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June 30, 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
Decision Analysis Meets Environmental Policy
Science Magazine (D.C.)
It’s hard enough to make good decisions about relatively straightforward options like a career path or a move to a new location. ... Into this complexity come decision scientists such as Douglas Crawford-Brown, a professor of environmental sciences, engineering, and public policy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who uses his knowledge of science and mathematical modeling to help make sense of these problems.
Compliance: Is Sarbanes-Oxley Working?
CIO Insight (New York)
It seems like a straightforward enough question: is SOX working? ... Another way of measuring the impact of restatements is by considering the subsequent behavior of the companies involved. Wayne Landsman, a professor of accounting at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, has been studying the relationship of companies that restate their financial reports to moves by those companies to different accounting firms. "Most of the switches by companies are lateral among the Big Four firms," he says. "Auditors aren't dropping companies that restate for being too risky from their client rolls."
Regional Coverage
With safeguards, public will support tools (Opinion-editorial column)
The Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
The revelation last week that CIA counterterrorism analysts are reviewing "tens of thousands" of confidential international banking records has highlighted once again the tension between security and privacy in the modern age. ... David H. Schanzer is director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Note: This column originally ran in the News & Observer (Raleigh).State & Local Coverage
Executive Ed Evolves
NC Magazine
Dr. Albert Segars likes to illustrate a major lesson in his technology and innovation class for executive education students at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School by showing an episode
from ABC’s “Nightline.” The program shows how California based firm IDEO, which designed the iPod, took an everyday product, the grocery cart, and re-engineered it in five days so that its capacity could be easily increased by adding normally handheld baskets to a rack on the cart.
Note: Article begins on page 14.Peeling the Orange
The Chapel Hill Herald
... Interesting tidbit that national news services picked up recently: A report from Anne Calhoun, associate professor of neurology at UNC Chapel Hill's School of Medicine, who studied more than 100 women migraine-sufferers and found those who improved their sleep habits were able to cut down on the frequencies of their headaches.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun06/migraine062206.htmHispanics have much to offer, study says
The Winston-Salem Journal
The Hispanic community is establishing roots in the Triad whether it's welcomed or not, according to speakers at a N.C. Bankers Association seminar yesterday at the downtown Marriott. ... "There's no county in North Carolina that's untouched by Hispanic immigration," Johnson said. He is a professor of management in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan06/economicimpact010306.htm
Mental trouble (Opinion-editorial column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The General Assembly's determination to build three new mental hospitals -- at Butner, Goldsboro and Morganton -- indicates to me that we have now come full circle in mental health services in North Carolina. ... Don Stedman, Ph.D., is a senior fellow with Action for Children N.C., dean emeritus in education at UNC-Chapel Hill and, until his recent resignation, a long-time member of the N.C. Commission on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services.
How much is your county commissioner worth to you?
The Charlotte Observer
If you live in Mecklenburg County, a bigger paycheck than any other in the state. If you live in Lincoln County, less money than elsewhere in the region. ... Wake County -- the state's next largest in population after Mecklenburg -- pays commissioners $17,017, according to the N.C. Institute of Government at UNC Chapel Hill.Edwards' camp: No thanks on poverty debate
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich came on John Edwards' turf this week and challenged him to a debate on poverty. ... Edwards, a likely Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, has been focusing on poverty in travels across the nation and at a center he created at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Gingrich, a Republican, is also weighing running for president.
Kane wants city, county help
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Plans for North Hills East have a new stipulation: Unless Raleigh and Wake County provide a $75 million incentive, the upscale mixed-use development may instead become a typical suburban strip mall. ... As tax generated by the site increases, property taxes paid above the frozen rate go to pay off the debt over several decades, explained Jonathan Morgan, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Government.
Don't wait
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Make plans this weekend to check out "Extinction!," the newest multimedia star show at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. Narrated by Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor William Shatner, this educational production journeys where few men have gone before to explore the catastrophic event that occurred about 65 million years ago and triggered the extinctions of thousands of species, including dinosaurs and plant life. "Extinction!" runs 7 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Aug. 20.
Issues & Trends
Legislators won't have budget changes ready for new fiscal year
The Associated Press (N.C.)
State budget negotiations boiled down Thursday to a series of give-and-take positions from the House and Senate on construction money, taxes and policy issues that the Senate wants in the spending plan but the House doesn't. ... They also continued to offer different ways to divide up about $800 million in cash or debt to go on a building spree at University of North Carolina campuses, the state's mental and prison hospitals and a backup data center in Rutherford County.
UNCC institute opens office at research campus
The Charlotte Observer
The North Carolina Research Campus welcomed its first university partner Thursday to the $1 billion biotech hub being built in Kannapolis by billionaire David Murdock. ... UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University and N.C. State will have a major presence at the campus.
Middle-schoolers at GEAR UP camp
The Charlotte Observer
Newton-Conover Middle School seventh-graders recently participated in the GEAR UP summer camp. Other sessions will take place July 10-14.The campers developed leadership skills in the camp's theme "Survivor: Skills to Make It In The Real World." ... GEAR UP is part of a $19.3 million, federally funded program led by the 16 campuses of the University of North Carolina.
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