 |
October 1, 2004
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:
National CoverageAcross the Nation
USA Today
Chapel Hill - The University of North Carolina is expanding a year-old program to allow children from low-income families to attend college without going into debt. The Carolina Covenant program enrolled 225 freshmen this fall. They'll graduate debt-free as long as they work 10 to 12 hours each week in a federal work-study job.
(Note: Originated with The Durham Herald-Sun's coverage this week. Other pick-up of that story includes UB Daily, a higher education e-news summary produced by University Business Magazine, a national publication.)SLA Partnership Wins Grant to Study Future of Information Professionals
www.ManagingInformation.com
A partnership of American organisations led by the University of North Carolina and including Syracuse University and the Special Libraries Association has been awarded $994,369 by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services to conduct a research study on the future of librarians in the workforce.
State & Local CoverageCarolina Covenant continues to impress (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Despite the state constitution's specific enjoinder that the "benefit of the University of North Carolina and other public institutions of higher education, as far as practicable, be extended to the people of the state free of expense," the cost of attendance at UNC has been rising inexorably...It is to UNC Chapel Hill's great credit, then, that it continues to try to do something about the awful dichotomy of rising tuition costs and lowered ability to pay...
UNC expands aid program
The Charlotte Observer
UNC Chapel Hill is expanding a year-old program meant to allow the children of low-income families to attend college without going into debt.
Additional Coverage includes:
Winston Salem Journal
Myrtle Beach Sun News
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
Incentives help win business, panel says
The News & Record
Economic incentives such as tax credits and cash are essential to winning new business, said local government officials, economic developers and academics from UNC-Chapel Hill at a conference Thursday at Triad Park...The panelists at the conference, which was sponsored by the Friends of the Institute of Government at UNC-CH to look at the role of local government in
economic development, also said incentives were important to retaining business....Other speakers were UNC-CH Chancellor James Moeser; Jonathan Morgan and David Lawrence, UNC-CH government professors
Panel: Incentives are here to stay
Triad Business Journal
Triangle Business Journal
No matter how little some members of a community may like them, incentives are a part of economic development that isn't going anywhere soon. That was the conclusion of a panel discussion held at Triad Park in Kernersville Thursday night. Hosted by the School of Government at UNC-Chapel Hill...Panelists included Bob Leak, president of Winston-Salem Business Inc.; Watts Carr, chairman of the Piedmont Triad Partnership; Jonathan Morgan, an assistant professor at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Government; and, David Lawrence, a UNC-Chapel Hill professor at the School of Government. Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines moderated the discussion. "There are tremendous assets in this very region," said UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser, who spoke at the beginning of the program.
Moeser aims to reach out
Daily Tar Heel
Chancellor James Moeser traveled to Kernersville on Thursday to tout his statewide travel initiative in front of an audience of economic developers, educators and elected officials.
UNC, Duke win research grants
The News & Observer
The National Institutes of Health has tapped UNC-Chapel Hill to receive three of 21 grants funding new medical research centers designed to speed science into practical use.
Related Coverage:
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/01/415d4849e3c8e
Other coverage of this story included the N.C. News Network, which reaches
nearly 90 radio stations across the state.
UNC news release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sept04/covenant092904.htmlClose race might draw attention to N.C.
News 14 (Time Warner, Charlotte)
"Having Sen. Edwards on the ticket has made this state much more competitive," said political expert Ferrel Guillory. With such a tight race, Guillory said Carolinians could be a deciding factor in the battle for the White House.
Pharmacists await reaction
Charlotte Observer
Shakti Subramanian has suffered back pain most of his life and found complete relief in just one drug, Vioxx. So he was pained Thursday when his pharmacy wouldn't fill his prescription...It's not unusual for drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be withdrawn from the market later. "There's usually about three a year," said Michael Murray, who heads the UNC Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy's graduate program in pharmaceutical policy. But most drugs aren't as high-profile as Vioxx, he added.
Graham, UNC-CH medical professor
The News & Observer-Obituary
Dr. John Borden Graham, a longtime professor of medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill who was instrumental in the launch of the genetics program and the Carolina Population Center there, died Saturday at his home.
Produced by News Services, Carolina in the News is an e-mail sampling of current news media coverage about Carolina people and programs, as well as issues and trends that affect the university. Stories usually will be online and available free for a limited time - often one to two weeks. Expiration dates before stories move to archives vary by media outlet. Some outlets require free user registration or a subscription.
Carolina in the News is also posted daily to the News Services Web page, http://www.unc.edu/newsserv/clipsindex.htm.
Please share any questions, comments or suggestions at news@unc.edu.