The Durham public school system’s construction and capital planning department will host a community information meeting tonight to review the new Middle School B project near Snow Hill Road and Treyburn.
Information will be presented about the school site and adjacent city parks, the building design and its capacity, and the design and construction schedule. District staff will also answer questions from community members.
The meeting will be held today from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the auditorium at Northern High School, 117 Tom Wilkerson Road.
Kremen honored by Durham Academy
Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist who won a so-called “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation two years, will receive Durham Academy’s 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award.
Kremen will be presented with the award Friday morning at a breakfast attended by DA seniors and alumni. She will participate in assemblies at the academy’s middle and upper schools and conduct a lunchtime seminar that day.
Kremen, a 1978 academy graduate, holds a B.S. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Duke. As a leader of a conservation planning initiative in Madagascar, she used adaptive management and predictive mapping to design and establish protected and multiple-use areas in Madagascar’s largest nature reserve. More recently, she has investigated bees, a critical component of the global food web; more than half of all flowering agricultural crops are pollinated by bees.
Currently, Kremen serves on the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley. She is the daughter of Irwin and Barbara Kremen of Durham.
CNCS to hold third annual challenge
The Corporation for National and Community Service and a large array of partners have teamed up for the third annual National Learn and Serve Challenge. The Challenge is a national sustained, focused effort to promote youth civic engagement and service-learning, a hands-on teaching method that engages young people in solving problems within their schools and communities as part of their academic studies.
Information about the initiative, including a list of projects taking place this year, is available at learnandservechallenge.org.
Four awarded scholarships
Four Durhamites have been awarded scholarships by the Alamance Community College Foundation. The students and their fields of study are Marcus Allen, industrial systems technology; Christy Laguardia, advertising and graphic design; Juan Upegui, university transfer; and Chukwunenye Uzochukwu, pre-nursing.
