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July 13, 2007
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
A Drug-Resistant Bacteria Breakthrough?
Osteoporosis Drugs May Hold The Key To Stop Infections
CBS News
Several common antibiotics are no longer useful in treating some very bad infections. But scientists in North Carolina say they may have at least a partial solution. Biochemist Matthew Redinbo supervised the research team at the University Of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and stopped by The Early Show on Friday to explain their discovery.
View the Video: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=3055230n
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul07/redinbo070907.htmlGinsburg jet-sets for Hofstra Law summer gig
Newsday
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be lecturing up to 45 Hofstra University Law School students in a course on comparative constitutional law later this month. ... In the law school's summer programs in Sydney, Australia and Nice, France, Hofstra law faculty conduct classes with faculty from the University of North Carolina's law school. Hofstra's program in Nice also has faculty from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego.
Halls Of Ivy—And Crumbling Plaster
Amid a building boom, colleges scramble for funds to keep up aging facilities
BusinessWeek
College students and their parents have come to expect flashy campus amenities: towering research labs, sprawling B-school trading floors, and recreation centers with 50-foot rock-climbing walls. And the nation's universities have in recent years launched a multibillion-dollar construction frenzy akin to an arms race. ... "Maintenance doesn't have that allure to a private donor," says James E. Alty, director of facilities services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a result, students and their parents are more and more expected to foot the bill, especially at state schools where funding is tight.
Advocates of Objectivism Make New Inroads
The Chronicle of Higher Education
It is not every day that a foundation offers to pour tens of thousands of dollars into a humanities department at a small regional institution ... The foundation also makes smaller-scale grants to support conferences and lecture series. One recipient is the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose philosophy department contains no objectivists.
Information Online, on Demand, and on the Up and Up (letter to the editor)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Kate Douglas Torrey, director of the University of North Carolina Press, misses the mark in "Downloads, Copyright, and the Moral Responsibility of Universities". ... By Leah McGinnis Dunn, Director of Undergraduate and Branch Libraries, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Regional Coverage10 hot tips to save your skin
The State (Columbia, S.C.)
During the summer, many of us are rushing outside to bask, while others labor under a punishing sun. ... A UNC Chapel Hill study found adults with skin cancer were often overexposed to the sun as kids. Young skin is still developing. Don’t let children burn; douse them in sunscreen.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may07/skincancer053007.htmlBroadcaster blazing a trail home;
Female reporter gets wish -- to cover race at Chicagoland
The Chicago Tribune
Some call her the Barbara Walters of NASCAR, to which Wendy Venturini replies: "That's a stretch, isn't it?" ... When Joliet's Chicagoland Speedway opened in 2001, Venturini had just finished earning a degree in communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
John Edwards to visit Cleveland as part of his Democratic presidential campaign
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio)
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, best known for his 2004 "two Americas" stump speech about the disparity between rich and poor, will visit Cleveland Tuesday. ... For the past two years, he has been director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Twins earn top Girl Scout award for burn project
The Enquire-Herald (York, S.C.)
In her last year as a girl scout, Katherine Podmore planned to collect 200 books for burn patients and their families as part of her final project. Two months later, she had 1,000 books and 140 videos to take to the UNC-Chapel Hill Burn Center.
Question to ask
San Mateo County Times (San Mateo, Calif.)
As a pastor, I get asked many things. ... I am reading "Misquoting Jesus," by Bart D. Ehrman, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina.
Missing Marlette (Editorial)
The San Francisco Chronicle
My long-running conversation with Doug Marlette ended abruptly the morning of July 10 when the truck in which he was a passenger hydroplaned off a Mississippi highway into a tree. ... He was both hurt and baffled a few years ago when other writers in his hometown of Hillsborough, N.C., tried to sabotage his largely autobiographical first novel, "The Bridge" -- even getting it banned from the University of North Carolina bookstore -- because they deemed some of his fictional characters too similar to themselves.
