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Feb. 8, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:National Coverage
Cutting fat alone isn't enough, women advised
USA Today
If you're a postmenopausal woman, simply trimming the fat from your diet isn't enough to protect against heart disease or breast or colorectal cancer, a government-sponsored study of nearly 50,000 women reports Wednesday. ...Says Sidney Smith, a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill cardiologist: "The dietary strategies are much more than just 'Don't eat fat.' I think it's important to get that message across."
Limited Access to Exercise Facilities Fueling Childhood Obesity Epidemic
Forbes
Lack of access to exercise facilities, particularly in low-income areas, is one force that's driving the obesity epidemic that's endangering America's children. ..."Our country faces a serious obesity problem -- one that disproportionately impacts poor, minority individuals and communities," said Penny Gordon-Larsen, an assistant professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health and Medicine, and the author of the physical activity study. "Our research suggests that perhaps one way to address this would be to argue for greater opportunities for exercise in disadvantaged communities."
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb06/pediatricspg020106.htmSoutherner explores Jewish cuisine
The Chicago Tribune
For those of us who relish food as much more than something to eat, this lively collection of recipes and kitchen tales offers insight into a less publicized niche of Southern regional cooking: Jewish cooking. Marcie Cohen Ferris, an assistant professor of American studies at the University of North Carolina, combines firsthand experience as a Southern Jewish woman with a researcher's skill in Matzoh Ball Gumbo (University of North Carolina Press, $29.95), a cultural exploration of food and identity. It's fascinating reading mixed with delicious recipes such as Mississippi praline macaroons and pecan kugel.
Gifts and Bequests
The Chronicle of Higher Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. To support student athletes, scholarship programs for students from low-income families, and the business school: more than $1.5-million from Scott Edwards.
Regional Coverage
The doctor is out
The Times-Picayune (La.)
Seeing a doctor, even for the most routine problem, has never been more difficult. ... The Category 3 hurricane created the biggest migration of doctors in the United States since the 1940s, when the World War II draft siphoned thousands of health-care workers from the nation's economy, said Thomas Ricketts, deputy director for policy analysis at the University of North Carolina's Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. As many as 4,486 doctors, including 1,270 residents training at local hospitals, evacuated from Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes, according to a UNC study issued two weeks after the storm.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/ricketts092605.htmStudy touts program’s benefits
The New Mexican (Santa Fe)
Increasing pre-kindergarten enrollment in New Mexico would reduce the number of pregnant teens and, in turn, cut the crime rate. ...The report cites a University of North Carolina study that found that children who received highquality early education were, on average, two years older, 19 versus 17, when their first child was born compared with those who did not receive early intervention.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct99/campbelf102199.htmState & Local Coverage
Duke, UNC get Glaxo award
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to UNC and Duke University for a partnership to tackle local and global health care problems. The collaboration pools the resources of UNC's schools of Medicine and Public Health, Duke University Medical Center and Duke's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy to develop educational and research efforts that promise long-term public health improvements in four areas.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb06/gskbluegrant020706.htmGSK grant for Duke-UNC project
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A $1.65 million grant from a GlaxoSmithKline foundation will fund a public health collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. The collaboration is to address quality of care and patient safety, health disparities, global health issues and mental health care.
Glaxo foundation grants $1.65M to UNC, Duke
The Triangle Business Journal
The North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation has donated $1.65 million to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University for a partnership to address local and global health concerns. The grant provides funds for research in four focus areas including quality of care and patient safety, health disparities, global health with a focus on HIV and AIDS and mental health care.Observations
The Charlotte Observer
Roy Williams and wife Wanda are serving as honorary co-chairs of a drive to create a $10 million endowment for the Carolina Covenant, which helps students from low-income families graduate debt free from North Carolina. Say what you will about Carolina basketball; its coaches from Dean Smith to Williams have been champions for the less fortunate.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb06/covenantcochairs020806.htm
UNC to abide by town zoning
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill officials will not seek state permission to dodge the town's zoning authority over the Carolina North property, Chancellor James Moeser indicated in a letter Tuesday. The letter responded to a host of questions that Mayor Kevin Foy had sent Friday about a new committee UNC-CH is forming to discuss the proposed research campus over the next year. ..."I expect that the final report of the Leadership Advisory Committee will provide comprehensive principles to guide development of the property," Moeser wrote. "I cannot speculate on how much more detail would be provided. That depends upon the committee's work."
