May 14, 2004

Carolina in the News

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

International News Coverage

A Serious HIV Education Problem
The Moscow Times, Russia
Igor believes there isn't much he can do to safeguard himself from contracting HIV....While three-fourths of Russians think that HIV/AIDS can be prevented, only 59 percent believe regular condom use reduces the chance of infection, according to the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a Russia-wide poll of 6,115 people led by the University of North Carolina.

National Coverage

Greater supercomputer coordination urged
Government Computer News
A report issued by the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy recommends that agencies with supercomputers work more closely to share and develop resources....Speaking before the committee, Dan Reed, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that researchers are faced with sets of problems that now cannot be addressed by the current generation of high-performance computers.

State & Local Coverage

Harris Teeter launches scholarship
Charlotte Business Journal
Harris Teeter Inc. has created a $1 million scholarship fund for study abroad by in-state students at UNC Chapel Hill.
UNC release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may04/teeter051304.html

Counties team up to seek real estate fee
The Charlotte Observer
County managers from Mecklenburg and six surrounding counties are considering asking legislators to authorize new ways to help them pay for spiraling, growth-induced school construction costs....More recently, though, development and real estate lobbies have blocked the measures for other counties, said Richard Ducker, a land-use specialist at UNC Chapel Hill's School of Government.

The road to Brown (Point of View)
The News & Observer
As we mark the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, honor the black children who braved mobs to desegregate previously all-white schools and debate whether Brown "worked," let us also remember how the architects of the legal challenge to segregated education conceived of killing Jim Crow....Kenneth R. Janken is associate professor of Afro-American studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Sacred missions
The News & Observer
When Jerma A. Jackson was a graduate student at Rutgers University in New Jersey, she wanted to work on a project about religion and music....Jackson, an assistant professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill, will discuss black gospel music tonight at 7:30 at Barnes & Noble Booksellers at New Hope Commons in Durham.

Friends come to aid of visiting doctor
Greensboro News & Record
Sometime around December, Dr. Stewart Rogers noticed Dr. Cephas Chikanda wasn't hanging around Moses Cone Hospital anymore...."Strictly speaking, some of what he did maybe was illegal. None of it was immoral," said Rogers, a full-time faculty member in Cone's internal medicine training program and a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill's medical school.

Forsyth DSS sued over acts by agent
The Winston Salem Journal
The Forsyth County Department of Social Services is being sued by a man who says that a social worker's romantic involvement with a client - the man's estranged wife - clouded his professional judgment....In her letter on Lynch's behalf, Kim Strom-Gottfried, an associate professor of social work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that Deese painted "a singular portrait of the family" and made "innuendo without benefit of context," Brown said.

Issues & Trends

Co-speaker Black floats financing scheme
The News & Observer
How do you pay for $310 million in popular university projects with no obvious source of money?...Black, a Mecklenburg County Democrat, has been doing just that this week. His motivation, he said, is the potential for new jobs to spring from the projects, which include a cancer research center at UNC-Chapel Hill, a heart and stroke center at East Carolina University and a "bioinformatics" center at UNC-Charlotte, in Black's back yard.

UNC chiefs' pay to be reviewed
The News & Observer
Are UNC chancellors underpaid compared with other university presidents? That question will get a special review next month by a committee of the UNC Board of Governors.

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