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Oct. 12, 2007
Carolina in the News
National CoverageDown to earth
Smithsonian Magazine
Anthropologist Amber VanDerwarker is unraveling the mysteries of the ancient Olmec by figuring out what they ate. ... Between 1999 and 2002, while she was a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she examined plant and bone remains that Arnold and another archaeologist uncovered from two small sites in the volcanic Tuxtla region that was on the outskirts of Olmec territory but north of the city centers.
Regional Coverage
Historians gather to venture forth
The Day (New London, Conn.)
... In a presentation at the conference, John Wood Sweet, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, said researchers saw mountaintop forts similar to the ones Smith describes seeing while his captors marched him hundreds of miles across the African countryside before selling him on the coast of what researchers believe was Ghana.
State & Local Coverage
UNC celebrates global goals
The Daily Tar Heel
University's 214th birthday, administrators will dedicate a flagship global education building that will serve as one of UNC's links beyond the limits of Chapel Hill.
Chancellor won't request tuition hike
The Daily Tar Heel
Chancellor James Moeser said Thursday that he will not propose any tuition increase for in-state undergraduates for the 2008-09 academic year.
Looming public health crisis is bred in the bone
The Chapel Hill News
Osteoporosis and fragility fractures may become the most important public heath issue in the United States in the next 20 years. ... Douglas R. Dirschl is Frank C. Wilson Distinguished Professor and Chair of Orthopaedics at UNC School of Medicine.
Oriel therapeutics lands more financing
WRAL-TV (CBS; Raleigh/Durham)
Oriel Therapeutics, a developer of patented technology for drug delivery through inhalers, has closed on an undisclosed amount of Series C venture funding, Venture Wire reported Thursday. ... Oriel recently was awarded its fourth patent. The company is developing technology first developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Durham tax administrator heads to UNC-CH
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The county's tax administrator, Kenneth Joyner, is resigning at the end of the year to teach at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Government, according to a news release.
Issues & Trends
State universities focus on the future (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The aptly named UNC Tomorrow Commission has an ambitious task ahead -- setting priorities for the state's public universities for the next 20 years. On Wednesday, with a forum at N.C. State, the commission wrapped up its first phase, which involved gathering residents' input at 11 meetings across the state.
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