Moeser says Chapel Hill has development say for new campus land
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC recognizes the Chapel Hill government's power to set the development rules for the land where UNC wants to build its Carolina North campus within the town, Chancellor James Moeser stated Tuesday. Moeser also said the university still "assumes" it ultimately will close the Horace Williams Airport, so the first phases of Carolina North could be constructed on the land now occupied by the university-owned landing strip off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Reparation money will fund Jewish professorship
The Chapel Hill News
Sonja van der Horst was still a teen when the Nazis invaded Poland, executed her father and sister, sent her mother to die at a concentration camp, and began the systematic elimination of 18,000 Jews in her hometown. ...Last fall, van der Horst, nearly 82, learned that she had a brain tumor. It was time to decide what more she could do with the Holocaust reparation funds she had collected and invested since the early 1960s. She wanted to establish a distinguished professorship at UNC to be filled by an expert in Jewish history and culture, enhancing knowledge of the culture that Hitler had tried to destroy.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb06/vanderhorst020806.htmEdwards: Poverty our 'great moral issue'
The Chapel Hill News
John Edwards challenged nearly 150 people at a fund-raiser for Orange Community Housing and Land Trust Monday night to lead a movement to eliminate racial and economic inequality in their community and across the country. ...Edwards, who heads UNC's new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, called for community action. "We need to lift up and inspire America," Edwards said. Later he explained: "We need a grassroots movement. Politicians are not going to do this -- we have to do it."
UNC Portuguese grad program is ending
The Chapel Hill Herald
The five graduate students in UNC's Portuguese Language and Literature program are part of a dying breed at the university. University officials have decided to discontinue graduate programs in Portuguese -- a move that UNC's Board of Governors approved last month and likely will rubber-stamp again at their meeting this week.
Newbie to you, but old townie at heart (Opinion-editorial column)
The Chapel Hill Herald
On the first day of class, my new students dutifully fill out the 4-by-6 notecards I've handed out. My questions range from the routine:name, campus address, phone, e-mail, year, major and hometown - to the more revealing: previous journalism and/or photography experience, best and worst writing experience? Why are you in this class? And most intriguingly: How would you define community? ...Jock Lauterer teaches at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Note: No link available.On a hungry planet, what in the world are you eating? (Commentary)
The Charlotte Observer
Imagine feeding a family of nine on $18 per week. The Mustapha family of Dar Es Salaam Village in the African nation of Chad does just that, eating mainly millet, chicken, goat meat, watermelons, squash, dates and peanuts. They carry their drinking water from a well a half-mile away. They grow more than half the food they eat. ...Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy at UNC.
Gun safety essential to protect your child (Question-answer)
The Charlotte Observer
Guns are in nearly half of all households in the United States. While the decision to own a gun is up to each family, gun safety awareness and education for children is a vital part of that decision. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of firearm deaths among children 15 years of age and younger is almost 12 times higher in the U.S. than in other modern industrialized countries. A 2002 UNC study found that 36 percent of gun owners with young children in the home report keeping a firearm loaded. At least half of them failed to lock the weapon or store the ammunition in a locked box.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/apr01/coyne043001.htmIssues & Trends
N.C. love for Virginia guv
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner ventured into John Edwards' territory Tuesday and got the red carpet treatment. ...Afterwards, Warner, a likely Democratic presidential candidate, spoke at the business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then went to a fund raiser at the home of Steve Lerner, a public relations/marketing executive with Capstrat.
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