N.C. Institute for Public Health is honored for its Management Academy for Public Health, a partnership between the School of Public Health and Kenan-Flagler Business School. Faculty from both schools have worked together to develop customized courses for public health managers to improve the effectiveness of public health organizations.

Carolina Environmental Program is selected for One North Carolina Naturally, a statewide program seeking cooperation among conservation, agricultural and development interests in an effort to conserve targeted bodies of land and water in the state.

Student Health Action Coalition (SHAC) is recognized for its Hurdle Mills Food Clinic, an effort developed in collaboration with community members to address diabetes prevention in a rural community.
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Mobile SHAC is recognized for The Hubbard Project, an innovative effort that pairs health professions students with elders in the community who need home care and specialized development plans. In case you are wondering about the name, Mobil SHAC is a program of the Student Health Action Coalition (or SHAC), the oldest student run Health Center in the nation.

The Episcopal Campus Ministry has established a long-term relationship with community partners in Ashe County, North Carolina, has taken an annual mission trip to that area. Through this series of student mission trips, ECM has contributed to improved conditions for many Ashe County residents, and they are honored for this Annual Ashe County Mission Trip.

The Department of Biology is recognized for its Traveling Science and Technology Laboratory Program, DESTINY, for providing innovative science and hands-on learning experiences to North Carolina high school students and their teachers. To date, this mobile laboratory, equipped with satellite Internet-connected computers, has served 7,500 North Carolina high school students, reaching literally from one end of the state to the other.

The Carolina Environmental Program is recognized for its Environmental Field Site Network. Through its environmental field sites throughout North Carolina, the Carolina Environmental Program has established strong community university partnerships to provide training ground for UNC students whose resulting environmental research benefits the community. In addition to their work in North Carolina, the program has field sites in Salzburg, Austria and Bangkok, Thailand.
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Carolina H.E.E.L.s (Helping to Educate and Encourage Leaders) for Youth Leadership Day
Youth Leadership Day makes the annual "day off" for the observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday into a "day on" for Orange County middle school students. Begun in 2000 by the student organization Carolina H.E.E.L.s, Youth Leadership Day has become a successful annual event where middle school students are invited to participate in a program organized on the UNC campus by UNC students. In 2002, over 100 middle school students worked with 80 Carolina students in creating a commemorative quilt to honor the legacy of Dr. King.

M.A.N.O. (mujeres aprendiendo por nuevas oportunidades = women learning through new opportunities) for their tutoring and ESL program for Spanish speaking women
Since its inception in 1999, MANO has sought to empower Spanish speaking women by teaching English skills based on the needs of the participant while providing childcare and tutoring for the participants' children, all free of charge. Classes are held twice a week at Carrboro Elementary School and they serve 35 women a night with an average of one new student a night. Over forty students volunteer with the MANO program.

Master of Public Administration Program in the School of Government for the MPA Service-Learning Project
Two MPA Professors have organized their separate classes into one overall service and learning experience. This partnership allows for the students to practice program evaluation and team management skills they are developing in those courses while also meeting pressing community needs throughout the state. The response from the agencies and government organizations receiving services has been overwhelming positive, demonstrating the public impact and benefit of this project.
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Jeffrey S. Beam
Jeffery S. Beam is a staff employee in the Couch Biology Library of the Academic Affairs Library. Since he began his career as a poet, he has worked tirelessly through readings, workshops, and supporting young writers and poets to show and teach the beauty and excitement of creative endeavors. In words and in actions, he has given his talents to the campus, the citizens of the state of North Carolina and beyond in support of the University's mission. In addition to a prodigious creative output, he has an outstanding history of public service to the campus, his community, and his state.

Patricia A. Curtin is a faculty member in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. When she arrived on campus in 1996, she quickly realized that the public relations writing courses did not have a service-learning component. In fact, students were being asked to make up hypothetical organizations and write press releases, human-interest stories, and fact sheets for imaginary groups. She herself had at that time years of practical public relations experience and was actively involved in many significant community volunteer initiatives. She realized how valuable this student energy could be, and how powerful a community-based service learning public relations curriculum could be. The rest, as they say, is history - both for the students and the many community organizations with which they partner. More broadly, her efforts quickly became one of the leading models for other faculty interested in converting their courses to the powerful service-learning model.

Pamela York Frasier is a faculty member in the UNC Department of Family Medicine.Pam was responsible for applying to the Duke Endowment to establish the immigrant health initiative, a program sponsored by Chatham Hospital in Siler City. The primary goal of our initiative is to improve immigrant access to health care in the community through the use of lay health advisors in the Hispanic churches and local industries. Currently she serves as project director and is working with the Hispanic community in planning and implementation of the initiative.

Jacquelyn M. Gist is a staff member at UNC Career Services. One person writes in support of her nomination, "She has been sharing her passion for public service with students at UNC for over 10 years, and she should be recognized for the encouragement and service she has provided to students who wish to pursue service beyond their years at UNC."

Beth D. Kivel is a faculty member in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies. She has had a positive impact on the community and her students through working with Teens Climb High, the North Carolina Lambda Youth Network, and other efforts to bring health education, violence prevention, and recreation activities to children who live in public housing in our communities, and leadership training for lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender young people across the Triangle area. Her outstanding public service demonstrates how she is committed to initiating innovative public service projects to improve the quality of life for citizens of UNC, Chapel Hill, and beyond. She has personalized the mission of her department through her work and actions.

Angenette E. McAdoo is a staff member in UNC's Office of Human Resources. She is a woman of outstanding public service abilities and dedication to her community. She has been a leader in the development of programs for adolescents, as well as a variety of other community improvements. She has been especially tireless in her efforts to improve opportunities for minority youth. Her local community public service activities over the past five years include: the Orange County Recreation and Parks Advisory Board; The Orange County 4-H Advisory Board; the Orange County Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition; Shaping Orange County Task Force; United Voices of Efland Cheeks; Efland Cheeks Community School Park Task Force; and Teens in Power - a youth enrichment program that provides training and activities for building decision making and problem solving skills to youth in her community.
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