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Digg it- Margaret Dardess, UNC's associate provost for strategic partnerships, has been named senior counselor to William L. Roper, dean of the UNC School of Medicine, chief executive officer of the UNC Health Care System and vice chancellor for medical affairs.Dardess will split her time between the provost's office and the dean's office in the School of Medicine. She will work closely with the School of Medicine and the other health sciences schools to build strategic partnerships with private industry and others.Dardess came to UNC in January 2002 following 15 years at GlaxoSmithKline, where she was senior vice president of corporate affairs and a member of the board of directors of Glaxo Wellcome, Inc. At UNC she became senior associate dean of the UNC School of Public Health and adjunct professor of health policy and administration, and from March 2004 until June 2005 served as the school's interim dean.
- Brittany Taylor Bugge of Chapel Hill is the lighting designer for the Mary Baldwin College production of "Long Time Since Yesterday." She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bugge. The college is in Staunton, Va.
- Mark C. Weissler has been elected a regent of the American College of Surgeon. Weissler is the J. P. Riddle Distinguished Professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery and chief of the division of head and neck oncology at UNC's School of Medicine.The college is the largest organization of surgeons in the world. It was founded in 1913 to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice. Weissler will serve an initial three-year term as regent.
- Fred Battle, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch of the NAACP, has won the State Conference's Branch President of the Year Award. The award will be presented to him at the monthly branch meeting Saturday at 11 a.m. in Hargraves Center
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center nurses Linda Fowler and Sharon Cush have won the Oncology Nursing Excellence Awards. Nurses Susan Whorley and Tonya Thompson won the Clinical Services Excellence Award. The awards recognize extraordinary hard work, care and dedication. Winners receive a $1,500 stipend to be used towards professional education activities.Fowler is a nurse in the gynecologic oncology chemotherapy infusion room. Cush is a nurse clinician who coordinates the neuro-oncology brain tumor clinic. Whorley is a program assistant for the multidisciplinary oncology programs. Thompson is a social worker for the in-patient hematology/oncology services.
