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March 28, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:International Coverage
Nanoparticles fight cancer
Science, Engineering and Technology News
Scientists from the University of North Carolina believe the nanoparticles can provide a more targeted and effective delivery of drugs than conventional medications. ..."I think this will transform the way one detects and treats disease," said study leader Joseph DeSimone, a chemistry professor at UNC and director of the school’s Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology.
Related Link: http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=2029
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun05/Desimone6062105.htmNational Coverage
Moussaoui Says He Was to Fly 5th Plane
The Washington Post
Zacarias Moussaoui took the stand at his death penalty trial yesterday and declared that he was supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and crash it into the White House in the terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. ..."It sounds like he's toast," said Eric Muller, a former federal prosecutor who teaches at the University of North Carolina. "The prosecution's best hope was to make him appear scary rather than crazy. It sounds like he was really scary."
Drink Up And Be Savvy
The Washington Post
It's not just food that is adding unwanted pounds. About half the excess calories consumed by Americans come from beverages. Liquid calories account for 20 percent of the caloric intake of those aged 2 and older, according to research conducted at the University of North Carolina. ...In addressing the obesity epidemic, "we have not been doing this right by focusing so much attention just on food," notes Barry M. Popkin, director of the Interdisciplinary Obesity Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and lead author of a new beverage "guidance system" developed by a team of experts from six universities.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/healthybeverage030806.htm'Pets in America'
The New York Times Book Review
My mother, who has the most reliable memory of anyone in the family, informs me that my first word was "kitty." This fact alone is probably sufficient as an explanation for the existence of this book. ...Excerpted from Pets in America by Katherine C. Grier Copyright © 2006 by University of North Carolina Press.
Nanoparticles may Revolutionize Medicine
Ivanhoe Newswire
Imagine a device so tiny, yet so complex it could travel through the bloodstream to cancer cells, delivering lethal doses of a chemotherapy drug to those cells without impacting surrounding tissue. It may not be as farfetched as it seems. Researchers from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill are already making good progress on such a device, called custom nanoparticles.
Related Link: http://www.forbes.com/lifestyle/health/feeds/hscout/2006/03/27/hscout531734.html
Note: Ivanhoe has a syndicated television series and its reports are broadcast in 250 markets reaching 80 million U.S. households.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun05/Desimone6062105.htmGuest workers will strain states (Opinion-editorial column)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Congress is currently debating how to best address unauthorized immigration to the United States. In December 2005, the House passed legislation to increase border enforcement. ...A University of North Carolina study estimated the cost for health services to all Hispanics (including U.S. and foreign-born) in North Carolina at $299 million in 2004, including the state portion of Medicaid and uncompensated care.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan06/economicimpacDriving proposal is strictest in US
The Boston Globe
The youngest drivers in Massachusetts already face more restrictions than teenagers in most states, under stricter licensing laws that swept across the country in the past decade and dramatically reduced the number of teens killed on the road. ...'If that were to pass as is, it's pretty inescapable that you're going to have fewer teen driver crashes," said Rob Foss, director of the Center for the Study of Young Drivers, affiliated with the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
North Carolina takes ticket on lottery express
Atlanta-Journal Constitution
John Ledford is about to hit the jackpot: Starting Thursday, when North Carolina becomes one of the last states in the South to fall to the lure of a lottery, he can kill time scratching off tickets in three different places. ..."That's what eventually pushed North Carolina over the divide," said Ferrell Guillory, director of the Program on Southern Politics, Media and Public Life at the University of North Carolina. "It gave Governor Easley an argument: why should our people be paying for schools in Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina?"
Student aid takes on new meaning in New Orleans
Newhouse News Service
Thousands of college students who might have spent spring break tanning in Acapulco or on Florida beaches this year have been pouring into New Orleans to sleep in dormitory tents or on classroom floors, eat off paper plates and spend a week of vacation hauling foul muck out of homes ruined by floodwaters. ...Their schools are public and private, from major institutions like the University of North Carolina to small-town schools like Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, which sent more than 50 students.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/helpothers030806.htmWindows Vista delay is explained in 1975 book: too much manpower
The San Jose Mercury News
Too many cooks spoil the soup, and too many software developers can cause more problems than they solve. ...The challenge of big software projects was probably best described by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. in his classic 1975 book, "The Mythical Man-Month.'' Brooks, a professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, stated then what he called Brooks' Law: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.''
Confusion surrounds B12 deficiency
The Detroit Free Press
Tired and run down? No appetite? Trouble walking? Depressed or irritable? Do your hands or feet tingle? ...Sources for this story: Sally Pacholok and Dr. Jeffrey Stuart; Eric Norman, PhD, Norman Clinical Laboratory; Katherine Tucker, PhD, senior scientist, Tufts University; Dr. Ralph Carmel, director of research, Department of Medicine, New York Methodist Hospital and Weill Medical College, Cornell University; Suzanne Havala Hobbs, registered dietitian, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;...
