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Sept. 7, 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
Under new program, counselors help guide students to college
Associated Press (National)
For Meghan Bridges, the push came from her mother, who went online to help her research the arcane world of financial aid and find her way to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For Charles Osivwemu, it was a mentor back home in Oakland, Calif., who hammered home the message that he really was college material. ...The pair were among a roomful of new graduates from well-known colleges who gathered recently at North Carolina. Many talked about how, in their own lives, someone had reached out and helped them through the college application process. Now, they are trying to play that role in the lives of other students. As the school year begins, dozens are heading out to work in low-income schools in their home states with the National College Advising Corps — a nascent version of Teach for America but for guidance counselors.
Related link: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/09/06/national/a123352D76.DTL
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/media/2007/advisingcorp073007.htmlState & Local
PR firm partners with UNC J-School
WCHL 1360
Journalism students at Carolina will collaborate with public relations firm KDPaine and Partners and media analysis company CustomScoop to learn how news media affect businesses and nonprofit organizations. Professor Craig Carroll is heading up the school’s joint venture. Students will learn to use specialized databases that monitor news wires for keywords and produce detailed statistical analyses of how news spreads.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep07/carrollprfirms090507.htmlGovernor to honor composer
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Gov. Mike Easley will bestow the Old North State Award for dedication and service beyond expectation and excellence on composer Robert Ward on his 90th birthday on Thursday. ... William Stone, a North Carolina baritone who has been heard in most of the major opera houses of Europe and America, will be assisted by pianist Thomas Warburton, a former UNC faculty member.
Expanded N.C. campaign asks students to pledge not to use tobacco
Associated Press
North Carolina's youth tobacco prevention campaign has officially begun. ... A report by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that awareness of the ad campaign has increased among youth from 54 percent in 2006 to 71 percent this year, according to a trust fund news release.
Study: Binge eating is a prenatal danger
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Pregnant women might be vulnerable to binge eating, say researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill who participated in a study with researchers from Norway. The researchers found an unexpected increase in new incidences of binge-eating disorder in a long-term study of 100,000 pregnant Norwegian women, according to a news release by UNC. The research is based on the largest population-based study of eating disorders during pregnancy.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/sep07/bulik_preg090607.htmlPut people-centered principles to work (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
With the historic passage of "mental health parity" by the General Assembly this summer, stirrings of change in North Carolina's mental health policy can be detected. ... John Gilmore, M.D., is professor and vice chair for research in the UNC Department of Psychiatry.
UNC Suspends Rugby Team Indefinitely
WRAL-TV (CBS, Raleigh)
The University of North Carolina has indefinitely suspended the men’s rugby team from participating in team-related events because members have been accused of unlawful acts of hazing, club actions that violate the university's alcohol policy and misrepresentation of the university and club locally and abroad, the school confirmed Thursday. The team is a club team, not a varsity sport.
Related Link: http://news14.com/content/local_news/triangle/586879/unc-s-rugby-team-suspended/Default.aspxOnly illegals who commit crimes reported to immigration agency
The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City)
Immigrants in the Albemarle illegally are not likely to be reported to immigration agencies unless they are suspected of committing crimes, area sheriffs say. ... A 2006 study on North Carolina's Hispanic population by the Kenan Institute and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill estimates that about 45 percent of Hispanics in North Carolina are not legally authorized to live in the United States.
Beethoven trios played all in one weekend
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The term "marathon" usually brings to mind athletes or Guinness Book of World Records hopefuls, not classical musicians. Yet it's the right word for this year's "September Prelude," a chamber music event sponsored by UNC's W.S. Newman Series, Duke's Chamber Arts Society and the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild.
Productions reach beyond the stage
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Joseph Haj has spent the better part of a year planning what will happen on stage at UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for Dramatic Art this season. And Haj, the new producing artistic director at PlayMakers Repertory Company, has also tried to shape something far less predictable: what will happen offstage.
Festival of Yesteryear will be at the Museum of the Cape Fear
The Fayetteville Observer
When the booming sounds of cannon fire are heard on Saturday morning, don’t panic. ... Entertainment will include storytelling, a Punch and Judy puppet show and music presented by members of UNC-Chapel Hill’s music department.
Ideas & Trends
UNC grants to replace loans
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Deborah Tollefson doesn't know where the old wisdom about higher education came from, but she knows that things have changed. ... More help is on the way, at least for some, in the fall of 2008. The UNC system will introduce the Education Access Rewards North Carolina (EARN) Scholarship, a need-based, $4,000 annual grant designed to replace loans for low- and moderate-income students whose family income does not exceed 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
NanoCor gets major investment
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
NanoCor Therapeutics, a Chapel Hill startup, got a $3.75 million investment from medical-device giant Medtronic to work on a gene-therapy-based treatment for congestive heart failure. ... Founded last year based on technology developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NanoCorASU-Boone: A sit-down talk
The Watauga Democrat (Boone, NC)
When it comes to the often strained relationship between the town of Boone and Appalachian State University, a commonly overheard solution is, “Why don’t they just sit down and talk?” ... The real commitment between both, though, should be working together on a master plan, Mason said, similar to the method employed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Chapel Hill municipality.
Related link: http://www.mountaintimes.com/mtweekly/2007/0906/mtn_summit.php3
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