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Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media: International Coverage 'Brush' offers clues to fighting lung disease
BBC
A team from the University of North Carolina found that the brush-like layer pushes out sticky mucus and the foreign bodies it contains. Writing in Science, it says that could help identify what goes wrong in cystic fibrosis, asthma and similar diseases.
UNC Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5504/74/
National Coverage Kids Ditching Full-Sugar Soda For Diet Drinks, Just Like Mom And Dad
National Public Radio
..."This is the $64,000 question," researcher Barry Popkin tells The Salt. Popkin is the author of The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies,and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race, and a Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Documents Show Details on Romney Family Trusts
The New York Times
...In an article that appeared in the journal Tax Notes in 2009, Gregg D. Polsky, a tax law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, called the tax strategy “extremely aggressive” and said it was “subject to serious challenge by the I.R.S.”
After Todd Akin comments: Why women – and men – still need feminism (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Christian Science Monitor
This Sunday, Aug. 26, Women’s Equality Day, marks the date in 1920 when women in the United States won the right to vote after nearly a century of political organizing. It also commemorates the 1970 March for Women’s Rights, when feminists emphatically declared it necessary to continue working toward women’s full equality in the workplace, the home, and American culture as a whole. (Rachel F. Seidman is a US women’s historian and visiting lecturer in Women’s Studies at Duke University, where she co-founded and co-directed The Moxie Project: Women and Leadership for Social Change. She is associate director of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.)
Human Airways' 'Brush' Mechanism Gives Clues to Lung Diseases
HealthDay News
A new study that helps explain how human airways rid the lungs of mucus could give insights into asthma, cystic fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers say. ... In this study, published in the Aug. 24 issue of the journal Science, Rubinstein and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggest a "gel-on-brush" form of mucus clearance, in which mucus moves atop a brush-like layer rather than a watery layer.
UNC Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5504/74/ California Cracks Down on Colleges' Social Media Monitoring
Inside Higher Ed
Colleges in the Golden State would be prohibited from requesting access to students’ social media accounts under legislation passed Tuesday by the California Senate. ... Colleges including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Louisville have come under criticism recently for monitoring athletes’ social media activities (with the students’ knowledge) by demanding access to their accounts, requiring them to “friend” athletics department employees on Facebook, and using software to monitor who publishes words such as “drunk driving” and “drugs.”
State and Local Coverage UNC provost to step down
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
University of North Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp announced Thursday that Provost Bruce Carney will step down in June, ending a three-year run as the university’s chief academic officer. Thorp shared the news in an email message to students, faculty and staff, saying that Carney would return to his “first love,” which is teaching and research.
Related Links: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/08/23/2287572/unc-provost-will-return-to-teaching.html
http://chapelboro.com/Report-UNC-Provost-Bruce-Carney-To-Step-Down/14062829 Restoring confidence at UNC (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Burlington Times-News
When we learned about possible irregularities in some African and Afro-American Studies department courses at UNC-Chapel Hill, we investigated. We asked hard questions, and we found answers that are painful for a university built on a commitment to academic excellence. (Holden Thorp is chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill.)
UNC-Chapel Hill seeks to restore confidence in mission (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Lexington Dispatch
When we learned about possible irregularities in some African and Afro-American Studies department courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, we investigated. We asked hard questions, and we found answers that are painful for a university built on a commitment to academic excellence. (Holden Thorp is chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill.)
Restoring confidence in the university (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Richmond County Daily Journal
When we learned about possible irregularities in some African and Afro-American Studies department courses at UNC-Chapel Hill, we investigated. We asked hard questions, and we found answers that are painful for a university built on a commitment to academic excellence. (Holden Thorp is chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill.)
Bain's questionable Salvadoran connection (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Recent revelations about Mitt Romney’s highly profitable company, Bain Capital, help connect the dots between offshore tax shelters and shady investors, and the role that ill-gotten gains play in today’s casino-like finance capital. (Sandy Smith-Nonini is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Curriculum in Global Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill.)
