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Students Learn to ‘BeAM’ in Telescope-Building Class

 

To see the stars, sometimes you have to start in the basement.

Students from different majors gathered in the basement of the Hanes Art Center last fall to build a telescope as part of the Maker-in-Residence program. Amateur astronomer Jim Pressley kicked off the project to launch the new Hanes Art Makerspace.

The Telescope Build Project was the first of the Maker-in-Residence series, sponsored by the department of applied physical sciences in the College, UNC Library, Be a Maker (BeAM) and Innovate Carolina, and funded through a Carolina Parents Council grant and BeAM.

With majors that included biology, art and Russian, the eclectic group of students tackled optics and mirrors, woodworking and power tools, design and painting.

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“At the core of the makerspace movement, there is this idea of beginner-friendly spaces where everyone feels included and welcome and empowered to make things,” said Michelle Garst, project manager for BeAM.

Chris Jadelis, a biomedical engineering major and equipment manager for the student group MakNet, believes the makerspace is beneficial to students.

“You can learn a lot from textbooks, you can learn a lot from classes, but having a space where you can just work with your hands and unleash creativity is ever so much more important,” said Jadelis.

BeAM day 2 _15 copyOn a cold night last November, you could find students painting a tube or sanding the edges of the telescope’s chassis as a laser cutter whirred, etching their names onto a piece of wood that would hold the telescope.

Michaela DeGuzman is a communication studies and studio art double major who has always loved astronomy and was part of the team that designed and painted the telescope.

“At first, they just wanted to paint the telescope Carolina blue, but since we do have painters on the team, we thought we could do something more creative.”

They were inspired by Van Gogh’s Starry Night and added UNC’s Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower for a Tar Heel twist.

BeAM day 4 _16 (002)WEBThe project culminated in a sky-watching party outside Morehead Planetarium. Astronomers from the Chapel Hill Astronomical and Observational Society, of which Pressley is also a member, joined the makers to give the public a chance to view the moon and stars.

Aashka Patel, a biology major, had always enjoyed astronomy but never had the chance to explore it until she took the course her first semester at UNC. Getting involved with the telescope project wasn’t just a chance to learn more in the field.

“I would never have even come into the arts building if I had not been part of BeAM,” Patel said. “It gave me the opportunity to do something outside of my major that I really like, and I’m just really happy that I managed to incorporate it somehow.”

To Garst, the makerspace lends itself to ingenuity born from collaborations among students and staff with different backgrounds. “It creates this environment and atmosphere for interdisciplinary collaborations, which is very unique and very special.”

The telescope is now housed in the Kenan Science Library, available for students to check out for stargazing.

The Hanes Art makerspace, equipped with power tools, drill press, T-shirt press, soldering kits and more, is one of three in the BeAM network. The Kenan Science Library makerspace, home to 3-D printers and other equipment, is run by Danianne Mizzy, who also conceived of the Maker-in-Residence Program. The largest of the three, in Murray Hall, will have a soft opening this spring and a grand opening in the fall.

Story, video and photos by Kristen Chavez ’13. View more photos at our Facebook album.

A Report Card for Poverty

Public policy professor Ashu Handa (second from left) with UNICEF researchers based in Italy. (photo by Michelle Mills)

Public policy professor Ashu Handa (second from left) with UNICEF researchers based in Italy. (photo by Michelle Mills)

UNC public policy professor Ashu Handa learned an early lesson about poverty that inspires his research and field work around the world.

The son of an engineer from India, Handa was born and spent most of his childhood in Ghana. His family lived comfortably in Africa, but they were surrounded by staggering poverty. That was an eye-opener.

“I saw the impact of bad economic policies, and it shaped my worldview,” Handa said.

He decided to study economics to analyze the impact of policymaking on poverty. He received a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Toronto in 1993 and joined UNC’s faculty in 2003.

Now Handa is completing a research leave assignment in Florence, Italy, where he has been working for UNICEF, the world’s largest children’s rights organization. He led the team that researched and produced two major “report cards” on the growth of childhood poverty since the global economic crisis of 2008.

The reports measure the change in the numbers and rates of children living in poverty in 41 affluent countries, including the United States. The most recent findings, to be published in April, show how growing socioeconomic disparity affects the poorest children.

