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International Coverage

Small firm's fen-phen-like obesity drug shows promise
Reuters (Wire Service)
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. has bet it can develop a drug from the same family as the notorious diet pill combination fen-phen -- and the gamble may be paying off. ..."This is huge," said Dr. Bryan Roth, a psychiatrist at the University of North Carolina who specializes in drug actions and side effects. "This is the big thing everyone was waiting for, and my guess is it will encourage other companies with similar compounds at earlier stages of development to move them along quickly."

Scientists Create Tuberculosis Vaccine That Is Inhaled
All Headline News
A tuberculosis vaccine that can be inhaled has been developed and successfully tested by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and Harvard University. ...According to Eurekalert.org, Dr. Tony Hickey, the leader of the scientists at the UNC School of Pharmacy, said, "The real advantage is that this vaccine does not need to be refrigerated. It also doesn't require needles, syringes and water like the injectable vaccine, and administering it is as easy as breathing in, making it ideal for use in developing countries."
UNC News Release:
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inhaled-tb-vaccine.html

National Coverage

UNC Campus Still in Mourning for Student Leader
"All Things Considered" National Public Radio
Classes have resumed after a solemn spring break for the University of North Carolina. The college town of Chapel Hill is still recovering from the murder of the UNC student body president.

Chapel Hill Mourns Coed, Again
ABC News
When the blond-haired, brown-eyed murder victim, found shot to death on March 5, was identified as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's student body president Eve Carson, the quintessentially quiet southern town was turned on its head, and not for the first time.

One Gene Closer to Understanding Pancreatic Cancer
The New York Times
Dr. Terri Brentnall, 51, at the University of Washington, has identified a gene that may be one cause of an inherited form of pancreatic cancer. An edited version of a three-hour conversation follows. ...To accomplish that, I needed to bring in other experts. So in 2004, I phoned Carol Otey at the University of North Carolina. She’s the discoverer of Palladin. I said: “You don’t know me, but we’ve learned that Palladin caused pancreatic cancer in at least one family. I need your help in learning how it does that.”

Regional Coverage

Scholarship funds tribute to 2 students
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Two slain university students from North Georgia are being remembered with funds established at their schools. The University of North Carolina has set up the Eve Marie Carson Memorial Fund in memory of the Athens native who served as UNC's student body president.
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State and Local Coverage

UNC-CH to honor life of Eve Carson
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
UNC-Chapel Hill will celebrate the life of Eve Carson at 4 p.m. today in the Dean E. Smith Center. ...The doors to the Smith Center will open at 3 p.m., and the university is encouraging those attending to wear Carolina blue.
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Hope lives in bereft dad (Commentary)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
n the cacophony of voices that have spoken out, mournfully, angrily, since Eve Carson's death, one group has been conspicuously absent: her family. Father, mother, brother. They have not wanted to talk to the press. I respect that. ...Bob Carson opened by describing a love affair that began the first moment he and his infant daughter locked eyes.

UNC students react to safety concerns
WTVD-TV (ABC/Raleigh)
Nearly two weeks after the shooting death of UNC student body president, Eve Carson, students are returning from spring break. With two men in jail and charged with Carson's murder, campus safety is a big topic with the university's student newspaper. The Daily Tar Heel is out with a survey on how safe people feel in and around campus.

UNC does well in academic tournament (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Move away from your brackets for just a moment. Take your eyes off the Sweet 16 and stop pondering the Elite 8. ...But the university men's basketball team also has accomplished something else -- it has actually made sure its student-athletes are in fact students as much as athletes.

CNN analyst to deliver lecture
The Chapel Hill Herald
Bill Schneider, CNN senior political analyst and one of the country's leading political commentators, will deliver the Nelson Benton Lecture at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication on March 27 at 6 p.m. in the Carroll Hall auditorium.
UNC Event Brief:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/schneider-
cnn-senior-political-analyst-to-speak-march-27.html

Jewish studies seat named for Eizenstat
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A $1.5 million professorship in Jewish studies at UNC-Chapel Hill will be named for alumnus Stuart E. Eizenstat, lead negotiator for Holocaust reparation agreements and deputy secretary of the treasury during the Clinton administration. The Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat Distinguished Professorship in Jewish History and Culture will be in the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.

After scandal, Dad still has explaining to do
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Eliot Spitzer has problems, and they're bigger than the ones that have played out on television. ...Parents who make big mistakes need to own up to them, said Anne Jones, a clinical assistant professor in the School of Social Work at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Answering the call
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Working at a call center isn't the most glamorous job. The work can be tedious. ...Adam Grant, a Kenan-Flagler business professor at UNC-Chapel Hill who has studied such centers, said he was shocked the first time he interviewed call center workers who were raising money for scholarships at the University of Michigan.

Governor candidates tackle mental health
The Citizen-Times (Asheville)
It may not have the kitchen-table appeal of promises about the minimum wage or the intensity of the immigration debate. ...“We’re ready to see some specific details and some specific fixes,” said Dr. John Gilmore, director of a schizophrenia research program at UNC Chapel Hill, who manages NCmentalhealthvote.org.

Let's Talk Fitness: Hidden stuff that can hurt you (Commentary)
The Gaston Gazette
Recently, I read that corn-based sweetener could endanger your health. ...Beef from corn-fed cattle tends to have more artery-clogging saturated fats than grass-fed beef, reports Barry Popkin, professor of nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Ercole Biotech to be bought
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Ercole Biotech, a UNC-Chapel Hill spinoff that employs eight, will be bought by a Portland, Ore., drug development company in a $9 million stock and cash deal.

Issues and Trends

Mayor wants inquiry in students' slayings
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Mayor Bill Bell on Monday night called for a formal investigation into whether a teenager accused of killing two college students should have been in jail when the crimes occurred. He hopes the answers can help target the reform efforts being made in the wake of the shooting deaths of Eve Carson, president of the UNC-Chapel Hill student body, and Abhijit Mahato, a Duke University graduate student.
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