Progress at UNC but ... (Editorial)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
To give credit where it’s due, Chancellor Holden Thorp of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has made some positive if belated changes in the academic support structure that surrounds the university’s athletes. It’s true, of course, that these changes came after (and during) multiple investigations going back to a football scandal and subsequent punishments from the NCAA, and after evidence of academic fraud related to the apparent connections between athletes, their counselors and the Department of African and Afro-American Studies came to light.
UNC AD expects investigation will find more academic improprieties
Triangle Business Journal
UNC-Chapel Hill Athletics Director Bubba Cunningham says that he expects a new investigation into academic improprieties will turn up more evidence of irregularities prior to 2007.
UNC-Chapel Hill starts bicycle loan program
The Associated Press
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill now can borrow bicycles, thanks to a program that's the brainchild of two rising juniors. The Herald-Sun of Durham reported that the bike-sharing program called Tar Heel Bikes will start Thursday, when 30 bikes will be available for free for up to 24 hours. Students will use their identification cards to borrow the bikes.
Related Link: http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/19850154/article-Program-to-offer-UNC-students-bikes-when-they-need-them? 17 sea turtles released on coast
The Associated Press
Seventeen young sea turtles have been released in the waters of the Atlantic off the North Carolina coast with the help of the Coast Guard. ... The other 11 turtles were had spent some time at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill where scientists were studying the swimming patterns of turtles in relation to magnetic fields.
RCC yearbooks available online through NC Digital Heritage Center
The Richmond County Daily Journal
There’s a new digitizing project that is bringing the past back to life for some Richmond Community College graduates. RCC’s yearbooks from 1974 to 1986 have recently been made digital and are now available at www.DigitalNC.org as part of a project of the N.C. Digital Heritage Center, which is housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
UNC Release: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/5466/107/ Vandals steal cow's Carolina blue bowtie
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Life out to pasture’s been tough for Alexander Moo-lian Bow-vine. The dapperly dressed cow is missing his oversize, Carolina blue bowtie after vandals struck late Tuesday or early Wednesday, said Danielle Bates, N.C. Children’s Hospital spokeswoman. The handcrafted bowtie was stripped from the cow’s neck within 24 hours of it being placed outside the UNC Visitors’ Center on East Franklin Street, she said.
Related Links: http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/11461137/
http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/19909624/article-Vandals-strike-at-CowParade-painting Breaking brain’s barrier a tough challenge for scientists
Triangle Business Journal
One of the biggest foes in finding a cure for Alzheimer’s – a disease that attacks the brain – is the brain itself. Daniel Kaufer, who is conducting studies on the brain at UNC-Chapel Hill as part of his research into finding a treatment for Alzheimer’s, says any medicine to treat Alzheimer’s must cross what is called the “blood brain barrier.”
Canes hope to strike gold with retooled squad
Triangle Business Journal
Carolina Hurricanes majority owner Peter Karmanos will reach a little deeper into his bank account this fall when he writes checks to the players. ... “That’s a big ‘if,’ of course, but economically it can make a lot of sense,” says William Putsis, a professor of marketing, economics and business strategy at UNC - Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Davis' cellphone issues receive clarification
The Associated Press
Thursday's AP story about a judge's order releasing some of the cellphone records of Butch Davis inaccurately summarized the University of North Carolina's role. North Carolina never took a position on whether the records of business-related calls made on Davis' personal phone should be made public. Also, Davis and his attorney, not North Carolina officials, will redact personal information from the records before they are released.
Phone bill ruling confirms public's right to know (Editorial)
Hickory Daily Record
A ruling by Superior Court Judge Howard E. Manning Jr. regarding a former UNC-Chapel Hill football coach’s cell phone bills applies to all public officials and employees. In response to a public records challenge, Manning ruled that the telephone bills of former UNC coach Butch Davis are in the public domain and as such must be disclosed.
Issues and Trends The Class of 2016 checks in
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
More than 13,000 first-year students are settling into their dorms this fall at eight Triangle colleges and universities. Freshmen at four Raleigh campuses share their first-week impressions.
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