Handa has especially enjoyed the opportunity to work with UNICEF’s professional communicators to distribute report card findings through the news media.

“We use rigorous academic standards to collect and analyze data,” Handa said. “But we have had to be really creative in boiling down the message in a way that would resonate with the press and the public, and raise awareness among policymakers.”

“Sometimes the communication specialists see news angles that we would have missed,” Handa said. “I have really enjoyed this creative collaboration.”

Handa has spent more than two decades highlighting policy problems and solutions associated with global poverty. He previously served as regional policy adviser for UNICEF in Eastern Africa. He also worked at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Mexico City.

By Dee Reid

Mapping Infectious Disease

Michael Emch (photo by Kristen Chavez)

Michael Emch (photo by Kristen Chavez)

As an expert health geographer and spatial epidemiologist, Michael Emch creates amazing multilayered maps. But instead of depicting towns, roads, rivers and mountains, they show the complex human and environmental factors crowding the path to infectious disease in the developing world.

He discovers what variables are converging on the disease highway, so that public health policymakers and practitioners can make informed decisions about treating or preventing deadly illnesses.

Emch, professor and chair of geography in the College of Arts and Sciences, recalls when he first understood the power of maps for public health.

It was nearly three decades ago. As an undergraduate biology major at Alfred University in New York, Emch encountered a now-famous 1854 cholera map of London. The map, made by English physician John Snow, shows cholera cases clustering around a public water pump in Soho. When city officials closed the pump, the cholera outbreak decreased — groundbreaking evidence that the epidemic disease was borne by polluted water, not sooty air.

“I knew then what I wanted to do,” said Emch. He would combine his interest in biology and infectious disease prevention to map a creative interdisciplinary career.

He started by doing a modern version of Snow’s map for his Ph.D. in geography at Michigan State University, mapping cholera patterns and risk in rural Bangladesh.

At UNC since 2006, Emch collaborates with colleagues and students across health sciences and social sciences to collect information in the field as well as from giant data sets. Their work has contributed to new policies and practices for using cholera vaccines more effectively in Bangladesh and Haiti. Most recently, he has been helping to map malaria in Malawi.

He has mapped locations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nicaragua and many other places where infectious diseases have taken a human toll.

Emch also enjoys teaching undergraduate and graduate students about the power of mapping disease. He is the co-author of Health Geography, a major textbook in which he shares the Snow cholera map that first inspired him.

By Dee Reid

PlayMakers Vivienne Benesch: Creating ‘Richer and Deeper Art’

On Jan. 1, Vivienne Benesch became producing artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence in the College of Arts and Sciences. Recently, she shared her views on creativity. 

Vivienne Benesch (photo by Alison Sheehy)

Vivienne Benesch (photo by Alison Sheehy)

Q: Why are you excited about coming to PlayMakers? 

A: I already felt at home at PlayMakers. I have the great joy of having directed three productions here. And coming to a community with this kind of engaged audience is really the thrilling part.

At my previous position [the Chautauqua Theater Company in New York], there was a commitment to lifelong learning and true value placed on the arts as part of the fabric of what it is to be human, so it feels like a natural fit to come here, where those things are equally valued.

Q: What is your vision for PlayMakers?

A: Intersectionality … is one of my personal loves — discovering the roads of connectivity in the quest for creating richer and deeper art. It’s something that this place does so well already. I’m eager to learn and be part of that interconnectivity because I do think that is what keeps us creative and relevant. One of the ways in which we can stay relevant is by partnering with the many other resources of the University … It’s very important to me that the conversation not stop in this building.

Q: How do you engage creativity in directing?

A: My creativity is at its best in being a great listener and then being brave in experimentation. You have to be incredibly well-prepared, but you also have to be responsive in the moment. There are great directors who come in and know everything. They tell you how your wrist and finger should be, (and) there is freedom in that structure … but your boundaries have to be such that you can also continue to create within them.

Q: How do you engender creativity in actors?

A: Much of it has to do with encouraging and identifying what already lives within them that relates to any given character. If you have cast [a production] well, you have already chosen people for whom a lot of what is necessary exists. Then it’s really a process of encouraging and getting other things out of the way so that the essence of why you cast them can come forward.

