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March 21, 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
High-Tech Implants Restore Limited Vision and Mobility
Voice of America
Sooner or later, it seems, most everything imagined in science fiction comes true. From flying in space to talking on a telephone without wires, today's science increasingly resembles yesterday's fiction. And that's becoming more and more true in medicine. ...Humayun was one of several researchers working on restoring functions lost to age, accident or war who discussed their work at the recent annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the AAAS. Another was Roger Narayan of the University of North Carolina.National Coverage
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Awards $1-Million Grants to 10 Colleges to Increase Access
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation plans to announce today that it will award $1-million grants to 10 colleges to help high-achieving, low-income students pursue higher education. ...The University of North Carolina and the National College Access Network, an association of scholarship and college-counseling programs, will establish the National College Advising Corps Office, in Chapel Hill, to coordinate the 11 institutional programs and to encourage other colleges to start similar projects.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar07/jackkentcooke032107.htmlTaking ‘College Guide’ National
Inside High Ed
Colleges have long relied on their students to serve as campus tour guides — not only showing people around, but recruiting the next cohort of students. ...The other colleges that will be starting programs are: ...the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (which will also be home of the national office) and the University of Utah.High-Fruit, Low-Meat Diet Helps Prevent Precancerous Polyps
WebMD
Eating lots of fruit and little meat may help prevent precancerous colon polyps, a new study shows. ...Austin is a gastroenterology fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He and his colleagues studied the dietary patterns of 725 adults who got colonoscopy.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar07/colondiet031607.htmlRegional Coverage
Fruit, less meat curbs cancer risk: Study
South Bend Tribune (Ind.)
Want to lower your risk of colon cancer? ...Researchers at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill found that people who ate a high-fruit, low-meat diet had half the risk of developing precancerous polyps compared with heavy meat-eaters.
Related link: http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6254056
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar07/colondiet031607.htmlState and Local Coverage
Grant funds college advisers in high schools
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of 10 colleges and universities that will share a $10 million grant to create advising programs to help low-income high school students enroll in college.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/mar07/jackkentcooke032107.htmlUNC teams up with foundation, colleges to create national advising program
The Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday said it has teamed up with the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and nine other colleges to establish a $10 million partnership to create advising programs to help low-income students enroll in college.The network of programs created through the partnership will be called the National College Advising Corps and will be headquartered at UNC in Chapel Hill.Keeping college open to everyone (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
In announcing Monday that it would eliminate student loans from its financial aid packages for incoming students, Davidson College took a bold, groundbreaking step. ...At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Carolina Covenant provides an opportunity for students from low-income families to graduate debt-free. The Covenant has been a national model, and Gov. Mike Easley has proposed extending a similar program to all of the state's public universities.Women who shine
The News & Observer
March is National Women's History Month, so we're taking our hats off to some worthy local women we've run across in our storytelling. ...As the designer of the first digital mamography device, which helps detect breast cancer earlier, the UNC-Chapel Hill radiologist could be responsible for saving thousands of lives.UNC's Davis taking chemo
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
North Carolina football coach Butch Davis was the picture of health as he conducted his first spring practices in Chapel Hill this week. ..."We can't find anything,'' said Dr. Thomas Shea, Davis' Chapel Hill-based doctor and a UNC professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology.
Related link: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/456/story/58164.htmlUNC names associate dean of MBA program
The Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Tuesday appointed David Hofmann as the next associate dean for the MBA program at the university's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
UNC People brief: http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2007/032007.htmlWant to lower cholesterol? Eat nuts, beans, oats, peas (Commentary)
The Charlotte Observer
If you struggle to keep your cholesterol level down, you know there's a long list of tasty foods you must avoid. That's why it's nice now and then to think about the long list of good-tasting foods you can enjoy and how some can even help keep your cholesterol level under control. ...Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy at UNC.College Prep is Big Business for Parents
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
Whether you want to go to the University of North Carolina, Duke University, North Carolina State University, or any other college, you've got to have the grades and test scores to get in. And you need to start checking into all of it early.Issues and Trends
Textbook inflation (Editorial)
The Jackson Citizen-Patriot (Mich.)
If you are the unlucky person -- parent or student -- who is picking up the tab for a higher education, consider two outrageous trends: 1) College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of inflation for the past 20 years; and 2) college tuition costs, incredibly, have been rising at an even higher rate. ...The University of North Carolina has gone a step further. Under a proposed plan, UNC would require all of its 16 campuses to create a guaranteed rental or buyback program for those lower-division courses that most students must take.Students mark war's anniversary
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Triangle students streamed out of classrooms into the sunshine Tuesday to shout, march and beat homemade drums in protest on the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. ...More than 150 protesters marched from the UNC campus to the intersection of Franklin and Columbia streets, where lunchtime traffic stalled in four directions.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=5134832
http://charlotte.com/115/story/58104.html
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