Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media: International Coverage Taking stock of Muslims in the US (Opinion Column)
The Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates)
...One of the most common complaints about Muslims is that they do not condemn terrorism as much as they ought to. University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole and Professor Charles Kurzman from the University of North Carolina have documented many fatwas and statements from Muslim scholars and groups condemning terrorism. National Coverage College Rankings 2011
Newsweek
UNC-Chapel Hill was featured on several of Newsweek/The Daily Beast's College Rankings list for 2011. Carolina ranked 23rd for healthiest, 9th for most beautiful, 8th for future politicians, and 22nd for the greenest campus. America's Coolest Schools
Sierra Magazine
Sierra magazine's "Coolest Schools" ranking is open to all four-year undergraduate colleges and universities in the United States. In March 2011, Sierra sent a 12-page questionnaire to 940 schools, a list based on the widest collection of university contacts that the magazine's researchers could amass; schools that requested a survey were provided one and encouraged to participate. (UNC-Chapel Hill is ranked 30 on this list.) Getting Doctors to Wash Their Hands (Blog)
The New York Times
...“There’s this perception among some health care providers that ‘I’m around sick people all the time and I don’t get sick very often, so my immune system is extra strong,’” said David Hofmann, an author of the study and a professor of organizational behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “But if you go back to the Hippocratic oath that all doctors adhere to, it’s ‘First do no harm.’ So if you have a sign that says ‘Hey, look, here’s a really vulnerable person you’re about to walk in and see,’ then maybe a sign focused on that person will cue this larger core value in the physician to protect the patient.” Social media emerges as battleground for protected speech at work
The Chicago Tribune
...National labor law does not preclude employers from disciplining employees for inappropriate online behavior. But from the NLRB's perspective, said Jeff Hirsch, an associate law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law who focuses on employment law, "the key issue is whether employees are acting together out of concern for their working conditions. The fact that others may also hear it isn't directly relevant." Vigorous exercise burns calories 14 hours after workout
USA Today
...Nieman and his colleagues at Appalachian State and researchers at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill studied the caloric expenditures of 10 men, ages 22 to 33, using a scientific device called a metabolic chamber. It's a silicone-sealed room that looks like a small hotel room with a bed, sofa, laptop, toilet and sink. Food is sent into the room through an airlocked entrance, he says. Regional Coverage Healing terror's wounds: Two teens who lost dads to terrorists bond over shared loss
The New York Daily News
Two 19-year-olds embraced in a bear hug with the bravado of brothers. Despite growing up in countries 4,500 miles apart, C.J. Quackenbush and George Tarr share a profound loss: Their fathers were killed by terrorists. ..."You can try telling someone what you've been through, but if they haven't experienced something similar, it's pointless," explained C.J., a sophomore at the University of North Carolina. State and Local Coverage UNC nurse captures Johnson research grant
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
Anna Beeber, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina School of Nursing in Chapel Hill, is among a dozen Nursing Faculty Scholars in the U.S. named by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for outstanding work. The award brings a three-year, $350,000 grant to pursue research, as well as mentoring from senior faculty at each faculty member's institution, the foundation said in an announcement Thursday. PRP: For pain, some doctors say it’s the right Rx
The Triangle Business Journal
Some Triangle doctors think they could reduce overall health care costs by increasing the use of a procedure for joint pain. The procedure is called platelet-rich plasma therapy and is currently not covered by insurance. PRP could keep patients out of the operating room, though, say Dr. David Berkoff, in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill department of orthopedics and Dr. Bob Wyker, the director of orthopedics at North Carolina State University athletics department, something that would result in overall savings. Campaign aims to give babies a healthy start
The Charlotte Post
...Dr. Miriam Labbok, a professor, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, said that birth spacing: short birth intervals [less than two years] is associated with increased risk for premature babies, nutrition is also important, as well as developing a social network or support system to reduce stress. After birth, she said that major preventable causes of infant death such as respiratory death and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, could be “virtually cut in half with exclusive breastfeeding.” Study shows US Infant mortality rate climbs
News 14 Carolina
