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March 7, 2007
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Vote renting must stop
Canadian Business Online
The foundation for just about everything in the corporate governance movement is that directors are there to represent the company's actual owners — its stockholders. ...An earlier study conducted by researchers at McGill University in Montreal, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina uncovered examples of governance advocates using the practice to highlight poor performance and governance shortcomings.National Coverage
Greenspan's Long Shadow Needs to Shrink, Management Gurus Say
Bloomberg
What does former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan have in common with Jack Welch, George Washington and a movie character out of Hitchcock? ...Jim Dean, associate dean of executive education at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, says Welch did a good job of stepping back after he retired as chairman and CEO of Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric in 2001 to let Jeffrey R. Immelt take charge.Regional Coverage
Inaccuracies pepper Bible, scholar says
The Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.)
The Bible's New Testament suffers from centuries-old creative editing that undermines its historical accuracy, a top Christianity scholar suggested Tuesday night. ..."It's hard to know what the words in the New Testament mean if we don't know what they were," Bart Ehrman told a packed house at the Palmer Museum of Art. Ehrman, the religious studies chairman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, penned "Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why."Cancer symposium looks at treatments of the future
Idaho Mountain Express (Ketchum)
Breakthroughs in targeting different types of cancer continue to be the cutting edge in breast cancer therapy. ... Perou is a researcher with the Department of Genetics and Pathology at the University of North Carolina. He and his team discovered that breast cancer is not a single disease, but instead represents a series of diseases that each has a unique biology.State and Local Coverage
UNC, GE unite on imaging center
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill announced an agreement with GE Healthcare to establish a Center for Research Excellence in Breast Cancer Imaging. The center will operate as part of the university's Biomedical Research Imaging Center.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar07/bric_ge030507.htmlKids at work (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
They do a lot of good work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and valuable if disturbing information is to be found in one particular piece of that work -- a nationwide survey of employees between 14 and 18 years of age, 866 of them, that shows many of these kids are doing jobs they shouldn't be doing without the supervision they ought to have.
Related link: http://triad.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2007/03/05/daily8.html
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar07/teenwork030107.htmlLung cancer vaccine to be tested locally
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A UNC-Chapel Hill scientist is leading a major new clinical trial of a novel cancer vaccine that offers a rare bit of hope to lung cancer patients. Dr. Mark A. Socinski, a lung cancer specialist and associate professor of medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, will help test an experimental vaccine that mobilizes patients' own immune systems to battle lung cancer cells.Who Needs a CEO? Actually, Liquidia May Hire More Than One
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
As usual, Steve Nelson is returning phone calls and responding to e-mails between board meetings. ...Fluorocur is based on research done at UNC Chapel Hill and NCSU by Joe DeSimone. DeSimone has been involved in entrepreneurial ventures in the past, including the launching of a chain of dry cleaners that did not rely on chemicals.PlayMakers present Morrison's 'Bluest Eye'
The Chapel Hill News
Pecola Breedlove, an 11-year-old girl growing up in 1940s Ohio, knows very well what the society around her considers beautiful -- white skin, blonde hair and blue eyes. As she also knows, she has none of those things. Her yearning for them is central to the stage adaptation of Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," presented by PlayMakers Repertory Company through March 25.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/feb07/bluesteye022007.htmlLove is in the wood
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Many people notice the bridges and trail signs at Battle Park, but few probably realize that this woodwork is made right on UNC's campus. .... UNC's three cabinetmakers and 10 carpenters do much of this work from a giant woodshop off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.Rally seeks vote on gay marriage ban
The Associated Press (N.C.)
Buoyed by the recent passage of similar legislation in seven states, several thousand people rallied Tuesday to urge lawmakers to let them vote on a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. ...Given the conservative makeup of both the state Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, judicial action to overturn North Carolina's marriage laws is unlikely, said William Marshall, a professor at the UNC Chapel Hill law school.Wary N.C. doctors shun man's execution
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A judge Tuesday delayed the execution of Allen Holman, which had been set for this week, because prison officials could not find doctors willing to risk losing their medical licenses by participating. ...Dr. Charles van der Horst, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's school of medicine who helped push the medical board's ethics policy, called Tuesday's developments "terrific."Trash decision reopens wounds
The Chapel Hill News
Jeanne Stroud wakes up to the sound of beeping trucks. Buzzards fly over her house. A "horrible odor" permeates her home. ...Philip Berke, a professor of land use and environmental planning at UNC, said environmental justice is the concept that "all people have a basic right of access to a healthy living environment."Issues and Trends
Closing the ‘Degree Gap’
Inside Higher Ed
Reports about flagging U.S. competitiveness are about as common as college presidents quoting The World Is Flat or politicians worrying about jobs being transported to China or India. But a new study being released aims to do something different: It is trying to quantify the number of degrees the United States needs to keep up with international competitors and to spur the development of plans to educate millions more students between now and 2025.NCCU to spend $150,000 to find chancellor
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
N.C. Central University plans to spend $150,000 on the search for its next leader. Of that, $80,000 goes to Heidrick & Struggles, a search firm hired to help NCCU find a replacement for Chancellor James Ammons, who leaves later this year to take over as the head of Florida A&M University.WCU student joins call for financial help
The Asheville Citizen-Times
Students from North Carolina colleges were among hundreds who braved wind chills of 20 degrees Tuesday to lobby Congress for more financial aid. ...At UNC Chapel Hill, the average subsidized loan debt is slightly more at $11,860.
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