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

National Coverage

President Obama speaks in North Carolina today
"Marketplace" American Public Media
...David Gura: There are really two North Carolinas. One is what's called the Research Triangle, home to tech companies and universities. And for the most part, it's doing fine. Patrick Conway is an economist at UNC-Chapel Hill. Patrick Conway: It's when you step outside that rather limited central area that you find greater difficulties.
Note: This interview was conducted from the Carolina News Studio.

What Woody Woodpecker Can Teach Us About Football (Blog)
Scientific American
...Researchers at the University of North Carolina — headed by Kevin Guskiewicz, also a member of the NFL’s head, neck and spine committee — are also employing sensor-embedded helmets in the lab to test the various physical forces and effects of impact at work during a typical football tackle, for instance. And the high-tech equipment under consideration by the NFL now includes sensor-equipped mouth guards and earpieces as well.

Research Librarians Consider the Risks and Rewards of Collaboration (Blog)
The Chronicle of Higher Education
...Charles Kurzman, a professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gave the audience some insights into what it’s like to do research in the current environment, where many resources are available via a simple Google search—but many are not. Mr. Kurzman specializes in the Middle East; his most recent book is The Missing Martyrs: Why There Are So Few Muslim Terrorists (Oxford University Press). Many of the primary sources he uses are not digitized yet. “In the world I study, there are no e-books,” he said.

Obama to take in hoops on deck
CNN.com
President Obama, who loves to play and watch basketball, will be taking in a college game in a most unusual venue…the deck of the USS Carl Vinson. A White House official confirms that Mr. Obama plans to travel to San Diego, California on Veterans Day to attend the "Carrier Classic." “He looks forward to a great game between Michigan State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.” The official said in a statement.

Teen drivers most likely to crash in first month of solo driving
The Washington Post
...The new study, which was released to mark the beginning of National Teen Driver Safety Week on Sunday, was conducted by the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center for the AAA Foundation. Researchers looked at crashes involving new drivers in North Carolina from the beginning of 2001 through 2008.

High School Football Player Dies After Game In NY
The Associated Press
...Head injuries in football have been a concern across the country in recent years, with some medical evidence emerging to suggest that the equipment players use may not be enough to protect them from serious, long-term injuries. A handful of high school students suffer fatal on-field injuries every fall, according to the University of North Carolina's National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research.

How Insults Spur Success
The New York Times
...Her husband, Robert Vance, says he got a “devastating” F on his first philosophy paper at Kenyon College. “I certainly wanted to prove to myself I could do A-caliber work” in that field, he recalls. He landed on the philosophy faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, teaching there for 35 years.

Companies tracking college athletes’ Tweets, Facebook posts go after local universities
The Washington Post
...Maryland is part of a growing number of universities trying to get a handle on the free-wheeling world of online speech that’s landed some colleges in hot water (perhaps most notably the University of North Carolina, which is going before the NCAA on Oct. 28 to face allegations involving improper gifts, travel and free tutoring given to football players — the result of an investigation reportedly triggered by Tweets from a former UNC football star).

UNC Finds No Violation By Christian Singing Group
Inside Higher Ed
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found no violation by Psalm 100, a Christian singing group at the university, in the way it decided to exclude a member shortly after he announced he was gay. The university bars discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Related Links:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/u-of-north-carolina-upholds-christian-singing
-group%E2%80%99s-dismissal-of-gay-student/37259
http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/15/1566969/unc-christian-group-can-dump-
member.html#storylink=misearch\

State and Local Coverage

UNC goes outside the 'family' for new AD
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Under the shadow of an NCAA investigation into impermissible benefits and academic misconduct on the football team, the University of North Carolina has turned to an outsider to help calm its shaken athletic department while continuing to strive for on-the-field success. Lawrence "Bubba" Cunningham, who was born in Michigan, raised in Florida and most recently has led Tulsa's 18-sport program, will become UNC's first athletic director without direct Tar Heel ties in 36 years. He vowed to continue to seek success in football.
Related Links:
http://fayobserver.com/articles/2011/10/14/1130174?sac=Sports
http://www2.journalnow.com/sports/2011/oct/14/its-official-cunningham-hired-as-north-carolinas-a-ar-1499963/
http://www.thetimesnews.com/sports/list-48654-new-chapel.html

UNC Researcher Helps New Cancer Network
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
UNC professor Nicholas Shaheen was recently named one of the five leading researchers in a new esophageal cancer network, BETRNet. “BETRNet is the Barret’s Esophagus Translational Research Network. What it’s meant to do is to promote research and understanding about how esophageal cancer occurs and better ways to identify and address it,” says Shaheen.

UNC's arts director set his own path
The Chapel Hill News
When Emil Kang's parents came to the U.S. in 1967, his mother was seven months pregnant with him. They came for the reason that most immigrants did: to give their children a better life. ...That is what Kang wound up pursuing, though, and it led to him where is now: UNC's executive director for the arts.

Music that moves – and empowers
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Since the release of her first album in 1988, Angélique Kidjo has been creating sounds that fuse the music of her native West African country of Benin with James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Miriam Makeba and other influences. ...Kidjo, who will perform today in Memorial Hall at UNC Chapel Hill, stresses the importance of empowerment in both her music and her work with UNICEF and other nonprofit organizations.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4825/66/

Meaning at the end (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
...Teams of pediatric health care providers at the N.C. Children's Hospital and the Duke Children's Hospital are collaborating to provide this needed support and guidance. N.C. Children's Hospital is developing a Pediatric Supportive Care (PSCare) Team, and the Duke Children's Hospitals Pediatric Quality of Life Program began two years ago. (Diane Yorke, Chapel Hill. The writer is coordinator for the Pediatric Supportive Care Team, N.C. Children's Hospital, and clinical assistant professor of nursing, UNC-Chapel Hill.)

A decade of goodwill
The Chapel Hill News
Last Sunday, the Strowd Roses Foundation hosted a ceremony to celebrate its 10th year of supporting nonprofit organizations and community projects in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. ...Those grants have helped make possible the work of a vast range of groups, from large institutions such as the UNC School of Nursing to small ones such as Restoration Carrboro/Chapel Hill, which rehabilitates the homes of widowed seniors.

Farm animal advocate speaking at UNC and Carrboro this week
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Gene Baur thinks people should know about the food they eat. Baur, co-founder and president of Farm Sanctuary, realizes that people don’t always want to hear about the cages and crates and feed lots where the cows, goats, chickens and pigs they eat are kept before they’re slaughtered, but knowledge is necessary to make good decisions, he said.

Issues and Trends

Building Something Different
Inside Higher Ed
...John Ellis Price has a different team. The president of the University of North Texas System and CEO of the campus at Dallas, a 10-year-old campus that gained its independence from the system's flagship in nearby Denton in 2009, has turned to a prominent management consulting firm, Bain & Company, primarily known for working with Fortune 500 companies. ...To be ready, he enlisted the services of Bain, which worked with Cornell University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008 and 2009 to improve administrative efficiency.