Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Union Labels Survey Unfair
The Human Resource Executive Online
Employee-attitude surveys are becoming increasingly common throughout corporate America, but HR executives need to be careful how they're administered, particularly when the company is unionized. …"It can have a contagion effect," says John D. Kasarda, a management professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, in Chapel Hill.
State and Local Coverage
ABC to broadcast from Polk Place
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
ABC's "Good Morning America" will broadcast from UNC-Chapel Hill's Polk Place from 7 to 9 a.m. Saturday. Students, residents and visitors who want to participate are encouraged to wear Carolina blue and start arriving at 5:30 a.m. …The UNC-CH campus is the only North Carolina stop on a 50-state tour by "Good Morning America" leading up to the election and the only stop on a college campus nationwide.
Carolina North Goes To Town Council
WNCN-TV (NBC/Raleigh)
The Chapel Hill Town Council will meet tonight to discuss University of North Carolina's plans to build a massive new campus called Carolina North. …If the special use permit is approved for the new Innovation Center, all that's left for UNC is to submit a final plan for approval by the planning department before breaking ground.
Improv class teaches business students about 'being in the moment'
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Dozens of students were giggling and nearly doubling over in laughter in Greg Hohn's class as they ran around each other in no discernible pattern one recent afternoon. …Hohn's Applied Improvisation for Communication class is not your ordinary economics and statistics class offered at UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Brushes With Life
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Philip Brubaker is a successful corporate videographer and art photographer, but his career path hasn't been easy. Philip struggles with mental illness, which has at times derailed his education and his career. One place where he found help and solace was the Brushes With Life gallery at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill. In his new documentary film titled, "Brushes With Life," Philip profiles eight artists with mental illness whose work animates the gallery. Philip Brubaker and the film's producer, Dierdre Imershein Haj, join Frank Stasio to talk about the film. It will screen for the public on Thursday September 18th at the FedEx Global Education Center on the UNC campus at 5:30 p.m.
Note: "The State of Things" is the statewide public affairs program airing live at noon weekdays and rebroadcast at 9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays.
Imaging Helps Doctors Fight Various Diseases
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
WCHL 1360 interviews Weili Lin, Ph.D., professor of radiology, neurology and biomedical engineering, associate director of the BRIC, and a Lineberger member about a $260 million investment to enhance the University’s imaging capabilities. A new facility with the latest radiographic equipment will help UNC researchers better understand the exact events inside the body that lead to disease, and to track how new treatments work.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/investment-in-imaging
-to-accelerate-unc-researchers-understanding-of-disease.html
Leaders on road aghast over slaying at home
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
…Before moving on to other subjects, the conferees left the final words to UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp. "We can give money for more police officers and we can spend money to improve outside lights," Thorp said. "But I think a big part of it has to come from the community making a collective commitment to improving our safety."
Related Links:
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/front/story/16841.html
http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/orange/10-989850.cfm
1958
The Chapel Hill News
Fifty years ago this year, in 1958, the Ackland Art Museum was born on the UNC campus. At the same time, a tectonic shift was under way in American art, shaking its foundations and reshaping its landscape.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/arts/programs-on-the-50s-to-accompany
-ackland-exhibit-anniversary.html
Bizzell's comments spur immigration forum
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The Johnston County sheriff's much-debated comments about Hispanic immigrants will be the focus of a forum today at the UNC law school in Chapel Hill. The Hispanic/Latino Law Students Association organized the forum after Sheriff Steve Bizzell's remarks appeared in The News & Observer this month.
Sunday pick-up game (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill News
"OK, how many do you have on white? How many are on dark?" That's the usual way the soccer game begins, players haphazardly dividing themselves into two teams and taking two sides of the field. (Paul Cuadros is an award-winning investigative reporter and assistant professor at UNC's School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the author of "A Home on the Field.")
Issues and Trends
Universities That Turn Research Into Revenue
Forbes Magazine
Stanford University's fertile breeding ground for breakthrough technology may have spawned the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Google, but little Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., really knows how to get serious returns on its research and development.
Enrollment soars at 2-year schools
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Community college rolls swell as the economy withers — a cycle that brings to mind displaced factory workers going from textiles to high-tech in a computer classroom. …In 2001, 91 percent of rising juniors who entered the UNC system as freshmen graduated within five years; 76 percent of community college transfer students did.
Probation needs money, leadership (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
No matter how tight, professional and well-funded the system, there will always be offenders on probation who commit crimes. …Holes in the system become obvious after high-publicity crimes, such as the murder of UNC student body president Eve Carson.
Roses & raspberries (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
ROSES to Jennifer Curtis, a born-and-raised Chapel Hillian who started learning to play the violin at the age of 3 and now draws critical acclaim on the international stage. …She began her studies as a child with local teacher Mary Frances Boyce and continued leaning with UNC faculty member Richard Luby. The foundation they gave her helped her attend and earn a master's degree from the Julliard School.
Barnes out of ICU
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A University of North Carolina swimmer who collapsed while practicing Sept. 9 and has been in a hospital since was moved out of intensive care on Tuesday, officials said. Distance swimmer Allison Barnes, a sophomore from Bel Air, Md., was upgraded to stable condition, the university said in a statement.
Survey: Halloween bad for biz
The Chapel Hill News
…Sinister or scary fun, Halloween is getting a closer look from the town. …Laurie Paolicelli, the director of the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau, says more town visitors are expressing concerns about safety since UNC Student Body President Eve Carson was killed.