For video highlights of the installation, a slideshow and the complete speech text, go to www.unc.edu
Here is a sampling of links and notes about the University's 10th Chancellor, Holden Thorp, and his installation on University Day:
National Coverage:
Holden Thorp has a blog (Blog)
Science Blogs
Much hoo-hah in the local fishwrapper regarding the installation yesterday of Dr Holden Thorp as Chancellor of the state's flagship university, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thorp has brought a large degree of enthusiasm and optimism to Chapel Hill with his numerous and diverse accomplishments to date as well as his vision and youth – he has turned 44 during the time between his appointment and installation yesterday. …Anyway, I just wanted to bring to the reader's attention that Chancellor Thorp has launched a blog, and a pretty dang good one at that.
State and Local Coverage:
Holden Thorp takes oath as UNC chancellor
The Fayetteville Observer
A Carolina blue sky covered the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Sunday afternoon. Not only was the nation’s oldest state college celebrating its 215th birthday, the institution was installing its 10th chancellor. And, for the second time in the school’s history, the leader comes from Fayetteville. Dr. Holden Thorp, at 44, one of the youngest university leaders in the country, was officially sworn in as chancellor before an audience estimated at 2,750.
Thorp installed as chancellor
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp wants his university to solve the world's grandest challenges. …"We just need to take care of our people," Thorp said in a speech moments after his formal installation as UNC-CH's 10th chancellor.
215th university day belongs to chancellor
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Holden Thorp's UNC as envisioned Sunday will be an institution that continues to attract and inspire the best students and faculty, a university that cooperates with local government entities for the good of the region, a place where solutions for the great problems of our time are sought. Under a clear blue sky and in front of the letters "UNC" strung in vertical banners between the columns of South Building, Thorp was installed Sunday as the tenth chancellor of the state's flagship university.
New UNC chancellor installed
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville)
The new chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was officially installed Sunday. Holden Thorp, 43, was installed at a ceremony at 3 p.m. at Polk Place. The public ceremony continues the tradition of installing chancellors on University Day, Oct. 12, the birthday of the oldest state university.
To view video of installation:
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/video/3723686/
UNC Chapel Hill installs 10th chancellor
The Charlotte Observer
UNC Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp wants his university to solve the world's grandest challenges. But to reach this audacious goal, he offered a basic path. “We just need to take care of our people,” Thorp said in a speech moments after his formal installation as UNC's 10th chancellor. Though he's been on the job since July, Thorp, 44, was feted formally Sunday, the university's 215th birthday.
Thorp installed as UNC-Chapel Hill chancellor
The Associated Press
The new chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill says success as a university depends on taking care of its people. Holden Thorp was installed Sunday as the university's 10th chancellor. It was the university's 215th birthday. Thorp said during the two-hour ceremony in Chapel Hill that if the university nurtures students and employees, successes like academic reputation, big ideas and financial grants will follow.
Related Links:
http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/375852e6-
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http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881013019
Good luck, Chancellor Thorp (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
It's University Day, the commemoration of the founding of the University of North Carolina, the nation's first public university. But today is not a time to look backward, to that glorious history; it's a time to look forward. That's because on this particular University Day, Holden Thorp will be officially installed as the new chancellor of the state's flagship public campus.
Congratulations, Thorp: Thorp has been hands-on, still faces many challenges (Editorial)
The Daily Tar Heel
We joined the University community in honoring Holden Thorp’s official installation as UNC’s 10th chancellor on the University’s 215th birthday. Thorp’s tenure so far has been marked with honesty, pragmatism, accessibility and excitement. And we expect nothing less from him as he moves forward to implement his vision for UNC.
Native son home at helm
The Daily Tar Heel
On the eve of University Day, junior Dawson Gage wrote an e-mail to tell his mother what he likes about Chancellor Holden Thorp. “Mom, he’s a brilliant person who’s chosen to make his life here, in his home state,” read his mother Hannah Gage, chairwoman of the Board of Governors, to the crowd surrounding South Building. Sunday’s installation of Thorp as UNC’s 10th chancellor had the air of a homecoming, despite Thorp having been on the faculty since 1993.
