Carolina in the News Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media: Regional Coverage Safe routes to school explored
The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.)
Coachella Valley city officials are trying to find ways to make routes to school safer. ...Safe Routes for School is a national program, headquartered at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, with the initiative to reduce the number of children killed while walking and bicycling to school, said the national program's Web site, www.saferoutesinfo.org/. New Oxnard program aims to make firms less appealing target
Ventura County Star (Camarillo, Calif.)
Oxnard police have started a new anti-crime program for small businesses that combines simple prevention strategies with methods they say successfully cut violence at apartment complexes in the city. ...Small retail and service businesses that appear to offer criminals the chance to get away without being identified are at comparatively high risk for robberies, said Carri Casteel, who researches injury prevention at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has worked on crime prevention programs with Oxnard police. State and Local Broadcast Note UNC-TV will air a segment of the series "Exploring North Carolina" tonight (Jan. 10) at 8:30, again at 9:30 p.m. on Friday (Jan. 11) and 6 p.m on Sunday (Jan. 13). The episode, titled "The Naturalists," features Bland Simpson, professor of english and comparative literature at UNC-Chapel Hill. State and Local Coverage Nutrition classes go beyond the pyramid
The Kannapolis Citizen
Free nutrition classes at the N.C. Research Campus will take you far beyond the food pyramid. But you won't need a Ph.D. to comprehend it all. "This is important information that you may not be able to get anyplace else," said Beverly Jordan, community affairs director for the UNC Nutrition Research Institute in Kannapolis. ...Participants will hear advanced nutritional information from professors at the renowned School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including (Steve) Zeisel, who also directs the Nutrition Research Institute at Kannapolis. Museum showcases UNC grads' work
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
... (Janet) Jarman, a 1989 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is among 31 former students featured in a special exhibit at the Ackland Art Museum that opens Friday. ...The exhibit is co-curated by Rich Beckman who has taught at the journalism school for 30 years. Universities consider naming rights
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...So in addition to old-school philanthropy, many are taking a close look at the kind of deals that have made corporate naming rights a staple of professional sports. ..."There is something very special about Kenan Stadium," said Matt Kupec, vice chancellor for university advancement at UNC-CH. "There would be a lot of resistance to that." Ruby Dee to speak at MLK Jr. event
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Actress and activist Ruby Dee will deliver the keynote address at this year's 23rd annual University-Community Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Her speech will be in Memorial Hall on East Cameron Avenue 7 p.m. Tuesday.
UNC News Brief: http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2008/010708.html Got the January blues?
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The parties are over, the bowl games are finished, the presents long-since exchanged. ..."A lot of students suffer a January letdown," says Dr. Robert Bashford, a psychiatrist with UNC Hospitals. Carolina Students Appear On ESPNU
WCHL 1360 AM (Chapel Hill)
The players of the UNC men’s basketball team aren’t the only Tar Heels who’ve been preparing for Wednesday night's home game against UNC-Asheville. The game marks the launch of ESPNU’s Campus Connection, a partnership between ESPNU and universities across the country to employ students in sports broadcasts.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan08/espnu010808.html Health care, media is focus
The Chapel Hill Herald
Journalist and author Suzanne Gordon will explore who and what counts in the media's coverage of health care in a free public lecture Jan. 23 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History on the UNC campus.
UNC News Brief: http://www.unc.edu/news/briefs/2008/010708.html Market kicks out trans fats, high fructose corn syrup
The Chapel Hill Herald
Weaver Street Market has decided to ban from its shelves all products that contain trans fat and high fructose corn syrup. ..."I think that the trans fat ban is a good idea," said Alice Ammerman, a professor in the Department of Nutrition at UNC. Olives fit in healthful diet (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
We eat them on pizza and pour their oil over salads. They come in different sizes and colors, some stuffed with almonds, anchovies or pimentos. They're olives, and despite all the ways we eat them, they still carry a few mysteries for some of us. (Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill.) Donors can see UNC-Duke game
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Nourish International, a local nonprofit, is raffling a pair of lower level tickets to the UNC-Duke basketball game at the Smith Center on Feb. 6 as part of a push to win the Facebook Giving Challenge in which the online social networking site will award $50,000 to the nonprofit that can mobilize the most unique donors before Feb. 1. Issues and Trends Open search at UNCG (Editorial)
The News & Record (Greensboro)
Erskine Bowles said it: The search for a new chancellor "will be important not only for UNCG, but for the Triad." ...UNCG began quickly to seek a successor to Patricia Sullivan. Less than a month after she announced her pending retirement, an 18-member search committee got to work. ...These initiatives mirror steps taken by the search committee at UNC-Chapel Hill, which started a few months earlier to find a new chancellor of its own. Task Force to Issue Recommendations for Safer N.C. Campuses
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
A state law to make counties share what is now confidential information about mental-health commitments is one of nearly a dozen measures that a task force on college-campus safety has recommended. ...Several campuses in the University of North Carolina system already have started implementing emergency-notification systems in the wake of the Virginia Tech rampage. North Carolina State and UNC-Chapel Hill are working on alert systems that utilize text messaging, e-mail and siren warnings.
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safety-report/Default.aspx Emergency messages to blast air space
The Post (Athens, Ohio)
Today and tomorrow, students will have something besides their iPods to listen to on their walk to class. ...Other college campuses that already have the Modulator are Clemson University, Francis Marion University, Liberty University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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