News and Notes

Student has one-person show in Dallas "Natural Impressions, The Art of Pressed Leaves and Clay" is the name of Pavlina Panova's exhibit through June 30 at the TVAA Gallery in the Plaza of the Americas in downtown Dallas.

All month Pavlina will demonstrate her unique method of making art from pressed leaves and powdered flowers, ground coffee, corn silk and other natural earth materials. Also on exhibit are the clay works, both pottery, carved sculpture and jewelry, that she created at NLC.

The NLC student and ceramic lab assistant celebrated her 10th year in the U.S., and her show is part of that celebration. Now a U.S. citizen, Pavlina grew up in Bulgaria when it was under the Russian communist regime, and won the immigrant lottery in her country that allowed her family to come to the U.S. in 1999. She is working on her associate's at North Lake College with a major in art.

Her one-person show includes more than 100 pieces of work. At the June 6 reception, Pavilina prepared a Bulgarian feast for all the guests.

One of her pieces, "Fairy Forest," has been purchased by the college for the NLC Permanent Art Collection.

District purchases land for NLC If you're wondering who purchased the land on Walnut Hill next to North Lake College, it was the Dallas County Community College District, who bought the property for NLC to use in the future.

In an e-mail to the campus, North Lake president Dr. Herlinda Glasscock said the recent aquisition "helps offset the land that will be taken up by the DART station," which will be located on campus and is scheduled for completion in 2012.

Glasscock said she appreciated the support of the chancellor, Dr. Wright Lassiter, Ed DesPlas, Vice Chancellor of Business Affairs, and the DCCCD Board of Trustees because "they are mindful of the future of our college."

Biology lab associate headed to Oxford Gabe Borvak, a laboratory associate in biology, has been selected to work at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford as a research assistant for the latter part of this year.

Marilyn Mays, dean of Math, Science & Sports Sciences, said Borvak will be working on influenza virus nucleoproteins in the lab of Frank T. Vreede.