Hark the sound… of Fayetteville voices (Blog)
The Fayetteville Observer
They were ringing clear and true yesterday in Chapel Hill where Fayetteville native Holden Thorp was installed as chancellor of UNC.
Installation Complete at UNC (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Generally speaking, university ceremonies don't exactly overflow with hilarity. …But it had some fun to it as well. Much of it came from Thorp's speech, a tale he delivered with his customary dry wit. More of it came from poet Allan Gurganus, a longtime Thorp family friend who elevated the new chancellor to god status with a heartfelt, if close-to-over-the-top rundown of the Holden Thorp he knows.
Thorp Installed As UNC Chancellor
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
Surrounded by predecessors, faculty, and loved ones, Holden Thorp was initiated as UNC’s 10th Chancellor on Sunday.
A talk with the chancellor on eve of his installation
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/Chapel Hill Herald
This afternoon, on the broad green of Polk Place, H. Holden Thorp will be officially installed as the 10th chancellor of the University of North Carolina. The University Day ceremony marks not just a change in administration at the top of the state's flagship campus, but a generational shift as well.
Related Links:
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/orange/story/1251045.html
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/19375.html
http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=8266
http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=8262
Here is a sampling of links and notes about other Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Hoover's Ghost Stalks Brown, Merkel, Aso, Harper Amid Meltdown
Bloomberg (Wire Service)
The ghost of Herbert Hoover, the U.S. president toppled by the Great Depression, is stalking a generation of world leaders battling to save their economies, as well as their own political skins, from the global financial crisis. …He implored industry leaders to maintain wage rates, pushed Congress for more public-works spending and coaxed the Federal Reserve to loosen credit, says William Leuchtenburg, co-author of a book on the 31st president to be published in January. “There was some feeling of rallying around the only leader one had,'' says Leuchtenburg, a retired history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Autism risk could build over generations
The Courier-Mail (Queensland, Australia)
Autistic traits may intensify over generations so that a child born with autism today could have had a relative with a mild form of the disorder. …One in every 1000 people had autism 10 years ago but that figure has surged to one in 150 today, according to University of North Carolina psychology professor and autism expert Dr Gary Mesibov.
National Coverage
Growing Latino Population Redefines Small Town
"Weekend Edition" National Public Radio
Siler City, N.C., used to be the kind of town where almost everyone, black and white, had roots going back a century or two. …(David) Duke forced residents and their leaders to take a position, says Paul Cuadros, who coaches Siler City's high school soccer teams and teaches journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Some Professors Irked by Students Who Text in Class
"On Campus" ABC News.com
Gone are the days when students slipped pen-and-paper notes to one another in class. Today they can quietly communicate with each other by text messaging through their cell phones. …Students are not alone in their acceptance of text messaging as a useful tool. At UNC-CH, some branches of the administration have embraced it as well. One example is a program called "Alert Carolina," an initiative to protect students in times of emergency. Students can sign up for text message alerts that the system will send out whenever the need to get information to students quickly arises.
Employers Rethink How They Give Feedback
The Wall Street Journal
…Increased demand for feedback from younger workers is forcing some employers to rethink how they discuss employee performance. Often, the annual review just won't cut it anymore. …"There's a difference between the generations in how to provide feedback," says Ben Rosen, a professor of organizational behavior/strategy at the University of North Carolina who worked on E&Y's survey.
Alzheimer’s offspring confront their own risk
MSNBC.com
For adult children of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, the diagnosis can be devastating — and not just because of what it means for their parents. …Increasingly, families like Dorman’s are confronting what neurologist Dr. Daniel I. Kaufer calls the “double-parent dementia dilemma.” “The way I convey this to children is that it’s a double whammy,” said Kaufer, who directs the Memory and Cognitive Disorders program at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
John McCain, Barack Obama on healthcare
The Los Angeles Times
John McCain and Barack Obama's health reform plans are different both in their approaches to solving problems and their potential effects on voters. …Political scientist Jonathan Oberlander, associate professor of social medicine and health policy and administration at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, offers an analysis of the candidates' plans in the Aug. 21 New England Journal of Medicine, including a chart with key points.
