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Oct. 8 2007
Carolina in the News
Smithies Wins Nobel Prize
Carolina's Dr. Oliver Smithies, a faculty member since 1988, has won the Nobel Prize. Smithies began doing interviews with reporters early this morning. The University held a news conference at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center this afternoon, followed by a celebratory event with friends and colleagues. Coverage to date has spanned the world; it's among the top stories in virtually every media outlet. Following is a sampling of stories to date:
Americans, Briton win Nobel Prize in medicine
The Associated Press (International)
Dr. Oliver Smithies, Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in seen in this undated photo provided by The University of North Carolina. Smithies, American Mario R. Capecchi and Briton Martin J. Evans won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing a technology for manipulating genes in mice.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct07/nobel100807.html3 Win Nobel in Medicine for Gene Manipulation
The Associated Press (International)
Two American scientists and a Briton won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking discoveries that led to a powerful technique for manipulating mouse genes. ...The prize is shared by Mario R. Capecchi, 70, of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; Oliver Smithies, 82, a native of Britain now at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Sir Martin J. Evans, 66, of Cardiff University in Wales.
Americans, Briton Share Nobel for Gene Manipulation
National Public Radio
Capecchi, 70, who was born in Italy, is at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Smithies, 82, born in Britain, is at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Evans, 66, works at Cardiff University in Wales.
Trio shares Nobel Prize; one from University of North Carolina
The Associated Press (National)
A professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is among this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine..."Oliver Smithies' innovations have revolutionized genetic research and advanced the effective treatment of many diseases, and millions of people worldwide have better and longer lives because of the talent and determination he has brought to his work," said North Carolina Chancellor James Moeser.
"Designer Mice" Pioneers Win Nobel For Medicine
Reuters (International)
The researchers who pioneered the creation of "designer mice" to track the role of different genes in human development and disease have won the 2007 Nobel medicine prize, Sweden's Karolinska Institute said on Monday...Smithies, born in 1925, received his doctorate in biochemistry in 1951 from Oxford. He is the Excellence Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of North Carolina in the United States.
Gene `Knockout' Wins Medical Nobel for 3 Scientists
Bloomberg
Now a human geneticist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Capecchi and Smithies, 82, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, showed how a mouse's genetic information can be permanently changed, creating animals that pass down their disease traits to their offspring.
Brition among trio sharing the Nobel Medicine prize
Agence France-Presse (International)
Capecchi, born in Italy in 1937, is a human genetics and biology professor at the University of Utah, while British-born Smithies is a professor of pathology at the University of North Carolina.
Capecchi, Smithies and Evans share the Nobel
The Scientist
Mario Capecchi of the University of Utah, Sir Martin Evans of Cardiff University in the UK and Oliver Smithies of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will share this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in gene manipulation that let to the development of knockout mice.
UNC medical researcher wins Nobel Prize
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A professor at UNC-Chapel Hill whose ground-breaking research has led to important studies of disease such as cystic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes and cancer has won the Nobel Prize in medicine.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN0833392520071008
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/science/08cnd-nobel.html?hp
http://chronicle.com/news/article/3194/3-to-share-2007-nobel-prize-in-physiology-or-medicine
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/08/AR2007100800668.html
http://www.webmd.com/news/20071008/gene-work-wins-nobel-prize-in-medicine
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/palmbeach/plasmid/entries/2007/10/08/nobel_celebrate.html
http://www.healthnewsdigest.com/news/World_40/HHMI_Investigator_
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http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2007/10/08/daily1.html
http://news14.com/content/school_news/588113/unc-prof-wins-nobel-prize/Default.aspx
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/08/genetics.research?gusrc=rss&feed=8
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7033480.stm
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2007/10/medicine_nobel_announced.html
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/blog/2007/10/nobel_for_medic.html
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/10/two-americans-o.html
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200710090648/stem_cell_
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0dd038a8-7593-11dc-b7cb-0000779fd2ac.html
http://www.phgfoundation.org/news/3816/
http://www.rttnews.com/FOREX/FXTopStory.asp?date=10/08/2007&item=2
http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1008/nobel.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/120530.html
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i42/8542news1.html
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Here is a sampling of links and notes about other Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Special Olympics helps raise awareness
People's Daily Online (China)
Seth Moser-Katz, an American student from University of North Carolina, came to the Games as a volunteer, admitted that he had changed a lot in his life because of the athletes and and the Games.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct07/olympics100307.htmlReal estate in China drives an IPO boom
International Herald Tribune
Shares of Soho China, a Beijing property developer, soared 15 percent Monday on their first day of trading in Hong Kong - the latest hot public stock offering that is creating a new class of Chinese real estate tycoons..."The scale of what's happening there is unimaginable," said Thomas Campanella, an assistant professor of city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of the forthcoming book, "The Concrete Dragon," a portrait of China's spectacular rise.
US varsity working towards providing clean water to poorer countries
The Daily India
Faculty and students from the University of North Carolina have set out to determine whether applying business principles to public health problems can bring about solutions that will save lives in developing countries with limited access to safe drinking water.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct07/waterlab100507.htmlNational Coverage
USD selected as pilot school for nursing project
The Associated Press
Linda Cronenwett is dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing and the project's principal investigator. She says health care professionals need to be educated so they know what good care is and how to identify and close gaps between good care and the local care they provide.
