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Sept. 5, 2007
Carolina in the News
Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
What's Your Diet Doing this Weekend?
Prevention Magazine
There's something about weekends that sends caution--and calories--to the wind. Even if your workweek is all about smart snacks and sensible dinners, for many of us, all bets are off come 5 PM Friday, says clinical psychologist Robert Maurer, PhD, author of One Small Step Can Change Your Life. "It's almost like a dam bursting," he says. We're tired and feel like we've earned the right to put healthy habits on hold. A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study revealed that adults take in an extra 222 calories--nearly 15% of the number of calories an average woman needs each day--over the course of the weekend (including Friday).
When Student Writing Could be a Red Flag
Inside Higher ED
...The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s approach, for instance, seems fairly typical: “[F]aculty members are in constant communication with each other about all manner of student needs and concerns, certainly about individual as well as collective student health and safety,” the director of the entirely undergraduate creative writing program, Bland Simpson, wrote in an e-mail. “We are all always on the lookout for ‘disturbing or strangely violent student writing,’ indeed anything that might merit involving the university’s student affairs office and/or counseling services in a given case, though we have not gone the route of written guidelines on this subject.”
Regional Coverage
District 150 now officially out of the red
The Peoria Journal Star (Peoria, IL)
District 150's School Board approved its first balanced budget in nine years on Tuesday, the result of dutifully chipping away at a once-burgeoning deficit since 2005. ... The board entered into an agreement with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to implement a five-year grant program for "boys of color." The college's Promoting Academic Success of Boys of Color Initiative will give the district about $600,000 to develop methods and programs to help minority boys succeed in school.
State & Local Coverage
Study links genes, HIV transmission
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Certain genetic mutations appear to influence whether the HIV virus is transmitted from mother to child, some UNC-Chapel Hill researchers have found. ..."The more we know about how HIV is transmitted from one person to another, the better chance we have of preventing the spread," Steven Meshnick, UNC School of Public Health epidemiology professor and senior author of the study said in a news release.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep07/meshmickhiv090407.htmlIn executive pay, you get what you pay for (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Everywhere one turns these days one hears pundits and politicians decrying the widening class divide. Although it is not completely self-evident that a widening class divide is ipso facto a bad thing, I'd like to address a narrower, but related issue -- executive compensation -- and the purportedly pernicious role high executive compensation is playing in the American economy. ...Peter A. Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome professor of history and associate provost for International Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Classes moved at UNC School of Law
News 14 Carolina (Raleigh/Charlotte)
Students headed back to class Tuesday at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law. Friday, administrators evacuated the building after parts of the exterior started cracking and windows started bowing. Now one entire section of the building will be closed at least a month for repairs, and a number of classes have been relocated.
Related Link: http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-878168.cfm?Wandering worries caregivers
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Emma Goza says she sleeps with one eye open. That level of watchfulness is just part of what it takes, she said, to make sure her 95-year-old stepfather does not wander from the Raleigh home they share. ...When a patient walks restlessly about the house and shows disorientation about time and place, there is a greater chance that he or she will try to leave the home unsupervised, said Dr. Daniel Kaufer, an associate professor of neurology and director of the memory disorders program at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Study supports use of BioMarker Group test
Charlotte Business Journal
A study published in the August issue of Pediatric Diabetes supports the use of a blood test produced by a joint venture that includes a Kannapolis-based firm.
BioMarker Group of Kannapolis produced the test, called GlycoMark, to evaluate therapy in children with diabetes. A recent study by UNC Chapel Hill and University of Rochester physicians indicated GlycoMark is effective in measuring after-meal glucose levels in diabetic patients.
UNC honors black Navy band
The Chapel Hill News
Twice a day from the summer of 1942 to the spring of 1944, the U.S. Navy B-1 Band marched back and forth from its barracks in the historically black Northside neighborhood to the ROTC Armory at the western edge of the UNC campus.Rising Costs Are Slowing UNC Renovations
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
Renovation projects at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are being scaled back due to an increase in building materials and labor costs. "The pace of construction from when I first got here has quadrupled," said Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and construction at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Missions of Mercy free portable dental clinic in Tarboro
WNCT-TV (CBS, Greenville)
...As many as 20 or more North Carolina licensed dentists, some from Tarboro, Rocky Mount, Greenville and Wilson, and some from various other areas of the state from west to east; dental hygienists, dental students from the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry, and dental assistants.
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