Acting is a combination of rigor, bravery and imagination. Each person needs something different to do their best work.

Q: Do the performing arts inspire creativity in audience members?

A: I hope so. In live performing arts, the chemical reaction between the observed and the observer is entirely unique to each person, whether it’s about learning something that you had no idea about before or … whether it makes you angry, or even if you’ve decided that it wasn’t worthwhile … you’re still engaged in the crafting of your own aesthetic, in the constitution of who you are. So the most important thing is walking in the door. It doesn’t have to result in someone going out and creating a painting — no, no, no. It’s engaging your mind.

Read more about Benesch at www.playmakersrep.org/meet-vivienne-benesch/.

Read an American Theatre magazine interview with Benesch about her plans for PlayMakers.

See Sweeney Todd, the last PlayMakers play of the current main-stage season (through April 23).

Interview by L.J. Toler ’76

Entrepreneurial Opportunities Inspire Comic Book Nonprofit

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Will Jarvis (photo by Kristen Chavez)

Will Jarvis ’16 knew two things from an early age: He wanted to attend Carolina, and he wanted to work in venture capital. He counted on UNC and a liberal arts education to help him develop a life path and the skills to walk it.

As Jarvis approaches May graduation with a bachelor’s degree in English, minors in entrepreneurship and the program in philosophy, politics and economics — plus a nonprofit startup he founded that is operating on two continents — Jarvis says UNC delivered.

“Humanities and a liberal arts education are really valuable if you use them correctly,” he said.

Jarvis chose to major in English, inspired by his father, a successful Rocky Mount dentist and UNC English major, and by a biography of John Adams, who said, “If you understand literature and business, you’ll be a great man.”

He then began “reading about philosophy, politics and economics and searching about working with the poor and public policy, trying to figure out how do you make the world a better place?”

Meanwhile, Jarvis’ sister, Faith, then a high school student (now a UNC sophomore), undertook an innovative project for her Girl Scout Gold Award.

“She went to the hospital and asked what they needed to improve kids’ experiences,” Jarvis said. “They said they needed patient education materials … that kids could connect with. So she created these comic books that informed kids about what goes on in the hospital. They were a huge hit.”

Faith moved on to other things, but Jarvis recognized the value of her idea and got involved with Carolina’s entrepreneurial community to learn how to develop it. He participated in the Carolina Challenge Pitch Party, a competition to help students develop entrepreneurial skills.

"Mighty Molly” helps children understand their hospital experience.

“Mighty Molly” helps children understand their hospital experience.

Jarvis snagged a spot in UNC alumnus and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen’s 1789 Venture Lab, a student startup incubator on Franklin Street. With space, support and connections, Jarvis formed a nonprofit, SuperkidCARE, developed a business plan and secured a grant that paid for his sister’s original comic book to be redrawn by a former Marvel comic book artist. He also learned about the College’s entrepreneurship minor.

In the e-minor’s social venture course, William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship James H. Johnson Jr. taught Jarvis how to develop a sustainable nonprofit model and not “depend on the kindness of strangers,” Jarvis said.

The minor also sent Jarvis to China for the Summer Internship in Shanghai program on a Phillips Ambassador Scholarship, where he helped a biotech scientist develop a revenue model for her technology company. She returned the favor, investing in Jarvis’ nonprofit and recruiting others to fund its comic book printing and distribution in China.

Jarvis is now following the advice of UNC chemist-serial entrepreneur Joe DeSimone to “find a rocket ship before it takes off,” searching UNC’s Office of Technology Development files to identify just the right biotech startup to jump onboard and help it soar.

His takeaways from UNC? Knowledge, critical-thinking skills and a powerful network of connections.

“When I decide to do something, I figure out how to get it done,” Jarvis said. “Carolina has given me the basis in theory, critical-thinking skills and connections to do that. It’s like pouring gas on a fire.”

 

By Cyndy Falgout

Celebrating 40 years

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On Oct. 16, 1975, Frank Borden Hanes Sr. oversaw a resolution recommending the creation of the Arts and Sciences Foundation. This feature is one of 40 stories published by the foundation to celebrate four decades of private giving to the College of Arts and Sciences.

