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Monday, February 27,1995
Outstanding Faculty, Grad Students
Recognized for Talent in Teaching
BY MELISSA MILIOS
STAFF WRITER
Seven UNC faculty members and three
graduate teaching assistants have been rec
ognized for excellence in undergraduate
teaching.
Julio Cortes, one of the five recipients of
the Tanner Award
for Excellence in
Undergraduate
Teaching, is a pro
fessor of Arabic and
Spanish. He has
done a translation
of the Koran from
Arabic into Spanish
and a 19th- and
20th-century Ara
bic-Spanish dictio
nary. “It always
JUUO CORTES
seems to me that I have the best students in
the University, so I liked it very much that
the award came from them,” Cortes said.
Boka Hadzija, associate professor of
pharmacy, also received the Tanner Award.
She won Tanner
Awards previously
in 1975 and 1988,
and the senior class
in the School of
Pharmacy has se
lected her as the
school’s best in
structor seven
times.
Student nomina
tors described
Hadzija as caring
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and compassionate, and described her
teaching style as well-rounded and effec
tive.
Tanner Award recipient Hugon
Karwowski, associ
ate professor of
physics, came to
UNC in 1984.
Karwowski studies
nuclear physics at
Triangle Universi
ties Nuclear Labo
ratory, where his
work is funded by
the U.S. Depart
ment of Energy.
“I didn’t quite
expect (the award),
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KARWOWSKI
since I usually don’t give many good grades
to gain popularity,” Karwowski said. “I
guess every now and then a good guy gets
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a break.”
Professor of po
litical science and
Tanner Award re
cipient Jurg Steiner
joined UNC’s fac
ulty in 1971.
He is a specialist
in comparative poli
tics and Western
Europe and is cur
rently working on a
new book.
Steiner said he
hoped his personal concern and challeng
ing teaching style were the reasons he had
been nominated for the award.
“The students (in my class) are not con
sumers but intellectual producers, ” Steiner
said. “I am more like their coach than an
entertainer.”
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DULCIE
STRAUGHAN
Dul c i e
Straughan, assistant
professor ofjoumal
ism and mass com
munication, also
won the Tanner
Award. In 1993, she
was awarded the
School of Journal
ism and Mass
Communication’s
highest honor for
teaching.
Straughan said
she used an interactive teaching style to
motivate students and get them involved,
even in her large lecture classes.
“In classes that I teach, I like to hear
from my students what they think about
the material I’m teaching because I learn
from that, too,” Straughan said.
LEE GREENE
Johnston Teac
hing Excellence
Award winner J.
Lee Greene, associ
ate professor of En
glish, earned his
bachelor’s, master’s
and doctoral de
grees from UNC
and returned as a
faculty member in
1975. Greene spe
cializes in African-
American and American literature and
culture. Student nominators praised Greene
for bringing his cross-disciplined perspec
tive to the classroom and for his sincere,
realistic approach to fiction.
UNIVERSITY
Lawrence Rosenfeld, professor of com-
munication studies
and a Johnston
award recipient,
came to UNC in
1982.
“(These awards)
are the highest
honor the Univer
sity and the students
can bestow on a pro
fessor,” Rosenfeld
said.
Anthropology
TAJennieSmith re-
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ROSENFELD
ceived one of three Graduate Teaching
Assistant awards. Smith spent three years
living and working in Haiti. In 1993, she
was a member of the Mennonite Central
Overseas Committee, and the United Na
tions deployed her as a civilian human
rights observer.
Smith’s nominators described her as
enthusiastic, interactive and radiating posi
tivity.
Also receiving the Graduate Teaching
Assistant Award was English department
TA William Stott. Stott is currently writing
his doctoral dissertation on American na
ture ■writers.
Students described Stott as committed,
concerned and interested and his teaching
style as a free exchange of ideas.
Biology depart
ment TA Judy
Thom also received
the Graduate
Teaching Assistant
Award. Thom is a
fourth-year doctoral
student. She said she
hoped to bring the
personal, small-col
lege feel she was
used to into her
classrooms.
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JUDY THORN
The Chancellor’s Committee on Un
dergraduate Teaching reviewed the nomi
nations for all awards and submitted the
final suggestions to Chancellor Paul Hardin
for approval.
