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<br /><p class="aaa"><span class="aaa">Here is a sampling of links and notes about Carolina people and programs cited recently in the media:</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong>National Coverage</strong></span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/buck-goldstein/the-entrepreneurial-unive_b_516503.html">The Entrepreneurial University -- Revving Up Innovation on Our Nation&#39;s Campuses (Blog)<br />           The Huffington Post </a></strong><br />           With over 250 billion dollars in endowment and intellectual firepower unrivaled anywhere in the world, this country&#39;s research universities are the crown jewels of our society. ...It is becoming easier to turn innovation into enterprise with support such as that provided by the Desphande Center and Launching the Venture and streamlined processes for licensing such as the groundbreaking Carolina Express Licensing program. Entrepreneurship and strategic thinking are being injected into the mix. At Harvard, President Drew Faust has invited Professor Michael Porter to help her leadership team develop a campus-wide strategy, and at UNC, Chancellor Thorp has formed an Innovation Circle to suggest ways of creating an entrepreneurial culture that encourages world class innovation and execution. (Buck Goldstein is professor of economics at UNC-Chapel Hill.)</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125253228">What The Health Care Bill Could Do For You<br />           &quot;Weekend Edition&quot; National Public Radio</a></strong><br />           For more on the fine print contained in the new health care legislation, host Scott Simon talks with Jonathan Oberlander, health care policy expert at the University of North Carolina. ...Throughout today&#39;s program we&#39;ll be discussing the new health care law and its implications. For more on the print - both bold and fine - in that legislation we turn to Jonathan Oberlander. He teaches health care politics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He joins us from the Carolina News studios there. Welcome to the program, sir. <br />           <strong>Note:</strong> This interview was recorded at the <a href="content/view/666/111/"><strong>Carolina News Studio.</strong></a></span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-skeptic-20100329,0,5741862.story">Liver supplements don&rsquo;t seem to offer protection<br />           The Los Angeles Times</a></strong><br />           At a time when so many people are trying to clean out their systems with detoxifying pads, pills and gadgets, let&#39;s take a moment to honor the liver, the best detox device a body can have. ...Silymarin is an extremely powerful antioxidant, explains Roy L. Hawke, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. And since oxidation is an important factor in many liver problems &mdash; including alcoholic liver disease, fatty liver disease and hepatitis C &mdash; he says it&#39;s reasonable to expect that the compound could protect the liver from harm.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/business/28stra.html">The Wisdom of the Short-Sellers<br />           The New York Times</a></strong><br />           Short sellers profit by finding stocks or other securities that will underperform the market. But how do the short-sellers accomplish this? A new study provides some answers. ...These concerns are largely unfounded, however, according to the new study, titled &ldquo;How Are Shorts Informed? Short Sellers, News and Information Processing.&rdquo; Its authors are Joseph E. Engelberg and Adam V. Reed, both finance professors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Matthew C. Ringgenberg, a Ph.D. student there. The study has been circulating since January as an academic working paper. </span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong>Regional Coverage</strong></span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/03/29/1393689/uncs-1st-black-female-undergrad.html">UNC&#39;s 1st black female undergrad to speak<br />           The Associated Press</a></strong><br />           The first black female undergraduate to attend the University of North Carolina is returning to campus to speak about being an activist and a professional without creating conflicts of interest. Karen Parker of Winston-Salem will speak Monday evening in Chapel Hill as part of the Carolina Association of Black Journalists&#39; lecture series. Parker enrolled at UNC in 1963 and graduated in 1965 with a major in journalism. She&#39;s a copy editor at the Winston-Salem Journal.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20100326/ARTICLES/100329581/1350?Title=Unsafe-to-swing-">Metal bats unsafe to swing?<br />           The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.)</a></strong><br />           ...The Kentfield teen&#39;s story has reignited a long-running debate over the safety of metal bats, which are used with few exceptions on the youth, high school and college levels. Major League Baseball and the professional minor leagues use wooden bats. ...Frederick Mueller, the director of the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury at the University of North Carolina, concluded a three-year study on batted-ball injuries to pitchers in 2007. Mueller did find a higher injury rate in metal-bat NCAA games as compared to wood-bat summer-league games.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/opinion/columnists/article/exploring_the_future_of_the_free_press/54167/">Exploring the future of the free press (Column)<br />           The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.)