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

International Coverage

Smacking makes children naughtier: research
The Telegraph (United Kingdom)
Research on toddlers and other studies following children into adolescence found physical punishment was bad for children and made them more likely to show anti-social behaviour. ...The study was conducted by researchers at Duke University, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of South Carolina, Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was published in journal Child Development.

National Coverage

Colleges Map Hazy Routes to Limiting Emissions
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Nearly 400 colleges are expected to submit their climate action plans this week, a major step in the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment. The heavily detailed reports, which took colleges many months to produce, map out strategies for limiting emissions for decades to come. But the hard work has just started. From here, institutions have to figure out how to transfer theory into action, which will present a whole new set of challenges. Chief among them: How to tackle ambitious projects when money is tight.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2865/68/

New Outlet for Sharing Science
Inside Higher Ed
Last year, CNN announced that it was going to eliminate its entire reporting team focused on science and technology. To a group of public affairs administrators at research universities, it was but the latest sign that science news was going to have a more and more difficult time reaching the public. Many daily newspapers that once had science reporters or science pages have eliminated them, and many traditional print publications are these days struggling to survive. ...The result is Futurity, which today shifts from beta to an officially live site. The site features writing about research at 35 universities in the United States and Canada (all of them members of the Association of American Universities).
Related Link:
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Research-Universities
Reach/8040/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2866/68/

Regional Coverage

Pole vaulting considered 'most dangerous' sport
The News-Leader (Fernandina Beach, Fla.)
A college pole vaulter died earlier this week after missing the landing pad during practice at the University of California-San Diego. ...It is just these types of injuries that previously led the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research at the University of North Carolina to label the pole vault the most dangerous sporting event. Reviewing statistics from 1983 to 2000, there were thousands of injuries, but most shocking was the fact there was an average of one pole vault-related death a year.

State and Local Coverage

Cancer hospital opens
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Lea Wharton said she chose to have her breast cancer treated at UNC Hospitals because she trusted her care team, but the facilities in the old brick Gravely building, originally a 1950s-era tuberculosis sanitarium, were far from inspiring. Now that is history with the christening today of a $207 million, C-shape building that houses the new N.C. Cancer Hospital. "Finally, finally, finally the facility matches the care," said Wharton, 42, of Raleigh.

Perdue, lawmakers dedicate new NC Cancer Hospital
The Associated Press
North Carolina's only public cancer hospital is now in a new building after four years of construction. Gov. Beverly Perdue, University of North Carolina system President Erskine Bowles, legislative leaders and cancer patients planned Tuesday in Chapel Hill to dedicate the new North Carolina Cancer Hospital on the UNC campus.
Related Links:
http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/6002443/
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7015258
http://news14.com/?ArID=614674&RegionCookie=104

UNC Doctors Receive Radiology Awards
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
Two members of UNC Hospitals Department of Radiology received national recognition for their contributions to their field. Dr. Matt Mauro who is the Ernest H. Wood distinguished professor of radiology and surgery and chairman of the department of radiology says the awards given by “R T Image” recognize people and organizations that have impacted the field of radiology. The publication slotted UNC’s Dr. Joseph Lee a past chair of the radiology department as the 20th most influential person in the field.

Extensive tests to be done on fish-kill sites in Neuse
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The state will conduct extensive tests of the lower Neuse River, where millions of dead fish have blanketed the water in the past two weeks. ...Fish kills are not unusual in that part of the Neuse, and they are often attributed to low oxygen. A UNC-Chapel Hill marine research team had measured low oxygen along the river bottom weeks before the fish kill began, and (Susan) Massengale said dead fish collected from the area had bloodshot eyes.

In the Valley of the Kings
"The State of Things" WUNC-FM
Terrence Holt has long been fascinated by the transformative properties of language. He spent his early years crafting dark stories that explore that theme as a professor of English and creative writing at Rutgers University. It's a career that would satisfy most people. But in his late 30s, Holt decided to go to medical school. Today he teaches geriatrics at the University of North Carolina's medical school and continues to write. His first collection of short stories, "In the Valley of the Kings," was published recently and is earning high praise from critics. Holt joins host Frank Stasio in the studio to talk about his life and his stories.
Note: "The State of Things" is the statewide public affairs program airing live at noon weekdays and rebroadcast at 9 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays.

Issues and Trends

Judge: Speech protest wasn't so bad
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Michael Bandes, 25, pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge Monday, saying you can't fight UNC-Chapel Hill in its hometown. ...Earlier Monday, District Court Judge Joe Buckner threw out senior Haley Koch's disorderly conduct charge. Her attorney, Bob Ekstrand, had argued that holding a banner, singing and chanting did not significantly disrupt former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo's speech, also in April.
Related Links:
http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/5999721/
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/orange/story/1689365.html
http://orange.mync.com/site/Orange/news/story/41743/charge
-dismissed-against-unc-protester/
http://www.wchl1360.com/detailswide.html?id=11815
http://www.heraldsun.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Tancredo+protesters+
have+day+in+court%20&id=3599211-Tancredo+protesters+have+day+in+court

Doctor 'devastated' by woman's death, lawyer says
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Dr. Raymond D. Cook was one of the faces of a WakeMed advertising campaign for specialty physicians. ...In 2003, he returned to North Carolina and an arrangement between his medical school alma mater and Wake Med. For an annual salary of $288,577, he has the title of assistant professor in UNC-CH's department of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery. But his teaching and clinical duties were at Wake Med, not the Chapel Hill campus.
Related Link:
http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-funeral-ballerina-killed-090915,0,2428273.story

Ex-tennis star gets up to year in prison
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Christopher Kearney, who once had a bright future as a tennis star at UNC, was sentenced to serve 10 to 12 months in prison Monday for driving while impaired and running down two other UNC students a year ago.
Related Links:
http://www.wchl1360.com/detailswide.html?id=11827
http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/5997325/
http://orange.mync.com/site/Orange/news/story/41779/former-unc-tennis
-player-pleads-guilty-to-drunk-driving/
http://www.wral.com/news/local/video/6000702/

Triangle campuses in alert mode as swine flu worries grow
The Triangle Business Journal
If you get it, don’t spread it. That’s the message area colleges and universities are trying to impart to students this fall as they prepare for a potential outbreak of swine flu. The latest strain of influenza, called H1N1, is already hitting college campuses, and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has listed people ages 9 to 24 as prime targets for the virus.

Open searches (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Executive Editor John Drescher's Sept. 12 column regarding the need for an open search for candidates for the position of chancellor at N.C. State University was right on. ...The number of faculty on it is perfunctory, only half of what it was for similar committees at UNC-Chapel Hill and Georgia Tech. Efforts to increase faculty input, either by increasing the number of faculty on the committee or establishing a faculty advisory group, have not succeeded. (D. E. Aspnes, Distinguished University Professor of Physics, N.C. State University)