In Virginia, McCain Struggles To Hold the South for GOP
The Wall Street Journal
Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin are scheduled to roll into Virginia on Monday in a bid to stop the Republican ticket's slide in the state and thwart what once was unthinkable: fractures in the "Solid South," the backbone of successful Republican presidential politics for four decades. …"This is the first time a Republican candidate has visited the state this deep in the campaign since George H.W. Bush in 1988. That tells you something," said Ferrell Guillory, director of the University of North Carolina's Program for Public Life.
Regional Coverage
N.C. scientific platform is flotsam after trawler hits it
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.)
It was a substantial platform on 16 pilings in the Pamlico Sound, built by a collaborative of North Carolina academic research scientists. …"We were real, real close to having instruments plugged into it and having data flowing," said Rick Luettich, director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City.
Palin is not given the credit she deserves (Letter to the Editor)
The Saratogian (New York)
One of the criticisms leveled against GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin is her alleged lack of experience, as she has served "only" as mayor of a small town and as governor of a sparsely populated state. But as a recent Wall Street Journal editorial pointed out, the governor's office in Alaska is one of the nation's most powerful. For more than 20 years, Thad Beyle, a political scientist at the University of North Carolina, has maintained an index of "institutional powers" in state offices.
State and Local Coverage
UNC-CH wins major emergency response grant
North Carolina News Network
The North Carolina Institute for Public Health has been awarded an $8.5 million, five-year grant to create a new research center focused on helping protect the state from a wide range to disasters and threats. The institute, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, was selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to head up one of seven new Preparedness and Emergency Response Research Centers.
Note: With more than 75 radio affiliates, NCNN reaches more than 1,590,000 North Carolinians every week.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/unc-receives-8.5-million-for-
new-public-health-preparedness-research-center.html
2 UNC faculty members named to Institute of Medicine
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Two faculty members at UNC-Chapel Hill have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the nation's highest honors in health and medicine. Etta Pisano, vice dean for academic affairs in the UNC School of Medicine, and Barbara K. Rimer, dean of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, are among new members announced today by the institute.
UNC News Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/uncs-pisano-rimer-
elected-to-institute-of-medicine.html
Clinic gives area something to smile about
The Chapel Hill News
…The statewide mobile clinic made a stop at Hillborough's Big Barn Convention Center on Friday and Saturday where — along with about 200 students, faculty and staff from the UNC School of Dentistry — they provided cleanings, fillings and extractions for poor residents. …Jonelle Stovall first realized the state's need for more dentists while volunteering with her father, a dentist, at a Goldsboro clinic two years ago. "With the economy the way it is right now, every time you see a new patient, it's a different story," said Stovall, 26, a fourth-year UNC dental student.
Related Links:
http://wunc.org/programs/news/archive/NRH101008__Dental_clinic.mp3/view
UNC Media Advisory:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/unc-school-of-dentistry
-mom-to-offer-free-dental-clinic-in-hillsborough-this-week.html
Q&A with Barbara Entwisle
The Fayetteville Observer
Title: Professor of sociology and director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina. …In the news because: The center, which Entwisle directs, is part of the largest longitudinal children’s study ever.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/unc-and-n.c.-roles-expanded
-in-landmark-childrens-health-and-development-study.html
In focus: Long-range study of children can do no harm and much good. (Editorial)
The Fayetteville Observer
There’s no way to make a study, even a national study costing millions of dollars, a stand-up-and-cheer kind of attraction. …The county was added to a list of more than 100 across the country (five, now, in North Carolina) in order to allow for comparison of military and non-military family environments. This part of the project will be run by the Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill.
This year, our state's in the mix
The Fayetteville Observer
Every vote counts. That’s what your civics teacher told you, right? And now, in North Carolina, it’s hard to argue against the point. …Ferrel Guillory, director of the program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said a demographics shift in the state explains in part the polls that have eyes turned toward North Carolina.
