Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:
National Coverage
Open Data Helps Citations
The Scientist (online magazine)
Oct. 10
Open-access advocates cite a variety of reasons why scientific data should be made publicly available, from ethics to furthering science. Now, researchers have uncovered another benefit of open data: according to a study published in PeerJ last week (October 1), Heather Piwowar of Duke University and Todd Vision of UNC Chapel Hill, you may be more likely to get cited.
Princeton Review, U.S. News Rank Entrepreneurship at UNC Among the Best
PRweb.com
Oct. 8
Entrepreneurial studies at the University of North Carolina have received top rankings from both Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report. U.S. News & World Report ranked the Undergraduate Business Program at UNC-Kenan-Flagler Business School No 7 and No. 7 for entrepreneurship as part of its specialty rankings. The U.S. News ranking is based on surveys of business school deans and directors of accredited business schools.
Threading the Needle on Mortgage Overhaul
Congressional Weekly
Sept. 30
When the White House wants to showcase proposals to bolster the housing market, it rolls out senior officials … Yet often close by in the background, and unknown to most of Washington, is adviser Michael Stegman. … Stegman established the UNC Center for Community Capital, which bills itself as “the leading center for research and policy analysis on the transformative power of financial capital on households and communities in the United States.”
Georgia-based agent charged in NC agents probe for providing benefits to ex-UNC players
The Washington Post
Oct. 9
A Georgia-based agent has been charged with violating the state’s sports agent laws by providing gifts to three former Tar Heels football players and obstruction of justice. Unsealed indictments state that a grand jury indicted Terry Watson with 13 counts of providing cash or travel accommodations to Marvin Austin, Greg Little and Robert Quinn valued at nearly $24,000 in an effort to sign them.
State & Local Coverage
Folt to be installed as UNC-CH chancellor on Saturday
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Oct. 10
Carol L. Folt will be installed as UNC-Chapel Hill’s 11th chancellor on University Day 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.
UNC News Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/6255/107/
UNC football holds invite-a-professor-to-practice day
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Oct. 10
North Carolina coach Larry Fedora on Wednesday night addressed his team after practice, like he usually does. Then he walked over to a group of UNC professors, who had gathered to watch the Tar Heels’ practice as part of the football team’s “invite a professor to practice” day.
Fish tagging
UNC-TV
Oct. 9
It’s a beautiful day on the New River, near Jacksonville, North Carolina. … Researchers with the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences are standing on the front of a boat pulling in nets to see what they’ve caught. Catch and release studies like this tell researchers that flounder, crab and spot are just some of the aquatic species living beneath the surface of the water.
Hip-hop’s role at UNC finds new footing, on Franklin Street and abroad
Indy Week
Oct. 9
No one told Pierce Freelon that the chancellor would be here. But early on a Friday evening, UNC-Chapel Hill's newest leader, Carol Folt, walks into the opening reception of the Chapel Hill Community Beat Making Lab, across the street from campus in the town's aging courthouse.
Students get hands on science lesson
The Gazette (Gaston County)
Oct. 9
Claudia Taulman stepped aboard a mobile learning lab Wednesday thinking all DNA examination areas look like the TV set of “C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation.”… Taulman is an eighth grade student at Piedmont Community Charter School in Gastonia. She and a few fellow middle schoolers got to participate with high school biology students in the Destiny Traveling Science Learning Program … It’s part of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at UNC Chapel Hill.
Poverty amid Charlotte’s riches
The Observer (Charlotte; op-ed)
Oct. 8
In what has been called the nation’s “second financial capital after New York,” sit neighborhoods with perhaps the state’s most intense levels of poverty. In fact, in some areas, harsh, pervasive poverty is not just present, it is the norm. It is here where deprivation abounds, inequality is stark, and the surrounding wealth creates a concerning isolation.
Orange DA adds staff to pursue sports agents; Georgia man charged in UNC probe
The Observer (Charlotte)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Oct. 10
Orange County’s top prosecutor will deputize three special assistant district attorneys to help him navigate the uncharted waters of the state’s criminal cases against sports agents accused of providing improper benefits to UNC-Chapel Hill football players.