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UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health naming ceremony
Friday, Sept. 26, 2008
11 a.m.
Michael Hooker Research Center
UNC-Chapel Hill campus

Media representatives are invited to attend the celebration on Friday (Sept. 26) marking the naming of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health.

The naming celebrates a $50 million gift to the school from Dennis and Joan Gillings. The Gillings’ gift is the largest single gift ever made to the University.

The Gillingses pledged the gift in February 2007. The naming ceremony marks the initiation of several programs supported by the gift. The University will use the gift to focus on ways to anticipate and accelerate solutions to the public health needs of this century.

Speakers at the event will include Erskine Bowles, president of the University of North Carolina system; Holden Thorp, UNC chancellor; Roger Perry, chair of the UNC Board of Trustees; Barbara K. Rimer, dean of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; and Dennis and Joan Gillings.

Dennis Gillings, Ph.D., spent 17 years as a biostatistics professor at UNC’s School of Public Health. Joan Gillings was formerly a staff member there. For the past 26 years, Gillings has built and led Quintiles Transnational Corp.

For more information, visit: www.sph.unc.edu

School of Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, (919) 966-7467, ramona_dubose@unc.edu
News Services contact: Patric Lane, (919) 962-8596, patric_lane@unc.edu

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