Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Today in Research
The Atlantic
…A climate change sign or maybe just an interesting fact about National Park attendance. Not all climate change-themed research needs to be scary to be interesting. Here's a study from UNC researchers that is tenuously linking earlier peak attendance at National Parks with what they guess is changing weather over the last 30 years.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4955/74/
Fedora can change football culture at UNC
Fox Sports
Larry Fedora’s name might not yet roll off the tongues of North Carolina fans, but in time he should make a significant impression on them and the football program. Multiple news outlets reported Wednesday Fedora has agreed to become UNC’s new football coach.
Regional Coverage
People vacationing earlier?
The World-Herald (Omaha, Neb.)
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that a changing climate could be affecting when people visit some of our national parks. If so, that would mirror a shift in nature to earlier flowering, migration and other seasonal cycles involving plants and animals.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4955/74/
State and Local Coverage
How to Read the Qur'an
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Religion scholar Carl Ernst says he has witnessed how much anxiety the existence of the Qur’an can cause among non-Muslims. Ernst, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, began studying the holy text of Islamic faith in the late 1960s. In 2002, he watched the uproar in the national media over UNC’s decision to make the Qur’an required reading for that year’s incoming freshman class. Ernst says the Qur’an, like any spiritual text, is open to interpretation and he has created a guide to help make the book more accessible. His new book is “How to Read the Qur’an” (UNC Press/2011). Ernst joins host Frank Stasio to talk about some select passages in the Qur’an and put them in historical context.
UNC trustees set to meet on 'personnel matter'
The Associated Press
The board of trustees at the University of North Carolina has scheduled meetings to discuss "a personnel matter" amid reports the school is about to name Southern Mississippi coach Larry Fedora as its next football coach. Meetings are scheduled for Thursday and Friday morning. The school said some portion of those meetings are to be conducted in closed session.
Fedora hiring expected at UNC
The Charlotte Observer
North Carolina plans to announce Larry Fedora as its new football coach after a deal to hire the Southern Mississippi coach was finalized Wednesday, two sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations confirmed to the Charlotte Observer.The UNC Board of Trustees is scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. today to formally discuss the hiring of Fedora, 49, who has coached Southern Mississippi for the past four years.
UNC board of trustees to meet after reports of Fedora deal
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
The University of North Carolina Board of Trustees have called two emergency meetings in light of reports that Larry Fedora has agreed to a deal to be the new head football coach at UNC. The Board will meet Thursday and Friday at 9 a.m. to discuss a "personnel matter" according to UNC spokeswoman Karen Moon. On Thursday the trustees will discuss the term's of the coach's contract and on Friday the trustees are expected to take action.
Issues and Trends
Trial clarifies Carson's ordeal
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The details of Eve Carson's final hours have been a mystery to the public for more than three and a half years. On Wednesday, as her family and friends listened in Orange County Superior Court, a description of what befell the 2008 UNC-Chapel Hill student body president began to emerge.
Related Link:
http://www.chapelboro.com/Professor-of-Public-Law-Weighs-In-On-Lovette-Trial/11675447