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Oct. 10, 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
Reducing diabetes risk factors in schools
United Press International
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing say the schools will be randomly assigned two groups: one that implements more physical activity offers healthier foods and teaches students about healthy behaviors, and one that offers food choices and activity programs typical of U.S. middle schools.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct06/healthy100206.htmU.S. universities help fill need for workers fluent in Arabic
The Associated Press (International)
In 2000, there were 17 students taking Arabic at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Now there are about 130. The number of students enrolled in Arabic language classes at Duke University has tripled in the past five years to 80.
Thai coup good for bonds
Bloomberg News
"A lot of people were disappointed with Thaksin's leadership," said William Itoh, the U.S. ambassador to Thailand from 1996 to 1999 who is now a senior adviser for policy programs at the University of North Carolina. "There's been no flight of capital out of the country. The business community is modestly confident things are going to get better."
How the power of touch reduces pain and even fights disease
The Independent (United Kingdom)
Researchers at the University of North Carolina who investigated 69 pre-menopausal women showed that those who had the most hugs had a reduced heart rate.
National Coverage
Early admissions spark debate
The Associated Press (National)
The University of Delaware also dropped early decision this year, and the University of North Carolina went to early action in 2002. But many of Harvard and Princeton's immediate peers — including Yale, MIT, Stanford (early action) and the University of Pennsylvania (early decision) — have indicated they will keep current policies. Less-selective universities are unlikely to follow, because they use early decision to hit class-size targets and identify which applicants most want to attend.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/apr02/eardec042502.htmCDC to offer $5.9M for research on autism
Newsday
CDC, based in Atlanta, will be giving a total of $5.9 million to five research centers: Kaiser Foundation Research Institute in California; Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; Johns Hopkins University in Maryland; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and University of Pennsylvania. The CDC will also be collecting detailed histories on children with autism from their families and their medical records.
Institute of Medicine Announces 65 New Members and 5 New Foreign Associates
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies, announced on Monday the election of 65 new members, raising its total active membership to 1,501. The institute also elected five foreign associates, bringing the total membership in that category to 82....A list of the new members and foreign associates is available on the Web site of the National Academies.
FIH News Release: http://www.fhi.org/en/AboutFHI/Media/Releases/GrimesAward051006.htm
UNC News Briefs: http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2006/101006.htmGene Key to Taste Bud Development in Embryos
HealthDay News
In research with mice, scientists from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that SOX2 stimulates stem cells on the surface of the embryonic tongue and in the back of the mouth to transform into taste buds. The scientists said they believe the same process occurs in humans.
Eat your veggies
The Associated Press (National)
“What you want to do is involve them in growing it and involve them in cooking it,” said Alice Ammerman, director of the University of North Carolina’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. “You have to find creative ways to get kids to try things.”
Iron Will
Newshouse News Service
Ken Lohmann, a University of North Carolina biologist who studies the migratory treks of sea turtles, said some of those travel from Japan across the Pacific Ocean to Baja California, Mexico, and that hatchlings possess a magnetic compass. He said it is possible butterflies use a similar system.
Regional Coverage
Shifting Population
The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, S.C.)
The current debate over illegal immigration, how to stop it and what to do about those already in the country is driven by fear, said Maria DeGuzman, director of Latina/Latino Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill's College of Arts and Sciences. She believes the fear is unfounded.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan06/economicimpact010306.htmState and Local Coverage
Elizabeth Edwards encourages audience to seek community support
The Associated Press (N.C.)
N.C. Elizabeth Edwards returned to her alma mater today to talk about her new memoir.
She told a crowd of more than 100 people at U-N-C Chapel Hill about her struggles to fight breast cancer and cope with her son's death. She also thanked her supporters for helping her through the troubled times.
Edwards shares grief
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
If it came while she sat in a restaurant, she'd run for the ladies' room. She'd let the tears fall, she said, then wash her face. "Then, I'd wait for someone to come in the door, and when they did, I would pounce on them," Edwards told a crowd earlier in the day at a book signing at UNC-Chapel Hill's law school, where she graduated in 1977.
Apex-type fire not a worry in Chapel Hill
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
[Fire Chief Dan] Jones said UNC-Chapel Hill does operate a hazardous waste collection site near the southwest corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Estes Drive, but it's much smaller than the Environmental Quality Co. warehouse that burned in Apex.
For dads, this blog is kid stuff
The Charlotte Observer
Kathleen Mullan Harris, a sociology professor at UNC Chapel Hill, said changes in social structures over the years have allowed dads to take on new roles. They're now able to develop into more available, emotional and compassionate fathers, she said. Harris said the Internet can help promote support groups and relieve fathers' feelings of isolation.
Discussion to focus on poverty
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC's Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity and the UNC Center for Banking and Finance, both based at the School of Law, will co-host a panel discussion Wednesday to explore the ways that being poor in America can be expensive.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct06/povertypanel100606.htmBreast tumors in black women are more likely to be hard to treat (Column)
The Daily Reflector (Greenville)
That's why the results of a study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill caught my attention...Through the work of the university's schools of public health and medicine and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, it was found that when younger, premenopausal, black women get breast cancer, they are more than twice as likely as older women, black or white, to get an aggressive breast cancer subtype, such as "basal-like" tumors.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun06/breastcancerjama060206.htmDirectory lists resources for women with breast cancer
The Daily Reflector (Greenville)
Davidson authored the book in conjunction with fellow cancer survivor Elizabeth Mahanna, a public health researcher with the University of North Carolina. "When you're diagnosed with breast cancer, you are just devastated and shocked," Davidson said. "The next thing you want to do is find out all the information you can, and you want it now...
Facing the inevitability of death (Opinion)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
My wife, Rebecca, was diagnosed with lung cancer in the fall of 2000...We sought advice and treatment wherever it could be found including the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville Fla., Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, the M.D Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and private practice oncologists in the Research Triangle.
Issues and Trends
UNC board considers tuition cap
News 14 Carolina (Time Warner, Charlotte and Raleigh)
North Carolina has one of the lowest college tuition rates in the country, but costs have gone up more than 71 percent since 1999. University of North Carolina president Erskine Bowles says that's not good enough. He wants students and parents to have some predictability as to how much college will cost.
North Carolina can learn from other places (Op-Ed)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Make no mistake. I applaud the joint announcement that Duke Medical Center and UNC Hospitals, along with WakeMed and Rex Healthcare, will go smoke-free next year. But while this region is far ahead of my former home in Kentucky in many areas, I'll note that Owensboro Medical Health System (it's too complicated to explain that awkward name) drove smokers off its grounds several years ago.
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