In this remarkable photo taken in September 1949 aboard the French Liner SS De Grasse, a young Carolina graduate at the beginning of his distinguished academic career sits in the front row. Roy C. Moose ’49, Ph.D. ’65 is third from the right in the light-colored suit, and was on his way to study English and comparative literature at Oxford University on a Rotary International Fellowship. After earning two more degrees in England, Moose returned to Carolina where he earned his Ph.D.

His beginnings were humble. Born in Catawba County, he was the son of millworkers and never even thought of attending a university. Moose entered Carolina on the G.I. Bill after serving in World War II in the Army Air Corps and as first lieutenant in the Army Intelligence division. He taught at Florida State University for many years before returning to North Carolina to teach at UNC-Charlotte, where he received an award for excellence in teaching and was dubbed “Mr. Shakespeare” by students. He died in 2003.

Roy-Connie-and-Bert-WEBMoose funded the Roy C. Moose Distinguished Professorship in Renaissance Studies and the Roy C. Moose Graduate Student Travel Fund. Darryl Gless, a renowned scholar and beloved teacher, was the first Moose Professor, from 2009 until his death in 2014. Reid Barbour was named the second Roy C. Moose Distinguished Professor in 2015.

“I’m very honored to be the Roy Moose Professor. Darryl was not just my colleague, but my teacher and honors thesis adviser when I was an undergraduate at Carolina in the early 1980s. He meant the world to me,” said Barbour.

Because of the Moose Graduate Student Travel Fund, dozens of graduate students have been able to travel and present research at academic conferences, a critical activity for professional growth.

We thank Naomi Levine of New Jersey, a passenger on the De Grasse, who was sorting through her personal photos and sent this to the Arts and Sciences Foundation. “During that wonderful crossing, 10 days of calm seas, I took some candid photos with my Brownie Box camera of other passengers. We were all students on our way to study in France or England. May Roy’s legacy produce much fruit.”

$3.7 million gift endows the Karen M. Gil Internship Program in Psychology

Kirsten Consing at her internship at the UNC Mother Infant Research Studies through the Karen M. Gil Internship Program in Psychology

Kirsten Consing is a clinical psychology intern who is working with Mother Infant Research Studies at UNC Hospitals. (photo by Kristen Chavez)

In the fall of her senior year, Liz Bailey ’15 of Raleigh had job offers in sales and consulting, but she didn’t think they’d make the best use of her psychology and chemistry majors.

“I didn’t see myself thriving in these positions,” she said. “I had never been exposed to what a career in psychology or research would look like prior to my internship experience.”

That changed last spring when Bailey earned a Karen M. Gil Internship, working at UNC’s Neurocognition and Imaging Research Lab.

“Research is what excites and empowers me. I feel like I am contributing to the greater goal of finding effective treatments for people suffering from schizophrenia and PTSD,” said Bailey, now a research fellow at Tennessee’s Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is applying to Ph.D. programs in which she can focus on improving the diagnosis, understanding and treatment of mental illnesses and neurodegenerative diseases.

Generations of Carolina students will now have similar opportunities.

A Carolina alumna and her husband, who wish to be anonymous, are endowing the Karen M. Gil Internship Fund in Psychology, a program the College of Arts and Sciences piloted in 2014 with startup funding from the same donors. The effort has been so successful that the couple has committed $3.1 million in permanent funding for student stipends and program support, plus $600,000 in funding to continue the program while the endowment builds.

The gift honors Gil, dean of the College from 2009 to 2015, and the Lee G. Pedersen Distinguished Professor of Psychology.

“This generous gift is not only transforming the lives of our students, but it has enormous societal benefits through the work that the program’s alumni will accomplish,” said Kevin M. Guskiewicz, dean of the College. “It is a wonderful tribute to Dean Gil and her leadership of the College, as well as to her achievements as a clinical psychologist.”

More than 40 students have held Gil internships since the pilot program launched in fall 2014, said Steve Buzinski, faculty director of the program.

“The Gil Internships have been revolutionary,” said Buzinski. “They expose interns to the collaborative nature of science as a whole. … We are thrilled that the program will now inspire many more students.”

After a competitive application process, students earn internships in labs, correctional institutes, corporations, mental health centers, public schools or programs for the learning-disabled, a list that continues to grow. Workshops on professionalism, best practices for writing CVs, resumes and other job- or graduate school-related materials are part of the Gil internship program.

