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UNC team wins grant to study multiple sclerosis
The Triangle Business Journal
A research team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received $825,000 from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Led by professor Jenny Ting, the team plans on exploring the causes of the disease as well as ways of stopping it.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/unc-researchers-
awarded-825000-grant-for-multiple-sclerosis-research.html

Facing the truth: More classroom money needed.
Segregation hurts (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Let's be blunt. North Carolina high schools are not serving our poor and minority students well. ...In 2006, Gov. Mike Easley commissioned a High School Resource Allocation Study by education specialists Gary Henry of UNC-Chapel Hill and Charles Thompson of East Carolina University, asking them whether North Carolina could improve student achievement in its low-performing high schools by spending education dollars more efficiently.

Vince Gill will perform at UNC
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Country music legend Vince Gill will perform live at UNC's Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill at 8 p.m. on April 30, with all proceeds benefiting the North Carolina Children's Hospital's Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology.

Trans fat out, but other fats in (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Now that food companies are removing the trans fat from cookies, cakes and other processed foods, making food choices requires a new level of label-reading acumen. Why? Because trans fat is being replaced by new and sometimes unfamiliar ingredients.
(Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill.)

Sex trafficking words (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
After spending two full days at the UNC-sponsored conference on sex trafficking, I was appalled at The N&O's coverage April 5, which missed the point on so many levels. ...The media can help by investigating and "outing" buyers and by educating the public about the human and social toll of sex trafficking and prostitution. (Kim Dixon, Chapel Hill)

Issues and Trends

Orange tourism called strong but more funds said needed
The Chapel Hill Herald
Tourism in Orange County is strong, but it's going to need more promotion dollars to stave off "extremely aggressive" campaigns in Raleigh, Durham and other North Carolina locations, according to Laurie Paolicelli, executive director of the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau. ...At one point, Paolicelli recruited Town Councilman Bill Thorpe to reach out to the Black Alumni Reunion -- a UNC group -- and convince them to bring their annual event back to town.

Tributes held for Va. Tech victims
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
At Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, dozens of protesters stretched out under Wednesday's midday sun to bring attention to what they think are lax gun laws. It was the first anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings, in which 32 students and professors were killed by a mentally ill gunman whose suicide ended the carnage. About 80 such protests were held in 33 states across the nation.
Related Link:
http://www.reflector.com/local/content/news/stories/2008/04/16/ecusafety.html

Carson possibly alive when ATM card was used
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Two days after Eve Carson was killed about 5 a.m. March 5, police circulated a time-stamped photo to other law-enforcement agencies showing one of the men accused of killing her using her ATM card at 3:55 that morning.