Among many other recognitions, awards, and board positions, he is a recipient of the James Madison Award from the American Library Association, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the Advisory Commission of the Standing Committee of Public Education of the American Bar Association, a member of the Carolina Ballet Board of Trustees, and a member of the Boards of Directors of the Triangle Research Libraries Network, the Triangle Research Universities Consortium, and the Research Triangle Institute. Network newsman Garrick Utley hosts the full series. Well-known personalities host individual programs, many of whom have had personal involvement with the brain disease or research under discussion. That segment will be heard Dec. 17. We spend a third of our lives sleeping, that averages about 25 years total.
Research now shows the sleeping brain is as active as the working brain, and perhaps more.
Sunday's program explores the value of healthy sleep, which some say is more important to general health than diet, exercise or heredity. Future programs will be hosted by Mandy Patinkin, Pat Summerall, Natalie Portman, Frank Gifford, Judy Woodruff, Patricia Neal, Samantha Eggar and Robin McNeil.