Recipients will be recognized Tuesday
during halftime of the men’s basketball
game against Wake Forest and again at
next month’smeetingoftheFaculty Coun
cil, said Mary Dowe, head of the
Chancellor's Committee. A $5,000 prize
accompanies the Tanner and Johnston
awards, and the Graduate Teaching Assis
tant Award winners will receive $ 1,000.
High School Leaders Learn Trade at UNC
BY ADAM GUSMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The next Jim Copland, George Battle or
Calvin Cunningham might have visited
the UNC campus Friday and Saturday.
High school student government lead
ers from across the state came to the Uni
versity this weekend to participate in the
William J. Armfield IV Carolina Leader
ship Summit sponsored by the executive
branch.
During the weekend, participants re
ceived a glimpse of how student govern
ment operated at the next level and a few
ideas about effective leadership to take
back to their schools.
The summit, the first of its kind, was
named for the Board ofTrustees vice chair
man who originally thought of the idea
and mentioned it to current Student Body
President Battle.
“Itwasabig success,” Battlesaid. “Dif
ferent areas of the state were well repre
sented. A good number ofpeople attended;
and people seemed to have had a good
time.”
Battle said he hoped there would be
leadership summits under future adminis
trations. “It is something that I hope is
continued. It’s not only good for high
schoolers to get a look at our university, it’s
also to see our future leadership and inter
act with them,” he said.
The student leaders participated in a
wide variety of workshops on a wide vari
ety of subjects, ranging from leadership
and creativity to ethics and from conflict
management to diversity training.
Carla McPherson, who organized the
summit, said the purpose of the event was
to help student leaders develop their lead
ership potential.
“The goal is to redefine leadership for
the students and to help make them aware
of the potential for leadership not only in
school but in their communities as well,”
McPherson said.
Armfield spoke Friday to the summit’s
Black History Month
Spotlight
Guion Bluford Jr.
Guion Bluford had a love for math and sci
ence.
His father was an electrical engineer, and
Bluford often imitated his father by taking things
apart and putting them back together again.
Bluford became a pilot in Vietnam and earned
10 medals for his efforts.
In 1983, Lt. Col. Bluford boarded the Space
Shuttle Challenger.
He became the first black man to enter outer
space.
DTH/CHRIS GAYDOSH
North Carolina high school student leaders participate in a UNC leadership
seminar Friday afternoon. Exploring diversity was this group’s topic.
participants about the characteristics of
effective leadership.
He outlined the different types of lead
ership, including the style he had encoun
tered while in the military—leadership by
fear. “It doesn’t take long once they get you
in a pair of khakis to understand that when
they lead, you follow,” he said.
The creation of an environment in which
everyone has input and having a strategic
plan to achieve one’s goals are signs of an
effective leader, Armfield said. “The per
son who does that is, in my opinion, the
most effective leader.”
He also mentioned honesty, integrity
and humility as characteristics of good
Campus Calendar
MONDAY
6 p.m. “The Role of Research Chemistry in
Industry” will be presented by Glaxo Cotp. in 223
Venable.
Sponsored by UNC-ACSSA.
7 p.m. Challenge your American Red Cross
Adult CPR and Standard First Aid in Union 209.
You must bring your valid certification. Call 962-
CPRI to register.
TUESDAY
5 p.m. Attorney General’s Staff and Honor
Court will present information sessions about the
judicial system in Union 209.
WEDNESDAY
S p.m. Attorney General’s Staff and Honor
Court will present an information session about the
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leaders. “If you don’t have honesty and
integrity, eveiything else is diluted,” he
said. “They say that success breeds igno
rance . A leader must be humble along with
the success he or she is involved in.”
Political science Professor Dick
Richardson also addressed the student lead
ers, stressing the true meaning of public
service. “We are rich in direct relation to
how much we can do without, ” Richardson
said.
“Will you intellectualize your involve
ment, or will you be involved in the dirty,
sweaty business of caring?” he asked.
“If we do lots of little things, I think we
can shape the foundations of the world.”
judicial system in Union 226.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
“Monna Vanna,” by Maurice Maeterlinck, will
be presented by Lab! Theatre at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.
today and at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the basement of
Graham Memorial.
Admission is free.
Undergraduate Court and Attorney General
Staff applications are available in Suite D, Room
207 of the Union. Applications are due March 15.
Carolina SAFE will train the members of your
organization in CPR and first aid.
Call 962-CPRI for more information.
Pick the Next DTH Editor! Applications for the
selection board are available in the DTH, Union
Suite 104, or at the Union desk.