Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Help kids maintain a healthy diet without a hefty cost
USA Today
Many parents with overweight children would be willing to break the bank to help their kids reach a healthy weight, but luckily, that's not necessary. …Re-evaluate beverages. Serve skim milk instead of whole milk, says Barry Popkin, a nutrition professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and author of The World Is Fat. Whole milk adds unhealthful saturated fat and extra calories to a child's diet, he says.
Teen years risky for kids with seizure disorder, expert says
CNN.com
Chronic seizures can present a risk for adolescents, whose bodies and metabolism are changing. …Dr. Cam Patterson, general cardiologist at the University of North Carolina and a genetics expert who follows Kawasaki disease, told CNN, "There is no real good link at all between Kawasaki disease and cleaning products.
Regional Coverage
Airport encounters of the real kind
The Thomaston Times (Georgia)
…(John) Edwards said he was returning from being out in San Francisco “debating Karl Rove”. When asked about his current activities, he said, “I’m involved with a variety of things but focused on poverty. I’ve been working at the UNC Poverty Center I helped establish.” The Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity is a nonpartisan initiative, joining national public policy experts with UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in order to “examine innovative and practical ideas for moving more Americans out of poverty and into the middle class”.
State and Local Coverage
Stimulus package will help fund dental facility
The Chapel Hill Herald
Faced with a looming cash-flow concern for a key construction project, UNC will benefit from a state economic stimulus package cobbled together as a bond sale. Gov. Mike Easley announced Tuesday the approval of the bond sale to finance $744 million in public projects, including $69 million for the Dental Science Building at UNC. Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning, said the university would have started to run out of money for the project by about March.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6587599
Liquidia lands drug partnership
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Liquidia Technologies, the Durham-based company co-founded by scientist Joseph DeSimone, announced this morning a partnership with a large drug maker to develop new cancer treatments. …Liquidia was founded in 2004 based on the work of DeSimone, 44, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State. Last year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named DeSimone the winner of its Lemelson Prize, known as the “Oscar for inventors.”
Game Changers
The Triangle Business Journal
If the auto industry asked Diana Selezeanu to come in as a consultant and figure out a way to fix its problems, she’d take the job. …The auto industry is just one of a plethora of examples the MBA student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School has been able to analyze and learn from in recent months.
Game Changers
The Triangle Business Journal
Randy Delgado’s friends used to ask him, “If you could do anything, what would you do?,” he’d say he wanted to be general manager or owner of an athletic apparel company. …Delgado, who will complete his MBA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School later this year, is in late-round interviews with Nike, the company he interned with last summer.
Students Learn Hands-On In Mobile Science Lab
WFMY-TV (CBS/Greensboro)
Some Guilford County School students had the opportunity to learn about their future careers today. The Destiny Science Bus from UNC Chapel Hill made a stop at Southern Guilford High School today. The bus is a traveling science lab. Today, it let students get up close and personal with fish proteins.
UNC Media Advisory:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/destiny-science-bus/destiny-science-bus-to-
make-three-stops-for-hands-on-lessons-in-guilford-county-next-week.html
Hillside High's date with DESTINY
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Hillside High School student Maurice Keith adds a protein to deionized water using a pipette during "The Crucial Concentration" lab in the DESTINY Traveling Science Learning Program, on Tuesday. Students in Carolyn Snipe's physical science class had the opportunity to work in the lab on the 40-foot bus, which is part of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center's formal education initiative.
Note: The photos and accompanying text were not posted online.
UNC Media Advisory:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/destiny-science-bus/durham-students-to-get-hands-
on-lessons-when-destiny-science-bus-stops-twice-next-week.html
Poet to give MLK keynote
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Poet Maya Angelou, who has written 12 bestsellers including "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," will give the keynote address for UNC's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week Jan. 18-23. Angelou, the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, was the second poet in U.S. history to produce original work for a presidential inauguration and read it at the ceremony.
