Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Stretching better than walking during pregnancy
The Times of India (India)
Stretching exercises may be better than walking when it comes to reducing the risk of pre-eclampsia for pregnant women who were physically inactive before pregnancy, according to a new study. …“These results seemingly contradict the conventional wisdom that walking is the best protection pregnant women have against developing pre-eclampsia,” said Dr. SeonAe Yeo, a women’s health specialist at the University of North Carolina.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/stretching-exercises-may
-reduce-risk-of-preeclampsia-during-pregnancy.html
State and Local Coverage
UNC grant will help hasten medical research
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
…Thanks to a $61 million grant announced Thursday by the National Institutes of Health, UNC-Chapel Hill will be working to make sure families across North Carolina can tap into that kind of care. The money will support the UNC Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, or TraCS, which circulates medical knowledge among patients, doctors and researchers so that they all learn from one another.
Related Links:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2008/05/26/daily41.html
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/new-federally-funded-health
-initiative-to-speed-benefits-of-science-to-north-carolinians.html
Grant boosts medical research
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
A new $61 million grant to UNC could "revolutionize health care in North Carolina." University officials announced at a press conference Thursday morning that the National Institutes of Health has awarded UNC a grant to help patients benefit more speedily from medical discoveries made in the laboratory. The award makes UNC of the newest members of the NIH's Clinical and Translational Science Award consortium.
Related Links:
http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/biotech/story/2962411/
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/new-federally-funded-health
-initiative-to-speed-benefits-of-science-to-north-carolinians.html
Heartfelt appreciation for Gillings gift (Letter to the Editor)
The Triangle Business Journal
Regarding the May 23 Triangle Business Journal coverage about a gift from Dennis and Joan Gillings, we at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are enormously grateful for their forward-looking philanthropy that will transform our School of Public Health's capacity to improve the lives of people here in North Carolina and around the world. The Gillings' gift, a $50 million commitment, is the largest in the university's history and will be appropriately recognized when we officially rename the school the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health next fall. (James Moeser, Chancellor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Beware of corporate-university ties (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Triangle Business Journal
It was President Dwight D. Eisenhower who warned of the dangers of the "military-industrial complex." …In November, (Adam) Linker reported that medical students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had raised concerns with administrators about the influence of pharmaceutical industry representatives on campus. (Dale Gibson)
UNC-CH will stick with its airport plan
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill is proceeding with plans to close Horace Williams Airport despite a bill introduced last week to keep it open. "Obviously the submission of this bill is of interest to us," Jack Evans, executive director of the planned research campus, said Thursday.
Related Link:
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20080529/NEWS/805290322/1020/
FEATURES16/NEWS/Apodaca_fights_to_keep_Chapel_Hill_airport_open
Issues and Trends
Bill bucks trend on immigration (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Sometimes it seems the whole country wants to crack down hard on illegal immigration, with little regard as to whether the action makes sense or whether it's proportional to the alleged threat. So it's refreshing that Durham's Rep. Paul Luebke and fellow Democrats Pricey Harrison and Rick Glazier are bucking the trend — it deserves to be bucked. Under legislation they filed this week, community colleges and universities could admit students without checking their immigration status.
Editorial: Don't make them mentor (Editorial)
The Salisbury Post
It would be a great thing if every single college student in Salisbury volunteered to mentor a public school student. But forcing college students to do so as a requirement for graduation isn't the best way to help fill the need for more youth mentors or nurture the spirit of public service.
How bad laws are made (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Macon County News
If you want to observe a case study of how a bad law is made, rush down to the Legislative Building right now. …Of course, no politician wants to be accused of being weak on crime. And the slaying of UNC-Chapel Hill's student body president, Eve Carson, only created more impetus for this kind of legislation.
Related Link:
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/2959285/
Art Institute puts up sign at American Tobacco
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The Art Institute of Durham has moved into its digs in the American Tobacco Campus and put up its signature red "Ai" logo and sign. …According to TBJ, new degree programs and new distance education programs offered in the state must be authorized by the UNC Board of Governors or by the UNC System's general administration.
2008 BEST CITIES
No. 2: Raleigh, N.C.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Real estate developer Greg Hatem worked in Beijing during the boom years of the 1990s, and he senses that same Wild West capitalism in Raleigh right now. …The bar, which offers 50 Belgian beers, attracts the young and old, hipsters and preppies, plus folks from the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State University and Duke University.