June 18, 2004

Carolina in the News

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

International Coverage

Chronicler of Reconstruction: Thomas Nast
Africana.com
If you don't know the name Thomas Nast, you do know his art....James Hogue, an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina, curated an exhibit of Gellman's collection with historian Thomas Hanchett of Charlotte's Levine Museum of the New South.

National Coverage

Bush Censure by Envoys May Be a First, Historians Say
Bloomberg News Service
The statement by 27 former diplomats and military officers on Wednesday calling for the defeat of U.S. President George W. Bush may be unprecedented....``Their prominence and seniority and influence when in their diplomatic or military posts, and their number, is really remarkable,'' said Richard Kohn, the Pentagon's chief Air Force historian from 1981-1991 and now chairman of the war and defense curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

State & Local Note

A photograph ran in today's Burlington Times-News of Chancellor Moeser talking with a young patient during a Thursday visit to the Alamance County Health Department's children's dental clinic. Students from UNC's School of Dentistry provide dental care to underserved children from birth through age 21 during the day and to their parents and other local adults during a special open-door evening clinic. The Chancellor was in Burlington on Thursday as part of his Carolina Connects outreach tour. To view photos from Chancellor Moeser's Burlington trip, visit the News Services homepage at http://www.unc.edu/news/.

State & Local Coverage

UNC-CH has blood-washing machine
The News & Observer
Cholesterol-lowering drugs did little good for G.F. Simpson, who has a genetic predisposition to high blood cholesterol levels that led to quadruple bypass surgery 16 years ago, when he was 35....Four months ago, however, he started a new blood-washing procedure at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill.
UNC news release: http://www.unchealthcare.org/newsroom/newsreleases/newsrelease.cfm?release=LDL_apheresis.htm

OK for UNC changes belies early response (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
This week's Town Council approval of another round of changes to UNC's campus development plan went so smoothly it's almost hard to remember that the council once asked university officials not to file the request at all.

'Birds of Winter' to air on WUNC-TV
Washington Daily News, NC
Eastern North Carolina will get a little time in the television limelight tonight....Among those etchings, now residing in the library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is one of the tundra swan, or "whistling swan" as Lawson called it.

Bird droppings, dog waste can influence water testing
New Bern Sun Journal
When state officials posted a swimming advisory at the Atlantic Beach Circle for a day last month, they suspected bird droppings or dog waste caused the spike in bacteria levels....It would not have taken much of such waste to tip the scales in a test for the organisms the state uses for water-quality analysis, said Rachel Noble, assistant professor of environmental microbiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City.

Issues & Trends

Bill could be lift for health in Asheville
Asheville Citizen-Times
UNC Asheville would offer a new degree and the region could see a greater attention to child and senior health under legislation that cleared the state House this week....The bill now goes to the state Senate. Other statewide projects include a new cancer center at UNC-Chapel Hill, a stroke center at East Carolina University, a biotech center at UNC-Charlotte and a building to house the new pharmacy school at Elizabeth City State University.

House OKs millions for UNC projects
The News & Observer
The UNC Board of Governors may find itself in the unusual position of thanking state legislators for tens of millions of dollars in research projects the board didn't review or request.

State adds jobs for a fourth month
The News & Observer
North Carolina added 13,400 jobs in May, the fourth month in a row that hiring has increased, state employment leaders said Thursday. The single biggest gain was in government, but job growth was spread across most sectors, including construction, leisure and hospitality and health services.

Enrollment cap bill: Gone but not forgotten
The Chapel Hill Herald
While a state House plan to cap enrollment of out-of-state students at public universities appears dead, one of its key backers believes the underlying message has been delivered.

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