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

International Coverage

Paying more to get less: The cost of external hiring
Financial Times (United Kingdom)
...Sreedhari Desai, an assistant professor of organizational behaviour at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Dolly Chugh an assistant professor in the department of management and organizations at NYU Stern School of Business, and Arthur Brief, a professor in the department of management at the University of Utah, questioned 718 married men, some whose wives were at home full-time, some whose wives worked part-time and also those whose wives worked full-time.

National Coverage

The ABC’s of the Health Care Law and Its Future
The New York Times
After the contentious arguments before the Supreme Court last week, the future of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is far from certain. The legislation is enormously complex, with thousands of pages of provisions, but at its center is a controversial requirement that all Americans purchase health insurance. ...We spoke to Jonathan Oberlander, author of “The Political Life of Medicare” and a professor of social medicine and health policy and management at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, about the law and its future.

New Study Links Traditional Marriage to War on Women
The Huffington Post
...In fact, the academic study that helps explain the country's gender gap has nothing specifically to do with Ann Romney, but rather the fact that she doesn't work outside the home. A recent study by Sreedhari Desai, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found that men in traditional marriages with stay-at-home wives had negative attitudes about working women and organizations led by women, and they were more likely to deny opportunities to women.

Are DNA Patents Doomed? (Blog)
Scientific American
...We guard our DNA data in a way that we don’t other test results, such as cholesterol levels. “Genes are uniquely ‘ours.’ They say something about us at some fundamental level, more than a mammogram or a Pap smear or an x-ray,” said James Evans, MD PhD, professor of genetics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, at a symposium on DNA patenting at the International Congress of Human Genetics in Montreal in October 2011.

Could Facebook reveal which of your friends has an STD?
Fox News.com
Can the social network help prevent social diseases? A University of North Carolina researcher thinks online social networks like Facebook have tremendous potential for halting the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). ...“When we looked at the networks, we could connect many of the cases to sexual encounters, and when we asked who they hung out with, who they knew, we could connect 80 percent of the cases,” said Peter Leone, a professor of medicine with the Center for Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina, at an international health conference recently.

State and Local Coverage

Deadly - A Trayvon Martin case here? It could happen (Editorial)
The Fayetteville Observer
...John Rubin, a professor at the N.C. Institute of Justice at UNC-Chapel Hill, told a reporter that, "Deadly force cannot be used in response to a non-deadly threat. The law doesn't allow a person to take a life to prevent a non-life-threatening event - a punch, a push, theft of your wallet."

Duke ranks high in research money
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Duke University had nearly a billion dollars in research expenditures, according to the most recent analysis from the National Science Foundation. Research expenditures reflects actual activity rather than grants awarded.
...UNC Chapel Hill ranked 15th in the survey, with research expenditures of $755 million.
Related Link:
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/2012/04/duke-university-ranks-5th-in-rd.html

Looking at UNC architecture
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The architecture of the UNC Chapel Hill campus is the focus of an upcoming lecture and two new exhibits. Wendy Hillis will give the talk “Lux Libertas in Perpetuity: Historic Preservation at UNC” in the Wilson Special Collections Library at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Hillis is the university’s historic preservation officer.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5176/107/

Kessler gets award
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
The N.C. Association on Higher Education and Disability has given its Pat Bailey Award to Jim Kessler, director of the department of disability services at UNC Chapel Hill. The award was established in 2007 in honor of Pat Bailey, the director of disability services at UNC Greensboro for many years and the group’s founding president. The award recognizes an individual who has worked to further the rights, dignity and access for students with disabilities.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5177/107/

UNC professor gets award
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Efforts to help parents of critically ill infants and children have earned a UNC Chapel Hill nursing professor the 2012 Leadership in Research Award from the Southern Nursing Research Society. Margaret Shandor Miles, professor emerita in the School of Nursing, received the honor for outstanding leadership, contribution or promotion of nursing and health-care research.
UNC Release:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5154/107/

Abusers, enablers (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A recent letter-writer challenged UNC-Chapel Hill’s effort to address the ramifications of the latest Rush Limbaugh matter. He described it as a political squabble. Those in the criminal justice system know better. ...Abuse of women, like drunken driving or child sex predation, is not a political squabble but an issue of personal and social pathology. The university should not enable these abusive forms of behavior. (Douglas Johnston, Raleigh)

Issues and Trends

Why Research Universities Must Change (Column)
Inside Higher Ed
It is my view that most of us engaged in education at our nation’s leading research universities focus our attention upon the wrong issues. These universities are wondrously complex institutions that defy easy analysis or understanding. (Hunter Rawlings is president of the Association of American Universities.)