Title: A Symposium on Faculty Innovation
Location: Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Link out: Click here
Description:
Thursday, Oct. 28, Chancellor Holden Thorp presents “Beyond the Sciences: Why the World’s Problems Need the Whole University”
7:30 p.m. in 111 Carroll Hall
Open to the public
UNC News Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4002/1/

Friday, Oct. 29, A Faculty Symposium on Innovation
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Hyde Hall
Open to Faculty
Click here to register for lunch (Deadline: Monday, Oct. 25): http://bit.ly/bGWCaE

9:00 a.m. Introductory Comments by Bill Balthrop, IAH interim director, and Buck Goldstein, UNC entrepreneur in residence

9:15-10:30 a.m. What Does Entrepreneurship Mean for Faculty Research? Finding Knowledge to Confront the World’s Biggest Problems
Panel:
Joe Templeton, Department of Chemistry, moderator
Alice Ammerman, Center for Health Promotion Disease Prevention
Maryann Feldman, Department of Public Policy
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Department of Religious Studies

10:30-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. What Does Entrepreneurship Mean for Faculty Teaching? Preparing Students to Confront the World’s Biggest Problems
Panel:
Pete Andrews, Department of Public Policy, moderator
Jennifer Webster-Cyriaque, School of Dentistry
John Stewart, Department of Economics
Mark Katz, Department of Music

12:15-1:30 p.m. Lunch Break (sign up for lunch by Monday, Oct. 25, at http://bit.ly/bGWCaE)

1:30-2:45 p.m. What Does Entrepreneurship Mean for Faculty Service? Working with People Outside the University to Confront the World’s Biggest Problems
Panel:
Julia Wood, Department of Communication Studies, moderator
Warren Newton, Department of Family Medicine
Barbara Entwisle, Department of Sociology/Carolina Population Center
Malinda Lowery, Department of History

2:45-3:15 p.m. Coffee Break

3:15-4:30 p.m. What does Entrepreneurship mean for the Deans’ View of the Faculty? Rethinking Faculty Roles and Rewards to Confront the World’s Biggest Problems
Panel:
McKay Coble, Department of Dramatic Art, moderator
Karen Gil, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Jean Folkerts, Dean, School of Journalism & Mass Communication
Bill McDiarmid, Dean, School of Education

4:30-5:30 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception for all Symposium Participants

More information: http://iah.unc.edu/