Understanding Medicare
"The People's Pharmacy"
Jonathan Oberlander, associate professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was featured on Saturday's edition of "The People's Pharmacy." What does the “D” in Medicare Part D stand for? It could stand for Drugs, since this is the part of Medicare that pays for prescription medications for seniors. But at this point in time, it also could stand for Deadline or Debacle. Medicare recipients must sign up for a plan to participate in Part D by May 15. Choosing a plan has proven far more Difficult than most experts predicted, and many older people are confused. So are their adult children who are trying to help them Decide.
Boosting Baby's Brain Before Birth
Parent Magazine
Listening to a soothing sonata is a great way to relax during pregnancy, but it won't make your baby any smarter. ...Moms-to-be need 450 milligrams of the nutrient each day. That's easy if your diet includes choline-rich foods such as eggs, beef, and dairy products, says Steven Zeisel, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill. Keep up the choline habit after delivery; you'll need 550 milligrams during lactation.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct05/choline101705.htmSpring Commencement Speakers Announced by 30 Colleges
The Chronicle of Higher Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, May 14, 2006, Wendy Kopp, president and founder of Teach for America
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov05/comspeaker06110705.htmRegional Coverage
Across the Coast, a monumental task (Opinion-editorial column)
The Daily Journal (Tupelo, Miss.)
Like bookends, two towering structures frame the eastern end of this peninsula city. ... Other volunteers, including our family, slept in in an old seafood canning factory on the bay that is now the Salvation Army's warehouse. Our dorm mates included students and their chaperones from an Episcopal high school in Baltimore and a group of students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/helpothers030806.htmCalling all cheaters
San Antonio Express-News
Cheating on a test used to involve peeking over your neighbor's shoulder, sending hand signals to the kid across the aisle, or — for the really daring — scribbling a cheat sheet on your forearm. ... Last year, TEA hired Gregory Cizek, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor who teaches educational measurement and evaluation, to review test security procedures and suggest possible improvements across the state.
Movie magnifies 'Da Vinci' debates
The News Journal (New Castle, Del.)
If death brings novelist Dan Brown face to face with Jesus, "The Da Vinci Code" novelist will have some explaining to do. ...Church historian Bart Ehrman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of the scholars who has lamented that Brown's readers are greatly misled if they imagine solid research underscores the book. Instead, Brown has distorted many elements of early Christianity, says Ehrman, an expert in the field.
More students deciding to stay in state for college
Spartanburg Herald Journal (S.C.)
First-year students are finding South Carolina an irresistible place to get an education. ..."South Carolina had a lot of competition (from other states), especially when you look at top institutions like the University of North Carolina Chapel-Hill, Vanderbilt, University of Georgia," said Woodfaulk.
The Pilot takes home top awards from Virginia Press Association
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk)
The Virginian-Pilot and The Smithfield Times were honored Saturday with the Virginia Press Association's annual Award for Journalistic Integrity and Community Service. ...The lead judge this year was Frank E. Fee Jr., assistant professor and director of the master's degree program in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
State & Local Coverage
New dental school building tops UNC's capital wish list
The Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is throwing its weight behind two big-ticket capital projects it will ask the state legislature to fund. The projects - a $104 million appropriation for a new School of Dentistry building and $125 million for a new genomics research building - comprise the bulk of the university's capital request from the state.
A road to success (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
Have the people in the physics department come up with a teleportation system that we don't know about? Chapel Hill and Carrboro must think they have; otherwise it's hard to imagine why the towns would keep road widening off the list of options in the upcoming Carolina North transportation study. The University wants the transportation consultant to be able to look at road widening as a possibility, and it has the right idea.
Outreach programs
The Rocky Mount Telegram
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Kidney Center is joining Edgecombe Community College to combat kidney disease in North Carolina. ... The UNC Kidney Center is developing educational outreach programs on kidney disease with emphasis on diabetes and hypertension, the leading causes of kidney disease.
Candlelight vigil held on UNC's campus
News 14
Hundreds of people at UNC-Chapel Hill held a candlelight vigil Monday to show support for Muslim students. Organizers say they want to encourage unity across campus. With their faces lit by the glow, students and faculty passed a flame from candle to candle, hoping to spread light across the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill in more than one way.
Author to speak on business
The Chapel Hill Herald
Former New York Times small business editor and author Brent Bowers will share insights on the key traits of successful entrepreneurs at an April 6 lecture in honor of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise's 20th anniversary.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/bowers032206.htmPublic relations lecture on tap
The Chapel Hill Herald
Daniel J. Edelman, Edelman, founder and chairman of Daniel J. Edelman Inc., will discuss the emergence of public relations as a major force for business next Thursday at UNC.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar06/sarratt032306.htmUNC students get rare glimpse of Cuba
The Chapel Hill News
For many, the place exists only in Hollywood movies: old Chevys and charming shops, screeching trumpets and tropical breezes. ...Louis Perez, a UNC history professor, jumpstarted UNC's study abroad program, using his contacts from research on 20th century Cuban history to get the ball rolling. "The policies and politics of this government is a function of the larger environment which it exists," Perez said. "Cubans have lived almost 50 years (near) a country whose government's explicit purpose is to overthrow the Cuban government."
