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Sept. 22, 2005
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina
people and programs cited recently in the media:International Coverage
Women more likely to have AIDS: survey
Xinhua News Agency (China)
Women are more likely than men to be infected with AIDS virus, a survey released in South Africa said Thursday. ...The survey, to be published in the September 23 edition of the journal "AIDS," was led by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/loveLife092005.htmNational Coverage
Natural Buffers Took a Beating
The Washington Post
Until a couple of weeks ago, Mississippi's Clower-Thornton Nature Trail lured avid birders as well as small children, who wandered in fascination underneath its broad canopy of oak and dogwood trees. Now the trail's entrance sign warns: "Do Not Enter, Toxic," and the surrounding habitat is dying. ..."What we're looking at here is too much of a good thing," said Hans W. Paerl, professor of marine and environmental sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, citing the nutrient influx. "And what is the impact of those pollutants that are coming in, I don't think we know very well at all."
UNC News Tip: http://www.unc.edu/news/newstips/2005/hurricane090205.htmCould Hurricane Rita's Rain Aid New Orleans Cleanup?
National Geographic
A University of North Carolina scientist thinks rain from Hurricane Rita—which is forecasted to strike Texas this weekend—could help New Orleans recover from the devastating hurricane that struck there last month. ..."Remember what's in that mud," said Seth Reice, an associate professor of biology at UNC and author of The Silver Lining: The Benefits of Natural Disasters.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/reice4091605.htmBest Schools? The Alt Guide
Time Magazine
It's a fall tradition. U.S. & News World Report's best-colleges hits newsstands - in the new edition, Harvard and Princeton tie for the best university, ...Extra credit: Free Napster access at 12 schools, including UNC and Vanderbilt.Regional Coverage
Harsh housing realities require strong leadership
The Seattle Times
Forty years ago this month, President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation creating the Department of Housing and Urban Development, commonly known as HUD. ...Michael Stegman is the director of the Center for Community Capitalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both served as HUD officials during the Clinton administration.
State & Local Coverage
UNC board OKs 2 Carolina North projects
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC's Board of Trustees approved sites Wednesday for two university projects related to its developing Carolina North initiative. ... Trustees also approved the site for Carolina Commons, a development of 140 affordably priced single-family homes, town homes and condominiums for UNC faculty and staff. It will be in Carrboro on land just northwest of the Carolina North property.
Storms may hurt college projects
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Construction projects in North Carolina could fall victim to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. ...On Thursday, some trustees at UNC-Chapel Hill said they would prefer to cancel some projects than slash them in size and quality. Already, rising steel and concrete prices have taken a toll on recent projects, said trustees Chairman Nelson Schwab. "These are getting whacked pretty heavily, that's my sense," he said.
UNC plans concern residents
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As Nancy Salmon sees it, plans for 140 housing units near Bolin Creek in Carrboro pit two community values against one another. On one hand, the units to be slated for lower-income UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and staff members will provide much-needed affordable housing. ..UNC would lease space in the building to "nascent" biotechnology companies that in some way are started by research being conducted by the university, said Tony Waldrop, vice chancellor for research and economic development. Plans for that project also were vague, but Waldrop called it critical.
Trustees approve sites for Carolina North buildings
The Daily Tar Heel
University officials are taking steps to move Carolina North from imagination to reality. The Board of Trustees approved sites Wednesday for two projects at the University’s proposed satellite campus on the Horace Williams Tract off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Battle of the B-schools
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School has again cracked the top 10 in The Wall Street Journal's 2006 list of the world's best business schools. The Tar Heels came in 9th, up two spots from their 11th place finish last year.
DJ Spooky
"The State of Things," WUNC-FM
Paul Miller is a writer, conceptual artist and musician, known in the New York club scene as DJ Spooky. He performs this Friday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall. Host David Crabtree talks with Miller about his work as a DJ and the piece he plans to perform, "Rebirth of a Nation." The piece is based on the 1915 film "Birth of a Nation" by D.W. The State of Things" is the statewide public affairs program airing live at noon and rebroadcast at 9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays and 6 a.m. on Saturdays.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep05/spooky091605.htmA fund-raiser that's fun
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A 6-foot fiberglass kangaroo could be hopping to a street corner near you in 2007. The UNC School of Medicine's Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery wants to bring a public art display to the Triangle to benefit its children's hearing program and other local charities.
Safety Experts Call For Banning Cell Phone Use While Driving
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
Every year, thousands of teenagers die behind the wheel of a vehicle, and they're often talking on cell phones when the crash occurs. ..."It's really the cognitive activity," of thinking while talking on the cell phone, that contributes to crashes, Rob Foss, of the UNC Highway Safety Research Center, said. And the danger is increased with young drivers, he said, because "they are more easily distracted."
Take steps to keep voice in good health (Commentary)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Many people depend on their voices to make a living. Although we think of professional singers and actors as the elite voice users, voice change associated with allergies, upper respiratory infection or vocal abuse can put a teacher, sales-person, minister, secretary and lawyer among others, out of commission. ...Robert A. Buckmire, MD, is an associate professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, director of the UNC Voice Center and chief of the Division of Voice and Swallowing Disorders. Ellen Markus, MA, CCC-SLP, DMA, is a speech language pathologist, singing voice specialist and coordinator of the UNC Voice Center.
Note: No link available. For a copy, email Michelle at mgreene@dev.unc.edu.A doctor's schooling (Letter to the editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The N&O gave generous and well-deserved coverage of Dr. Annie Louise Wilkerson's accomplishments during her lifetime. However, your Sept. 17 editorial "Dr. Annie's town" contained one inaccurate statement. It said that she "graduated from the Medical College of Virginia because the University of North Carolina seemed to think there wasn't a place for women like her in medicine."
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