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Endowed professorship supports initiatives to improve world water, sanitationPharmacy receives $2.25 million gift from PPD Inc. founder Fred Eshelman
New dramatic art scholarship, excellence fund honor Lillian Chason
Foundation grant will help UNC study local level public health services
Z Capital Partners gives Kenan-Flagler $100,000 for private equity education
UNC Nutrition Institute establishes first endowed professorship with support from Alan Dickson
Endowed professorship supports initiatives to improve world water, sanitation
Jennifer and Don Holzworth
The Don and Jennifer Holzworth Distinguished Professorship Fund has been established with a $666,000 gift from the Holzworths, who are among the Gillings School of Global Health’s most ardent supporters. The gift will be supplemented with matching funds through the state’s Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund to create a $1 million distinguished professorship.
Income from the professorship endowment will be used to provide salary, travel, student assistant and other scholarly support to a designated faculty member in the public health school.
“We share the commitment that UNC has to improving public health around the world,” said Don Holzworth. “We are delighted to be in a position to support the University’s work, particularly in the area of global water and sanitation. Through The Water Institute at UNC and other exciting initiatives, we have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the world by leading efforts that leverage ideas coming from universities, governments and the private sector.”
More: http://www.unc.edu/campus-updates/Holzworth-gift
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Pharmacy receives $2.25 million gift from PPD Inc. founder Fred Eshelman
Fred Eshelman
“In every respect, the school is just going up, up, up,” Eshelman said. “I'm very fortunate to be a part of this, but it has precious little to do with me. I just put the gas in the car. The school is driving it.”
Eshelman is the founder of Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc. and a 1972 graduate of the pharmacy school. He is currently the founding chairman of Furiex, a drug development collaboration company spun out of PPD in 2010.
More: http://www.unc.edu/campus-updates/Eshelman-gift
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New dramatic art scholarship, excellence fund honor Lillian Chason
UNC and Eric and Cate Chason of Barrington, R.I., have announced new resources to help future students in the department of dramatic art.The Lillian Chason Scholarship and the Lillian Chason Undergraduate Excellence Fund honor Lillian Chason, a first-year drama student who died following an illness in December 2009.
The Lillian Chason Scholarship will be awarded to undergraduates with an interest in dramatic arts. Selection for the merit scholarship will be based on the nominee’s contribution to the classroom, studio and productions of the department of dramatic art. The Lillian Chason Undergraduate Excellence Fund will support the overall enhancement of the undergraduate experience in dramatic art.
Supported priorities will include the Lillian Chason Theatre Arts Weekend, undergraduate productions and performance, research projects, and undergraduate participation in national conferences and competitions.
More: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5104/75/
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Foundation grant will help UNC study local level public health services
UNC has received approximately $200,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine different types of local public health agencies in North Carolina.The goal of the research, which began in December 2011 and will continue through May 2013, is to determine whether the way a local public health agency is organized affects public health service delivery or health outcomes in communities.
Coordinating the research are UNC School of Government faculty members Maureen Berner, professor of public administration and government, and Jill Moore and Aimee Wall, both associate professors of public law and government. Other members of the research team include the N.C. Division of Public Health and the N.C. Institute for Public Health.
More: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5130/1/
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Z Capital Partners gives Kenan-Flagler $100,000 for private equity education
Private equity education at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School got a boost with a $100,000 grant from Z Capital Partners LLC and James J. Zenni, Jr., its president and chief executive officer.The three-year grant will support programs for undergraduate and master of business administration students seeking careers in the private equity industry.
More: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5090/67/
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UNC Nutrition Institute establishes first endowed professorship with support from Alan Dickson
Alan Dickson
Just a few months later, Dickson took a particular interest in the NRI’s faculty recruitment efforts. “One of the greatest challenges in building a world-class center, particularly one that is located two hours from its ‘traditional’ campus, is creating intellectual capital,” Zeisel said. “Yet we know the strength and ultimate success of the center rests in our ability to recruit the best scientists.” Dickson agreed to spearhead a board effort to generate five privately funded, endowed distinguished professorships to help the NRI attract great scientific minds.
He kicked it off by making the first pledge—a joint gift of $666,000 from The Dickson Foundation and Harris Teeter, a subsidiary of Ruddick Corporation, which Dickson and his brother, Stuart, built into one of North Carolina's leading firms. The institute is seeking matching funds of $334,000 from the North Carolina Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust to create a $1 million endowment fund.
More: http://givingpubs.unc.edu/documents/carolina_connections/winter2012/stories/nutrition_professorship/nutrition_professorship.html
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