June 3, 2005

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

T. Rex Fossil's Surprise: She Was Ovulating
The New York Times
For the second time in two months, a Tyrannosaurus rex recently excavated in Montana has surprised scientists....Dr. Alan Feduccia, an ornithologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of North Carolina and the author of a respected book on the origin of birds, expressed skepticism about the new findings and nearly all recent research claims in support of the dinosaur-bird link.
Related link: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/science/02cnddino.html?hp&ex=
1117771200&en=9b214f8e82007e14&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Gender Gap at Flagships
Inside Higher Education
For about a decade now, educators have been noticing - and worrying about - a growing gender gap among college students, 57 percent of whom are female....At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last week, some trustees were stunned to learn that the freshman class was 58 percent female.

The wisdom of having wisdom teeth out
The Baltimore Sun
Ah, summer vacation. Time for college students to take a break, hit the beach, get a job - and, for more than a few, have their wisdom teeth removed....Dr. Raymond White, a professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of North Carolina's School of Dentistry in Chapel Hill, has been directing a study of adults who have kept their third molars.

State & Local Coverage

UNC-Chapel Hill begins summer construction
News 14 (Time Warner, Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill is in the midst of the largest construction boom the campus has ever seen. All of this work is part of an on-going construction program worth more than a billion dollars. It's one of the largest in the country.

Peeling the Orange
The Chapel Hill Herald
Over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, parents of students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system got automated calls from the district....The awards went to the town of Chapel Hill and to UNC Chapel Hill for building restorations, to Mary Clara Capel for the Estelle Lawson Page cottage at 105 S. Boundary St., and to local attorneys Al McSurely and Ashley Osment for their bungalow at 413 W. Patterson Place. The university was cited for its newly-completed renovation of the colonial-revival style Kenan Dormitory, a 1939 women's residence hall with a "gracious Southern-style wooden portico."

Issues & Trends

Ex-senator stays in spotlight with foreign policy work, speeches
The Charlotte Observer
For a man not officially running for anything, Democrat John Edwards has been keeping a campaign-like schedule....He's also found time recently to blog about poverty, walk a picket line in Iowa and help Democratic legislators across the country. And then there's his day job, running the University of North Carolina's new Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity.

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