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David A. Grimes, a faculty member in the UNC School of Medicine, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, considered one of the highest honors in the fields of medicine and health.
Grimes is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology and a fellow at UNC's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. He is also vice president of biomedical affairs at Family Health International in Research Triangle Park. Grimes' research interests include intrauterine devices (IUDs), emergency contraception, Cochrane reviews in family planning and research methods.

"Shinemaster," a book of poems by UNC creative writing professor Michael McFee, recently received the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award.
Given annually by the Western North Carolina Historical Association since 1954, the award honors writers from western North Carolina or outstanding works about the region.
McFee, an Asheville native, has been a professor of English and creative writing at UNC since 1995 and is acting director of the creative writing program. He teaches classes in creative writing, poetry and contemporary North Carolina literature. His teaching awards include a Student Undergraduate Teaching Award (2004); a Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty (1999); and a James M. Johnston Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1998).

Jordan Scepanski and Lea Wells, residents of Chapel Hill's Greenwood neighborhood, recently returned from a trip to Brazil, where Scepanski conducted a series of lectures on library management and technology under a U.S. Department of State Speaker and Specialist grant. He spoke to gatherings of librarians, university faculty members, students, information professionals, and others in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Fortaleza, and Rio de Janeiro Sept. 18-22. Scepanski is former executive director of the Triangle Research Libraries Network, the library consortium of Duke, N.C. Central, and N.C. State universities and UNC-Chapel Hill. From 2002 until 2005 he and Wells were employed at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, where he was dean of library and learning resources and she coordinator of the university's center for teaching and learning.

Peter Bonds of Chapel Hill qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on all Advanced Placement Program (AP) Exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of these exams. Bonds is a 2006 St. James School graduate.
The College Board's AP Program offers students the opportunity to take college-level courses while still in high school and to receive college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams.

Students took the AP Exams in May 2006 after completing college-level courses at Saint James.

The following Chapel Hill residents recently were named to the dean's list at the College of William and Mary for the spring semester: David John Powell, Samuel Randolph Rizzo and Caitlin Elizabeth Verboon. To be named to the list, a full-time student must take at least 12 credit hours and receive a 3.6 quality-point average during the semester.