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Here is a sampling of links and notes about the new Chancellor-elect:

U. of North Carolina Hires One of Its Own as Chancellor of Its Flagship Campus
The Chronicle of Higher Education
An award-winning chemistry professor with a strong background in fund raising and long ties to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been named that flagship institution's next chancellor. H. Holden Thorp, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Chapel Hill, will take over July 1 for the departing chancellor, James C. Moeser, the university system's Board of Governors announced on Thursday.

Quick Takes
Inside Higher Ed
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s next chancellor will be H. Holden Thorp, an alumnus who is currently a chemistry professor and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences there. Thorp will succeed James Moeser, who is credited with significant fund raising success while also overseeing the launch of aid programs, since copied at other flagship universities, to attract more talented, low-income students.

The new chancellor (Editorial)
The Charlotte Observer
UNC system President Erskine Bowles described Holden Thorp, the newly selected chancellor of North Carolina's flagship university, in this way: "He knows Chapel Hill's place and responsibility in the university system and to the people across North Carolina." That's a remarkable introduction for a man who'll soon be one of the state's most prominent intellectual leaders. It accurately sums up the expectations that greet Dr. Thorp, chosen Thursday to succeed James Moeser as chancellor at UNC Chapel Hill.

New UNC chancellor outlines grand plans
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Holden Thorp's life changed forever at the Exxon station on Wendover Avenue in Greensboro, where UNC President Erskine Bowles, with one hand on the gas nozzle, leaned in the car and asked him to be the next chancellor at UNC-Chapel Hill. "It's a good thing I didn't run in to get some Nabs," said Thorp, who was officially elected the university's 10th chancellor Thursday.
Related Link:
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/NRSTAFF/
221496705/-1/NEWSRECRSSARKIVE

Friends, family call Thorp 'brilliant'
The Fayetteville Observer
As a teenager, Holden Thorp clocked in as one of the fastest in the country at solving Rubik’s Cube puzzles. As a scientist, he designed a technology meant to speed up the way new medicines are made. Now, Thorp faces his next challenge: chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Related Links:
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=293592

Meet Holden Thorp
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Yesterday, Holden Thorp was named the next chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thorp currently is dean of the school’s College of Arts & Sciences and has been a faculty member in the chemistry department since 1993. He’s also a research scientist who is considered a pioneer in DNA chip technology. He joins host Frank Stasio to talk about what a lab rat can bring to the top administrative post of a major university.
Note: "The State of Things" is the statewide public affairs program airing live at noon weekdays and rebroadcast at 9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays.
Related Links:
http://wunc.org/programs/news/archive/SDD050808__UNC_CHANC.mp3/view
http://wunc.org/programs/news/archive/ICB050808.mp3/view
http://wunc.org/programs/news/archive/NDD040908UNC_CHANCELLOR.mp3/view

Thorp named next UNC chief
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC's next chancellor already knows the alma mater by heart. H. Holden Thorp, currently dean of the UNC College of Arts and Sciences and Kenan Professor of Chemistry, said Thursday that when he was growing up in Fayetteville, his father Herbert would sing "Hark the Sound" to him at bedtime.

UNC chemistry professor elected next chancellor
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors on Thursday elected H. Holden Thorp the 10th chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Thorp, 43, a chemistry professor and the dean of the school's College of Arts and Sciences, will take charge July 1, replacing Chancellor James Moeser, who's retiring after eight years in the position.

A&S dean Holden Thorp named UNC chancellor
WTVD-TV (ABC/Raleigh)
When it came time to choose its next chancellor, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sifted through more than 100 applicants from 32 states and the District of Columbia before turning to one of its own. Holden Thorp, a chemistry professor at North Carolina who graduated from the school in 1986, was selected Thursday by the UNC Board of Governors.

New chancellor selected for UNC-CH
News 14 Carolina
The dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill is the university's new chancellor. Holden Thorp, a 43-year-old Fayetteville native, takes office July 1 as the university's 10th chancellor.

UNC Board Names Fayetteville Native Thorp As New Chancellor
WNCN-TV (NBC/Raleigh)
H. Holden Thorp was named the new chancellor of the UNC Chapel Hill Thursday by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Thorp is a Kenan Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

UNC picks Thorp to be chancellor
Triangle Business Journal
Holden Thorp, an acclaimed chemistry professor and dean at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who also has made his mark with several businesses, will be the next UNC chancellor.

Here is a sampling of links and notes about other Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:

International Coverage

Reports of news' death are greatly exaggerated
The Age (Australia)
Tension is rising in the news business as predictions about its future oscillate wildly between imminent implosion, an urgent need to overhaul the business model and belief that we are entering a new golden age ...First, if you believe the American journalism academic Philip Meyer, newspapers are dying. ...When Meyer, professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina, recently addressed the Future of Journalism summit in Sydney by satellite link, he had brought forward the newspaper doomsday clock but refused to be so specific this time.