UNC News Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/angelou-talk-to-be
-highlight-of-mlk-week-at-carolina.html
Traffic deaths dropping
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
During 20 years as a state Highway Patrol trooper in Wake County, Beckley Vaughan has notified hundreds of families about the deaths of loved ones in wrecks. …David Harkey, director of UNC-Chapel Hill's Highway Safety Research Center, said all states saw a decline in fatalities last year because of fewer drivers on the roads. In fact, North Carolina's drop was not as great as those of many other states, he said.
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Swimming in modesty: Muslim women head to secluded pool
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Salman Sheikh was organizing a swim class for his two sons last summer when fellow Muslim parents approached him about starting a class for girls. Sheikh told them he would ask the Curran Aquatic Center in Cary, N.C., whether it could accommodate a group of Muslims who preferred a women-only pool. …"I see this as sign of Muslims learning to operate within American civic institutions," said Omid Safi, a professor of Islamic studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Why Hoover failed and we might too (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill News
…The second example is reported in retired UNC history professor William Leuchtenburg's latest book, "Herbert Hoover," published this week by Times Books. …Leuchtenburg's new biography of Hoover would be welcome at any time in our history because it gives a balanced account of his life and his complex character, as well as the actual role he played in the events leading up to the 1929 stock market crash (a few months after he took office) and the economic crisis that followed.
Energy lecture slated at UNC
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
A free public lecture titled "Securing our Energy Future: Thoughts on the Global Energy Picture" will be presented at UNC on Jan. 15. Nathan S. Lewis, California Institute of Technology professor and editor-in-chief of the journal Energy and Environmental Science, will give the talk at 7 p.m. in the Sonja Haynes Stone Center Theatre.
UNC News Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/science-and-technology/securing-our-energy
-future-is-topic-of-jan.-15-talk.html
Lectures cover food sources
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
A new series of public lectures aims to give people a taste of sustainable food and how it can make a difference. Environmental staff and faculty at UNC and Duke University have collaborated to produce six seminars on sustainable food systems. The Robertson Seminars on Sustainable Food Systems will take place every other Wednesday evening starting Jan. 21, alternating between Duke's Love Auditorium and Room 116 in UNC's Murphey Hall.
Related Link:
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/news/story/35217.html
UNC News Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/science-and-technology/unc-and-duke-co-host
-sustainable-food-seminar-series.html
Ecological site's director named
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
Robert Perry of Manteo has been appointed permanent director of the UNC Institute for the Environment's Albemarle Ecological Field Site. The site, one of a network of six such locations in North Carolina and abroad, allows UNC undergraduate students interested in environmental sciences or coastal issues to spend their fall semester in the field studying coastal environmental issues, taking internships with local employers and participating in a semester-long research project.
UNC News Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/science-and-technology/perry-named-director-
of-unc-institute-for-the-environment-manteo-field-site.html
Issues and Trends
Keeping N.C. colleges affordable (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Your Jan. 2 editorial "Still a bargain?" questioned how affordable our public universities really are today for most North Carolina families. …We are absolutely committed to doing all within our power to keep the cost of attending a UNC campus affordable, without sacrificing academic quality. The General Assembly must retain the principal responsibility for funding the needs of the university system. (Erskine Bowles, president, UNC System, Chapel Hill)
Airport exhibit debuts
The Chapel Hill News
Jesse Kalisher has photographed people around the world. For his newest show, he aimed his lens closer to home. "No Airport: The Faces of White Cross," opens this week as part of the 2ndFriday Artwalk in downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro. …UNC wants a new airport in Orange County to replace Horace Williams Airport in Chapel Hill, which it says it must close to build the Carolina North satellite campus.
Citizens must stand firm on airport issue (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill News
Cliff Leath's column "Airport moves threaten reputation" (CHN Jan. 4) was a good review of how it all came about, but I question whether or not there is any local reputation of UNC to be threatened. (LaMotte Akin, Bingham Township)
Time to move past animal experimental model (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill News
UNC is expanding its animal research labs and storage facilities (CHN Dec. 28). This is as backward as ignoring solar energy to build more coal-burning power plants since medical advances have rendered most animal research outdated.
Related Links:
http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/opinion/chhletters/index.cfm#1064103
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/opinion/story/35192.html