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Nov. 13, 2006
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Custom gear offers heads-up research
The Toronto Star
Every move 14-year-old Chase Balisy makes on the ice is being tracked — not only by his coaches and his opponents, but also by six electronic sensors in his helmet. ...Ten scientists from Lakehead, Toronto, Brock, Laurentian and York universities are involved in the study, which is being led by Bill Montelpare of Lakehead and Kevin Guskiewicz of the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center.
Generation Next
ITP Business (Dubai)
The technological revolution has helped logistics companies to harness the power of information at the flick of a switch. ...According to Professor John Kasarda of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “Airports will be as important to business location and urban development in the twenty-first century as automobiles and trucks were in the twentieth century, railroads were in the nineteenth century, and seaports were in the eighteenth century.”
National Coverage
The Progress of Black Student Enrollments at the Nation’s Highest-Ranked Colleges and Universities
The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
For the fourteenth consecutive year, JBHE publishes its survey of the percentages of black first-year students at the nation’s highest-ranked universities and liberal arts colleges. This year, for the sixth time in the last eight years, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leads the other universities in the percentage of black students in its first-year class.
Gifts and Bequests
The Chronicle of Higher Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. To endow the academic-leadership program in the Institute for the Arts and Humanities: $5-million from J.R. (Pitt) Hyde III and Barbara Hyde.
Encyclopedia chronicles N.C.'s past
McClatchy Newspapers
The N.C. governor, a council member and a missionary got drunk, stripped naked and boxed during a meeting one spring day in 1712 - a sequence of events followed perhaps by a breakdown in the political process. ...He worked as curator of the N.C. Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a professor of history there.
Note: This story originated in the News & Observer (Raleigh) and has now ben distributed nationwide.A Republican Perspective On The Impact Of The 2006 Elections On U.S. Health Policy
Health Affairs (Bethesda, Md.)
It would be easy for Republicans to be upset about the election and for Democrats to take this opportunity to seek retribution. And that might feel good for awhile. Or both parties could step forward and take advantage of what is likely to be the greatest opportunity to improve health care that this nation has seen in a long time.
Watch for warning signs of a bad diet
The Associated Press (National)
One morsel of junk food and Erica Esper would beat herself up over it the rest of the night. ..."Starting a diet should be taken seriously. They have to be monitored with equal concern," said Cynthia Bulik, director of the eating disorders program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Newspapers aren't dead yet
"Marketpace Morning Report," American Public Radio
Philip Meyer, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was featured on today's (Nov. 13) edition of "Marketplace Morning Report." It's hardly news that the newspaper industry is doing badly, so why do so many people want to buy the Tribune Group?
EBay suffering growing pains
Scripps Howard News Service
Thomas Burns is among the tens of millions of people who make the vast eBay economy hum. ...“EBay is one of the great examples of globalization,” says Ken Hillis, professor of media studies at the University of North Carolina and an editor of the book “Everyday eBay.”
Regional Coverage
Students and their parents feel stressed as application time rolls around
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Mariana Delgado is a young woman on a mission. ...And despite the hoopla surrounding Harvard's announcement in September that it would drop its early admission program next fall – a variation on a theme begun by University of North Carolina in 2002 and now involving Princeton, Yale, University of Virginia and others – little steam has been let out of the college admissions pressure cooker.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/apr02/eardec042502.htmUF 's desperate days (Editorial)
The St. Petersburg Times
In Michigan or North Carolina or many other states, quality is not viewed as an elective in higher education. ...Its student-faculty ratio is half-again larger than the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Related link: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/orl-uf11_106nov11,0,5584928.story?coll=orl-home-headlinesState and Local Coverage
UNC tops for black freshmen
The Chapel Hill Herald
For the sixth time in the last eight years, UNC Chapel Hill has the highest percentage of black first-year students among the nation's highest-ranked universities and liberal arts colleges, according to a report from the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
Note: No link available.UNC honors men, women in uniform
The Chapel Hill Herald
As groups of schoolchildren played happily in the leaves on McCorkle Place and traffic passed on Franklin Street, veterans and young officers-in-training took time Friday to mark Veterans Day on the UNC campus.