Rowan Hunt ’16, a psychology and economics double major from Mullica Hill, N.J., was a Gil intern in fall 2015 at Veritas Collaborative, an eating disorder treatment center in Durham, N.C.

“The internship really deepened my understanding of eating disorders, and the field of clinical psychology as a whole. Between volunteering in the lab for the past four semesters and taking psychology classes, I’ve amassed a broad understanding of mental illness, but understanding these things on an academic level is completely different from having tangible, clinical experience with the population,” said Hunt.

“I’ve also learned how much business goes into sustaining a successful private treatment center like Veritas. It not only requires having a talented clinical staff of psychiatrists, doctors and therapists, but also requires a lot of support staff and administrative staff. I didn’t think that my economics degree would be helpful in my role as an intern, but I learned a surprising amount about business in my time in the program.”

After she graduates this spring, Hunt hopes to work for a couple of years before pursuing her Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She is working as a part-time therapeutic assistant at Veritas and is also considering research assistant positions.

Daniel Horschler ’16, a psychology and anthropology double major and first-generation college student from High Point, N.C., was in the first group of Gil interns. His internship at Lenovo led to work there as a user experience researcher, a position that he held through his senior year.

“I knew that I loved research, and I saw the program as an excellent way to find out about what psychology research is like outside of an academic setting. The most surprising thing about my internship has been finding out how much psychology research is valued at major corporations like Lenovo,” said Horschler.

Horschler is applying to Ph.D. programs to research the evolution of the human mind, an area related to his internship last summer at Yale University’s Canine Cognition Center; his Gil internship likely strengthened his application to this highly competitive program.

For Bailey, the Gil internship opened a whole new world.

“The internship stipend gave me the financial freedom to spend my time working in the lab rather than waiting tables, and opened my eyes to my calling as a researcher,” said Bailey. “Without the internship, I never would have known how truly passionate I am about neuroscience and clinical psychology research. I feel as if I have made a flawless transition from an undergraduate to an influential career-oriented adult.”

For more information about the Gil Internship, contact Steve Buzinski, faculty director of the program, gilinternship@email.unc.edu, 919-962-4155. To read more about the interns and their experiences, go to gilinternshipblog.web.unc.edu. Watch a video of the program at http://college.unc.edu/2015/08/06/gilinterns/.

By Del Helton

Honoring legend, marking a milestone

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Friends are raising money to support graduate students in honor of Stu Chapin’s 100th birthday.

When faculty, alumni and students gather in April to mark the 70th anniversary of the department of city and regional planning, they will also celebrate the 100th birthday of one of the department’s founding members, F. Stuart Chapin Jr.

Chapin joined the faculty in 1949 and retired in 1978. Author of the pioneering textbook Urban Land Use Planning, now in its fifth edition, he is credited with leading the integration of social science into city and regional planning.

To commemorate his birthday on April 1, the department launched a campaign to raise $100,000 in Chapin’s honor to support graduate students in city and regional planning. As of early March, more than 130 alumni, faculty and friends had contributed nearly $120,000.

“Gifts made in Stu’s honor will strengthen our ongoing leadership in areas dear to him, such as sustainability, climate change, and land use and the environment,” said Roberto Quercia, professor and department chair.

After he retired in 1978, Chapin moved to White Salmon, Wash., to serve as the governor’s appointee on the Columbia River Gorge Commission. At 99, he continues to be active, taking hikes and focusing on the importance of natural resource planning.

His legacy lives on in Chapel Hill and beyond. At Carolina, he and his wife established the F. Stuart Chapin Jr. and Mildred L. Chapin Endowment Fund, which supports natural resource planning and management in the department.

Richard Brail earned his Ph.D. in planning in 1969 and had a distinguished academic career in planning at Rutgers University. Chapin was his mentor and thesis adviser. He recalled that Chapin invited him to join a small group class on urban spatial structure in his second year of the master’s program, which ultimately led him to join the doctoral program.

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New East is the home of the department of city and regional planning. (Illustration by Daniel Hedglin)

“He was very instrumental in my career,” Brail said. “He was very warm, respectful, very professional and very organized. I think the word to describe him would be integrity — he is a man of gentle integrity.”

