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Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:

International Coverage

Science: 2011 Breakthrough of the Year
Voice of America

The journal Science has named an AIDS study as its 2011 Breakthrough of the Year. The clinical trial found that antiretroviral drugs can be used to dramatically lower the risk of transmitting HIV. …The research team was led by Dr. Myron Cohen. He said while the results were announced in May, preliminary work actually began 20 years ago. “We had a strong suspicion based on all the biological studies we had done that when we treat people and lower the concentration of HIV in the blood and secretions, we were rendering them less contagious. But we didn’t understand the magnitude of the benefit,” he said. Cohen is director of the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

National Coverage

Is Congress Immune to Ethics?
The Huffington Post

It's easier for me to believe in peace on Earth than to imagine Congress getting along. But a new study suggests that the secret to making politicians act like grownups might be to remind them of children. According to research by Sreedhari Desai, an assistant business professor at the University of North Carolina, the answer to bringing peace to Washington isn't campaign finance reform, a third-party or an end to gerrymandered districts, but teddy bears.

Regional Coverage

HIV trial is 'breakthough' of 2011; Anti-retroviral drugs reduced risk of
heterosexual transmission to partners by 96%
The New York Daily News

A landmark clinical trial that showed HIV drugs can be as effective as condoms in preventing transmission of the virus that causes AIDS was declared Science magazine's breakthrough of the year on Thursday. …"People were interested in the idea of treatment as prevention, but it created a hurricane-force wind behind the strategy," said lead investigator Myron Cohen of the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine.

State and Local Coverage

Civil Rights Activist Andrew Young Selected As MLK Day Speaker
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)

Civil rights activist Andrew Young has been selected to give the 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at UNC this January. Young was an aide to Dr. King. He also served as a Congressman and a US ambassador to the United Nations.
Related Link:
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2011/12/28/69046/civil-rights-activist-to-speak.html

Run a check of life and diet (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)

Ready to launch into 2012? Consider this a cue to perform a dietary preflight check. It's time to reflect on the year gone by and look ahead to the one to come. It's an opportunity to learn from your experiences of the past year. In fact, self-reflection is a powerful tool that my colleagues and I use in teaching. (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.)

Issues and Trends

UC-Berkeley and other ‘public Ivies’ in fiscal peril
The Washington Post

Across the nation, a historic collapse in state funding for higher education threatens to diminish the stature of premier public universities and erode their mission as engines of upward social mobility. At the University of Virginia, state support has dwindled in two decades from 26 percent of the operating budget to 7 percent. At the University of Michigan, it has declined from 48 percent to 17 percent.

Allowing in-state tuition a good way to help veterans (Editorial)
The Star News (Wilmington)

…In some cases, not only are veterans ineligible for North Carolina in-state tuition, but some service members have been away from their official states of residency for so long that they are not eligible for in-state tuition there, either. That's not much of a homecoming. This is a roadblock that veterans should not have to face.

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