Students pay tribute to TAs

Undergraduates honored four teaching assistants last school year: Diego Argibay, Spanish doctoral candidate from Santa Uxia de Riviera, Spain; Brian Carroll, journalism and mass communication doctoral candidate from Greensboro, N.C.; Amanda Clarke Henley, master’s student in geography from Aiken, S.C.; and Corinne Gorrier, comparative literature doctoral candidate from Verdome, France. Their 2002 Student Undergraduate Teaching Awards were recognized at the Chancellor’s Awards ceremony on April 16, where they each received $1,000.

“I hope I challenge my students as much as they challenge me,” said Carroll. “I came back to school because I thought and sensed that teaching was my mission. Nothing has dissuaded me from that perception, nor from the passion and purpose. How many people can say that? I am very thankful.”

Photo by Karen Tam

Jacky Rosati, left, with Graduate Education Advancement Board member and Pharmacy Professor Boka Hadzija at the Graduate Student Recognition Dinner in April. Rosati received the Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service.

Grad recognition dinner

W hat do 150 graduate-student fellows, 23 inductees to graduate honor society Alpha Epsilon Lambda and a senator have in common? All were honored at the annual Graduate Student Recognition Dinner on April 17.

More than 150 students were recognized for receiving fellowships from government and private organizations across the nation. Linda Dykstra, dean of the Graduate School, also gave two special awards.

Jacky Rosati, doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering from Fort Edward, N.Y., received the Boka W. Hadzija Award for Distinguished University Service. Rosati, who graduated in August, served in groups such as the Dean’s Cabinet, the Alumni Governing Board, the Orange County Habitat for Humanity and Special Olympics.

State Senator Howard N. Lee received the first Dean’s Award for Significant Contribution to Graduate Education. “While there are many people that I think deserve this high honor,” Dykstra said at the dinner, “Certainly none are more deserving than Senator Howard Lee.” (Editor’s note: Lee’s public service is the topic of our cover story on page 6.)

The cost of attending

The UNC System Board of Governors raised tuition 8 percent for in-state students and 12 percent for out-of-state students last March, and more tuition increases are expected in the future. At the time The
Fountain went to press, the N.C. General Assembly was preparing to vote on a new state budget that cut 2.4 percent, or $42 million, in UNC-System funding.

Tuition constitutes only a portion of increasing expenses that University students face. Because of rate increases by N.C. Blue Cross Blue Shield, students covered by the Student Medical Insurance Plan paid 8.3 percent more this year if they had both basic and catastrophic coverage.

Campaign Notes

By August the Graduate School had raised $8.4 million, nearly half of its $18 million goal for the Carolina First Campaign. To meet the campaign goal, the Graduate School still needs the
support of new donors and devoted friends. To give to the Graduate School, visit http://gradschool.unc.edu/.

Jean Grainger, M.A., Romance Languages ‘80 and M.A.T., French ‘83, keeps spreading the word for graduate education. Grainger, member of the Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) and frequent contributor to the School, brought together New York City-area residents in a reception for the Graduate School at her apartment in March.

Royster Fellow Rob Fulcher, doctoral candidate in Microbiology/Immunology, and former fellows Marla Miller, Ph.D., History ‘97, now assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Beth Whitaker, Ph.D., Political Science ‘99, now assistant professor at UNC-Charlotte, explained the importance of funding for excelling in graduate school.

Special guests included Nancy Wendell, executive director of the Evan Frankel Foundation, and her husband, Marshall Wendell, Carolina alumni Harmon McAllister, BSCH ‘58 and Ph.D. Chemistry ‘63 and Steve Billick, M.D. ‘73, and GEAB member Bibb Latané, Ph.D.

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