Frank Skrivanek, who earned his master’s degree in planning under Chapin in 1954 and enjoyed a distinguished career in city planning in Honolulu, says he owes his career to Stu Chapin.

“Professor Chapin taught me that if I’m taking a job, I’ve got to know something about the economics of that area,” Skrivanek recalled. “Is it a city that has enough jobs to support its people, or is it a satellite community where they are dependent on other cities? He always said that you’ve got to know if the community is growing. When you do land-use planning, you have to accommodate those growth possibilities.”

David Godschalk (’64 MRP, ’71 Ph.D.), who studied under Chapin and later co-wrote an updated edition of Urban Land Use Planning with him, attributed much of Chapin’s success to his dual identity as a planner and a scholar.

“He really understood what the two big questions were for city planners: ‘How do cities grow and develop?’ and ‘How can planners guide that growth toward community goals?’,” said Godschalk, Stephen Baxter professor emeritus. “That’s what’s given his work such staying power.”

To make a gift in Chapin’s honor, visit http://planning.unc.edu/giving. Watch a 2010 video featuring Chapin’s memories of the department at https://vimeo.com/10728059.

By Joanna Cardwell (M.A. ’06)

Creativity, in Quotes: Callie Brauel

aBANonNeglectphotowithchildQ: How is creativity important to your work as an entrepreneur?

A: Creativity is essential to entrepreneurs. Ultimately, the goal is to solve a useful problem that few people have tried to solve because it’s difficult or unpleasant. So what it requires is thinking differently — successful entrepreneurs often solve problems by creatively re-framing the question. It also involves many and frequent road blocks which can be discouraging. But a great entrepreneur uses those dead ends as a creative opportunity to change direction or focus in a positive way that results in a better outcome. I once heard this creatively described by a successful entrepreneur as “failing forward.”

Q: What gets your creative juices flowing?

A: Mostly nature, which is a terrific, patient and elegant problem-solver! I walk my dogs in the woods and use the time to let my mind wander and enjoy the quiet surroundings. Often, when a mind is disengaged — like in a shower — it recognizes a solution that was there all along.

Q: What’s your biggest “fail?” How and what did you learn from that experience?

A: Probably when reality fails to meet my expectations. Entrepreneurs tend to be big thinkers and that’s important when tackling really big, tough problems. And it’s easy to get impatient about outcomes! People and processes don’t always move as fast — or in the direction — that you want them to, so it’s important to learn to be open to letting things unfold at the pace they need to. You can’t rush a rose to bloom!

Callie Brauel (business/economics ’09)

Co-founder and U.S. board vice-chair, A Ban Against Neglect (ABAN), which provides young mothers in Ghana with a safe haven, educational and social services, and entrepreneurial skills through the sale of handmade products from recycled materials like plastic water sachets and glass bottles.

Creativity, in Quotes: Gregory DeCandia

Gregory DeCandia in rehearsal of "Silhouettes of Service." (photo by Kristen Chavez)

Gregory DeCandia in rehearsal of “Silhouettes of Service.” (photo by Kristen Chavez)

Q: How is creativity important to your work as an actor and playwright?

A: Creativity holds the answer to any conflict. Creativity presents a palate of possibilities while struggling to construct a complicated character, attempting to craft a work that truthfully speaks to a community and simply trying to navigate a meaningful existence.

Q: What gets your creative juices flowing?

A: I am always electrified after witnessing any fits of passion: a play, a poem, paintings, graffiti art, television, a YouTube post, the complexities of an argument, the infectious beat of a song — the list goes on and on.

Q: What’s your biggest “fail?” How and what did you learn from that experience?

A: My biggest “fail” was not learning from prior from experiences but rather plotting revenge. For many years I deemed this seemingly infinite vengeful energy as inspiration but its negative root began to permeate my collaborative process and poison possibilities. My primary focus in the UNC Professional Actor Training Program has been to eradicate my pessimism, and what I’ve learned is it is a daily struggle but delivers dynamic results.

Gregory DeCandia

PlayMakers Repertory Company Member

UNC MFA Candidate ’16, Professional Actor Training Program

Documentary Playwright, Silhouettes of Service