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UNCA UNC Asheville Offers 21st Annual WNC Weather Calendar The Farmer’s Almanac may see some stiff competition with UNC Asheville’s newest edition of the Western North Carolina Weather Calendar. The 2006 calendar, published by UNC Asheville’s Atmospheric Sciences Department, features 12 months of Asheville climatological data, including monthly temperature and precipitation normals, monthly heating and cooling degree days, plus daily normals for maximum and minimum temperatures. The 21st annual WNC Weather Calendar also includes moon phases, daily sunrise and sunset times, and a climatological data table of normals, means and extremes for Asheville updated to August 2005. The cost of the calendar is $6 including postage. Please make checks payable to: “Weather Calendar,” and mail to: Alex Huang, ATMS, UNC Asheville, One University Heights, Asheville, NC 28804-8511.
New UNCA Chancellor Anne Ponder to Dr. Anne Ponder, UNC Asheville’s new Chancellor, will present her inaugural State of the University Address at the University’s annual Founders Day celebration on Thursday, Sept. 29. The public is invited to attend the Founders Day celebration, which will be held from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in Lipinsky Auditorium.
Chancellor Ponder, who was named UNC Asheville’s sixth chancellor on May 12 by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, officially assumes her post on October 1. For the past decade she served as president of A native of The Founders Day program will also recognize those who will receive National Alumni Awards and those being inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame. UNC Asheville’s Founders Day celebrates the University’s rich heritage and the men and women whose work and perseverance led to the creation and development of one of the nation’s leading public liberal arts universities. Founders Day is free and open to the public. For more information, please call UNC Asheville’s Office of Alumni at 828/251-6512. ***
Immediate Release – Sept. 8, 2005 – UNCA Saturdays are super this fall at UNC Asheville! Gifted, creative and motivated 3rd-8th graders have an opportunity to explore chess, Irish step dance, geology, acting and much more at UNC Asheville’s 20th annual Super Saturday Program beginning October 1. The program has helped more than 12,000 children from across Western North Carolina explore their special interests through hands-on learning on the UNC Asheville campus. Some 32 unique courses are open for registration. Young artists can take courses in cartooning, creative writing, photography, pottery, or the new class on spinning and weaving taught by a certified Waldorf teacher. Budding scientists can try their hand at biology, entomology, physics or meteorology. Students interested in becoming global citizens will enjoy classes in French conversation, Egyptology and the continents of Africa and Australia. Favorite courses from past years, including model rocketry, Web page design, martial arts and wildlife are also available. Several University faculty members and upper-level students teach Super Saturday classes, along with outstanding public school teachers, educators and other professionals. Super Saturday courses meet 9 a.m.-noon Saturdays between October 1-November 12. All students are welcome to apply. Tuition is $65 for each course. Deadline to apply is Friday, Sept. 23. For more information or to request an application, call Leanna Preston, UNC Asheville Super Saturday Coordinator, at 828/250-3833.
*** Sculpture by Local Artist Dan Millspaugh Featured in Mexican Exhibition A large steel sculpture by Dan Millspaugh, noted sculptor and UNC Asheville associate professor of art, was recently chosen for a transnational exhibition. The piece, entitled “Intermittent Loop,” joins some 43 sculptures from both Mexican and American artists, intended to represent the equality between the two nations. The exhibition will be on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Literary Society of Yucatan in Merida, Mexico, and will run through January 2006.
Millspaugh has completed sculpture commissions for the city of Asheville, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, the UNC Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill and the Tennessee Valley Authority in Alabama. His works are on display in numerous corporate, public and private collections throughout the United States. |
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