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National Coverage

The Great Race (Column)
Business Week
My vision of the second half of the second year of my MBA program never wavered during the grueling exams of the first half of my first year. ...The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School offers the opportunity to take Global Immersion Elective (GIE) courses that allow you to study up on a country and culture and then travel there in a group to visit sights and businesses. (Danvers Fleury is a member of UNC - Chapel Hill's MBA class of 2008.)

The flap on dragonfly flight
Science News
New experiments have revealed an aerodynamic trick that dragonflies use to fly efficiently — a trick that engineers could exploit to improve the energy efficiency of small aerial vehicles with a similar design. ...Dragonflies are “the fighter jets of the insect world,” says Tyson L. Hedrick, a biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Regional Coverage

Struggling Front Range Airport targets passenger service
The Rocky Mount News (Colorado)
Front Range Airport, it seemed, had everything lined up perfectly a few years ago. ..."This will be an uphill climb for Front Range, given the current and near-term aviation industry environment," John Kasarda, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who has studied airport growth, said via e-mail.

State and Local Coverage

Roses & raspberries (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill News
ROSES to Holden Thorp, who was named last week as the new UNC chancellor. Thorp hasn't had a chance to do anything in his new job, of course, except give an excellent acceptance speech -- he doesn't actually start until July 1, when James Moeser steps down. But if past is prelude, Thorp will go great things at Carolina.

Tar Heel Bus Tour Starts Trek Across The State
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
The Tar Heel Bus Tour has been up and running for ten years, giving new faculty members at the University of North Carolina a better understanding of the Tar Heel state.
UNC News Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/news/campus-and-community/tar-heel-bus-tour-introduces
-new-carolina-faculty-members-to-the-state.html

UNC students are not outsiders (Editorial)
The Chapel Hill Herald
Are we just an aggregate of singular neighborhoods or something more than that? Are we, instead, a community, a cross-stitched quilt of diverse interests and people? The questions arise because of the increasingly contentious argument over placing blue light security towers in a neighborhood just adjacent to the UNC campus.

Community Colleges Change Policy
“Morning Edition” local news break, WUNC-FM
Dave DeWitt reports on the North Carolina Community College System's change in policy towards undocumented immigrant students. His interview includes commentary by Hiroshi Motomura, a Kenan professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an expert on immigration law. Motomura compared the attorney general's decision to deny undocumented immigrants access to secondary education to denying the students access to the fire department or public roads.

Ask! (Blog)
TriangleMom2Mom.com (News & Observer/Raleigh)
Today, Lynne Vernon-Feagans, a fellow at the FPG Child Development Institute and an early literacy expert, answers this question from a mom.

Stars in the night sky
The Chapel Hill News
The crowd stares upward -- heads tilted back, mouths open -- at the brilliant night sky overhead. ...Unfortunately, this panoramic view of the heavens isn't real -- it's being projected onto the screen of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center as part of "Our Vanishing Night," a program about light pollution.

Medical mission: Brody graduates heading to Honduras
The Daily Reflector (Greenville)
Jessica Weeks and Heang Lim are taking an alternative road toward medical residency. ...Dr. Jeff Heck, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and executive director of Shoulder to Shoulder, said the region where Weeks and Lim will be working suffers greatly from poverty.

It all adds up Autistic youth making name for self with math skills
The Mount Airy News
When Jared Honeycutt was diagnosed with autism at age four by the preschool screening staff at Tharrington Elementary School, his parents were not sure what to expect. ...Once he was diagnosed with autism, Jared's parents had the diagnosis confirmed by Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication-handicapped Children, which is a division of the University of North Carolina's Department of Psychiatry.

‘Green’ with a view (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill News
Sustainable development is one of the pseudo-environmentalists’ most beloved catch phrases. When the term was first coined at the United Nations, it was defined as development that meets “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (Jeff Soplop is a graduate student at UNC and has worked as an environmental consultant and researcher.)

Film about suicide bombers presents few insights (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill News
At the end of the screening of "My Daughter the Terrorist" in April at the Full Frame film festival in Durham, a gentleman in the audience got up and made the simple but powerful statement, "There are no terrorists without victims." (Aravinda de Silva is an associate professor in the UNC Department of Microbiology and Immunology.)

Poor not problem in hospital expenses (Letter to the Editor)
The Chapel Hill News
A letter published April 13 ("High medical fees not hospital's fault") takes issue with my letter of April 2 ("Reader questions UNC Hospitals' fees") by stating that public hospitals always cost more than private hospitals because they are obligated to accept the poor. ...Of course, serving the uninsured poor at UNC Hospitals adds costs which must be recovered some other way -- by tax support or by fees charged everyone. (Junius A. Davis, Chapel Hill)

Issues and Trends

UF trustees approve $47 million in budget cuts
The Associated Press
The University of Florida's governing body unanimously approved $47 million in budget cuts Wednesday that will result in reducing enrollment and laying off some faculty. ...Trustee Steven Scott said the University of North Carolina continues ''to recognize us as a fertile recruiting ground.'' He asked Machen to address the problem at the June meeting of the board.

UNC rumors revived
The Rocky Mount Telegram
Minutes before the Joint Legislative Appropriations Committee was called to order Tuesday, N.C. Sen. A.B. Swindell turned to page 228 of the governor's proposed budget, pointed to line item No. 13 and pushed himself away from the table. ...Finally, it seems the dream to construct a University of North Carolina satellite campus in Rocky Mount might come to fruition. Or so Swindell hopes.

NC community colleges halt illegal immigrant policy
The Associated Press
North Carolina's community college system reversed itself Tuesday and said it will no longer admit illegal immigrants until federal officials formally weigh in on whether it is legal. The college system announced last year that all of its 58 campuses would enroll illegal immigrants into degree programs who are at least 18 years old and who have graduated from high school. Previously, under a policy adopted in 2004, that decision was left to the individual campuses.
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N&O seeks release of Carson autopsy report
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The News & Observer has filed a motion to unseal Eve Carson's autopsy report. ...Judges have sealed almost every public record related to the slaying of the UNC-Chapel Hill student body president.
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