Note: No link available.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct06/vetsday102506.htmCancer patients test theory at the gym
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Six months ago you couldn't have paid Gretchen Hoag to go to a gym. ...But today, Hoag is an eager participant in a new program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that hopes to more firmly establish regular exercise as an effective treatment for common and debilitating side effects of breast cancer therapy, including pain, fatigue, depression and anxiety.
UNC Research Briefs: http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2006/110306.htmEarly school piques interest
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A leading child development institute based at UNC-Chapel Hill wants to revolutionize education by enrolling 3-year-olds in public school. ...Researchers at UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute say quality education from ages 3 to 8 is crucial and that FirstSchool, the institute's name for its early schooling concept, would start all children on a level playing field, said Sharon Ritchie, co-director of the project.
Shedding light on dark past (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
This Friday we'll devote a special section of the paper to a significant but little-known story that's 108 years old. ...(Timothy) Tyson, who teaches at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill, brought a historian's view and a writer's gifts to the task. His account draws on many sources and is framed by his own memories connected to Wilmington and the legacy of 1898.
UNC Hospitals plans for room additions
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC Hospitals is planning to build a 200-bed inpatient tower so that more people receiving care can have private rooms.
UNC professor joins OWASA board
The Chapel Hill News
William R. Stott took the oath of office as a member of the OWASA board of directors last month. Stott serves on the faculty of UNC's Carolina Environmental Program (CEP) and is the director of the CEP's Albemarle Ecological Field Site.
Plan may pave way for street's future
The Durham News
Ninth Street, the locally owned shopping district with whiffs of the upscale and Durham funk, got a peek at what possibly could be its future last week. ...The group of 14 planners and UNC-Chapel Hill students logged more than 420 hours drawing up "form-based" zoning restrictions (i.e., restrictions on building size and appearance) to help Ninth Street retain its flavor.
Clause is hitch in Duke deal
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Whether it is legal for Duke University to pay Durham $2 million in exchange for approval of a road project appears to depend on the interpretation of the term "improvements." ...If the "improvements" referred to in the agreement relate solely to the street project -- as city officials have repeatedly asserted -- then the deal is probably legal, according to David W. Owens, a professor of public law and government at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Hispanic teen pregnancy rate is high
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Latina teenagers are more likely than not to get pregnant before their 20th birthday. ...Vexler spoke Thursday at a symposium on Hispanic teenagers sponsored by the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina, held at the Friday Center at UNC-Chapel Hill. The keynote speaker was Hector Sanchez-Flores, a senior research associate at the University of California-San Francisco.
New UNC dean snookers everyone (Letter to the editor)
The Chapel Hill News
Recently, the chairman of UNC's Employee Forum asked the chancellor for a one-year moratorium on the proposed layoff of 17 dental laboratory technicians. Few faculty and no students had been consulted about this significant change in curriculum, and staff were not given an opportunity to offer cost-saving suggestions.
Issues and Trends
ECU dental school OK'd
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
East Carolina University will get its dental school, and UNC-Chapel Hill will expand its existing one -- changes that could make it easier for North Carolinians to get molars capped and cavities filled.
Donor limits too low?
The Chapel Hill News
Less than a week after four candidates for two local judge's seats spent more than $300,000 on their campaigns, the Town Council will discuss raising campaign contributions limits for their own seats. ...Changes to development plans at UNC-Chapel Hill which include additions to the law school, Kenan Stadium and the Carolina Inn and new structures near the Bell Tower and on South Campus;
Coppin president to leave in '07 for post at N.C. A&T
The Baltimore Sun
After four years as head of Coppin State University, President Stanley F. Battle will leave Baltimore to become chancellor of North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, regarded as one of the most prestigious historically black universities in the country.
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