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UNC School of Nursing alumna Melissa Dixon LeVine and her husband Harry LeVine III recently made a $600,000 bequest to establish an endowed professorship that will promote healthy living.

The gift pushed the nursing school above its $15 million fundraising goal for the Carolina First Campaign, a comprehensive, multi-year, private fundraising campaign that has raised more than $2 billion to support Carolina’s vision of becoming the nation’s leading public university. The nursing school now has raised 103 percent of its goal. The LeVines also honored the memory of Harry’s mother as part of the campaign by designating a roof-top garden tile in her name for the new School of Nursing building addition.

The $600,000 bequest will fund the Melissa D. and Harry LeVine III Distinguished Professorship in Quality of Life, Health Promotion and Wellness, cementing the LeVine’s legacy of promoting wellness and workplace health and wellbeing. Melissa, BSN ’77, MSN ’81, and Harry have long supported school programs that advance those goals.

“Through my nursing career and motherhood, I learned how important it is to pay attention to physical and emotional stress,” Melissa said. “I want Carolina to keep teaching those valuable lessons about good health to people who can pass them along to others.”
 
In addition to this bequest, in 2000 the LeVines established the LeVine Wellness Program to promote healthy lifestyle activities, including exercise and weight control, for the faculty and staff.

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