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May 25, 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
Consistency has its merits
The Financial Times (United Kingdom)
The 2007 survey of customised executive education providers springs no great surprises. In particular, if you looked at the top three business schools you might even yawn slightly and mutter "predictable" or "typical". ...In the US, two schools in particular made their clients much happier this year. Companies that worked with the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina were much more impressed with food and facilities than were last year's clients. The school came first and second in these categories. Customers also felt that the school provided good value for money and placed it fourth in this section. All in all, the Kenan-Flagler school moved up 19 places to be ranked 13th this year.National Coverage
Teenagers and Driving: A Deadly Equation
"All Things Considered," National Public Radio
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers in the United States. Each year, more than 5,000 high school-aged kids die on the road. The problem confounds parents, teachers and researchers, who have not yet found effective methods to improve the grim statistics. ...Rob Foss, director of the Center for the Study of Young Drivers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says parents can make a big difference in their teens' education as young drivers.1-2 punch could help hearing-impaired
McClatchy Newspapers
James A. King has always had poor hearing, but now it's so bad the pharmacist often can't understand patients at his store counter, waiters in restaurants or the high-pitched voices of his six grandchildren - even with the help of hearing aids. ...The device, called a cochlear implant, will work in tandem with a special hearing aid to help him hear a more complete range of sounds. King is among the first patients in the country to receive the combination treatment, which is being tested at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and elsewhere as part of a national clinical trial sponsored by Med-El, the Austrian company that makes the technology.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may07/cochlear050407.htmlOpening Sources, Opening Minds
TechNews World
The term "open source" has several meanings. ...Freely accessible information also can be used for personal growth. This site is an online meta-library of software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics and cultural studies. Managed by the Center for the Public Domain and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ibiblio is designed to allow users to access a range of data.Regional Coverage
UMO-Bowdoin partnership good for Maine
The Kennebec Journal (Maine)
A new partnership between the University of Maine and Bowdoin College on a joint engineering program is such a good idea it should be replicated elsewhere in the state. ...Today, however, the drivers of the knowledge-based economy tend to be centered around academia. Think North Carolina's research triangle, an economic powerhouse formed among Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University in Raleigh.Geneva considers bringing outdoor theater to Ashtabula County
The Star Beacon (Ashtabula, Ohio)
Like the drums of the Tecumseh Indian outdoor drama in Chillicothe, Geneva city officials can hear the pounding of economic development. ..."We have already stepped forward with this idea by bringing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute of Outdoor Drama director Scott Parker to Geneva for an initial visit in April," Pearson said. "Mr. Parker is the foremost - - and possibly the only - - expert on the development and success of outdoor dramas."Keyed up?
The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.)
Hands gilded with rings, legendary jazz pianist Herbie Hancock closes his eyes and sways into the groove. ..."They really changed the scope of what was going on," said Stephen Anderson, a jazz pianist who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As Hancock played with Davis throughout the 1960s, the group changed the shape of jazz.State and Local Coverage
UNC trustees in and out
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The UNC-Chapel Hill trustees gave a sendoff Thursday for three departing members -- Tim Burnett, Jean Kitchin and Stick Williams. Also Thursday, the board's next slate of officers was nominated: Roger Perry as chairman, Karol Mason as vice chairwoman and Rusty Carter as secretary.UNC trustees examine tuition-setting process
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
The UNC Board of Trustees is looking at making the way the university increases tuition and fees more efficient, as well as more understandable to the student body. Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost Bernadette Gray-Little gave the trustees a presentation Thursday morning on a revised campus-based tuition and fee-setting process for the coming academic year.GSK's Avandia problem may grow
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
GlaxoSmithKline's worries about Avandia -- the diabetes drug that has been linked to increased risk of heart attacks -- goes beyond the $3 billion the drug generates in sales each year. ...In 2000, Dr. John Buse, director of the UNC Diabetes Care Center, wrote a letter to the FDA expressing concerns about the cardiovascular safety of the drug and the way in which it was being marketed.34 UNC students get scholarships for study abroad
WCHL-AM (Chapel Hill)
Scholarships for international study at school around the world have been awarded to thirty-four Carolina students. Study abroad program finance director Sally Molyneux says that’s a record.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may07/studyabroad052407.htmlJudge OKs Quran for oath
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A Muslim living in North Carolina may take a courtroom oath on the Quran, a Wake County Superior Court judge ruled Thursday, in a decision that calls on the state to treat all religions equally. ..."The courts are catching up to the emerging social reality in North Carolina," said Tom Tweed, a professor of religion at UNC-Chapel Hill.London town -- that's the place for me (Opinion column)
The Greensboro News & Record
It was Samuel Johnson who wrote the memorable words that often show up in modern London tour books: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life....'' ...Around the corner from the British Museum on Bedford Square is UNC-Chapel Hill's newly acquired London residence. It's called Winston House, and painters were putting the final touches on it the afternoon we toured the elegant four-story house.Associate vice chancellor for human resources named
The Daily Tar Heel
Brenda Malone was named associate vice chancellor for human resources on Tuesday. nMalone will succeed Laurie Chest, who retired in January after holding the position for more than 16 years.
UNC People brief: http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2007/052207.htmlYoung women, destiny is calling
The Daily Tar Heel
To those passing by the Morehead Planetarium last Saturday, the Destiny bus may have appeared to be an ordinary vehicle idling in anticipation of its passengers. But inside, Destiny was bustling with activity. Clad in safety goggles, aprons and Carolina-blue rubber gloves, a group of eighth-grade female students and their mentors spent the afternoon performing a science experiment using the latest science and technology equipment installed on the Destiny.
UNC Media Advisory: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2007/destiny051707.htmlToddler lives with benign tumor
The Times-News (Hendersonville)
The grinning, fair-haired toddler sat in the sandbox, happily pouring sand onto her toys, her feet and the porch floor. Emelia Ashby played like any other child while her mother watched. ...She has had steroids, three surgeries and 24 rounds of chemotherapy at the hospital at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill to shrink the tumor.Personal responsibility (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As former director of the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, I applaud the recent four-part series on speeding. It is the most serious single challenge to safe travel on our highways today.The Creolization of the South Is Continuing Apace (Opinion-editorial column)
The Southern Pines Pilot
Forget about your "race" as the main thing that sets you apart from other Southerners. ...Another section examines a suggestion raised by the works of UNC-Chapel Hill professors George Tindall and John Shelton Reed that Southerners themselves can be viewed as a separate ethnic group based on a common experience that embraced "both blacks and whites." Notwithstanding their many remaining differences, Southerners are sufficiently creolized that they may be a distinct ethnic identity.Issues and Trends
Scaling back bonuses
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Outrageous compensation and bonuses for top executives are making the news lately. ...UNC will "embrace this change," Roper said, linking the move to efforts to improve access to health care and provide financial assistance for poor and indigent patients.
Related link: http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/chhedits/57-850756.cfmThere's no looming threat of a 'brain drain' in UNC system (Opinion-editorial column)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Is the University of North Carolina suffering a "brain drain" because faculty pay isn't high enough? Some people think so. The political action committee Citizens for Higher Education stated last year that faculty who left UNC-Chapel Hill's College of Arts and Sciences in 2005 averaged a 51 percent increase in pay, but offered only a couple of anecdotal examples. ... Jane S. Shaw is the executive vice president of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy in Raleigh.
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