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Dec. 1, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
Regional Coverage
Panel backs large R&D investment
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
A state panel is recommending Maine annually invest 1 percent of all General Fund spending in research and development efforts, increasing that to 3 percent over several years. Currently, each percent would raise an estimated $30 million a year. ...At an October meeting, the panel heard from researchers based at the University of North Carolina, who estimated Maine was getting $6 to $7 back for every $1 the state has invested in research and development. Members of the panel are convinced further investments will result in significant new jobs and economic activity in the state.
State and Local Coverage
Carolina North wiggle room?
The Chapel Hill Herald
With community leaders again pressuring UNC to keep 75 percent of Carolina North as open space in perpetuity, one university official offered a bit of a compromise Thursday. ...The open space compromise came in the middle of the group's discussion about building heights at Carolina North, the UNC campus off of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard that would mix academic, research and residential space.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/161/story/516374.html
http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=2364No decision yet on UNC committee
The Chapel Hill Herald
It remains to be seen whether the Town Council will go for a proposal from UNC to create a new committee related to the university's growth around its edges.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/161/story/516559.htmlSports and Money
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill)
If Butch Davis’ contract is any indication, the formula for success in college sports is: more money=more wins. But State of Things correspondent Dave DeWitt explains why the relationship between money and victory in the college arena is a bit more complicated. Plus, UNC-Chapel Hill students James Hill and Andrew Reagan join our conversation to discuss the economics of the Carolina Panthers.
Note: "The State of Things" is the statewide public affairs program airing live at noon weekdays and rebroadcast at 9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays and 6 a.m. on Saturdays.
Davis' assistants may be pricey
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
New North Carolina football coach Butch Davis will average a $1.86 million paycheck over the next seven years, even without bonuses. ...It is already off to a good start. UNC doesn't usually begin football season ticket sales until April; but to coincide with the formal introduction of Davis as coach, it launched a marketing campaign Monday.
Related link: http://www.newsobserver.com/1113/story/516574.html
Out in the cold? (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
I admit I had to laugh a little at a Nov. 29 People's Forum letter. The writer was appalled that UNC-Chapel Hill had just agreed to pay over a million dollars a year for a football coach, while professors struggle to make ends meet.
Former UNC President, Others Criticize High Coaching Salaries
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
When former NFL coach Butch Davis was introduced as the new head football coach at the University of North Carolina earlier this week, his $1.7 million salary raised eyebrows, including those of former UNC president Bill Friday.Bus tour aims to put more students in science careers
The Robesonian (Lumberton)
With a furrowed brow and a surgeon's touch, Victoria Bullard extracts a tiny amount of blue dye from a plastic tube. ...The biology students at Red Springs High are getting hands-on lab experience inside a 40-foot bus -the University of North Carolina at Chapel's Hill's Traveling Science Laboratory.
UNC Media Advisory: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2006/destinyredsprings112706.htm
Medical school gets HIV study grants
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The medical school at UNC-Chapel Hill has been awarded $22 million in grants for HIV-related clinical research over a seven-year period, school officials said Thursday.
Author Tyson wins religion award
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
For a book whose publisher worried it might be perceived as a religious work, "Blood Done Sign My Name" has done particularly well among church and Sunday school groups. ..."I'm very proud and pleased, and a little baffled," Tyson said in a phone interview Thursday from his home in Chapel Hill. Tyson is a historian at both Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill.
Related link: http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_
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http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/12/2006120106n.htmIn the wings
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
If you like your entertainment more holly-jolly, consider checking out "The Christmas Letters," a new musical adaptation of Lee Smith's novella. .... The musical was adapted and directed by UNC professor Paul Ferguson ("Good Ol' Girls," "Killer Diller" and "The Devil's Dream").
State toughens up on DWI today
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Sweeping new DWI laws that take effect today will make it easier to punish drunken drivers -- and, supporters hope, to make North Carolina's highways safer for everyone else... Rob Foss, a senior researcher at the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, agrees that the laws will not produce great changes.
A life aimed at easing poverty
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Many families would trumpet a connection to one of America's forebears. But George Esser was closemouthed about his family's descent from Thomas Jefferson. ..."When you have someone in your background like Mr. Jefferson always being held up as a heroic model, there's a certain type of young man who will aspire to equal that," said Kate Dobbs Ariail, who helped Esser organize his papers for donation to UNC's Southern Historical Collection.
Officials debate panel's autonomy
The Winston-Salem Journal
Since annexation took effect in September, new Winston-Salem residents with working septic systems have complained about paying sewer-related charges for a service they don't need. ...There are pros and cons to having the members of the utility commission appointed, said Carl Stenberg, a professor of public administration and government at the University of North Carolina's Institute of Government.
Seifert critical of own leadership
The Daily Dispatch (Henderson)
Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert told the city council Wednesday he thought his leadership style was better suited to a seat on the council than to the office of mayor. ...Vaughan Upshaw, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government instructor who was the facilitator for the retreat, presented exercises and information about how the council might function and work better.Dental technicians will stay until Jan. 5
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Fifteen dental technicians scheduled to be laid off Nov. 27 will remain in their jobs until Jan. 5, the dean of the dental school at UNC-Chapel Hill announced this week.
Issues and Trends
The right moves for Quintiles
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Dennis Gillings, one of the Triangle's best-dressed CEOs, wore a tie with cheery pinks and reds as he stepped back into the limelight this week. ..."I have great admiration for Dennis as a businessman," said Ron Helms, co-founder of Rho, a smaller CRO in Chapel Hill, and a former colleague at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Universities finalize plans for research campus
The Kannapolis Independent Tribune
The concrete pads are poured and construction is beginning on the buildings, but the university laboratories on the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis are waiting for the go-ahead to begin hiring staff. ...he partner universities locating labs on the campus - including Duke, N.C. State University, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte, UNC-Greensboro and North Carolina Central University - are sponsoring the conference.
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