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

International Coverage

53 years old, 85lbs and ignored by her doctor
The Mail Online
...Cynthia M Bulik, director of the Eating Disorders Program at the University of North Carolina, said: 'One of the things we’re working very hard to do is to make sure this stays on physicians’ radar screens so they can recognize and distinguish between menopause-related changes, real health problems and eating disorders.'

Summer business plan
Times of India
Entrepreneurship has never been so big. In fact, economies across the globe are relying on entrepreneurs who can innovate, create , lead and expand firms into successful and ethical operations . Also, to be successful in global markets, one needs a good understanding of financial models today. With this in mind, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, is introducing the Summer Business Immersion programme, which aims to develop the next generation of business leaders.

National Coverage

Type 1 Diabetes on Rise Among Youth
Wall Street Journal
...The study found a 21% jump in Type 2 diabetes over the period. In one bright spot, however, it found a slowing of growth in the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes among African-American and American Indian youth, the two ethnic groups where the disease first emerged among young people, according to Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, a professor at the University of North Carolina.

The 'Ruble Zone' Collapsed in the 1990s, and It Was Bad
Bloomberg Businessweek
To date, inflation is one big difference between the ruble zone’s crackup and the stresses on the euro zone. Ukraine had an average quarterly inflation rate of about 100 percent from the second quarter of 1992 through the third quarter of 1993, according to Patrick Conway, a professor of economics at the University of North Carolina. In contrast, inflation is low across the 17-nation euro zone. The problem instead is deep recession.

The Eurozone is Not the Ruble Zone
Forbes
...Runaway deficits and hyperinflation followed. Ukraine had an average quarterly inflation rate of about 100 percent from the second quarter of 1992 through the third quarter of 1993, according to Patrick Conway, a professor of economics at the University of North Carolina, in his essay “Currency Proliferation: the Monetary Legacy of the Soviet Union.

Regional Coverage

Wayne Bledsoe: Searching for sound birth control
The Knoxville News Sentinel
The Rev. Al Green once told me that he was proud so many children were conceived to his music. I am pretty sure research would prove that the birthrate jumped significantly nine months after the song "Let's Stay Together" hit the charts. Scientists at the University of North Carolina, though, are doing research to prove sound waves could act as a type of birth control.

State and Local Coverage

University allocates land for Botanical Garden
The Chapel Hill News
UNC has granted more than 100 acres of undeveloped and enviromentally sensitive land for management by the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Chancellor Holden Thorp announced June 4 that 107 acres of the Parker Property, a section of land just south of the current garden, will be administered and managed by the Botanical Garden as part of its Mason Farm Biological Reserve.
UNC Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5361/68/

UNC asks professor to repay $12K for course
The Associated Press
The University of North Carolina wants a professor at the center of an academic fraud probe to repay thousands of dollars for teaching a course inappropriately. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp told trustees Friday that Julius Nyang'oro was asked to repay $12,000 for teaching a 2011 summer course as an independent study rather than a lecture.

UNC football players flocked to suspect class
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
A summer class at UNC-Chapel Hill that lacked any instruction was enrolled exclusively with football players – and it landed on the school calendar just days before the semester started, university records show. The records show that in the summer of 2011, 19 students enrolled in AFAM 280: Blacks in North Carolina, 18 of them players on the football team, the other a former player. They also show that academic advisers assigned to athletes helped the players enroll in the class, which is the subject of a criminal investigation.

UNC-CH board chair: Football class 'troubling in the extreme'
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The chairman of the board of trustees at UNC-Chapel Hill said Sunday that the revelation of a summer class packed last year with football players who received grades without instruction is “troubling in the extreme.” Wade Hargrove, chairman since last summer, said the new information about the class raises questions that still need answering.

Damage control (Letter to the Editor)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
As UNC system president and chairwoman of the UNC Board of Governors, Tom Ross and Hannah Gage are responsible for representing the 17 campuses of the entire UNC system. I was dismayed to read their divisive comments in your June 3 article.

The professor’s pay (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Don’t kick a man when he’s down – it’s good advice. And when a noted UNC-Chapel Hill professor of physics is jailed indefinitely in Argentina following his cocaine-related arrest, he’s down, way down. There’s no desire here to add to the woes of Paul Frampton, who at age 68 spends his days and nights in a room with 79 other prisoners awaiting trial.

Issues and Trends

UNC system wins $28.6M grant
Triangle Business Journal
The University of North Carolina system has received a $28.6-million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The money will be used to prepare students for post-secondary education. Called Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs or GEAR UP, the program targets low-income communities and will help prepare some 22,000 for college.

UNC Board of Governors election not so routine this time
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The election of UNC Board of Governors officers is usually a noncontroversial, consensus-style, nonpartisan event. Not this time, apparently. This week the board will choose officers for the first time since Republicans held a majority of seats on the policy-setting board for the UNC system. And it’s looking like the election will be a contested one, with two candidates vying for both the chairman and vice chairman spots.

Council considers plan for shelter neighbors
The Chapel Hill News
A final step in the construction of a new men’s homeless shelter in Chapel Hill will be up for debate Monday. The Town Council will consider a Good Neighbor Plan between the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service and the neighbors surrounding the site of the IFC’s new 52-bed shelter for homeless men at 1315 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.