Battleground east
The Daily Reflector (Greenville)
If North Carolina is a battleground state in this year’s presidential election, eastern North Carolina looks to be a tactical key to victory. …But that, argues Ferrel Guillory of the University of North Carolina, is where any strategic similarity should end.
Subprime loans were a world of their own (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As the national financial crisis turns into a political football, let us inject some facts about subprime mortgages and efforts to expand homeownership. Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for Community Capital have been studying housing policy and the homeownership finance system for years. Our findings: not all mortgages are created equal. (Roberto Quercia is director of UNC- Chapel Hill's Center for Community Capital and a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning.)
Alzheimer's care (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Regarding your Sept. 28 article "Losing Walt" and subsequent comments: First, my thanks to Walter and Peggy Kline for their courage and willingness to share the pain and joy of their journey. Their experience will help open hearts and minds to the formidable challenges Alzheimer's disease poses to individuals and families, and siren the urgent need for society to address its staggering social and financial consequences. (Daniel Kaufer, M.D., Chapel Hill. The writer is president of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology and director of the UNC Memory Disorders Program.)
Forum to address issues facing Hispanics
The Times-News (Burlington)
Organizers of a symposium about Latinos in Alamance County expect at least 100 people to attend the event slated for Friday at Elon University. …Since immigration is a crucial piece of this puzzle, Hannah Gill of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill will be sharing her research about why Latinos come to Alamance County.
Fishing boat demolishes NC instrument platform
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
University researchers say the destruction of an instrument platform they had constructed on the North Carolina coast sets back a project by six months. …Rick Luettich is director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City and says the collision sets back the project six months.
5K race to honor Eve Carson
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
A 5K race on Nov. 15 will honor the memory of Eve Carson while raising money for education, a cause near and dear to the slain UNC student body president. …The majority of funds raised from the 5K will benefit the Eve Carson Memorial Scholarship, a one-year merit scholarship envisioned by Carson to recognize students who have realized their potential as leaders while at Carolina.
Issues and Trends
Public Universities Keep Wary Eye on Bond Market
The Chronicle of Higher Education
For much of the last decade, the 16 campuses of the University of North Carolina were construction sites, part of an extraordinary building boom spurred, in part, by $3.1-billion in bonds approved by voters for a backlog of repairs and new construction at the state's universities and community colleges.
Discussion needed on airport issue (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
The university has angered a swarm of hornets with its preliminary moves toward building a new airport in Orange County. …A report by a UNC-hired consultant projecting that an airport could be a major economic development engine in the county failed to soothe the ruffled feelings.
Related Link:
http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/opinion/columnists/guests_ch/
110-997693.cfm
Incentives floated as business lure
The Chapel Hill News
Should Chapel Hill and Orange County pay businesses to come here? That's the question local leaders will tackle in the coming year as they try to give the southern part of heaven a competitive edge in the tightening marketplace. …Town officials have already begun discussing economic incentives, a topic sure to get the public's attention coming so soon after the council's decision to start publicly financed local elections.
Higher-ed blog
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Eric Ferreri, our higher-education reporter, has been a contributor on two of our blogs — OrangeChat (when he had a UNC item) and Bull's Eye (when he had a Duke item). But this wasn't very satisfactory, because 1) there are more higher ed institutions here than Duke and UNC, and 2) If you are interested in colleges and universities, you might not know where to find his blog posts. Eric has solved the problem by creating a new blog, called Campus Notes. You can find it at blogs.newsobserver.com/campusnotes.
State moves to fix faulty probation system
The Durham News
State probation officials outlined a plan Tuesday to spend $2.5 million to help fill cracks in a system whose failures have been highlighted this year by several high-profile homicides. …It was the first time Beck and Robert Guy, head of the state's probation and parole system, have laid out their plan for spending money the General Assembly doled out this summer in response to the mishandling of the suspects charged with murdering UNC-Chapel Hill student Eve Carson and Duke graduate student Abhijit Mahato.