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UNC-Chapel Hill Center for Literacy and Disability Studies Teams-Up with the Junior Girl Scouts at the Special Pencils for Special Kids Event on January 19 in Durham
January 15, 2008 —The Center for Literacy & Disability Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has teamed up with the Junior Girl Scouts of Durham for an exciting community service project. Girl Scouts from Troops 49, 157, 283, 502 and 1281 will make special pencils for students with significant disabilities that are unable to write with their hands on Saturday, January 19 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at the Parkwood United Methodist Church (5123 Revere Rd, Parkwood) in Durham. Click here for more information.
“The Junior Girl Scouts recognize the importance of helping people with significant disabilities. Thanks to their hard work, many students with disabilities will now have a way to write!,” said Gretchen Hanser, MS OTR, with the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. |
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Jake Palmer, a student with significant disabilities, including deaf-blindness, will participate in this year’s event. He writes with one of these pencils and will show the Girl Scouts how it works. |
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Names UNC-Chapel Hill Cytotechnology Classroom
Ribbon cutting: Dr. Myla Lai-Goldman, Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer and Medical Director for Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, cuts the ribbon to the new LabCorp Cytotechnology Classroom joined by (from left to right) Dr. Etta Pisano, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Medicine, Ashlyn Duke, Cytotechnology Student, Allen Rinas, Professor and Director of UNC Cytotechnology, Susan Beck, Professor and Director of UNC Clinical Laboratory Science and Carol Tresolini, Associate Provost for Academic Initiatives for UNC-Chapel Hill.
Professor Jackson Roush Receives National Award from American Academy of Audiology
Above: Dr. Jackson Roush (left) with Paul Pessis, the Academy's current President, after receiving the 2007 Presidential Award given by the American Academy of Audiology at its annual convention in Denver, CO, on April 19, 2007. Click here for more information.
UNC Speech and Hearing Sciences Online Course is the First at UNC to Earn National Quality Recognition
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences in collaboration with the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) are pleased to announce that the survey course, Special Topics in Speech and Hearing, has earned the Quality Matters designation for meeting educational quality assurance standards. Click here for more information.
FUJIFILM Medical Systems, USA Donates New Instructional Equipment
Makoto Kawaguchi, the President and CEO of FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA, joined by Professor Joy Renner, the Director of the Division of Radiologic Science, and his colleagues at a ribbon cutting celebration of FUJIFILM’s $189,000 gift of a computed radiography system valued to the Division of Radiologic Science will be held on October 24, 2006 in the Burnett Womack Building. Click here for more information about this event.