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Nov. 16, 2007
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Clipping Away at Illness
The Washington Post
In the annals of beauty, the pompadour, the beehive and the Afro all had their day. Now comes the lifesaving haircut...A survey by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that 80 percent of African Americans visit a barbershop or salon at least once a month.
New York Leads Borrowers; Munis Poised to Snap Three-Week Skid
Bloomberg
...The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with ratings one level below AAA, raised almost $300 million for campus improvements with its revenue bond sale.
ACLU: Diplomats abuse household help
The Associated Press
Some foreign diplomats abuse and exploit their household help while serving in the U.S., and one woman said she was forced to work up to 19 hours a day for a pittance, advocacy groups charge...Two other groups joined in the petition, Global Rights and the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic of the University of North Carolina School of Law.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov07/domesticabuse111507.htmlUM med students learn how to prevent errors that cost lives and money
The Miami Herald
The patient's on the operating room table. His upper body is punctured with stab wounds. He's kept alive via snaking tubes infiltrating the gashes...''It's very serious, that's why the commission did the study,'' says Linda Cronenwett, who co-chaired the Committee for Identifying Medical Errors for the Institute.
Note: Linda Cronenwett is dean of Carolina's School of Nursing.
Older Hypertension Patients Less Likely to Get Lifestyle Advice
HealthDay News
Americans over 60 with high blood pressure are less likely than younger patients to receive guidance from their doctors on how lifestyle changes can lower their blood pressure, a new study finds. A team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed data from a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey of almost 28,500 adults with hypertension.
Free Chekhov!
The Utne Reader
Most Americans know Anton Chekhov for his plays—produced in frequency only behind Shakespeare’s—and yet, his greatest legacy to the literary world might be his short stories...Although Chekhov died at 44, he left behind hundreds of stories, 201 of which are collected online under public domain at ibiblio, a collaborative project between the Schools of Information and Library Science, and Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Regional Coverage
Is your job going to kill you?
New Hope Gazette (Newtown, Pa.)
There seems to be a competition among guys of a certain type to see who can put in the longest hours, work the hardest, be the most demanding of themselves on the job...Therefore, that mate is less likely to find you desirable and research at the University of North Carolina found they are far less interested in making love.
Grayslake district opts against study
The Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Ill.)
Grayslake Elementary District 46 wants to know how many children might attend its schools in the future, but getting updated, accurate numbers is tricky business. With that in mind, school board members agreed this week to hold off on seeking another demographic study by consultant John Kasarda, a University of North Carolina management professor.
Children’s Health Council teaches how to learn
The Los Altos Town Crier (Los Altos, Calif.)
Many remember a time, far back in the misty days of grade school, when they couldn’t wrap their minds around long division or keep straight pesky words like theyre, their and there...The Schools Attuned program is based on neurodevelopmental research by Dr. Mel Levine, a pediatrician at the University of North Carolina Medical School.
State & Local CoverageUNC Board of Trustees approves tuition hike
The Chapel Hill Herald
The UNC Chapel Hill Board of Trustees settled one element of their tuition debate Thursday, unanimously approving Chancellor James Moeser's recommended increases for out-of-state undergraduates and all graduate students.
Related Link: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/higher_education/story/774855.htmlStudents weigh in on chancellor search
The Chapel Hill Herald
Her voice cracking and tears welling up in her eyes, a UNC student told Chancellor Search Committee members Thursday they should hire a North Carolinian for the job. .. Thursday's meeting was the third forum for people to offer suggestions on the skills and characteristics a new chancellor should have. The forum, which took place in the newly renovated Gerrard Hall, attracted about 40 people in addition to committee members and staff.
To churn out more doctors, UNC med school looking at $200M remake
The Triangle Business Journal
The state legislature could be asked to come up with as much as $200 million to renovate and add more than a half-million square feet of space at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
Oriel wins $26.5 million pledge to develop drugs
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Oriel Therapeutics has received a $26.5 million commitment from a group of venture capital firms to develop drugs that will use the company's patented inhaler technology...Oriel, founded in 2001, licensed its initial inhaler technology from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Universities' projects put environment first
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Duke senior Jeff Schwane is not quite used to giving tours of his home yet...At UNC, Chancellor James Moeser has spoken of a commitment to cutting greenhouse emissions and becoming "climate neutral" by 2050.
UNC advancing cancer research
The Daily Tar Heel
When Oliver Smithies won the Nobel Prize last month, UNC's research efforts were brought into the international limelight. But before that, the University had been pioneering new scientific processes and treatments, especially in genetic engineering.
Rethinking Ruffin
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Thomas Ruffin was a well known, well respected, much cited, much memorialized North Carolina jurist...Host Frank Stasio discusses Ruffin’s legacy with: Sally Greene, independent scholar, adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, attorney, and member of the Chapel Hill Town Council; Eric Muller, Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics at the University of North Carolina School of Law; and, Sanford Levinson, W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair at the University of Texas School of Law.
Note: “The State of Things” is the statewide public affairs program airing live at noon weekdays and rebroadcast at 9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays.Non-English speakers served by health department counted
The Washington Daily News
Beaufort County plans on hiring an attorney to determine if there is a legal way to verify U.S. citizenship before the county’s health department renders services to people seeking those services...Spruill said lawyers with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Government cautioned him against commissioners taking such action.
Schools work to get word out
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
It wasn't an emergency, but parents of N.C. State University students received e-mail Thursday about how to register to get cell phone text messages in the event there is an emergency on campus...The siren system and the text messages are also being implemented at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Issues & Trends
Alternative funeral services include cremation and green or natural burial
The Daily News (Jacksonville, N.C.)
Throughout his 20 years in the funeral business, Johnny Thompson said he has arranged some of the most peculiar services...Medicals at Duke University, the University of North Carolina, East Carolina University and Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem accept bodies in three different ways: prearrangement, donation on the part of the deceased's next of kin and unclaimed bodies that are placed in the care of the Department of Social Services.
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