Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
International
World Routes: Investing in airports and airport cities
Routes News (world air service magazine)
Oct. 9
John ‘Jack’ Kasarda, director, Centre for Air Commerce, at the University of North Carolina, kicked off the Invest and Manage sessions with a discussion on aerotropolises. The concept of airport cities is not a new one and Kasarda described the economic benefits of the growing trend.
National
PBS’s ‘Beat Making Lab’ Goes To Ethiopia
Wall Street Journal
Oct. 8
When Pierce Freelon and Stephen Levitin teamed up to teach a course on beat-making at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 2012, they planned to eventually add a community component. It didn’t take long to happen, except instead of building a local studio in the Raleigh-Durham area, they found themselves traveling to Africa, Central America and the South Pacific with backpacks full of recording equipment, teaching local residents how to create hip-hop tracks and filming it for the PBS digital series “Beat Making Lab.”
Installation ceremony brings 414-year-old Durant Bible out of vault
e-wallstreeter (blog)
Oct. 8
On University Day, Saturday, Carol L. Folt will take the oath of office as the 11th chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill with her left hand placed on the oldest Bible associated with a North Carolina family in the state, the George Durant Bible.
State & Local
Public invited to Chancellor Folt’s installation on Saturday
The Chapel Hill News
Oct. 9
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and residents are invited to attend the installation Carol L. Folt as UNC’s 11th chancellor on University Day on Saturday. Since 1957, UNC has installed its chancellors on University Day, which commemorates the 1793 laying of the cornerstone of Old East, the nation’s first state university building.
All invited to University Day
The Chapel Hill News (letter to the editor)
Oct. 9
On behalf of the University’s Board of Trustees, I invite community members to join Carolina students, faculty, staff and alumni in showing our support for Chancellor Carol Folt on University Day, Saturday, Oct. 12. …The festivities begin at 1:30 p.m. in Polk Place, on the steps of South Building, and a reception will follow outside Wilson Library. …
Lowry Caudill, Chair, Board of Trustees
Todd Miller receives UNC honor
The Tideland News
Oct. 9
Come Saturday, Todd Miller will be figuratively rubbing shoulders with giants of North Carolina and the nation, right up there with the likes of former governors Terry Sanford and Luther Hodges, fashion designer Alexander Julian, civil rights attorney Julius Chambers, soccer star Mia Hamm and broadcast journalist Charles Kuralt. As part of the Oct. 12 University Day ceremony to install Carol L. Folt as the new chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill, Miller, a native and resident of Ocean and founder and executive director of the N.C. Coastal Federation, will be one of five people this year to receive the school’s Distinguished Alumna Award.
What’s My Story: Fishery Ecologist
UNC-TV (feature)
Oct. 8
Feature on F. Joel Fodrie, a fisheries ecologist at the UNC Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Science. “He grew up fishing, shrimping, surfing, knee boarding, and goofing around a lot, but he didn’t think you could have a career in the ocean. A poster on a college bulletin board [in Venable Hall] changed all that. Today, he is a fish detective, revealing the secret life of fish from beneath the water's surface.”
The more you know: Nobel Prize winner Higgs birthed his boson at UNC
The Triangle Business Journal (blog)
Oct. 8
This year’s group of Nobel Prize winners includes a name with a UNC-Chapel Hill connection: Peter Higgs, who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday. Rewind to 1965 when the concept of what has now been dubbed the "Higgs boson" first really developed. That’s when Higgs put the idea to paper, while conducting a year of research at UNC’s Bahnson Institute of Field Physics.
UNC Health heading for slight operating loss
The Triangle Business Journal (blog)
Oct. 9
UNC Health Care is on pace to post a small operating loss this year. The losses will stem from lower patient volumes as doctors and staff adjust to a new electronic health records system by Wisconsin-based Epic Systems that will go live in this fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2014. Karen McCall, says hospital system vice president of public affairs.
Glaxo, UNC propel malaria vaccine forward
The Triangle Business Journal (blog)
Oct. 9
The first malaria vaccine could have another Triangle connection beyond its creator, GlaxoSmithKline … GSK spokesperson Mary Rhyne tells me that the candidate, which just delivered encouraging results from a large-scale Phase 3 trial, was also tested at a UNC research center. Specifically, UNC’s Project at Tidziew Centre in Lilongwe [capital of Malawi] is one of the trial sites where the vaccine was tested. … Currently, Africa sees nearly 600,000 deaths each year from malaria, primarily in young children.
Georgia sports agent charged in UNC football scandal
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Oct. 9
Terry Watson, a sports agent from Marietta, Ga., has been charged with breaking North Carolina laws that govern activities related to college athletes.
Issues & Trends
After One Week, Federal Shutdown Is Already Taking a Toll on Higher Ed
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Oct. 9
As lawmakers remained at an impasse over the federal budget and a debt crisis loomed only a
The government shutdown that began last week is already taking a toll on higher education, despite assurances from policy makers that colleges and students would be largely spared in the short term. Research projects have been interrupted, academic meetings have been postponed or canceled, and some students are being urged to put off their educations until the federal-budget impasse ends.