..."Where we really need to do our work in this state is in an area called preconception health,” reflected Dr. Sarah Verbiest, who is the UNC School of Medicine's Center for Maternal and Infant Health Executive Director. “Which means how do we help our young women and women of child bearing age be healthy?" Verbiest said most newborn deaths occur in the eastern part of the state and in urban areas and also impact certain groups. Cuts to global centers could harm security, say backers
The Triangle Business Journal
...The cuts wipe out nearly half of the budgets of a dozen centers at Duke and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and will create a void in courses, fellowships and seminars in foreign languages and international studies, says Ronald Strauss, chief international officer at UNC-CH. UNC Boasts Impressive Study Abroad Funding
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
UNC says it has given 169 students a total of $637,000 in scholarships and fellowships for 2011 and 2012 study abroad programs. The awards are funded by private gifts to the College of Arts and Sciences and will allow students to spend a semester, summer or even a year studying aboard.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4708/75/ ACC has 4th largest football graduation gap
The Triangle Business Journal
Football players in the Atlantic Coast Conference graduate at a lower rate than most male students at the schools, according to a new report by the College Sport Research Institute. ...“The ACC does have a high general population graduation rate,” says (Richard) Southall, director of the CSRI, which is based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A Poet’s Education
The Chapel Hill Herald
When North Carolina novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote, he set out to unfurl on the pages of his ledgers what his second novel “Of Time and the River” called the “strange and bitter miracle of life.” Wolfe’s aim resonates with 18-year-old Anna Faison of Aiken, S.C., the 2011 winner of a four-year, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill creative writing scholarship named for the popular writer alumnus. The Thomas Wolfe Scholarship Program was established by retired writer and UNC alumnus Frank Borden Hanes Sr., and has affirmed the writing gifts of 11 students since 2001 by giving them the space, resources and time to be creative with their words.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4712/75/ At Memorial Hall, tributes to James Brown, Samuel Beckett
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Kinston native and saxophonist Maceo Parker spent many years off and on in James Brown’s band before pursuing a solo career. Bass player Pee Wee Ellis also was a veteran of the Godfather of Soul’s entourage. They will join South African singer and songwriter Vusi Mahlasela and Senegalese singer and multi-instrumentalist Cheikh Lô in “Still Black, Still Proud: An African Tribute to James Brown” Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall at UNC Chapel Hill. Theater season delves into life
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Local playwright Mike Wiley’s historic play about the Freedom Riders, “The Parchman Hour,” will make its professional debut with PlayMakers Repertory Company on stage in the Paul Green Theatre at the UNC Center for Dramatic Art. Theater Picks
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
PlayMakers Repertory Company's first PRC2 production this season is Caryl Churchill's "A Number," her 2002 play about the implications of human cloning. A son confronts his father because the son finds he is a clone of the original son who died in car crash. Or did he?
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4698/66/ Classical Picks
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Haydn and Beethoven are the main fare for two different concerts on the Carolina Performing Arts series by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen on Wednesday and Thursday. The German chamber orchestra hosts UNC music faculty member Stefan Litwin as pianist for Beethoven's Concertos Nos. 1 and 3. Conductor Paavo Järvi also helms Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 49 and 80.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4697/66/ UNC's Confederate statue draws new protest
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Students gathered Thursday to start a new discussion about the monument known as "Silent Sam." The statue at UNC-Chapel Hill has been the subject of many debates in the nearly 100 years it has stood in the center of McCorkle Place. UNC housekeepers want manager reassigned
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC housekeepers want Chancellor Holden Thorp to reassign a top manager in Housekeeping Services whom they claim engages in harassing and intimidating behavior. Football Coverage UNC chairman resigns amid athletic investigation
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A UNC-Chapel Hill department chairman at the center of questions regarding academic integrity amid an athletic scandal within the university's football program has resigned from the position, university officials said today. UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp said in a statement that Julius Nyang'oro, who headed the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, has resigned as the university looks at "possible irregularities with courses that included undergraduate students."
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UNC Statement:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4725/68/
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