Carolina in the News Carolina in the News: Tuesday Jan. 29, 2008
| Carolina in the News: Tuesday Jan. 29, 2008 |
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| Tuesday, January 29, 2008 | |
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Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media: International Coverage Digital mammogram best for younger women: study Reuters (Wire Service) Digital mammography was much better than traditional film mammography at spotting breast cancers in younger women or those with dense breasts, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. ... "This paper confirms that if you are under 50, pre- or perimenopausal, and have dense breasts, you should definitely be screened with digital rather than film," Dr. Etta Pisano of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill said in a statement. National Coverage A Billion Here, $2-Billion There The Chronicle of Higher Education ... The University of North Carolina ended its largest campaign ever on December 31, far exceeding the original goal of $1.8-billion, with a total of $2.38-billion raised. The campaign went over the top with a $9-million donation to the School of Pharmacy which was matched by the North Carolina University Cancer Research Fund. UNC News Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/ pharmacy-school-pledge-pushes-carolina-first-total-to-2.3-billion.html State & Local Coverage It's not just money -- it's the future (Opinion) The Chapel Hill Herald It's a number so big it's almost difficult to comprehend. It's $2.38 billion, and it's the amount of money the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill just finished raising. This is what it looks like: $2,380,000,000. It's so big that the only frames of reference we have are comparative. Look at it this way: a million seconds is 13 days. A billion seconds, however, is 31 years. While a million minutes ago was sometime in 2006, a billion minutes ago was just after the time of Christ. UNC News Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/ pharmacy-school-pledge-pushes-carolina-first-total-to-2.3-billion.html A Nobel Prize Doesn’t Change Oliver Smithies WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh) Winning the Nobel Prize has not changed Oliver Smithies one little bit. “None of that nonsense,” the 82-year-old professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said when an admirer began thanking him for the honor of a meeting. UNC News Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/ oliver-smithies-wins-nobel-prize.html UNC to assist cancer survivors The Chapel Hill Herald UNC's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has joined the LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network to address the needs of the growing number of cancer survivors in the United States. Lineberger is the eighth network member institution in the nation. ... With a five-year $1.5 million grant, UNC will develop survivorship programs and services at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital and partnering sites around the state. In addition, UNC's strategic plan includes regional and statewide outreach and education activities for patients, families and professionals. UNC News Brief: http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/ lineberger-joins-lance-armstrong-foundation-survivorship-network.html Study backs digital mammograms for some women The Chapel Hill Herald For some women, digital mammography may be a better screening option than film mammography, according to newly published results from a national study led by a UNC researcher. The results, from the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST), appear in the February issue of Radiology. UNC's Etta Pisano is principal investigator and lead author of the study, which found that digital mammography performed better than film mammography for pre- and perimenopausal women under age 50 with dense breasts. North Carolina protested, but national banks gained an exemption (Opinion) The News & Observer (Raleigh) Although Nicholas Bagley's article is keyed to Georgia's experience with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's stance on state subprime lending laws, North Carolina also was heavily involved in the issue, which came to a head early in 2004. ... An earlier news story, ... reported a warning by Lissa Broome, a professor of bank law at UNC-Chapel Hill. Broome said some banks with state charters might swap them for federal ones, and that mortgage lenders and consumer finance companies could also circumvent the law by partnering with national banks. Duke, UNC make list of top MBA programs The Triangle Business Journal The MBA programs at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have made the Financial Times' list of the top 20 programs in America, the newspaper said Monday. According to a report on FT.com, the British finance newspaper's Web site, Duke's Fuqua School of Business has the No. 14 MBA program in the country. UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School comes in at No. 20. Laurinburg native to take UNC post The Associated Press A former executive at The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times is taking a job at the University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Penelope Muse Abernathy is a native of Laurinburg who specializes in helping news media in a digital world. She currently serves as vice president and executive director of industry programs at the Paley Center for Media in New York City. Related Links: http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/908866.html http://www.heraldsun.com/state/6-919574.cfm? UNC Release: http://www.jomc.unc.edu/the_news/ school_news/penelope_muse_abernathy_803_2.html Chamber of Commerce to honor Chancellor Moeser The Daily Tar Heel The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce will award Chancellor James Moeser with the Duke Energy Citizenship and Service Award today. Past recipients of the award include state Rep. Joe Hackney... The recipient must demonstrate a key set of values, including integrity, initiative and accountability. Aaron Nelson, the chamber's president and CEO, said that Moeser embodies each of those traits. This is a bus ride worth taking The News & Observer (Raleigh) Carol Mitchell can't believe she once had qualms about trading her spot in the parking deck for a seat on the express bus. It's true her daily round trip takes about 20 minutes longer by bus than it did when she drove her car from her home in Hillsborough to work at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. ... The savings on gas and tire rubber alone would roughly cover the bus fare -- but her bus ride doesn't cost her a dime. UNC is among several big Triangle employers that subsidize public transportation for their employees. Comfort food: Healthy one-dish meals The News & Observer (Raleigh) Like Rodney Dangerfield, the casserole gets no respect. To many, the word conjures up church basements and Pyrex pans filled with bland blends of mushy noodles, cream soups, mayonnaise, sour cream and cheese. Suzanne Havala Hobbs, a registered dietitian and faculty member in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Government retreats will cost taxpayers $45,000 The Charlotte Observer Charlotte city and school board leaders are spending about $45,000 this month traveling out of town for retreats -- a practice some government agencies have abandoned to save money. ... This year, the city hired as its facilitator Phil Boyle, a professor at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Government and president of Leading & Governing Associates Inc., a consulting firm. Duke panel eyes status of data privacy The Herald-Sun (Durham) Academic, corporate and security heavyweights from Interpol, Intel, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and others converged on the Duke University School of Law on Monday to trade information on the state of data privacy in the U.S. and Europe. ... "Our culture is not based on a lot of primacy of privacy. People will say they value privacy until something shows them otherwise," said Anne Klinefelter, a UNC Chapel Hill law professor and associate director of the school's law library. UNC's first cardiology chief dies The News & Observer Dr. Ernest Craige, who was the first chief of cardiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, died Jan. 24 at the age of 89. Craige had an enormous impact on the field of cardiology at the UNC School of Medicine and nationwide, said Dr. Cam Patterson, UNC's current chief of cardiology. Issues & Trends UNCC will light up new smoking rules The Charlotte Observer Smokers on the UNC Charlotte campus will have to watch where they light up starting this July. ... N.C. State also instituted a 25-foot restriction while other state universities went for a stricter policy. Appalachian State University prohibited smoking within 50 feet of its buildings. UNC Chapel Hill instated a 100-foot zone, effectively banning outdoor smoking since most of its buildings are within 200 feet of each other. Federal judges refuse to block use of current N.C. legislative districts The Associated Press North Carolina can use its current legislative district boundaries in the May primary, federal judges ruled yesterday, denying a request by Republican voters who sued over the maps. ... The voters sued the state in November, arguing that legislative leaders should have used updated data to form the House and Senate districts, which have been used since the 2004 elections. Republican voters said that the biggest error came when the Census Bureau double counted 2,700 people at UNC Chapel Hill. |