National Coverage
Committee starts work Friday on ways to strengthen laws penalizing unscrupulous sports agents
The Washington Post
A committee begins work Friday reviewing ways to strengthen the law that penalizes sports agents for providing gifts to college athletes and other improper conduct. The drafting committee to revise the Uniform Athlete Agents Act will meet for two days in Chicago to consider changes, including several in a memo backed by schools across the country as well as five NFL agents. … Paul Pogge, an associate athletic director at North Carolina, co-authored the memo that drew support from schools and agents across the country. He said Friday’s meeting starts a gradual process that will be “challenging to make sure this gets done right.”
Related Link:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9874784/committee-meet-discuss-changes-agent-laws
Do you want to know what will kill you?
Salon.com (website)
There’s a lot you can do for your child with 99 dollars. …I took that money and got my daughter’s genes tested, ordering up an analysis of the composition of her very small self and its odds of living a long and healthy life. … Others felt that the data were largely meaningless, anyway. “If people want to engage in a genetic parlor game, that’s fine,” says Dr. Jim Evans, a general practitioner and professor of medicine and genetics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Football concussions could be reduced, if Riddell's InSite system goes into play
Engadget (website)
"This is not a diagnostic tool." That's what Riddell, the country's largest manufacturer of football helmets, kept emphasizing during a presentation of its newly developed InSite head-impact monitoring system. The fact it would throw this disclaimer out there isn't surprising, really. After all, the topic involving concussions in the NFL is one that's been massively debated. …"Not every hit is catastrophic, and there is no magic helmet. It's all about how well the players are coached," said Jason P. Mihalik, Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center co-director from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at an InSite Q&A panel.
Half of prostate cancer patients in North Carolina do not receive multidisciplinary care
Healthcanal.com (website)
Only half of the men who receive a prostate cancer diagnosis in North Carolina consult with more than one type of physician before deciding on a course of treatment, according to research presented by University of North Carolina researchers at the 2013 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting on Sept. 24.
State & Local Coverage
Blackstone Network startups haul in $5.5M in 3Q funding
WRALTechWire (Raleigh)
The third quarter was a busy one for Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network companies, as six of the startups supported by the network hauled in $5.5 million in funding. … The Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network launched in 2011 as a collaborative effort bringing together Triangle universities [including UNC] and the Council for Entrepreneurial Development to support, launch and mentor new startups in the region. The Blackstone Charitable Foundation, affiliated with the Blackstone private equity firm, committed about $3.6 million to the program.
Related Link:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/2013/10/six-blackstone-companies-in-triangle.html
Crab pot reefs are a big success
WCTI-TV (New Bern)
Every year the Department of Marine Fisheries does a sweep of local waterways picking up hundreds of broken and abandoned crab pots. Scientists at the [UNC] Institute of Marine Sciences in Carteret County are recycling those pots to recreate reefs. They are using these reefs to conduct a study on oyster growth. …Professor at UNC Institute of Marine Sciences Dr. Niels Lindquist says they move the pots strategically.
UNC Physician to Receive Award
North Carolina News Network
Advancements in treatment for HIV/AIDS have accelerated by leaps and bounds in the decades since the infancy of the disease. Dr. Myron Cohen is a UNC physician who is receiving the state's highest civilian award for his work studying the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS … Dr. Cohen will receive the 2013 North Carolina Award for Science from Governor Pat McCrory at a ceremony in Durham, Thursday, November 21st.
Why Schizophrenics Hear Voices
WUNC-FM (Raleigh/Durham; NPR affiliate)
Schizophrenia is a frightening disease, characterized by audio and visual hallucinations. [New] research indicates that a breakdown in the neural pathways that establish this interaction may cause auditory hallucinations in people with schizophrenia. "Auditory hallucinations are a common symptom in people who have schizophrenia," said John Gilmore, vice chair for research and scientific affairs in the department of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Word spreads about women in STEM
The News-Times (Carteret County/Morehead City)
In addition to abundant marine and fisheries researchers, Carteret could soon be home to a growing number of young, female scientists. … Here in Carteret County, the scientific community has a healthy female population, said Kerry Irish, communications specialist at UNC.
UNC frat brothers donate toward ID system
The Herald-Sun
Phi Delta Theta fraternity this week donated money to the Chapel Hill Police Department to buy an EZ Child ID System. The system … allows police to provide parents, at no charge, a CD and printout containing their child’s fingerprints, photograph and other vital information that could be used should the child ever go missing.
UNC above national average in NCAA GSR
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
North Carolina’s Graduation Success Rate is 86 percent – five percentage points higher than the national average. The NCAA released its most recent GSR figures on Thursday. The current GSR is based on athletes who entered as freshmen between the 2003-04 and 2006-07 academic years. Athletes are given six years to graduate, and those who transfer or leave school in good academic standing don’t count against a team’s GSR.
Related Link:
http://www.heraldsun.com/sports/unc/x2082475445/NCAA-graduation-report-card-Duke-No-2-Carolina-above-par
Committee to meet to discuss changes to agent laws
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A committee begins work Friday reviewing ways to strengthen the law that penalizes sports agents for providing gifts to college athletes and other improper conduct. The drafting committee to revise the Uniform Athlete Agents Act will meet for two days in Chicago to consider changes, including several in a memo backed by schools across the country as well as five NFL agents. … Paul Pogge, an associate athletic director at North Carolina, co-authored the memo that drew support from schools and agents across the country. He said Friday's meeting starts a gradual process that will be "challenging to make sure this gets done right."
Issues & Trends
The Syllabus: A&T and the cap
The News & Record (Greensboro; blog)
Good news from East Market Street: N.C. A&T is well below the out-of-state enrollment cap this year. That's a big deal, considering the UNC system took the Aggies behind the proverbial woodshed a year ago. This fall, according to the numbers the admission office gave me, 19.1 percent of A&T's new freshman are from out of state. UNC system policy requires that 82 percent of each incoming undergraduate class must be N.C. residents. In other words, the percentage of out-of-state students is capped at 18 percent.
National Report Shows Tuition In NC Rising Fast But Still Relatively Cheap
WFAE-FM (Charlotte, NPR affiliate)
The cost of going to a public university has been rising faster in North Carolina than in most other states, but it's still relatively cheap here compared to the rest of the country. Those are a few highlights from a report the College Board released Wednesday. …North Carolina is on the lower end of that scale. For in-state students, North Carolina has the 10th cheapest average tuition and fees in the country, about $6,500 a year.
State Lawmakers Call for Hearing on UConn’s Policies on Sexual Assault
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In the wake of a federal complaint filed by seven women who allege that the University of Connecticut failed to protect them from sexual assault on the campus and did not adequately investigate reports of sexual assault, state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are calling for a public hearing on the university’s policies, The Courant, a newspaper in Hartford, Conn., reported.
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