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LANDFALL FOUNDATION AWARDS LOCAL GRANTS
The Landfall Foundation last month announced nearly $500,000 in grants to benefit local nonprofits and schools. The foundation presented checks to eighty-eight groups, ranging from arts organizations such as Opera House Theatre Company to educational programs such as Young Scientist Academy (file photo shown above) to health initiatives such as Cape Fear HealthNet.
Earlier this year, the foundation, which gets its support from residents of the community through fundraising events, also gave $65,000 in capital grants to The Children’s Museum of Wilmington, StepUp Wilmington, and the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. Another $9,200 went to the Landfall employee’s scholarship program.
The foundation has distributed $6.8 million since it was created in 1995.
HEALTH CARE HEROES RECOGNIZED HILL SCHOOL ADDS TO STAFF, BOARD
UNCW PROFESSOR EARNS INDUSTRY NOD
Health providers, professionals, and volunteers were recognized last month during the 2022 Health Care Heroes awards event. The awards, put on by WILMA’s sister publication Greater Wilmington Business Journal, recognized finalists and winners in eight categories as well as a lifetime achievement honor that this year went to retired cardiologist Richard Tamisiea.
Category winners included:
ERIN LAMBERT, who along with LANCE LEWIS, took home the Innovation in Health Care category for their work with Novant Health Coastal region’s Pulmonary Embolus Response Team.
MARIAN SMITH, a nurse with Well Care Health, won the Nurse category.
CANDY LEE (above), Memory Partners program manager for Lower Cape Fear LifeCare, earned the Community Achievement award.
And SANDRA DINAPOLI, a patient representative for Wilmington Health, was the inaugural winner in the Unsung Hero category.
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The Hill School of Wilmington announced the appointment of CATHY BARLOW to its board of directors.
Barlow began her career as a special education teacher and held leadership positions in K-12 schools for decades years before moving into higher education. She joined the University of North Carolina Wilmington as dean of education in 2000.
She went on to serve as UNCW provost and returned from retirement in 2015 to serve an additional two years as interim vice provost during a period of transition for the university.
The school also announced the addition of three teachers: ELIZABETH BARBARO, HANNA BARKLEY, and MARY BETH MOORE.
Barbaro received her bachelor’s degree from Long Island University and master’s degree from Bank Street College of Education. Barkley (above) is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a teaching certification in elementary education. Moore received a bachelor’s and master’s degree from UNCW.
The Hill School of Wilmington is a nonprofit organization that offers a half-day academic program for students in grades 1-8 with learning.
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KIMBERLY COOK, a professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington’s sociology and criminology department, received the Division on Critical Criminology & Social Justice Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology.
The award, the highest honor of the division, recognizes sustained and distinguished scholarship, teaching, and service in critical criminology.
Cook was recognized for her scholarship and activism in the fields of violence against women, wrongful convictions, feminist criminology, restorative justice, and survivor criminology.
“I went to college as a single mother on welfare after surviving domestic violence. I know what being marginalized and exploited is like,” Cook says. “Pursuing social justice with my academic expertise as an available tool allows me to integrate my personal and professional commitments with humility and determination.
“I am honored to receive this award from my academic peers, and I’m deeply grateful to the many community partners who welcome my involvement. They earned this award too.”
The American Society of Criminology is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency.
