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April 22, 2004
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:International News Coverage
Study: Huge volcano eruptions are uncommon
United Press International
University of North Carolina study suggests gigantic volcano eruptions capable of threatening human extinction may not be as common as once thought.
National Coverage
As Wealthy Fill Top Colleges, New Efforts to Level the Field
The New York Times
At prestigious universities around the country, from flagship state colleges to the Ivy League, more and more students from upper-income families are edging out those from the middle class, according to university data....Officials at Harvard, the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia all recently announced similar, even more generous policies.
Arts Briefing
The New York Times
The boyhood home of Thomas Wolfe, a National Historic Landmark that was burned by an arsonist on July 24, 1998, is to reopen to the public this weekend....It has been renovated to its condition in 1916, the year Wolfe (1900-1938) left to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
SAS workers won when greed lost
USA Today
Jim Goodnight, the lanky, laconic CEO of software company SAS Institute, has been praised over and over for creating one of the world's best places to work...."It would have destroyed the culture," says Al Segars, professor at the nearby University of North Carolina's business school.
Bodacious bed-heads
Portsmouth Herald
It's that first look, the one that leaves you asking, "What creature has taken residence among my follicles."....An article in the April 1994 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine shed light on the source of bad hair days. In a study conducted at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill, it was determined that using too-hot hair utensils - such as blow dryers, straighteners, crimpers and the like - was the culprit.
Regional Coverage
BCC aims to boost science education
Sun-News, Myrtle Beach
Brunswick Community College trustees agreed Wednesday to a partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to help improve science education at the college and lure biotechnology businesses to the county....UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser and several politicians and state education officials are expected to attend.
State & Local Coverage
UNC quad dedicated to chemist
The Chapel Hill Herald
In his 44 years at UNC, Royce Murray has seen a lot of faculty colleagues come and go, many leaving little more than a temporary imprint on this large, ever-changing university.
Note: Also covering the event were television stations WRAL, WTVD, WB and News 14. Other outlets covering the event included NC Now (UNC-TV, Research Triangle Park) and WUNC-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate.Building a future
The Daily Tar Heel
The University officially celebrated the groundbreaking for the largest construction project in UNC-Chapel Hill history Wednesday -- the $205 million Carolina Physical Science Complex.
Driving time, heart attacks linked by EPA study in N.C.
The Charlotte Observer
Long hours behind the wheel bombard drivers with air pollutants that trigger changes increasing the chance of heart attacks, the Environmental Protection Agency says....EPA scientists, working with the Highway Patrol and UNC Chapel Hill researchers, put pollutant monitors inside the patrol cars in the summer and fall of 2001.
Top manager of UNC-CH endowment fund to leave
N.C. Associated Press
The private company affiliated with the University of North Carolina that manages its $1 billion endowment fund will resign this summer after six years on the job.
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http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-472861.htmlIsolation a problem for area's elderly
The Herald Sun
The Triangle is attractive to retirees, but even here, it isn't easy being gray if you're also isolated....Florence Soltys, an associate clinical professor in the UNC School of Medicine and chairwoman of Services to the Older Adult and Their Families in the School of Social Work, said two-thirds of all people in U.S. history who have survived to the age of 65 are living today.
Issues & Trends
Losing Our Edge? (Commentary)
The New York Times
I was just out in Silicon Valley, checking in with high-tech entrepreneurs about the state of their business. I wouldn't say they were universally gloomy, but I did detect something I hadn't detected before: a real undertow of concern that America is losing its competitive edge vis-à-vis China, India, Japan and other Asian tigers, and that the Bush team is deaf, dumb and blind to this situation.
U.S. science losing its edge, group warns Plea to boost federal funds for research
San Francisco Chronicle
A new coalition of research universities and high-tech companies opened a public campaign Tuesday to implore the federal government to increase funding for basic research as their answer to the job losses hitting the U.S. workforce as a result of offshoring.
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