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Latino teens happier, healthier if families embrace biculturalism

A new study from UNC shows adolescents who actively embrace their native culture – and whose parents become more involved in U.S. culture – stand a greater chance of avoiding these risks and developing healthier behaviors overall. read more


videoWatch researcher Paul Smokowski discuss findings from the study
  

Bruce Cairns, medical director of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals can speak about the dangers of fireworks. Nationwide, close to 10,000 people are injured by fireworks every year. find more experts

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‘Environmental Heroes’ to air on UNC-TV July 4
Science and Technology
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
A documentary produced by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication science documentary television course will air Saturday (July 4) at 11 p.m. during the “North Carolina Visions” film festival on UNC-TV (North Carolina Public Television).
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Catastrophic sports injury report released
Health and Medicine
Thursday, June 25, 2009
The National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has released its 26th annual all sports report. 
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Fireworks safety: Tips for a happy and healthy Independence Day
Health and Medicine
Thursday, June 25, 2009
It’s hard to resist the allure of fireworks on the Fourth of July. After all, it’s the oldest celebration in the nation. But each year, thousands of careless revelers are injured.

According to a 2007 report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 11 people died and approximately 9,200 were treated in emergency departments for fireworks-related injuries in 2006. About five percent of the injured required admission to the hospital.
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Executives graduate from UNC's global OneMBA program
Business
Friday, June 19, 2009
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School has graduated its sixth class of OneMBA®, the global executive MBA program.
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Local students earn UNC degrees, Dean's List recognition for Spring 2009
Students
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
More than 5,100 students earned bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral or professional degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the May 10 commencement ceremony. Chancellor Holden Thorp presided over the ceremony which featured remarks by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa.
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CAROLINA IN THE NEWS

Sanford Hears Republican Demands to Quit Over Abuse of Office
Bloomberg News

Governor Mark Sanford’s battles with fellow Republicans who run South Carolina’s Legislature leave him with few allies as he tries to stave off calls for his resignation after admitting to an extramarital affair. ...Sanford is barred by a term limit from seeking re-election in 2010. One thing working against his resignation is that Republicans jockeying to succeed him don’t want Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer to take over and then run as an incumbent next year, said Ferrel Guillory, a professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who specializes in political trends in the South.