National Coverage
Why the Modest Harvest of the Arab Spring?
The Washington Post (blog)
[Authors include UNC political scientist Andrew Reynolds]For all of its surprises, perhaps nothing about the Arab Spring has been as surprising as its remarkably modest harvest. …Our essay in the current issue of the Journal of Democracy offers, what we believe to be, the first regional explanation of regime outcomes from the Arab uprisings of 2010 to 2012.
Researchers test obesity, diabetes tool
Medical Xpress (website)
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill researchers are testing a promising device that fights two of the most common health problems that Americans face – obesity and diabetes. The EndoBarrier is a thin sleeve made of a plasticlike material that lines part of the upper digestive tract so that food simply passes through that section rather than undergoing full digestion.
State & Local Coverage
UNC, RTI, A&T land $54M for state-wide health initiative
WRAL-TV TechWire (Raleigh)
The National Institutes of Health awards UNC-Chapel Hill a five-year grant for programs and technology worth $54.6 million that targets the improvement of healthcare across North Carolina. RTI International and N.C. A&T will share in the contract as partners with UNC.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/6283/107/
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http://www.heraldsun.com/news/x2082474370/Duke-UNC-receive-hefty-NIH-awards
http://www.news-record.com/news/article_2553bdfc-3b34-11e3-8be5-001a4bcf6878.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2013/10/22/nih-disperses-100m-to-triangle-to-get.html
http://www.dddmag.com/news/2013/10/nih-awards-79m-clinical-translational-research
Kudos to UNC researchers who have found autism clues
The News & Observer (Raleigh; editorial)
For parents, a child’s diagnosis of autism can explain some different behaviors, but the answers to “why?” have been difficult in coming. Research is ongoing … but the origins of the autism disorder remain a troubling mystery. …Two UNC-Chapel Hill researchers, each on a different research path, might have hit on an environmental cause for some autism.
Researchers bring product testing to nonprofit foster care
The Philanthropy Journal
…Today, companies still make important changes based on this "usability testing" before taking their goods to the wider market, and researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are part of a team that says what works for iPhones and video games may also work for nonprofit foster care. Karen Blase, senior scientist at UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, and Mark Testa, a distinguished professor in UNC's School of Social Work, collaborated with a research team from the University of Kansas and James Bell Associates to examine usability testing in the foster care system.
Campus Briefs
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
TIME has highlighted Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in its list of “Game Changers,” or innovators and problem-solvers that are inspiring change in America. Guskiewicz is the Kenan distinguished professor and co-director of the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center and Director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science.
UNC scandal points to broader questions
The Telegram (Rocky Mount; editorial)
The prosecution of a sports agent and a tutor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill is unlikely to have a significant impact on the big-money world of college athletics, especially in states such as Texas, Ohio and Florida. But it serves two important purposes – one close to home and the other on a more philosophical plane.
Issues & Trends
Common App glitches frustrate students, expose vulnerabilities in admissions system
The Washington Post
A cascade of glitches in a major online college application program has frustrated prospective students across the country and prompted several universities to push back their fall deadlines … . “A lot of us are pulling our hair out,” said Marisha Wright, a counselor at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Prince George’s County. Like many of her peers and students nationwide, Wright struggled last week to overcome technical difficulties in filing materials for UNC and Georgia Tech until those two schools extended early application deadlines.
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