December 16, 2003

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

International Coverage

Opportunities seized
Financial Times
When in 1997, Lu Fuyuan, then vice-minister of China's ministry of education, told delegates in Chicago at the Global Forum on Management Education that his country would be needing up to 1.4m MBA graduates in the following decade, US business schools took note....Jack Kasarda, professor of management at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, believes that the increasingly global nature of business is another reason US schools cannot afford to ignore Asia.
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National Coverage

How UNC Picks "the Best"
Business Week
Says Admissions Director Sherrylyn Wallace: "We want to enroll people who can handle a rigorous curriculum, and who are driven"

Recognizing Productivity Problems
The Washington Post
Mel Levine has been studying the learning process for 25 years as a professor, researcher and author....Levine is director of the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning at the University of North Carolina and a professor of pediatrics at the university's medical school.

A Weekly Shot of News and Notes
The Washington Post
IT'S NOT WHAT YOU EAT . . . A person's risk of colon cancer may depend more on how much they eat rather than what they eat, researchers report in the American Journal of Epidemiology....As lead investigator Jessie Satia-Abouta of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill explained, "The results of the study suggest that high intakes of total energy -- calories -- and individual macronutrients -- carbohydrates, protein and fat -- may increase risk for colon cancer."

U. of I. receives $4.5 million entrepreneurship grant
Chicago Tribune
A plan to establish an entrepreneurial-activities academy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign received a $4.5 million grant Monday from a Missouri foundation....Other grant recipients were Florida International University, Miami, $3 million; Howard, $3.1 million; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, $3.5 million; University of Rochester, $3.5 million; University of Texas-El Paso, $2 million; Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., $2.16 million; and Washington University, St. Louis, $3 million.
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FIU thrilled to get $3M grant
The Miami Herald

UNC News release

Technology: Less for Computer Systems but More for Security
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Budget cuts and shifting priorities will force many colleges to hold off investing in computing systems and electronic learning while spending more on computer security in the coming year....The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this year shut down a computer-training center, closed several computer labs on campus, and eliminated dial-up modem service after sustaining three consecutive years of declining financial support from the state.

State and Local Coverage

Carolina looks inward for a dean (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
During all the recent talk about the massive research park that Carolina North will be, it might have been easy to forget what Carolina South -- that is, the current UNC campus -- has been, and still is. For more than 200 years, the nation's first public university has been a place where excellent teachers impart knowledge to eager students.

Saddam's capture ends woman's personal terror
The Herald-Sun
The call came at about 5:30 Sunday morning, bringing with it a moment as sweet as Maha Alattar has ever experienced....Alattar is a UNC neurologist, a naturalized American born in Iraq and schooled in the United States.

Issues and Trends

McCrory: Renaming UNCC would benefit city
The Charlotte Observer
The latest push to change the name of UNC Charlotte isn't coming from students, alumni or anybody else at the university....Another problem, he says, is that it's easy to confuse UNCC with UNC Chapel Hill.

Sewage-plant project submitted
The News & Observer
The Orange Water and Sewer Authority has submitted a plan to the town of Chapel Hill to expand the agency's Mason Farm Road wastewater-treatment plan....It would also meet state standards for water reuse, paving the way for a UNC and OWASA to examine the possibility of using reclaimed water for non-drinking purposes on campus.

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