Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
How to turn job lemons into resume lemonade
The Chicago Tribune
In a tight job market, getting a plum summer internship that also pays can be tough. Students may be competing not only with each other for positions but also with recent college graduates. …"You want to do the job you were hired to do," said Amanda Williams, assistant director of internships at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, career center. "But you can also say that you're looking for opportunities to learn more about the organization."
Regional Coverage
Journey of Hope stops in Craig
The Craig Daily Press (Colorado)
Thirty-three men in red, white and blue cycling jerseys were spread among rooms Thursday at the Boys and Girls Club of Craig, padding barefoot around and playing games like Twister, Dance Dance Revolution and carpet ball. …The group, members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, rode 90 miles Thursday from Dinosaur to Craig as part of The Journey of Hope, a cross-country ride to raise awareness about people with disabilities. …Before arriving in Craig, the team taught a group of blind children how to ride bikes, said David Hamrick, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
State and Local Coverage
Friday, UNC marks his 90th birthday next month
The Chapel Hill Herald
William C. Friday, the man whose name is synonymous with North Carolina higher education during much of the 20th century, marks his 90th birthday this month. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the UNC General Alumni Association are hosting an open house in Friday's honor from 4-6 p.m. on July 13 at the Hill Alumni Center's Alumni Hall. The public is invited.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3736/68/
UNC Hospitals named top 100 value
The Triangle Business Journal
UNC Hospitals has been named one of the 100 best values among U.S. nonprofit hospitals. …Chris Ellington, UNC Hospitals’ CFO, says he compares this ranking to the gymnast who wins the all-around gold medal in the Olympics because it requires the hospital to excel in four areas. “Having good cost but low quality won’t get you this award,” he says. “It’s a pretty big deal when you know what the components are.”
"To Kill a Mockingbird" Turns 50
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
It's hard to find an American, particularly a Southerner, who hasn't read, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Harper Lee's young adult novel, set in a small Alabama town during the Great Depression, explores issues of race and class, innocence and accusation, and the needs of the individual versus those of the community. The film adaptation features Gregory Peck's iconic portrayal of the widowed lawyer Atticus Finch. And the voice of Finch's young daughter Scout, who narrates the book, resonates across generations. Host Frank Stasio welcomes a collection of writers, teachers and thespians to discuss the book's enduring legacy. Guests include: …Minrose Gwin, professor of English and creative writing at UNC-Chapel Hill and author of the new novel, "The Queen of Palmyra,"…
Garden to host experts
The Chapel Hill Herald
The N.C. Botanical Garden is offering three summer programs that will be of special interest to gardeners. …The N.C. Botanical Garden is located off Fordham Boulevard at Old Mason Farm Road in Chapel Hill. A unit of UNC, it has been a leader in native plant conservation and education in the southeastern United States for more than 30 years. The Botanical Garden is open seven days a week and admission is free.
Deadline Looms for Fine Arts Festival Entries
The Pilot (Southern Pines)
The 30th annual Fine Arts Festival is just around the corner, and artwork will be received beginning Saturday, July 17. Each artist may submit up to two entries, and all submissions will be displayed in Campbell House Galleries Aug. 6–27. This popular event attracts works from artists all over the country. The judge for this year’s festival will be Peter Nisbet, chief curator at the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Distracted Drivers Take Eyes, Hands And Brain Off The Road
WFMY-TV (CBS/Greensboro)
…It only takes seconds for a tragedy to happen. "In two seconds on a highway, you can travel about the length of a football field which is quite some way to travel without looking at the roadway," says Arthur Goodwin, a researcher at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center. He says distracted driving can take on many forms.
Crash kills 4, one a skilled young athlete
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
…IAs law enforcement officials and medical examiners tried to piece together what happened in the early hours of Thursday morning, family and friends tried to grasp the fact of four lives lost, in a moment, in a single-vehicle wreck. "It is unusual to have four people die in a single-vehicle wreck, but it is nothing that is unheard of," Gordon said. In May, four members of a South Carolina family died when their sport utility vehicle ran off Interstate 95 in Nash County and overturned. In North Carolina, according to statistics from the UNC-Chapel Hill Highway Research Center, there were 1,152 rollover fatalities from 2001 to 2008.
Fort Bragg couple care for daughter with brain abnomality
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
A Fort Bragg couple was told early in the wife’s pregnancy that one of their twin daughters would not survive long after birth. Both girls shared the same placenta, but one of them – Abby – developed Dandy Walker Malformation, a severe abnormality of the brain and skull. …University of North Carolina neurosurgeon Dr. Victor Perry said Abby's problem involves the cerebellum, the back side of the brain, and a blocked flow of brain fluids that caused hydrocephalus.
Issues and Trends
Got it done (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Shakespeare's Macbeth, pondering murder, muses that if the deed is to be done, "'twere well it were done quickly." The General Assembly was spared such foul intent as it crafted another recession-plagued state budget. But it heeded the counsel offered by the ambition-plagued nobleman: If it's an unpleasant task, better to go ahead and get it over with. …The UNC system had been braced for a budgetary cold shower that, under the state House's version of the budget, could have meant $175 million in cuts. The figure agreed to by House and Senate negotiators was $70 million, enabling the system to pay for anticipated enrollment growth, maintain need-based scholarships and operate new buildings.
North Carolina athletic departments face higher scholarship costs (Blog)
USA Today
North Carolina lawmakers this week approved a new state budget that included the elimination of a subsidy for University of North Carolina system athletics departments that recently had been worth about $9.4 million. The move, which will take effect for the 2010-11 school year, was part of an effort to close a massive budget shortfall caused primarily by the ongoing recession.