April 14, 2004

Carolina in the News

Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:

National Coverage

For now, conventional colonoscopy deemed more reliable
USA Today
Patients weighing the merits of colon cancer screening tests should stick with conventional colonoscopies at least for now rather than "virtual" procedures, according to research published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association....The two studies show the difference between colonoscopies performed under ideal circumstances and those done in the real world, said David Ransohoff, a medicine and epidemiology professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Related link: http://www.forbes.com/health/feeds/hscout/2004/04/13/hscout518355.html

Cancer detector questioned
National Associated Press
Virtual colonoscopy - a cancer-detecting procedure that gives doctors a computer-generated three-dimensional view of the colon - is less reliable than traditional colonoscopies and not ready for widespread use, according to a new study...."The differences between what virtual colonoscopy can do and what it will do if applied in ordinary practice circumstances are so great that physicians must be cautious," Dr. David Ransohoff of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill said in a JAMA editorial.


Q&A With Frederic Brooks, Director Of IBM 360 Project
Information Week
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederic P. Brooks Jr. captured the hopeful nature of ambitious computer programmers and documented the many ways their efforts can crash and burn....It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I left IBM after the project and moved to Chapel Hill to start the computer science department there. [Brooks founded the department at the University of North Carolina, one of the first such departments in the nation....

Southern governors shun Hunley funeral
National Associated Press
Fourteen Southern governors were invited to this weekend's funeral for the crew of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley and none will attend, not even the governor of South Carolina....Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program in Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at the University of North Carolina, said this generation of Southern governors tends to be more state-focused and concerned with controlling spending during these days of tight budgets.

The life of a jockey is thrills and spills
The Seattle Times
Bryson Cooper can't remember how many bones he has broken....A University of North Carolina study concluded what any jockey could tell you: Riding is a dangerous sport.

John Cohen Photographs
artdaily.com
Yesterday the Annual Lehman Brady Lecture and Reception at the Center for Documentary Studies offered a screening of The High Lonesome Sound, images from the book There Is No Eye: John Cohen Photographs, and conversation and music with John Cohen....Photographer, filmmaker, folklorist, and musician John Cohen (of the New Lost City Ramblers) is the Lehman Brady Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for Spring 2004.

Regional Coverage

University develops aid program to ease rising debt for students
The Diamondback, University of Maryland's student newspaper
About 500 needy incoming freshmen will qualify for a new university program designed to eliminate or reduce skyrocketing debt among college students through a combination of grants and on-campus work, officials announced this week....The program follows the lead of two other public universities: the University of Virginia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State & Local Coverage

Music industry in uproar over UNC research
The News & Observer
Koleman Strumpf, associate professor of economics at UNC-Chapel Hill, finished a paper last month that was sure to bore.

Fence helps shields UNC construction
The Chapel Hill News
For Mason Farm Road residents, the grass, and the fence, is a little greener on the other side...."It's a normal part of any project to put up a construction fence with that tarp or cover over them," said Bruce Runberg, vice chancellor for planning and construction.

Women cross cultures to help other women
The Chapel Hill News
Scattered around Carrboro Elementary School's cafeteria Monday night were unlikely pairings of women: fresh-faced UNC-Chapel Hill students and immigrants, most of them Hispanic and most of them mothers.

Roses and Raspberries
The Chapel Hill News
Roses to Roy Williams and the UNC Athletics Department for doing the right thing and withdrawing JamesOn Curry's basketball scholarship.

Issues and Trends

Need-Based Aid Beats Merit-Based Programs at Increasing College Access, Scholars Find
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A privately financed scholarship program in Washington State strongly improves students' odds of attending college, two researchers announced on Monday at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
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