September 28, 2005
Five University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill employees were honored Sept. 27 for their leadership and creativity with the 2005 Chancellor’s Award.This year’s recipients are:

  • Photograph of William H. Browder Jr.

    Photograph of William H. Browder Jr.

    Ruth Miller, of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center;

  • Karen High, of the Health Sciences Library;
  • Victoria Dowd, of the department of communications studies;
  • William H. Browder Jr., of the N.C. Institute for Public Health and
  • Dr. Gary Mesibov, of the Division Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children (Division TEACCH).

The winners, who receive $1,000 and a 24-hour paid leave award, were recognized by Chancellor James Moeser at a luncheon in their honor at the Carolina Inn. Jacqueline Carlock, director of continuing legal education at the School of Law, served as the chair of the Chancellor’s Awards committee.

Established in 1991 by Chancellor Emeritus Paul Hardin, the award recognizes meritorious or distinguished accomplishments in devotion to duty, innovation, public service, safety and heroism, human relations or other achievements.

As the special services coordinator for the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, Miller meets with representatives and agencies from across the state to discuss their contributions to the organization. The institute, which is now one of the largest multidisciplinary institutes for the study of child development, was established in 1966 to study young children and their families.

High, a library technical assistant, earned the 2005 Health Sciences Library Award of Excellence for her work in adding and maintaining the accuracy of records in the library. She was a member of the Collections Task Force for the library’s renovation project which began in June 2001 and was completed February 2005.

During Dowd’s time at UNC, she has made a commitment to public service. She started the Brant Day Project, a fundraising effort to remodel the home of a football player at North Carolina Central University who was paralyzed from the chest down while playing football.

Browder is director of the Office of Continuing Education and director of N.C. Area Health Education Centers activities in the N.C. Institute for Public Health. He has worked in the continuing education office at UNC’s School of Public Health since 1980 and has been the office’s director since 1991. Browder has 35 years of experience in the continuing education field.

Mesibov is a professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences and of psychiatry in the School of Medicine at UNC. He also is the director of Division TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication-handicapped Children), founded in 1972 as a service to North Carolinians with autism. Mesibov developed a test to evaluate the developmental and daily living skills of adolescents that helps diagnose the disease. He also started a group for people with autism to learn to become more autonomous and started a program that helps people with autism find and keep a job.

Chancellor Moeser also recognized this year’s Excellence in Management Award recipients at the luncheon. The winners, who will each receive a $500 monetary award, are:

  • Sandra Hoeflich, associate dean in the Graduate School; and
  • Tammy McHale, senior financial and administrative officer, College of Arts and Sciences’ dean’s office.

Hoeflich has created programs to attract and recruit Native American graduate students from North Carolina and beyond. She also has introduced several fellowship programs designed to provide funding to some of the nation’s best graduate students. The programs include the Royster Society of Fellows, University Fellows, Weiss Urban Livability Fellows and Aesthetics in Society.

McHale came to UNC in March 1998 and spent much of her first 18 months at the university updating administrative systems and informing all chairs and deans of departments of financial resources. She has continued to improve the financial data systems that faculty use in allocating funds.

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News Services contact: Lisa Katz, (919) 962-2093 or lisa_katz@unc.edu.

For further information please contact Ramona DuBose, director or communications for the UNC School of Public Health, by telephone at 919-966-7467 or by e-mail at ramona_dubose@unc.edu.

 

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