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Digg it- Elsbeth Love Grant of Chapel Hill recently participated in the Governor's Page Program in Raleigh. She spent a week providing administrative support as a page for the North Carolina Office of the Governor for the week of March 24-28. She is the daughter of Robert Grant and Sharon Hogan and is a junior at East Chapel Hill High School. During the week, pages attend press conferences, observe commission meetings and participate in a discussion with the governor on current issues and events. Pages also assist in day-to-day office operations. Some of their responsibilities include delivering legislative bills, filing documents, assisting in mass mailings, answering telephones and delivering agency messages.
- Louis Perez Jr. of Chapel Hill has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. Perez is the J. Carlyle Sitterson professor of history in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences. His current research explores the sources of Cuban nationality and identity. His research interests center on the 19th- and 20th-century Caribbean, with emphasis on the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. He teaches courses on the history of Latin America, Mexico, the Caribbean and Cuba. He also directs the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
- Katharine L. Pieper received a law degree from the College of Law at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill., this month. She is a 1999 graduate of East Chapel Hill High School and received a bachelor's degree from Grinnell College in 2003. Katie served as President of the Student Bar Association and received the Rickert Award for Excellence in Public Service as a law student at the University of Illinois. She is the daughter of John A. and Patty Pieper, formerly of Chapel Hill and now residing in Albuquerque, N.M.
- Alexander Piatt of Chapel Hill was named to the dean's list for the winter term at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, R.I. To qualify for the list, a student must receive a cumulative grade-point average of 3.4 or higher.
- Lawrence Band has been named director of the Institute for the Environment at UNC-Chapel Hill. Band has been Voit Gilmore Distinguished professor of geography in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences since coming to UNC in 1998. An experienced university administrator, he served as chairman of the geography department from 2002 to 2007. His research focuses on the hydrological and ecological structure, function and dynamics of watersheds.
