Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
If They're Back Together, New Study Adds Further Guidance
MedIndia.net
… Now a new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds that there may be a limit to how early the therapy, known as HAART, should start.The new results could help determine where the starting line for antiretroviral therapy should be drawn, said Michele Jonsson Funk, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and lead author of the study, which is published in the Sept. 26, 2011 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.
National Coverage
Laws aren’t enough to make sure girls are vaccinated for HPV
The Washington Post
… And Noel Brewer, a professor of public health at the University of North Carolina who has also studied HPV vaccine use, said the public controversy has been less harmful than the fact that many doctors simply don’t know or choose not to recommend it, or that many parents have insurance plans that don’t cover the vaccine or charge large co-pays for it.
State and Local Coverage
Community college, university band together to help select transfer students
The New Bern Sun Journal
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Craven Community College have joined forces to help select students transfer. C-STEP stands for “Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program.” The program will help selected high-achieving, low-to-moderate income Craven Community College students to transfer to UNC.
Local schools launch Japanese studies center
Triangle Business Journal
Three local universities have launched a Triangle Center for Japanese Studies that will support fellowships, research, seminars and travel. UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina State and Duke universities will partner in the center, which was founded by a $270,000 grant from the Japan Foundation in Tokyo.
UNC Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4791/107/
It's a matter or preference – or policy (Column)
The News & Observer
Butter or margarine? In some quarters, those are fightin' words. Maybe in some homes, too. It isn't just a matter of taste. In the state of Wisconsin – the dairy state – an old statute prohibits "oleomargarine" from being served in place of butter in schools, prisons and restaurants unless requested by the customer. (Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical associate professor in the department of health policy and administration in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
Cheer for refs who make safe calls (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
… Each year, Frederick Mueller of UNC's Department of Exercise and Sport Science collects data on deaths and catastrophic injures suffered while playing football at the professional, college, high school and organized "sandlot" level. His work is sponsored by the NCAA and coaches associations at the college and high school level. (Contributing columnist Rick Martinez ( rickjmartinez2@gmail.com) is news director at WPTF, NC News Network and SGRToday.com)
ACL: the most dreaded abbreviation
The Chapel Hill News
… The key to understanding the noncontact injuries, the high reinjure rate and why females are more susceptible than males is understanding the way people jump, run and move, according to Darin Padua, an associate professor and director of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill..
Rex Healthcare gets approval for Holly Springs hospital
Triangle Business Journal
State regulators today approved two projects for Rex Healthcare — quickly drawing complaints from crosstown rival WakeMed Health & Hospitals of an unnecessary duplication of service. Pending appeals, Rex, which is wholly owned by UNC Health Care , will expand its cardiovascular services at its main campus in Raleigh. It also will build a new 50-bed hospital in Holly Springs.
Related Link: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/09/28/1523034/holly-springs-hospital-okd.html#storylink=misearch
WFU business school cited for entrepreneurship
The Lexington Dispatch
Wake Forest University Schools of Business moved up six places to No. 17 in the latest ranking of top U.S. business graduate schools for entrepreneurship published by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine, according to an announcement from the school. … The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranked No. 12 on the same list and was the only other North Carolina graduate school to make the top 25. No schools in the state made the list of top 25 undergraduate programs.
Planning board considers junk cars
The Asheville Citizen-Times
… Town of Black Mountain building inspector Dan Cordell said he proposed the revisions at the direction of the Institue of Government, an academic group that’s part of UNC-Chapel Hill. The institute recommends towns strive to eventually get rid of all buildings that don’t conform with regulations, Cordell said. Some planning board members expressed concern the proposed revisions went too far, however, in preventing homeowners from being able to “add or enhance” such buildings.
Former UNC safety speaks out about NCAA, social media
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
Former North Carolina football player Deunta Williams, who was involved in the NCAA and university investigation into the football program, talked about his experience Tuesday and said he was treated unfairly by the NCAA. … Williams spoke as a part of a panel on campus about the First Amendment and the football team as part of First Amendment Day at UNC.
RelatedLink: http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/video?id=8370277
Post course info (Letter to the Editor) The News & Observer
The News & Observer is rightly concerned that UNC-Chapel Hill can't find much information about some courses taught to its football players. Your Sept. 20 editorial "Under review" says that "the university is having trouble producing syllabuses (summaries of course material and guidelines) in some of the upper-level courses taught by [Professor Julius] Nyang'oro, and … university officials can't as of yet confirm where and when one of Nyang'oro's classes was taught."
Rex on the block (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer
On Sept. 22, UNC Health Care CEO Bill Roper defended his organization's ownership of Rex Healthcare before the House Select Committee on State-owned Assets. Legislators didn't appear to buy it, though, and I don't blame them (Under the Dome, Sept. 23). … Roper said that over the past 10 years, Rex has given $20 million to the larger UNC Health Care system. That's $2 million per year. For comparison, the school will receive $61.5 million from the state this year and received $106 million from UNC Health Care last year. Roper himself earns roughly $1.5 million a year, three quarters of Rex's contribution.
Issues and Trends
Regents pick UNC administrator as ISU president
The Associated Press
The Iowa Board of Regents on Tuesday chose University of North Carolina Vice President for Research Steven Leath to be the president of Iowa State University. The regents made their unanimous decision at a meeting at the Ames campus after meeting with Leath and the other finalist, Kumble Subbaswamy, provost at the University of Kentucky.
Studies support cell ban (Column)
The Chapel Hill News
The "Voices on the Hill" section in the sept. 18 issue of the Chapel Hill News addressed the question "Ban phoning while driving?" by providing quotes from seven individuals. I would have preferred a more learned approach to the question, especially since we in Chapel Hill have the benefit of having in our midst the Highway Safety Research Center, established by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1965.
Census: Florida home to nearly 6,800 wedded same-sex couples
The Miami Herald
The U.S. Census Bureau for the first time put a number on married same-sex couples in the United States — 131,729 — even as it corrected previously issued figures for the overall number of same-sex couples that revised the totals significantly downward. … The new estimates were reviewed and approved by three outside experts at UCLA and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.