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Oct. 17, 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
Hair Analysis May Help Detect Eating Disorders
HealthDay News
"This test might be an auxiliary test, because right now we don't have good biological markers of anorexia nervosa," said Cynthia M. Bulik, the William and Jeanne Jordan Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders and director of the eating disorders program at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
National Coverage
Value of Cholesterol Targets Is Disputed
The New York Times
Dr. Sidney C. Smith Jr., a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina who was involved in the updated guidelines and is a former president of the American Heart Association, said the trends in studies of LDL levels and heart disease “continue to suggest that lower is better.”
Note: This article is available by subscription only.Researchers use modern technology to Google the past
McClatchy News Service
After 25 years of fieldwork abroad, UNC-Chapel Hill archaeologist Scott Madry has dug up a new way to hunt for ancient ruins — without leaving home.
Antibiotic May Aid Irritable Bowel
WebMD
Not all experts are convinced that bacterial overgrowth is a root cause of IBS, or that antibiotics are the best treatment. One of these experts is Douglas A. Drossman, MD, co-director of the University of North Carolina Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders, Chapel Hill.
Regional Coverage
Four tech companies win grants
The Sunday Telegram (Maine)
"Two recent studies by teams from the Brookings Institution and the University of North Carolina's School of Business have confirmed that new technologies are the key to a strong economic future for Maine," said Betsy Biemann, Maine Technology Institute president.
A surge in immigration is spawning a backlash
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Pa.)
The majority of illegal immigrants in the state are Hispanic. A study by the University of North Carolina this year concluded that the state's Hispanics contributed $61 million less in taxes than they cost in services. But the study also concluded that the deficit was more than outweighed by economic benefits of Hispanic labor, such as keeping wages and costs down.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan06/economicimpact010306.htmBirth that started with frozen egg may mean hope for fertility cases
The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)
Although fertility clinics have been freezing embryos since the 1980s, and freezing sperm even longer, eggs proved a far trickier target. "Eggs have a fairly high water content. Sperm do not. Embryos much less [than eggs], and when you freeze anything, the biggest problem to try to overcome is the formation of … ice crystals," said Dr. Marc Fritz, a reproductive endocrinologist at the University of North Carolina.
Air, Water, Energy—China Faces Formidable Challenges
The Epoch Times (N.Y.)
As part of the Carolina Asia Center's China Speaker Series, Elizabeth C. Economy, a C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director of Asian Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, discussed China's environmental challenges with about thirty faculty and students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Edwards speaks at UI symposium
Iowa City Press-Citizen
More needs to be done to fight poverty in the United States if it is to be a model to the rest of the world, former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Saturday…"If we don't have national leaders pushing it every day, it fades away," said Edwards, now the director of Center for Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Bladder Cancer More Lethal For African-Americans, but no Overall Difference Between Genders: Presented at ACS
DG Dispatch
In the study, researchers examined 195 consecutive patients who underwent radical cystectomy for bladder cancer from 2001 to the present at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Eleven percent of patients were African-American, 5% were classified as other than white or black, and 84% were Caucasian.
State and Local Coverage
N.C. law protecting mental health records allowed gun buys
The Associated Press (N.C.)
The difference between those who get involuntary and voluntary treatment often is small, but it can have potentially huge consequences, said Mark Botts, a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government.
$3.8M to fund 'lab-on-a-chip'
The Chapel Hill Herald
A UNC chemist will use a $3.8-million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance his tiny "lab-on-a-chip" technology for cheaper, faster and more customized DNA sequencing.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct06/ramseynih101006.htmUNC researchers join $100M genome analysis project
Triangle Business Journal
A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will participate in a three-year, $100 million effort to chart molecular changes in specific types of cancer.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct06/genome101606.htmPublic servants, volunteers honored
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
On Thursday evening, the Chamber held its annual 2006 Community Sustainability Report & Leadership Awards. Several recipients have UNC ties: Roger Perry received the Town/Gown Award, Matt Hill received the UNC Public Safety Award and James Carnahan, the Jim Gibson Volunteer of the Year Award. It was a lovely event held on campus at the Sonja Hanes Stone Center.
Seymour named to UNC Healthcare board
WCHL-AM (Chapel Hill)
UNC Healthcare and CEO Bill Roper have chosen the Reverend Robert Seymour as the community representative to serve at-large on the Board of Directors.
Leaders want to improve community
News 14 (Time Warner Cable - Charlotte and Chapel Hill)
City leaders hired UNC professor James Johnson to study the area's strengths and weaknesses. He released his findings in July and talked about some of the potential changes Thursday night.
Market named business of year
The Chapel Hill News
Weaver Street Market was named Sustainable Business of the Year on Thursday night by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce's Foundation for a Sustainable Community. … The chamber's foundation also honored seven officers with Public Service Officer of the Year awards. They were: … UNC Public Safety Officer Matt Hill. … Four awards for community service were presented. Those went to: Roger Perry, Town-Gown Award. …
Family curse reveals emerging threat
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
For more than two centuries, members of a Venetian family have suffered from insomnia. This was not your run-of-the-mill, watching infomercials at 4 a.m. variety. Instead, usually in middle age, they begin to stay awake for days on end. Their minds go haywire and their bodies deteriorate. Before long, they die. For a long time, family curse was the best explanation for their condition...(Howard Carter, Ph.D., is adjunct professor, Social Medicine, School of Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill. He is author of "Our Human Hearts: A Medical and Cultural Journey.")
Buckle your seat belts
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Standing on the stage of exquisitely renovated Memorial Hall, Llewellyn saluted the orchestra's 75-year history by reminding us that the Chapel Hill series started a stone's throw away, in UNC's Hill Hall, under the baton of Lamar Stringfield. The late conductor's daughter and granddaughter attended Thursday to mark the occasion.
'She never quits'
The Chapel Hill News
"Harold Wallace, the former vice chancellor at Carolina confided to me that ... she got hold of him and advised him that she thought it would be a good idea for the university to hire Hildebrand, that I was one of her boys," said Hildebrand. "The august, dignified, and powerful vice chancellor of the University of North Carolina sized up the situation and said, 'Yes ma'am, Mrs. Clark, I'll get right on it.'"
Biggies to honor Legacy award winner
The Charlotte Observer
The Hugh McColl Jr. Legacy Award will be given out at Spirit Square by the Charlotte Alumni Club of the Kenan-Flagler biz school at UNC Chapel Hill. McColl is a Flagler grad from -- can you guess what year?
Issues and Trends
UNC system staff has a forum
The Chapel Hill Herald
Faculty and students from all UNC campuses already have system wide assemblies, and now staff members have a forum to communicate with each other and provide advice to top administrators. The staff assembly, which represents all permanent, non-faculty employees at UNC's 16 campuses and General Administration, had its inaugural meeting on Monday in Chapel Hill.
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