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Carolina in the News

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

National Coverage

Kiplinger’s ranks UNC 1st for quality academics, affordability 7th time in a row
Carolina is the best value in American public higher education, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. It is the University’s seventh consecutive No. 1 ranking since the magazine started publishing its periodic analysis in 1998.
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan08/kiplinger010708.html
Related Links including a UNC mention:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080107/UPDATE/801070432/1361
http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%2FCDP_
BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354123165&path=!news
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/010808/uganews_20080108032.shtml
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0108bestvalues0108.html
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-01-08-0153.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20080108-0648-1bo8ucsd_kipplinger.html

Scholars Mount Large-Scale Effort to Study Affirmative Action's
Effects—Bad and Good
The Chronicle of Higher Education
A national consortium of about 30 professors and graduate students has been quietly gathering student data from colleges and law schools to examine the effect of affirmative-action policies on their intended beneficiaries. ...Charles E. Daye, a professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who has harshly criticized Mr. Sander's past research as biased against affirmative action, expressed suspicion that Project Seaphe had some sort of agenda.

State & Local Coverage

UNC tops in a more important ranking (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
...What's much more important is that UNC is No. 1 in a far more significant ranking -- of the best values in public education. For the seventh straight time, Kiplinger's personal finance magazine says the university is the best combination of "outstanding academic quality plus an affordable price tag."
UNC News Release: http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jan08/kiplinger010708.html
Related Links:
http://www.wchl1360.com/details.html?id=5516
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2264138/
http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2008-01-07-0014.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2008/01/07/daily6.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/print/tuesday/city_state/story/866781.html
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-913524.cfm
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080108/NEWS01/80107079/1180

Broadcast Note
UNC-TV aired "Black Issues Forum Black Economic Impact, Part I", on Jan. 6. The N.C. Institute for Minority Economic Development commissioned the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise to produce a study about the economic impact of African-Americans on North Carolina. The resulting show is from a live audience panel discussion featuring prominent black activists and thinkers in North Carolina. Panelists included Carolina's Dr. James A. Johnson, director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and co-author of the economic impact study and Dr. Julius Chambers, director of the Center for Civil Rights at the School of Law.

How to break barriers to good health (Column)
The Charlotte Observer
For most of us, our resolve is no match for other forces at least partly to blame for sapping our willpower. Many of these factors relate to physical and social conditions in our environments. (Suzanne Havala Hobbs is a registered dietitian and a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill.)

Startup's device may change surgery
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A Durham company has raised $21 million in venture capital to chase every surgeon's dream: to cure without cutting. ..."It sounds really cool," said Dr. Tim Farrell, an associate professor of surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Issues & Trends

Closing in on dining at all downtown eateries
The Chapel Hill Herald
... Back in January, (Linda) Convissor made a New Year's resolution that seemed easily digestible at the time. The UNC director of local relations and Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership executive board member would eat at every restaurant within the downtown business district before the end of the year.