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

National Coverage

A State Grooms Its Best Students to Be Good Teachers
The New York Times
... It is not enough for the smartest to become teachers; they have to stay teaching. Research has shown that experienced teachers perform far better than beginners. A Carolina Institute for Public Policy study by Gary T. Henry, Charles Thompson and Kevin Bastian in 2010 found that of a dozen training programs in the state, Teach for America had the best test results, with the Teaching Fellows Program second.

Top 10 College Women: The Social Entrepreneur
Glamour Magazine
Amber Koonce, 21 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Her dream: “To be an international children’s-rights attorney for UNICEF.” Why she’s amazing: Two years ago, Koonce, a public policy and African and Afro-American studies double major, volunteered in Ghana.

State and Local Coverage

Concussion expert with Pa. ties gets genius grant
The Associated Press
A University of North Carolina professor who received a $500,000 genius grant for his research on sports-related concussions has ties to the Pittsburgh Steelers and western Pennsylvania. Kevin Guskiewicz, 45, graduated from high school in Latrobe, about 45 miles east of Pittsburgh, a community that is also home to St. Vincent College, where the Steelers hold training camp. Guskiewicz was a graduate assistant trainer for the team while getting his master's degree at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1990s, and he later earned his doctorate at the University of Virginia.

Advisers help steer students to college
The News-Record (Greensboro)
... Molly Norwood knows the value of a college education and how to plan to get one. She is the new college adviser this year for Morehead High School in Eden. Norwood was trained by the Carolina College Advisory Corps, an arm of the National College Advisory Corps at Chapel Hill. Norwood is a native of Graham and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, a requirement of college advisers in the program.

Nonprofit founder is Glamour-ous
The Charlotte Observer
This week, we get tips from Amber Koonce, 21, a senior at UNC Chapel Hill. She is a double major in public policy and Afro-American studies, as well as a Morehead-Cain scholar. She hopes to work for UNICEF or Amnesty International. She founded the nonprofit BeautyGap ( www.beauty gap.org) , and was recently named one of Glamour magazine's Top 10 College Women.

10 things to know about breast cancer
The Charlotte Observer
1 A lot of people talk about preventing breast cancer, but the correct term is risk reduction. "We don't really know how to prevent breast cancer. We know how to reduce people's risks," said Judith Swasey, a nurse practitioner at UNC Chapel Hill's cancer hospital. The basics: Don't smoke, exercise a lot, watch your diet, annual screenings.

Three Triad universities named America's "Coolest Schools"
The Business Journal
Three Triad universities have been rewarded for "going green" by Sierra magazine, a publication of the Sierra Club. ... Four other colleges in North Carolina made the cut including Warren Wilson College (4), Appalachian State University (12), UNC Chapel Hill (39) and Duke University (60).

Sell Rex? Sell the N.C. Railroad? Just ideas
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...WakeMed made an unsolicited offer for Rex Healthcare this past spring and has been lobbying legislators about it. UNC Hospitals, which owns Rex, has turned WakeMed down.

Tar Heels continue the hunt for AD
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The committee searching for a new University of North Carolina athletic director interviewed "several" candidates Monday at the Carolina Inn on campus, committee chair Lowry Caudill said. The meetings were conducted in closed session in a secure location of the hotel to guard the confidentiality of the candidates. Caudill would not disclose the number of candidates interviewed or the length of the interviews.
Related Links: http://www2.journalnow.com/sports/2011/oct/04/wssport01-unc-interviews-ad-candidates-ar-1459866/
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/10/03/2661922/unc-interviews-ad-candidates.html#ixzz1ZoeK5BLT
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20111003/APS/1110030980
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/15881145/article-UNC-committee-still-interviewing--taking-applications-for-AD?
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/video?id=8377005

Davis speaks for first time since firing
WTVD-TV (ABC/Raleigh)
Butch Davis says he doesn't know why UNC fired him

Issues and Trends

UNC system to formally install Ross
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Tom Ross has been on the job for nine months as president of the UNC system, but the formal celebration of the Ross era happens Thursday in his hometown of Greensboro. In January, Ross took the helm of the university system at an unenviable time. Talk of budget cuts consumed the new president from the minute he was handed the keys.

Invisible influence (Editorial)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Thus a proposed center for the study of state constitutions was scuttled at N.C. Central University’s law school. Bob Orr, a former N.C. Supreme Court justice, presented his offer in the spring, complete with a $600,000 line of funding from the Pope Foundation, conditional upon a proposal that was approved by N.C. Central’s administration and the UNC System’s Board of Governors and, of course, the Pope Foundation.

Buyout Firms to Buy Drug Research Company for $3.9 Billion
The New York Times
... The clinical research business has been a boon to North Carolina’s Research Triangle, a cluster of academic and business institutions. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been a beneficiary of the industry’s success. Pharmaceutical Product Development, founded 25 years ago by Fred Eshelman, employs 11,000. Mr. Eshelman graduated in 1972 from the pharmacy school of the University of North Carolina, a school that now bears his name after he donated $20 million to the university.
Related Links: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/04/1538331/ppd-agrees-to-39-billion-offer.html#ixzz1Zom8ZSge
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20111003/ARTICLES/111009958