Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Scientists Find Temperature, Rainfall Can Predict Cholera
Voice of America
Scientists studying temperature and rainfall patterns in areas that later had cholera outbreaks say small increases in warmth and wetness are followed by a surge in cholera cases a few months later. …"What these authors from the International Vaccine Institute in [South] Korea, as well as the University of North Carolina, and the Ministry of Health in Zanzibar in Tanzania have shown," says cholera expert Peter Hotez, "is that a one degree increase in temperature can ultimately result in a two-fold increase in the number of cholera cases."
National Coverage
Why Do Men Die Earlier? (Hint: It’s Not The Ladies’ Fault) (Blog)
Forbes
…“We have to frame health-care seeking as an act of self-reliance,” University of North Carolina’s Wizdom Powell Hammond, Ph.D., is quoted as saying. Self-reliance is high on the list of traits generally associated with manliness according to the Male Role Norms Inventory, the most commonly used measure of masculinity. “The message should be that taking charge of your health is what it means to be a real man.”
Stem Cells May Heal Broken Bones
Ivanhoe Newswire
Each year, approximately 7.9 million bone fractures occur in the United States alone, costing an estimated $70 billion. Of these, 10 to 20 percent fail to heal. However, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have discovered through an animal study that transplantation of adult stem cells enriched with a bone-regenerating hormone can help mend bone fractures that are not healing properly.
How do you spell ‘irrelevant’? (Letter to the Editor)
The Washington Post
Regarding the June 3 Metro article “How do you spell smart?”: I have written for a federal agency throughout a 34-year career. I had to pass a spelling test before graduating from the University of North Carolina’s journalism school. Yet I turn to the dictionary half a dozen times a day to check a word or reconfirm a spelling. That’s the nature of good, careful writing. (David Klinger, Martinsburg, W.Va.)
State and Local Coverage
Join Carolina Blood Drive, a lifesaving tradition, Tuesday (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
There isn’t much I enjoy more than cheering on our Tar Heels in the Smith Center. But our basketball players aren’t the only champions to take this floor. This Tuesday, June 7, I’ll have the privilege of cheering on some truly lifesaving members of our campus community as they give the gift of life at the 2011 Carolina Blood Drive. Held each year in the Smith Center, the drive gives us the opportunity to help more than 3,000 patients in need. (Blog written by Patti Thorp, wife of Chancellor Holden Thorp.)
The gift of 1,100 books
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
…Add those to more than 1,000 other books, fiction and non-fiction, philosophy, anthropology, religion, sociology, history and most every other aspect of the humanities. The hardbacks and paperbacks are a gift to the Durham Tech library from the collection of longtime UNC Chapel Hill scholar and administrator Warren Nord. Nord, the founding director of Carolina's Program in the Humanities, died last June, of leukemia. Early this year, Irene Laube, assistant dean of the Durham Tech library, got a call from Nord's widow, Nancy Ehle.
Benefit helps burn center
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
A musical event to recognize the work of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center will take place in Carrboro at the Cat's Cradle from 7 p.m. to midnight on June 25. ..The Anderson Family, with the help of their musical friends, will recognize the staff and the world-renowned quality care provided by the Burn Center with a "Night of Burnin' Love".
Apps for doctors getting popular
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
…About 250 U.S. hospitals, including five in South Carolina, use AirStrip OB technology, which got clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in 2006. …In the Triangle, N.C. Women's Hospital at UNC Health Care and Rex Healthcare don't use AirStrip OB because they have residents and supervising obstetricians in the hospital at all times, said Dr. Robert Strauss, director of labor and delivery for UNC Hospitals.
Road Worrier: Mind who's driving the bus
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
They hope it's safe, but they know it's cheap. That's what North Carolina travelers say as they board those cut-price buses to New York or Washington. "Going up was eight bucks, and going back was like four bucks," Jim McGinley, a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student, said last week as he lined up for one of the last seats on a brightly colored Megabus Northeast coach heading north from Durham.
Action against Jambbas Ranch unclear
The Fayetteville Observer
The owner of Jambbas Ranch Tours is due in court July 11, but it's not clear whether he will have any charges to answer. …For Assistant District Attorney Worth Paschal, who is assigned to the case, it "does create an interesting issue." Paschal said he couldn't comment on the specifics of the case because it is pending, but he said he has been researching the issue and sought advice last week from the N.C. Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Hints of home in a shrinking world (Opinion-Editorial)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
…Anyway, because of my scholarly interests, I was recently recruited by UNC-Chapel Hill's Study Abroad Office to teach a mini-course in May for five UNC students who were studying at a university in Bangkok during the spring term. Since the semester there was not quite long
enough for the students to receive a full semester's worth of credit, I was brought in to teach an intensive three-week course after the regular term ended in Bangkok. (Peter A. Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the Global Research Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
Declared war (Editorial)
The Laurinburg Exchange
One lesson America is reluctant to learn: Wars are easer to declare than to win. …But retired UNC-Chapel Hill economics professor Arthur Benavie’s recent book, “Drugs: America’s Holy War,” provides support for the commission’s report.
Issues and Trends
UNC told to ease up on high schools
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A bill approved Monday by the N.C. House seeks to prohibit UNC system universities and the state's community colleges from considering whether a student comes from an accredited high school when making decisions about admissions, scholarships and loans.
Perdue speaks with educators as budget veto looms
The Associated Press
Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue said Monday she's not being coy about her decision on whether she'll veto a Republican-written state budget she has criticized repeatedly for harming school children and potentially laying off thousands of teachers and university faculty. …The budget on Perdue's desk also directs the University of North Carolina system to find $414 million in cuts, also determined by the campuses and system administration. Perdue said it could mean the loss of funding for 3,000 faculty and staff positions and could take students longer to finish their degrees because fewer classes will be offered regularly.
Perdue takes her budget disgust on the road (Under the Dome)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Gov. Bev Perdue traveled the state Monday talking about how much she dislikes the $19.7 billion budget the legislature passed last week, but had not made a decision whether or not to veto it, spokeswoman Chrissy Pearson said. Perdue spoke about the budget at UNC Asheville, according to the Citizen-Times, and was in Greenville on Monday afternoon for what was billed as an education-business meeting.
University cuts put a great success story at risk (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Star News (Wilmington)
After eight years as chancellor at UNCW, I remain firmly convinced that North Carolina’s public universities are stellar. They are sources of tremendous opportunity and great pride for North Carolinians across our great state, as they should be. Unfortunately, our public universities have become so good at what they do that their efforts to educate more than 221,000 students annually often appear easy. Well, it is not. Dramatic cuts are being proposed by the state’s legislature that will place higher education in serious jeopardy. (Rosemary DePaolo will retire at the end of the month as chancellor of UNCW.)
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