Going Green by Example: A Virtual Tour of the Turkish Cultural Center
The Turkish Cultural Center on East Franklin Street has opened and brings to Chapel Hill a wonderful example of a green building. Funded in part by the foundation of UNC professor and Nobel Prize winner Aziz Sancar, the new Community Center will create a home for interactions between American students and Turkish students at UNC, and sets a great example of a green building. In 2015, Sancar won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work mapping the cellular mechanisms that underlie DNA repair.
At this event, “Going Green by Example,” Gwen Sancar takes us on a virtual tour of the Turkish Cultural Center. Then, participants can ask panel members questions about the film and the special features of this remarkable building.
Going Green by Example: A Virtual Tour of the Turkish Cultural Center
Watch the Virtual Tour with Gwen Sancar:
Panel members are Gwen Boles Sancar, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, retired Professor of Physics and Sustainable Energy Professional Tom Henkel, and Orange County Visitors Center Director Laurie Paolicelli.
The Center contains 9,700 square-foot of environmentally sustainable space with classrooms for students, a kitchen, as well as a two-story, low-cost guest house that will host up to eight Turkish students or scholars.
Aziz and Gwen Sancar hope the Turkish Cultural & Community Center will serve as a facility for all citizens of Chapel Hill for the purpose of promoting tolerance and understanding, as well as to provide a place for Turks to celebrate their culture.
To attend this virtual event by Zoom, please send a request to info@chalt.org.