May 26, 2005

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

With love, longevity, couples can reach 75th
Chicago Tribune
On May 27, 1930, Joseph Dsida married Eva Brandt in Gakovo, a small town in the present-day nation of Serbia and Montenegro within walking distance of the Hungarian border. Joseph was 19; Eva was 15.....Peter Uhlenberg, a University of North Carolina sociologist who specializes in family demography, surmises that about three or four out of 1,000 couples getting married in 1930 at about the same ages as the Dsidas would mark their 75th anniversary this year.

State & Local Coverage

UNC touts economic impact of project
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
UNC's proposed Carolina North development would be a boon to local and regional economies by broadening the tax base and creating thousands of new jobs, an economic impact study released Wednesday contends.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may05/cnorth052505.html
Related link: http://www.nbc17.com/news/4531172/detail.html

UNC touts Carolina North study
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Although plans for Carolina North are still in a preliminary stage, UNC-Chapel Hill leaders contend the research campus will be a boon to the economy -- generating 7,500 local jobs and $48 million in annual tax revenues by 2020.

Study: Carolina North would create 7,500 jobs
Triangle Business Journal
A new economic impact study released Wednesday estimates that Carolina North, a proposed new campus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, would generate 7,500 local jobs and about $48 million in annual tax revenue by 2020.

UNC chemist is Jefferson Fellow
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A UNC-Chapel Hill chemist has been selected as one of five Jefferson Science Fellows, researchers who advise the U.S. Department of State.

Autism education's shining light
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
When Eric Schopler was 11, he had only a vague understanding of why his family had to leave their home in Germany....The program he founded at UNC-Chapel Hill 40 years ago -- Division TEACCH, or Treatment and Education of Autistic and Communication-Handicapped Children -- has been replicated on every continent, even in countries such as China, where the concept of autism was unknown until recently.

State Halts Expansion Of Anti-Smoking Campaign
The Associated Press (N.C.)
North Carolina has canceled plans to expand an anti-smoking campaign aimed at teenagers, a move that upsets health advocates who had been calling on the state to spend more money on prevention....Jim Davis, the executive director of the wellness commission, acknowleged in a letter to state officials that the 2004 anti-smoking campaign "registered a positive effect on youth attitudes toward tobacco use in North Carolina" and that the University of North Carolina School of Medicine supported its expansion.

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