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International Coverage

Study provides clues to preventing and treating cancer spread
The Hindu (India)
...To answer these questions, Dr. Hendrik van Deventer, assistant professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, turned to a century-old idea of cancer spread: English surgeon Stephen Paget's "seed and soil."
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/study-provides-
clues-to-preventing-and-treating-cancer-spread.html

National Coverage

New Dean at Chapel Hill Brings Apt Name to His Post
The Chronicle of Higher Education
It may be nominative determinism, but he swears it's coincidental. James W. Dean Jr., who begins work on Friday as dean of the business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says his apt surname did not influence his career choice.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/business/dean-appointed-dean-of-uncs-
kenan-flagler-business-school.html

Tracking the Spread of Cancer
Ivanhoe Newswire
Doctors know cancer can spread from one organ in the body to another. But how and why are still open questions. New research out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is shedding some light on the issue. Working off a century-old idea suggesting the spread of cancer is about both the "seed and the soil" -- in other words, the tumor and the environment to which it spreads -- they have tagged a cell called a fibrocyte as a potential player in the process.
Note: Ivanhoe has a syndicated television series and its reports are broadcast in 250 markets reaching 80 million U.S. households.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/health-and-medicine/study-provides-clues-to-
preventing-and-treating-cancer-spread.html

Regional Coverage

Proton therapy debated
The Detroit News (Mich.)
A pricey and controversial cancer treatment that blasts tumors with concentrated bursts of radiation is setting the medical community in Metro Detroit abuzz, with the chance the state could land not one -- but two -- proton centers in the coming years. ..."The reality there is very little data in most situations to suggest an advantage to protons over X-rays," said Dr. Joel Tepper, a professor in the department of radiation oncology at University of North Carolina's School of Medicine.

State and Local Coverage

Ackland Museum gets $1.25 million
The Herald-Sun (Durham)/The Chapel Hill Herald
The Ackland Art Museum has received $1.25 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to deepen and expand the museum's role in the education of university students. The museum will use the funds to engage UNC scholars and students in research, publication, interpretation and creation of exhibitions from the Ackland collection; give students opportunities to learn about the substance and methodology of museum work; and introduce graduate teaching assistants and faculty to ways of using artworks to support teaching and learning strategies that apply across academic departments and disciplines.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/arts/1.25-million-grant-to-boost-
acklands-academic-role.html

Library to preserve sounds of Southern music
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Recorded interviews and performances by Southern traditional musicians including Ralph Stanley, Doc Watson and Elizabeth Cotten will be available free next year to library visitors at UNC-Chapel Hill. Staff at Wilson Library also soon will preserve amateur films shot in Florence, S.C., in the 1920s, showing scenes of social gatherings, plantations and local families and giving a sense of what life was like in the South at that time.
Related Links:
http://www.chapelhillnews.com/weekend/story/15898.html
http://heraldsun.southernheadlines.com/orange/10-975378.cfm
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/arts/unc-wins-grants-to-preserve-
southern-music-films.html

Editorial missed the mark (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Your July 29 editorial on the Innovation Center ["University plans moved too quickly"] misses the mark by starting with review processes instead of the university's reasoning for the project. ...Neither the university nor the town is rushing the approval process for Carolina North or the Innovation Center. The timing is right for the Innovation Center. Before Sept. 17, the building design will be right as well. ( Executive Director, Carolina North, Jack Evans)

Duke, UNC-CH join in German
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As the faculties of German graduate programs across the country dwindle in number, resources and scope, the faculties at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill are joining forces in the hope of bucking this ominous national trend. Starting this fall, doctoral students in German at UNC-CH and Duke will all be part of the same program, a rare venture for humanities departments at major universities.

Elon called beautiful, well-run, green in Princeton Review rankings
The Times-News (Burlington)
...The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranked second in "Best College Newspaper," 13th in both "Happiest Students" and "Jock Schools" and fifth in "Students Pack the Stadiums." It received a "Colleges with a Conscience" designation.

Exercising for all the right reasons (Column)
The Chapel Hill News
In my last column, I discussed the impact of diet on your heart and some tips on developing a strategy for eating well and eating healthy at the same time. To me, a good diet always goes hand in hand with a sound fitness strategy. (Cam Patterson is chief of cardiology for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, UNC Hospitals, and the UNC Health Care System.)

N.C. schools adopt tobacco-free policy
News 14 Carolina (Raleigh/Greensboro/Charlotte)
If you're visiting a public school in our state, make sure you leave the cigarettes and chewing tobacco at home. ..."Our research has shown that students in tobacco-free school districts have 40 percent lower smoking rates than students in non-tobacco-free school districts," said Rebecca Williams, who works with the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at UNC-Chapel Hill.

China blamed for N.C. losses
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
China's trade practices have cost North Carolina nearly 80,000 jobs since 2001, according to an analysis being issued today by the N.C. Justice Center, an advocacy group. ...Chinese labor costs can be 80 percent cheaper than Americans', said John Kasarda, a business professor at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Aesthetics drive Raleigh faction
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
When City Council member Thomas Crowder took his colleagues on a 5 p.m. bus tour this month, he could have easily still been at work. ..."The whole notion behind elected officials is that they will be representative of the community," said Gordon Whitaker, a professor of public administration and government at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Government.

New regulations imposed on shark
The Star-News (Wilmington)
...For example, American and Canadian ecologists concluded last year that overfishing of sharks in the Atlantic had created a boom in the population of rays, skates and other small prey of sharks. They, in turn, wiped out North Carolina's bay scallop fishery, according to a release from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Issues and Trends

Too late for illegal immigrants
The Charlotte Observer
Some illegal immigrants still will be banned from attending community college this fall even though the N.C. attorney general reversed his opinion on admitting undocumented students to degree programs. ...Gov. Mike Easley and University of North Carolina President Erskine Bowles questioned the decision, citing the “considerable legal disagreement about what the relevant federal law really says.”