Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International Coverage
Social enterprise rises in India
Financial Times
…It is not just in India that business models are helping to address social issues, writes Della Bradshaw. In the US James Johnson, director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at the University of North Carolina, has set up a laboratory school to solve some of the education problems faced by children from low-income families.
National Coverage
Great Barrier Reef's coral crisis could find help in deeper waters
NBC News
A robot diving deeper than any human diver has found that coral deep below Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is very healthy even though the shallower coral is suffering from storms, warming seas and pollution. … John Bruno, a University of North Carolina coral expert not associated with the survey, welcomed the work. "This is a popular idea," he said of deeper coral providing a refuge, "just not well tested."
‘The Rite of Spring’ Still Grist for Discussion
The New York Times
It is a big weekend on the campus of the University of North Carolina here, and not only because the football Tar Heels host the archrival North Carolina State Wolfpack (to whom, ahem, they have lost in each of the last five years) on Saturday. Carolina Performing Arts’ Rite of Spring at 100, a season-long celebration of Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev’s epochal ballet, which had its premiere in Paris in May 1913, reached an early climax.
UNC Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5412/107/
Pricey New Prostate Cancer Therapy Raises Questions About Safety, Cost
National Public Radio
"There's a concerning trend of us building new and expensive new technology and using it for a common cancer like prostate without proving, really, that it's equivalent to the existing technology," said Ronald Chen of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
State Education Chiefs: Should They Be Appointed Or Elected?
The Huffington Post
…“It’s a regular debate here in North Carolina,” says Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The education position is just one of nine statewide elected offices, from Lieutenant Governor to Commissioner of Agriculture. But it has been the biggest target of governors and legislators seeking to reduce the number of elected positions.
Northwestern team develops fast HIV test for infants in Africa
The Chicago Tribune
…"Things like this are wonderful and can save some lives," said Daniel Halperin, a public health expert at the University of North Carolina. "But it's not going to have an earth-shattering impact on the AIDS epidemic in Africa."
State and Local Coverage
Duke, UNC athletes exceed national graduation rates
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
…“I am very pleased we had such a high number of our teams that performed above the national average, including the football and men’s basketball teams,” UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham said in a statement. “Our university is committed to supporting these students so that they have the best opportunities to achieve both academically and athletically at the highest level.”
Related Link: http://chapelboro.com/UNC-Athletes-Graduation-Success-Rates-Largely-Abov/14634093
UNC Release: http://www.goheels.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=3350&ATCLID=205719962
UNC releases documents as part of settlement
The Associated Press
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has released documents outlining violations by football players for receiving improper benefits as part of a settlement to end a public-records fight over information from an NCAA investigation into the program.
UNC Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5666/68/
UNC’s documents offer new details in NCAA probe
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
…UNC made the documents public as part of settling a long-running lawsuit with a coalition of media companies. UNC said it will release a larger set of NCAA investigation records next month, providing more details in a case that led to sanctions against the football program.
UNC Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5666/68/
Related Link: http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8860694
Friendships, football led UNC players to violations
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
UNC football players traveled to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., with friends and former players, trips they thought nothing of and trips that earned the University of North Carolina sanctions from the NCAA. In documents released Friday, five players detailed the trips they took, expenses they shared and freebies they gained.
UNC Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5666/68/
UNC-CH student found dead in Carrboro
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Carrboro Police are investigating the death of a former Myers Park graduate who was in his first year at UNC-Chapel Hill. David Palmer Shannon’s body was found late Saturday night near Brewer Lane in Carrboro.
UNC Announcement: http://www.alert.unc.edu/go/doc/1395/1591331
Related Links: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/10/29/3628961/2012-myers-park-graduate-found.html
http://www.wral.com/unc-student-s-body-found-in-carrboro/11711016/
http://www.herald-sun.com/view/full_story/20641554/article-Carrboro-police-investigating-UNC-student%E2%80%99s-death?
UNC team targets cancer-helper protein
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Exactly how do proteins help cancer cells survive? Despite advances in research, this remains a mystery – and solving it could lead to new treatments that interfere with or block these proteins. Recent research conducted by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics may help.
Questionable decisions in UNC travel scandal (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill released an internal audit last week that detailed the improper travel expenses racked up by the university’s former chief fundraiser, Matt Kupec. The total was nearly $17,000 incurred between September 2009 and May 2012.
Issues and Trends
Town again aims to keep Halloween local
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Small and local remain the operative words when it comes to the town’s annual “Homegrown Halloween” celebration planned for Wednesday. For the past four years, town leaders have urged folks who do not live in Chapel Hill or attend school at UNC to stay away from the popular celebration that in 2007 brought more than 80,000 people to Franklin Street.
Tax just one piece of transit puzzle
The Chapel Hill News
…Orange County voters are deciding now whether to pay the extra sales tax (5 cents on most $10 purchases) to help build the proposed 17.3-mile light-rail line from UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill to Alston Avenue in Durham. … By 2040, there could be a push to extend the light-rail line across campus to downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro, then up to Carolina North and Eubanks Road, Chilton and Alderwoman Lydia Lavelle said. Chapel Hill’s 2020 Comprehensive Plan calls for directing most residential and commercial development to one of six transportation nodes.