Efforts to aid US roil anthropology
The Boston Globe
Jim Peacock, an anthropologist at the University of North Carolina who is chairman of the ethics commission, says he believes there is enough room to help the military if there is enough transparency and oversight to make anthropologists more comfortable. Using anthropological data for use in a military offensive would probably "violate the code," he said. But teaching cultural sensitivities to military personnel before they deploy "might not do harm and it might even diminish harm."
Largest Study of U.S. Children Readies for Launch
HealthDay News
The largest study ever of the impact of environment and genes on the health of American children will be directed from 22 new centers across the United States, organizers said in a special news conference held Thursday. ... Some of the 22 sites approved today include: Brown University, Providence, R.I.; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Northwestern University, Chicago; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Hawaii at Manoa; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct07/cpcnationalchildrensstudy100407.htmlSeparating the subtleties: Mental illness in primary care
American Medical News
It's a familiar refrain of symptoms -- the histrionics, the mania, the auditory hallucinations, the unstable relationships -- common to such mental illnesses and disorders as bipolar, schizophrenia and borderline personality..."Ten or 15 years ago it was thought it came from bad parenting, childhood trauma," says Jair C. Soares, MD, psychiatry professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. "But now research suggests subtle changes in the brains of people with bipolar."
State & Local Coverage
Local ties and the next chancellor (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
The sky is Carolina blue. The championship banners in the Smith Center are Carolina blue. Even the lid on the Old Well is Carolina blue. Why can’t the next chancellor be Carolina blue?
It's curiosity, not 'playing God' (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Holden Thorp, former head of the Morehead Planetarium, is dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Kenan Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...In a tortured rationalization, Dr. Frankenstein mused that "life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world." Thousands of high-school papers have since parsed Shelley's words to make the case that Frankenstein's true, sinister goal was to "play God."
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/oct07/library100207.htmlAn exercise in utility
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
For the agile young people sweating it out in most gyms, a workout means tapping into the natural vigor of youth.For older people, doing the right kind of exercise can be a matter or life and death...The center uses a Senior Fitness Test designed at California State University, Fullerton, and customized by UNC-Chapel Hill professor Carol Giuliani to add more information on balance.
Charlotte med school on horizon
The Charlotte Observer
Both McDeavitt and Roper emphasized that the process is ongoing. Roper will turn over the task force's work to UNC system President Erskine Bowles, who reports to the board of governors, and UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser, who reports to the board of trustees.
Related Link: http://www.charlotte.com/business/story/307756.htmlSpread the word up North
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
IN DEFENSE OF PROCESS: Carolina North opponent Greg Cordell, who runs on the Horace Williams tract's trails, criticized UNC-Chapel Hill officials at a meeting Thursday for seeking to put a planned Innovation Center on the tract before the master plan for the campus is complete.
Union Busters North-South secessionists share same goal, will convene together
Winston-Salem Journal
In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions - New England and the South - are sitting down to talk...Harry Watson, the director of the Center For the Study of the American South and a history professor at the UNC Chapel Hill, said that it was a surprise to see The Middlebury Institute conferring with the League of the South, “an organization that’s associated with a cause that many of us associate with the preservation of slavery.”
UNC nonprofit aiding in Africa aims for $4M endowment
Triangle Business Journal
One Triangle group that runs health clinics and a sports league in east Africa's largest slum faced that problem and came up with a novel solution. Carolina for Kibera, or CFK, named after a poverty-stricken neighborhood near Nairobi, Kenya, runs on a budget of about $250,000 per year from grants and donations.
UNC-CH ranks first in private sports gifts
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
There's one new sports ranking that folks at UNC-Chapel Hill aren't quite comfortable with -- a new Chronicle of Higher Education survey that put Carolina No. 1 in the nation when it comes to private donations for athletics.
Related Link: http://www.charlotte.com/opinion/story/308811.htmlDrug wars: Men vs. women
News 14 Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
"Every drug, even the best drugs, can be bad for some people," Paul Watkins, M.D., a hepatologist from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, explained...Acetaminophen -- the active ingredient in Tylenol --takes longer to process in a woman's liver, which could make liver damage and overdoses more likely. As for antidepressants, a woman's brain cells have more receptors that bind with the feel-good chemical serotonin.
UNC schools consider smoking bans
News 14 Carolina (Raleigh/Durham)
Soon, those on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill may not be allowed to smoke at the university, with the General Assembly giving each state university the right to decide if it wants to implement a smoking ban.UNCCH is considering such a decision, but the campus isn’t united on the idea.
Issues & Trends
Jones acknowledges lying about steroids
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Inside a courtroom in White Plains, N.Y., Friday, Marion Jones let go of her secret and admitted she had lied for years about her use of performance-enhancing drugs, officially putting an end to her career as a role model and athletic superstar. ... UNC basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell said in statement that Jones had learned from her mistakes and would be a better person for it.
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