State & Local CoverageVeteran medic tasked with making UNC research hub
Triangle Business Journal
Dr. H. Shelton Earp III initially got into medicine for reasons he thinks most people do. "It's a great profession, and it's a way to help people and be engaged with people," says Earp, the director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
UNC Researchers Test New Treatment for Acid Reflux
WRAL-TV (Raleigh)
Health experts fear gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) can develop into Barrett's Esophagus, a condition that can lead to esophageal adenocarcinoma, one of the nation's most rapidly rising cancers. The answer used to be surgery to remove the esophagus, but now researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill are leading a study of a new out-patient treatment.
When it comes to mating females, sparrows like newer love song
Associated Press (N.C.)
The love songs of 1979 just don't cut it anymore with the ladies _ lady sparrows, that is. ... Haven Wiley, a professor of biology and ecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the research results could be a first.
Tech-heavy law firm closes down shop
Triangle Business Journal
Boutique technology law firm Daniels Daniels & Verdonik, whose members were major players during the go-go, dot-com years, is closing shop and will be absorbed into the Raleigh outpost of New Bern-based Ward and Smith. ... Walter Daniels, a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and wife Linda operated the firm as Daniels & Daniels for years. That changed in 2003, when tech and securities maven Verdonik jumped ship from Kilpatrick Stockton to join them.
Black's political career ends with five-year prison sentence
The Associated Press (N.C.)
After three decades of public service, Jim Black will end his career as a politician in a federal prison. ... "This one hurts," said Ferrel Guillory, who heads the program on Southern politics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "A speaker of the House sent off to prison certainly adds a smudge to the state's self-image as a place of good government."
Rimer joins OWASA board
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Alan Rimer, a former Chapel Hill Town Council member, took the oath of office as a member of the OWASA Board of Directors on Monday. ... Now director of water reuse at the international consulting firm Black & Veatch, he is also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.You've heard 'Fighting Words'
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
'Fighting Words" takes me back to the 1990s, a simpler time, when I'd find myself up at two, three o'clock in the morning, watching some cheesy, straight-to-cable movie on Showtime and actually finding myself entranced by what I was viewing. ... You get a sense that writer-director E. Paul Edwards (who went to UNC-Chapel Hill) knew he wasn't going to make anything extraordinary with his budget, so he just went ahead with this on-the-cheap, so-suited-for-cable underdog story.
In the wings;
Youths stage 'Oliver'
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The new Summer Youth Conservatory, a partnership between Carrboro's ArtsCenter and UNC-Chapel Hill's PlayMakers Repertory Company, will present the fruits of its labors this weekend with the musical "Oliver!"
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun07/oliver062207.htmlWatermelons' leading lady
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
N.C. Watermelon Queen Stephanie McLamb jokes she will soon have reigned over every kind of produce. ... The rising UNC-Chapel Hill senior plans to become a buyer for a produce packer. And someday she wants to be North Carolina's commissioner of agriculture.
Edwards campaign wears out welcome;
Parking hassles and evacuations over suspicious packages irk Southern Village
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
John Edwards is losing support at 410 Market St. ... "Having a presidential campaign has been great for teaching and introducing students to the workings of American democracy," said J. Ferrel Guillory, a political analyst and director of the Program on Public Life at UNC-Chapel Hill. "It shows that American politics isn't just confined within the Beltway in Washington."
Issues & TrendsNCA&T head to lead Fayetteville State
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Vic Hackley, who led N.C. A&T State University for the past year, was named today as interim chancellor at Fayetteville State University. ... A retired U.S. Air Force Officer with a doctorate in international relations from UNC-Chapel Hill, Hackley is the founder of a firm that focused on ethics, leadership and community and character development.
NCSU seeks millions for green golf course
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In a departure from its normal mission, a state agency charged with improving water quality is considering N.C. State University's request for $5.8 million to buy land in rural Tyrrell County for a golf course.
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