as a Vision and Change Leadership Fellow for Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE). PULSE is a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the National Institutes of Health/NIGMS (NIH/NIGMS). Over the next year, selected fellows will work as a team to produce an implementation frame work describing strate gies for change within academic departments. Smith is now part of a team of 40 fellows competitively selected from an application pool of over 250. The team's goal is to stim ulate systemic changes within biology departments at all types of post-secondary educational institutions, based upon the find ings from the 2011 report Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action and other similar calls for transfor mation of undergraduate life sciences educa tion. The Vision and Change Leadership Fellows come from 24 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. They represent research uni versities, liberal arts colleges, comprehen sive/regional universities, and two-year col *19% ~ ' """T " v' : y ' Smith Teaching Them to Fish Livingstone to award scholarships at Thanksgiving event for families in need CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT A strong showing of benevo lence on the part of Livingstone College staff, faculty and students could result in a lucrative career change for some Rowan County residents. The Salisbury-based school will Provide t'L. ? I l iiaimsgi viiig dinners to 25 area families. The Thanksgiving meal will be served at the college's Events & Hospitality Center on Nov. m Th? fr%r\H 4 J.', r * 1 in im u < imiui1 p^w ?? - . National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) President Joset B. Wright (center, holding award) presents the 2012 Corporation of the Year Award to Ford Motor Company last month at NMSDC's annual con ference in Denver, Colo. Among the Ford officials on hand to accept, was Tony Brown, group vice president of global purchasing (sixth from the right), and Ford purchasing and supplier diversity executives. Also pictured are severed NMSDC members and board leaders. N.C. student leaders help increase voter turnout SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE According to preliminary results, turnout at several North Carolina student precincts were up this elec tion year. The numbers at North Carolina State University's precinct increased by 13 per cent between the 2008 and 2012. Western Carolina University increased by 3.25 percent this year. "Despite the dire predic tions of low youth turnout today, young people once again showed that when voter mobilization efforts pay attention to them, they show up on Election Day," said Renford Lynch, North Carolina Public Interest I Research Group (NCPIRG) New Voters Project Campaign Coordinator and a sophomore at NC State. ? P Lynch and a team of dozens of student leaden of NCPIRG's New Voters Project spearheaded an inten sive voter mobilization drive on campuses over the past several weeks to help register and urge students to the polls on Election Day. Using scientifically proven voter outreach and mobilization techniques such as peer-to-peer phonebanks and canvasses, text message outreach and classroom announcements, the cam paign made tens of thousands of vote reminders in the days SeeVtfaaonA5 k#M| ?I Pgv. vb$y9 A. . . NCPtRO Ptiow N.C. State students take part in the paper mustache voter turnout promotion.