Related Link: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/front/story/2918424p-9367424c.htmlUNC Prof's 'Gumbo' in final 3 for book award
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Food not only tastes good and gives us sustenance, it also connects us with our families and origins. ...One of last year's most enticing books that examined this intersection of food and culture was Marcie Cohen Ferris' "Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South." Ferris, a professor of American studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, wrote a book that was part memoir, part history, with plenty of recipes worth cooking and sampling.
Note: No link available.UNC makes pitch to Steinbrenner
The Triangle Business Journal
Athletics boosters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are hitting up likely donors - including New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner - to raise as much as $13 million to build grandstand facilities at the school's baseball field. UNC officials met with Steinbrenner this month at the Yankees' spring training camp in Tampa, Fla., to make their pitch, says UNC baseball Coach Mike Fox.
Businesses see unlocking workers' imaginations as key to innovation
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
When mobile-phone maker Sony Ericsson wanted to brainstorm ideas to promote a camera phone, it hired a creativity consultant to draw out its staffers' best ideas. ...During the 2001 recession and its aftermath, many companies focused on slashing costs to boost profits. Now that those cost-cutting efforts have hit their limits, companies are turning their attention to boosting revenue, said Richard Blackburn, associate professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Molester found liable for $6M
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
A man was declared liable for $6 million in damages for molesting a 12-year-old girl in 2001 while he was a volunteer at the Masonic Home for Children in Oxford. ...Attorney Lynne Holtkamp, who represented the girl, said crucial evidence included a 2005 evaluation of the girl by Mark D. Everson, of UNC's School of Medicine and a preeminent expert in childhood trauma.
Law is letting drivers keep their eyes on the screen (Opinion-editorial column)
The Winston-Salem Journal
We have a winner. The dumbest driver in Forsyth County operates a yellow Chevy Blazer. It's not the color of the truck or the model of the vehicle that qualifies this guy for such a dubious distinction. It's what he does while driving. ..."No, we don't really need a study to tell us that's dangerous," said Jane Stutts, a researcher at the University of North Carolina's Highway Safety Research Center.
3 county jobs in Alexander questioned
The Charlotte Observer
In the past three years, Alexander County government has filled three new jobs with a county commissioner's relative and two former commissioners. ...The hires appear legal, said Frayda Bluestein, who specializes in local-government law at UNC Chapel Hill's School of Government.
Development appeals to be heard
The Asheville Citizen-Times
The city Board of Adjustment is scheduled to hear on Monday three appeals of permits granted for development projects by the city Planning Department. ...A professor at the School of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill told the Citizen-Times North Carolina Institute of Government professor told the Citizen-Times in February that state courts have generally held that the time for appeals starts running when a person might reasonably be expected to become aware of construction of a project. City rules give 30 days to file an appeal.
In Japan, the past is never dead (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Like all fine novels of transformation through insight, "Plum Wine" illuminates the difficult process of discovering the careful balance between knowledge and inexperience, innocence and clarity. The process must not be abrupt or devastating, or all possible lessons are lost in the wreckage; nor can it be so subtle that it does not pierce and transform us with its revelations. ...David Carr is a faculty member at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.
New thug religion should get a deservedly bad rap (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The danger of those who believe a Supreme Being, prophet, or religion is on their side as they perpetrate violence against innocents was recently revealed in Durham. What's that? UNC is in Chapel Hill? Well, I'm not referring to Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who is accused of attempting to kill UNC students with a rented Jeep "out of love for Allah," who "gives permission in the Koran for the followers of Allah to attack those who have raged war against them ..." as Taheri-azar wrote in letters to the media.
Issues & Trends
Group fails to form a family
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
(With apologies to Sherwood Schwartz ...) Here's the story, of a man named Joffe, who leased a house to seven college dudes. They lived and played and sort of formed a family. But folks did not approve. ..."If that became an instrument for neighborhoods, it would be very troubling if it were used, in particular to displace students," said Dorothy Bernholz, director of UNC-CH student legal services, who helped represent the students.
Manager search tab: Up to $35K
The Chapel Hill Herald
The Town Council agreed Monday to pay up to $35,000 for two local consultants to work with the town in hiring a new manager to replace Cal Horton. ...The proposal also calls for focus groups with various stakeholders in town, and interviewing at least two UNC Chapel Hill representatives.When 'good' doesn't cut it
The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)
Wendy Cruce, a 1984 Clemson University graduate, was disappointed when her daughter, who's a high school senior and an A and B student, learned this winter that she wasn't accepted at the school. ...In 1986, the University of North Carolina system capped out-of-state freshmen at 18 percent, said spokeswoman Joni Worthington. The cap remains in place.
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