December 17, 2003

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

International Coverage

Pre-kindergarten programs gaining favor
United Press International
The Universities of North Carolina, Virginia and California are completing a study of the effectiveness of state-funded pre-kindergarten....The study in California, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and New York is being conducted by the National Center for Early Development and Learning at the University of North Carolina, known as NCEDL.

National Coverage

The Lost Gospels
Time
And yet according to the new book Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, by Bart Ehrman, it was Holy Writ for several centuries to some early Christian communities in the Middle East.
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Note: Bart Ehrman, professor of religious studies, is scheduled to be on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air" program on WUNC-FM tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss his book "Lost Christianities" about the gospels and other texts that are not in the New Testament.

A glance at the November issue of Health Psychology: Fraternities,
sororities, and post-college drinking habits
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Fraternity and sorority members tend to drink heavily during college, but not later in life, according to a study conducted by Bruce D. Bartholow, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Kenneth J. Sher, a professor of psychology at the University of Missouri at Columbia; and Jennifer L. Krull, an assistant professor of psychology at Missouri.
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State and Local Coverage

Martin saw the guitar as art
The Charlotte Observer
Martin guitars have been the Holy Grail of generations of acoustic pickers -- the product of a century and a half of refining the Old World tradition of craftsmanship with evolving industrial technology....By the time Martin died in 1873, the architecture of today's Martin guitar was established. UNC professor Philip Gura meticulously traces the development of a blooming industry through letters, handwritten ledgers and inventories from family archives.

Carolina North: A sensitive environment
The Chapel Hill News
The web of trails that crisscross the Horace Williams Tract are well-used, but you can hike for hours without seeing anyone other than the chipmunks and wrens that flit among the fallen limbs, the red-bellied woodpeckers that glide from tree to tree and, if you're sharp-eyed and lucky, the deer looking back at you from within the stands of pine.
Note: This story is the latest installment in a series of articles about Carolina North.

North Haven residents seek buffer
The Chapel Hill Herald
Carolina North could grow close to the neighborhood
If you could turn the still pages of UNC's 50-year plan for its Carolina North campus into a motion picture, the new buildings and roads would advance steadily across the southern part of the property in a direct line toward the north haven neighborhood.

Specifics of 5-decade plan not yet outlined
The Chapel Hill Herald
As with many questions about Carolina North, the answer to exactly how UNC
would shield neighborhoods from the ongoing, decades-long construction required
to build the new campus isn't yet clear...."It's too early to say specifically how we'd
do that," said Tony Waldrop, vice chancellor for research and economic
development at UNC and the leader of the Carolina North planning effort.

$1M grant fuels Duke-UNC medical program
Triangle Business Journal
Duke University Medical Center, UNC Hospitals and other health care-related entities have received a grant of nearly $1 million to collaborate on a program designed to improve patient care by fighting physician fatigue.

Which college entrance exam is right for you?
The Fayetteville Observer
SAT, ACT - it's an alphabet soup that that numbs the brains (not to mention the rear ends) and sours the stomachs of millions of high school students each year....That's a logic that seems to have hit more Cumberland County seniors in recent years. At one time, the SAT was a runaway choice for college-bound students in North Carolina. It was required for anyone trying to enter the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as the majority of private colleges.

Big splash
The Chapel Hill News
Lately it's been looking like Daniel Wallace might just be a big fish himself....The film, which is directed by Tim Burton, stars Albert Finney, Ewan McGregor, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham-Carter, Danny DeVito and Billy Crudup, a UNC graduate.

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