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Dec. 12, 2007
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Green supply chains: moving beyond logistics
Financial Times (London)
As companies start to examine the environmental footprint of their supply chains, attention has often focused on transport and logistics. ...“One of the things companies are looking at is whether they have to go with a pure strategy or whether can they go intermodal,” says Jayashankar Swaminathan, a professor at University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.Health trends - Self-reported condom use
The Jamaica Gleaner (Jamaica)
Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Family Health International, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that self-reported consistent condom use is associated with a lowered risk of three common sexually-transmitted infections (STIs).National Coverage
Other Colleges Eye Harvard's Plan to Increase Affordability
The Washington Post
The day after Harvard University announced changes to make the school more affordable for middle-class and upper-middle-class families, some higher education officials said yesterday that they would begin discussions within their schools about how to compete with that program. ...In the past several years, schools including Harvard, Princeton, the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia have rolled out generous financial aid plans to cover costs for low-income students.Anthropologists on the Front Lines
Time
Academic conferences tend to be fairly sedate affairs, at least to the uninitiated, and the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) annual meetings are usually no exception. ..."That sounds too good to be true, and I am sure there are other sides, but the principle is certainly logical, which is whoever is in charge is the one you want to deal with," says James Peacock, an Indonesia expert at the University of North Carolina, who chaired an ad-hoc AAA commission to study the profession's involvement in national security matters.Professor makes personal appeal for coral
MSNBC
I grew up in south Florida and began snorkeling on the reefs in the Florida Keys with my family in 1972 when they were still relatively pristine. But the system simply collapsed in the 1970s and 80s when the then dominant staghorn and elkorn corals began dying in droves. (John Bruno is an associate professor in the Department of Marine Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)Regional Coverage
Black families have tenuous hold on middle-class status
The Jouranal-Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wis.)
Through hard work, education and fair play, anyone can attain a middle-class life or even become wealthy, regardless of their social or economic status. ...They were able to pass on "cultural capital" and the belief that, "if you were black, you had to work twice as hard" as everybody else, said Walter C. Farrell Jr., a professor of social work and associate director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Not the Roman, but the Latin Empire (Book Review)
The New York Sun
Linguists have their own technical way of distinguishing "dialects" from "languages" proper. It has something to do with numbers of speakers and levels of shared intelligibility. (Mr. Boyle teaches classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He last wrote for these pages on Herodotus.)Muscular dystrophy hits close to home
The Eagle-Gazette (Lancaster, Ohio)
CHRIS Best has personally taken interest in and has generously supported the nonprofit research organization Andrew's Army. ...The vehicle was developed principally by Xiao Xiao and R. Jude Samulski, a virologist at the University of North Carolina.State & Local Coverage
"NC Now" UNC-TV
Newsmakers
Chancellor Moeser will talk about his decision to retire June 30, 2008. The ninth chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill will also discuss his current priorities for the university.
Note: UNC-TV's interview with Chancellor Moeser was set up by News Services and aired on UNC-TV on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007.UNC continues chancellor search
News 14 Carolina
A University of North Carolina search committee will meet again Wednesday to look for a successor for outgoing chancellor James Moeser. The committee is made up of members of the university's board of trustees, alumni, faculty, students and staff.Bus stops at MHS and brings state of the art science lab curbside
The Outer Banks Sentinel (Nags Head)
One of the traveling laboratories from UNC-Chapel Hill's DESTINY Traveling Science Learning Program visited Manteo High School in early November. ...The DESTINY Program serves secondary schools in North Carolina by bringing contemporary science and technology to teachers and students at no cost to participating schools.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2007/destinyman110207.htmlLandfill gas may be put to use
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Orange County commissioners on Tuesday decided they want to see a draft agreement with UNC-Chapel Hill that eventually could lead to landfill gas powering part of the Carolina North development. ..."We want to make Carolina North carbon-neutral, period, not just in the first phase," Carolyn Elfland, UNC-CH associate vice chancellor for campus services, told the board Tuesday.Ethics committee targets Wright
The Star-News (Wilmington)
State Rep. Thomas Wright's future got still dimmer Tuesday. ...Joseph Ferrell, professor of public law and government at the University of North Carolina School of Government, said he would be shocked if the committee recommended expulsion, which he can't recall ever happening in North Carolina, especially while Wright faces a trial that could have the same effect.Incentives at $1.2 billion a year
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The state has spent $3.7 billion in the past three years on incentives to attract businesses, according to a draft report released Tuesday. ...The committee wants more information on whether that spending is worth it, how North Carolina compares with rivals and whether officials need to make changes. At a meeting Tuesday, they heard from a representative of the UNC Center for Competitive Economies.Ask experts about this shore 'fix'
The Star-News (Wilmington)
North Carolina is blessed with an abundance of academic marine geologists and biologists, near-shore oceanographers and coastal managers. Housed in most of our universities (including UNC-Chapel Hill, East Carolina University, UNCW, N.C. State, Western Carolina University and Duke), a number of them hold chairs awarded for their scientific distinction. The scientific literature abounds with hundreds of technical papers and books describing the physical and biological processes on our continental shelf, beaches, barrier islands and the sounds behind them.What they didn't tell you about the death penalty (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill Herald
The Carolina Performing Arts group of UNC-CH is in the midst of a year-long anti-death-penalty extravaganza. Those opposed to capital punishment have inflicted quite a variety of canards upon the public over the last six or seven decades. (Frank Hurley, Chapel Hill)UNC, Meredith under fed watch on student loans
Triangle Business Journal
The United States Department of Education has sent a second round of letters to 55 U.S. colleges and universities - five of them in North Carolina - asking for more information about their student loan arrangements. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Meredith College and Shaw University each received letters that went out Oct. 24.Issues & Trends
Leader relishes N.C.'s breadth
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...Such was the boyhood of Scott Ralls, who moved with his family from town to town in Western North Carolina -- Charlotte, Waynesville, Mount Airy, Morganton, Asheville. On his college application essay to UNC-Chapel Hill, Ralls wrote that all that moving had been an advantage, not a disruption.UNC should keep university doors open (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
The UNC Tomorrow Commission was established earlier this year to help guide the university system in better serving the state in the future -- a future that will look quite different from the present. The world and local economies are changing, and so is the state. How will UNC face that future?
Related Links:
http://www.newsobserver.com/print/wednesday/opinion/story/825020.html
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/NRSTAFF/71211024Expensive schools can be affordable (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A large number of high schools seniors with sky-high SAT scores and grade point averages are about to make one of the most important decisions of their young lives based on a faulty assumption. ...To be sure, our country's top students can also get a superb education at a public university, such as at the University of North Carolina instead of Duke, or at Berkeley instead of Stanford. (Richard H. Brodhead is the president of Duke University.)
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