October 7, 2004

Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Putting Side Effects in Perspective
The Wall Street Journal
These days, people might be casting a wary eye toward their medicine cabinets....Sidney Smith, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the former president of the American Heart Association, says he closely monitors patients on warfarin.
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Career Council Says Recruiting Is Up Again
Business Week
This year's MBA hiring outlook is looking good, according to the Career Services Council (CSC), a nonprofit organization that tracks B-school recruiting trends....Mindy Storrie, head of the University of North Carolina's B-school career office and CSC's new president, says B-schools are informally reporting more recruiter activity on their campuses, including a rising number of presentations to MBAs and a stronger hiring outlook from recruiters who visit the campus.

Taxpayer Beware
CFO Magazine
The tax man is knocking on doors....Such measurements are crucial to the success of promotional programs, says Sridhar Balasubramanian, associate professor of marketing at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Center to focus on diseases in women
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
Louisiana State University has received a $9.24 million federal grant to establish a center to study sexually transmitted diseases and develop ways to prevent them...The other centers to be established with similar federal grants will be at Arizona State University in Tempe, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the University of Washington in Seattle, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Indiana University in Bloomington.

State & Local Coverage

UNC teaching Spanish to health workers
The News & Observer
Christina Martinez is far from fluent in Spanish, even though she's been studying the language since middle school. But four weeks into a Spanish language program
designed for health care professionals, the nursing student at UNC-Chapel Hill says her skills are improving...Health care and foreign language experts at UNC-CH
began designing the program, "A su salud!," or "To your health!," in 2000.

New UNC course teaches Spanish for health workers
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
A doctor leads a patient into her office and tells him -- in Spanish -- he is HIV-positive... The scene was part of DVD shown during "¡A su salud! Spanish for Health
Professionals,"" a distance-learning course launched by UNC Wednesday afternoon."This is a very hard thing for a healthcare provider to do in any language," Julia
Mack, a UNC lecturer who helped write the program, said about the HIV situation.
Note: Other media covering Wednesday's launch event included WRAL-TV, News 14 (Time Warner cable TV), The Daily Tar Heel and Que Pasa, N.C.'s leading
Spanish media outlet with three newspapers and three radio stations.
Related link: http://www.quepasamedia.com/web/content/view/48/63/

CosmoGIRL names UNCG one of Top 50 colleges
Triad Business Journal
UNC-Greensboro has been listed one of the nation's 50 best universities for young women in the issue of CosmoGIRL magazine that comes out this week...UNCG
joins Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill as the only universities from North Carolina on the list in the October issue of CosmoGIRL.

Tie spinoffs of universities to jobs, adviser says
Triangle Business Journal
Gov. Mike Easley's science adviser wants technology spun out of state universities to be judged by how many jobs are created - an emphasis on economic
development that's currently a secondary goal of professors and campus officials....But UNC-Chapel Hill's tech transfer chief, Mark Crowell, says he has no problem with using jobs as a criteria.

Small screws a big plus to denture wearers
The Winston-Salem Journal
James Wilmoth visited his dentist in July after he decided that he wanted to try something different to keep his dentures in place...There are 33 million Americans who
use dentures, according to the School of Dentistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Training brains
The News & Observer
Even before Stephen Flournoy was born, Julie and Yogi Flournoy had to tap into great reserves of hope. The couple battled Julie's painful nervous system disorder before turning to their dream of starting a family...Dr. Joshua Alexander, director of pediatric rehabilitation at the UNC School of Medicine, said he likes the way the classes use music and melodies to remind children how to move.

Revamped UNC-CH gym opens
The News & Observer
The old floor was gone from Woollen Gymnasium on Wednesday, but memories of what happened on those maple boards were bouncing off the walls of the newly
renovated sports facility...Well aware of the many fond memories that Woollen evokes among alumni and other Tar Heel fans, the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of
Exercise and Sports Science decided to sell segments of the old floorboard.

Learn from the past: Author prompts contemplation of racial history
The Daily Dispatch (Henderson)
Are we all recovering white supremacists? Such questions may have been reverberating in more than a few Oxford and Granville County minds Wednesday following
a book signing and a banquet address Tuesday by Oxford native and racial relations historian Tim Tyson...Tyson praised the work of Eddie McCoy, a black leader in
Oxford...is responsible for more than 100 oral histories of black Granville people in the Southern section of the library at the University of North Carolina.

UNC to dedicate track to Taylor
The Robesonian (Lumberton)
In the late 1940s, Richard "Dick" Taylor ran track for the University of North Carolina Tar Heels. In 2003, he was the first person to run a lap on the new indoor
track field at the Chapel Hill University. On Friday, his name will grace the track surface when school officials dedicate its indoor track by naming it the Richard F.
"Dick" Taylor Track.

Active deer increase danger
The News & Observer
With autumn here, safety officials are reminding drivers: Watch out for white-tailed bucks crossing the highways in pursuit of does or running away from hunters'
gunshots...The study, "Deer Vehicle Crashes in North Carolina and the United States," by the UNC-Chapel Hill Highway Safety Research Center, indicates there
were 15,456 motor vehicle collisions involving deer last year in North Carolina.

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