Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Michelle Obama Military Focus Helps as Women Swell Ranks
Bloomberg News
…Richard Kohn, an emeritus professor of military history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said Obama has helped Democrats make a case with military voters and their families with the killing of Osama bin Laden, the increase in U.S. drone strikes, and the way the president has “managed to maneuver it so that Republicans are responsible” for some $500 billion in defense cuts during the next decade if a deficit deal isn’t reached by January 2013.
National Coverage
Brain injuries increasing among high school football players
Fox News
A new study finds catastrophic brain injuries among high school football players are on the rise, FOX Charlotte reported. The study, conducted by researchers at UNC Chapel Hill, found 13 teenage football players nationwide suffered severe brain injuries in 2011 – the highest number since 1984.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5254/1/
State and Local Coverage
NCCU’s Shepard Collection now available online
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
…The digitization effort is part of a three-year grant-supported project, “Content, Context, and Capacity: A Collaborative Large Scale Digitization Project on the Long Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina.” It is a collaboration among the Triangle Research Libraries Network’s libraries at NCCU, Duke, N.C. State University and UNC–Chapel Hill and is administered by the University Library at UNC-CH.
UNC Athletics: "It Gets Better"
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
UNC’s Athletics Department has joined a growing list of celebrities and organizations speaking out on behalf of LGBT teenagers—releasing a YouTube video featuring athletes and administrators declaring, “It Gets Better.”
Program will answer questions about Judaism
The Times-News (Burlington)
“Real Talk with the Rabbi” will be the first in a series of interfaith discussions sponsored by Better Together, an organization at Elon University that promotes cooperation between faiths. …Rabbi Zalman Bluming from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will speak and answer questions.
UNC Opera To Perform On Campus, At CH Public Library
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
This week and next Monday, local residents will have an opportunity to see the UNC Opera in action. UNC Music Department Chair Terry Rhodes says the group will be performing two very different one-act shows.