State and Local Coverage

PPD founder's name to adorn school at UNC
The Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Pharmacy is getting a new name. University officials plan to announce May 21 that the school will be named after Fred Eshelman, CEO of clinical research organization PPD. Eshelman over the years has contributed more than $33 million to the pharmacy school, where he once taught as an adjunct faculty member.

Physician receives top UNC faculty award
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
Dr. Myron S. Cohen, one of the world’s leading authorities on the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, on Friday received the O. Max Gardner Award from the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. The awards, given annually since 1949, were established by the will of Gov. Oliver Max Gardner to recognize faculty who have “made the greatest contributions to the welfare of the human race.”
UNC System Release:
http://www.northcarolina.edu/content.php/pres/news/releases/pr2008/
20080509_2008_Gardner_Award_Announcement.htm

Hamner wins partnership with UNC, delays fundraising
The Triangle Business Journal
Almost a year after its formation, The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences, which aims to become the hub of early-stage drug research, has struck partnerships and established an incubator but is yet to launch a planned $100 million capital campaign. In April, HIHS struck a research partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/science-and-technology/unc-hamner-institutes
-announce-partnership-to-accelerate-basic-translational-research.html

Storms on Sunday may chase grads
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Forecasters are predicting a wet and stormy Mother's Day and warn that severe weather is possible as well. ...The weather Sunday could disrupt commencement ceremonies at UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke University and Meredith College.
UNC Tip Sheet:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/commencement-tip-sheet.html

UNC-CH seeking airport panel power
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC Chapel Hill officials are asking the General Assembly to grant the UNC system the power to create airport authorities, a step toward a new airport in Orange County. UNC-CH Chancellor James Moeser and other campus officials are asking the system to lobby for the authority in the General Assembly's upcoming short session.

Good things came to state that waited
The Winston-Salem Journal
North Carolina's presidential primary held an important lesson for states that rushed to move up their contests this year: Sometimes, it pays to be patient. ...The last time that North Carolina voters had even a little influence in a presidential primary was the 1988 Democratic contest, said Ferrel Guillory, a political scientist at UNC Chapel Hill.

Once again, the wrong response to a disaster (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As the estimated death toll in Burma from Cyclone Nargis climbs to terrifying figures, it is easy, alas, too easy to take potshots at the military government there for dereliction of duty. (Peter A. Coclanis is associate provost for International Affairs and Albert R. Newsome professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill. He writes on the economic history of Burma and has been to the country 13 times since 1993.)

Issues and Trends

Feds: College OK for illegal immigrants
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
No federal law prohibits North Carolina from admitting illegal immigrants to its colleges and universities, officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said today. The statement from federal officials contradicts a letter sent this week by the office of state Attorney General Roy Cooper.

Easley supports college for illegal immigrants
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
In a statement that defied the legal advice of the state's attorney general, Gov. Mike Easley told community colleges Thursday that they can set their own admission standards, which currently welcome students regardless of their immigration status. "The Community College board should continue its current policy, which is consistent with other states," Easley's statement said.
Related Links:
http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/hsedits/56-949324.cfm
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters/story/1066322.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters/story/1066319.html

State workers may get public records training
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Members of a panel formed by Gov. Mike Easley appear headed toward approval of a plan that would require training on the public records law for most state employees and improvements to government e-mail servers that would archive messages for a number of years. ..."Essentially, e-mail exists somewhere between paper and the telephone," said Ferrel Guillory, a UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor. Guillory worked as a reporter and editor at The N&O from 1972 to 1997, an era before reporters routinely filed requests for the e-mail of government officials.

Court sets a bad precedent (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
There have been few local parallels to the extraordinary case of the murder of Eve Carson, the UNC student body president. The fact of who she was -- an amazingly accomplished, prominent, attractive young woman -- and the circumstances of her murder have combined to make this one of the biggest news events in the history of this area.

Death penalty vexes DA (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Jim Woodall is caught in the death penalty's wicked cross-currents. ...On a personal level, Woodall is the father of a 21-year-old daughter at UNC-Greensboro -- a bright young woman the same age as Eve Carson, whose killing rocked the Chapel Hill community. ...Woodall will prosecute the two young men charged with murder in Carson's case.

Chapel Hill asked to revise picketing rules
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Local civil rights groups have asked the Chapel Hill Town Council to update the town's picketing rules and form a civilian review board to monitor police conduct. ...Tamara Tal, a UNC-Chapel Hill student, goes on trial Monday after she was arrested at a protest of tomato pickers' wages at the Burger King on Elliott Road in November. She was charged with failure to clear a public walkway, according to a police report.