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

International Coverage

Kenan-Flagler launches scholarships for women
Financial Times
In a bid to become more diverse, the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flager business school has created a fellowship programme for women applying to its executive MBA programme. “Our goal is to recruit more talented women,” says Sarah Perez, executive director for EMBA programmes. “As with other schools, the numbers are still very low.”

National Coverage

Hitting the Road to Get to Work, and Back
The New York Times
...One study has tried to quantify the benefits of active commuting. Penny Gordon-Larsen, an associate professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and her collaborators tracked a pool of 2,364 adults over 20 years. Seventeen percent described themselves as active commuters who biked or walked to work. The average distance they traveled was about five miles, or eight kilometers. Ms. Gordon-Larsen’s research, published two years ago in the Archives of Internal Medicine, found that active commuters cut their odds of obesity by 50 percent. They had lower blood pressure, body mass and triglyceride levels (fat in the blood).

Coral reef preservation has a long history
The Los Angeles Times
...Humans may have been damaging coral reefs for centuries, said John Bruno, a marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who was not involved in the study. But, he added, "these reefs are still resilient and able to recover from significant disturbances … certainly, a kernel of good news for reef managers."

Employees With 'High Potential' Need to Know
The Wall Street Journal
...Companies might hesitate to publicly label their high-potential employees because it may alienate those who aren't tapped or pressure the organization to follow up on some promise of career advancement, says Doug Ready, a leadership professor at University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Kids' ER Visits for Head Injury on the Rise — Why That's a Good Thing
Time
..."These injuries were always there. It's not that there are more injuries now. It's just that now people are getting treatment that they weren't getting before," Steven Marshall, interim director of the University of North Carolina's Injury Prevention and Research Center, told USA Today. While he was not involved in the new research, his center studies the effects of traumatic brain injury on later cognitive function.

Scientists spot new clues to HIV-linked dementia
HealthDay News
Researchers have identified two genetically distinct types of HIV in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with HIV-associated dementia. ...The study, which appears in the Oct. 6 issue of the journal PLoS Pathogens, was led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.

State and Local Coverage

For 33 years, marine scholar has kept his eyes on storms (Tar Heel of the Week)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Hurricane Irene left behind more than soaked furniture and buzzing mosquitoes. For Hans Paerl, such large storms also bring new information about the coastal waterways he has studied for decades: how they work, how they can change over time and maybe how to keep them healthy. "It's an amazing event, and it leads to interesting science," says Paerl, who runs a lab at the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for Marine Sciences in Morehead City. "We don't like hurricanes, but when they happen, we go into overdrive."

University to mark fight to overturn Speaker Ban
The Chapel Hill News
UNC officials will unveil a marker on the stone wall between McCorkle Place and Franklin Street on Wednesday to commemorate the 1966 student protests that helped overturn the Speaker Ban Law. The marker recognizes the student leaders who spoke out against the law and organized the protests, especially Student Body President Paul Dickson III, whose brother Robert will be among the speakers.

Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Welcomes Its First Leader
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
A new local organization dedicated to entrepreneurial innovation has just named its first leader. Bob Creeden will serve as the first executive director of the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network. He says he is excited to use his background to help the network achieve its missions. ...The Blackstone Network, which launched earlier this year, is a collaborative effort between UNC, NC State, Duke and NC Central, It's a $3.6 million project sponsored by the Blackstone Charitable Foundation, and Durham’s Council for Entrepreneurial Development also contributed.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4809/68/

Hagan, business leaders tout bill targeting multinational firms
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
...Douglas A. Shackelford, a professor of taxation and the associate dean of MBA@UNC, the online master’s of business administration program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, said he believes the bill “makes a lot of sense, but not for the reasons that they are giving.” “If we bring the money back, I don’t think it’s going to meaningfully impact jobs and U.S. investment because it’s not a lack of cash that’s the reason that companies aren’t hiring people and going into investments,” he said.

Upper middle-class households decline in Forsyth
The Winston-Salem Journal
..."We are in a white-collar recession," said James Johnson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship at UNC Chapel Hill. "In the last three recessions, but especially in this current recession, long-term joblessness has increased more rapidly among those with a bachelor's and higher degrees than among those with no bachelor's degree or less."

New fee unlikely to make bank customers flee
The Charlotte Observer
Despite consumer anger over monthly debit-card fees announced by Bank of America Corp. and other major banks, some analysts and experts predict most people won't move their accounts. "Some people will get angry and leave, but most people, whether it's loyalty or habitual, will stay," said Claudia Kubowicz Malhotra, a marketing professor at UNC Chapel Hill's business school who studies consumer behavior.

Event at UNC Will Address Same Sex Marriage
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
On October 13 at UNC, University of Massachusetts at Amherst economics Professor Lee Badgett will be sharing what she learned while writing her award winning book When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. Sexuality Studies Program coordinator Nancy Gray Schoonmaker says Professor Badgett will address many of the questions the public has regarding gay marriage.

Roots of global economy grow from 15th century (Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Food and foodways are often linked closely with place, culture and memory. What would Indian cuisine be without chili peppers, Italian cuisine without tomatoes and the Swiss without their chocolate? That in each one of these cases the food so closely identified with a particular place and culture was native not to that place or culture, but to the Americas is one of the key takeaways from Charles C. Mann's provocative new book, "1493." (Peter A. Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Global Research Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill.)

Issues and Trends

UNC System tuition hikes on the table for 2012-13
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors began discussions Friday about how much to charge for tuition in the 2012-13 school year and beyond. Although no formal decisions were made, the board and the leaders of the 16 UNC university campuses agreed they would likely have to pass on more of their costs to students.

Dropouts increase as aid falls
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...A cycle of financial woe is beginning to show at UNC campuses, where the system's overall state funding dropped by 15.6 percent this year. Tuition and fees rose $400 on average across the UNC system, while some sources of financial aid are drying up.
Related Link:
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/15966155/article-Students-%E2%80
%9Cstopping-out%E2%80%9D-concerns-UNC-officials-?