</a></strong><br />           Former Gov. Gerald L. Baliles, director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, delivered the keynote address at the Virginia Press Association annual meeting on March 20 in Roanoke. Mr. Baliles&rsquo; speech also served as the official release of the Miller Center&rsquo;s interim report of the Project on Media and Governance, a year-long investigation into the future of journalism and its effect on governance. Following is an edited version of the speech: ...In our report, Professor Virginia Gray of the University of North Carolina writes that the number of state capital reporters has decreased by about one third since 2003 and that many of these reporters now also have to write blogs, Twitter and perform other online duties that take away from reporting. </span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong>State and Local Coverage</strong></span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/410570/unc-health-care-chief-hails-law.html?storylink=misearch"><strong>UNC Health Care chief hails law, wants emphasis on prevention<br />           The News &amp; Observer (Raleigh)</strong></a> <br />           William Roper, CEO of UNC Health Care, worked for the Reagan administration, and headed the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid under the George H.W. Bush White House. Acknowledging a departure from many of his former Republican colleagues, Roper lauds the new law. &quot;It&#39;s a momentous time in health care policy and politics,&quot; he says. &quot;What we&#39;ve been hoping for and pushing for is an overhaul of the system so we cover more of the uninsured.&quot;</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/410569/health-law-hits-home-in-unc-hospitals.html?storylink=misearch">Health law hits home in UNC Hospitals&#39; halls<br />           The News &amp; Observer (Raleigh)</a></strong><br />           ...On Wednesday, a day after President Barack Obama signed the health care bill into law, the state&#39;s flagship hospital was its usual bustle of patients and workers - all with their own impressions of the historic legislation. From the valet parking attendant to the CEO of UNC Health Care, from doctors to patients, from rich, poor, black, white, Hispanic - the opinions spanned the nation&#39;s own conflicted views of a measure that expands health coverage to 32 million more Americans by 2014.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/410577/er-doctor-welcomes-reforms-cites.html?storylink=misearch">ER doctor welcomes reforms, cites desperation of uninsured<br />           The News &amp; Observer (Raleigh)</a></strong><br />           There&#39;s very little down time in the emergency department at UNC Hospitals, where more than 68,000 people will be treated this year. Dr. Charles Cairns, who heads the unit, says only about 10 percent will have minor ailments that don&#39;t warrant the immediate, heightened attention of emergency medicine. Still, they go to the emergency department, an expensive portal into the health care pipeline, because they often have no insurance, and therefore have no other entry point. A third of patients at UNC Hospitals have no insurance.<br />           <strong>Related Links:</strong><br />           <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/410580/he-sees-uninsured-up-close.html?storylink=misearch">http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/410580/he-sees-uninsured-up-close.html?storylink=misearch</a><br />           <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/410565/cancer-patient-sees-uncertainty.html?storylink=misearch">http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/410565/cancer-patient-sees-uncertainty.html?storylink=misearch</a><br />           <a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/410643/illness-has-cut-off-insurance.html?storylink=misearch">http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/410643/illness-has-cut-off-insurance.html?storylink=misearch</a></span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/410548/health-rhetoric-aims-at-seniors.html">Health rhetoric aims at seniors<br />           The News &amp; Observer (Raleigh)</a></strong><br />           Universal coverage and freedom from skyrocketing premium increases -- selling points of the new federal health care legislation -- are business as usual for people over 65, who get their health insurance from Medicare. ...The rancorous debate may have led people to think that the law will bring transformative change, but for most older people, that won&#39;t be the case, said Dean Harris, a clinical associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at UNC-Chapel Hill.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/03/29/story11.html?b=1269835200^3089711">Arthritis work could save billions on care<br />           The Triangle Business Journal</a></strong><br />           For the past 20 years, Dr. Joanne Jordan has poked, prodded, pricked and X-rayed folks in Johnston County, all in the name of osteoarthritis. The director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is trying to learn as much as she can about osteoarthritis, a potentially debilitating condition that can leave one person disabled while another person can still hold a full-time job despite both individuals suffering from the same amount of arthritis.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/03/29/story12.html">Reform could save billions for hospitals<br />           The Triangle Business Journal</a></strong><br />           Federal health-care reform is promising relief to North Carolina hospitals on the millions of dollars they lose each year from uncompensated care. But hospital officials aren&rsquo;t counting on that money just yet. ...Hospitals in the Carolinas have seen their uncompensated cost of care mushroom in recent years. For example, Chapel Hill-based UNC Hospitals wrote off $138 million in uncompensated care in fiscal 2009, up nearly $49 million from 2008.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/03/01/daily33.html">TBJ unveils 2010 Health Care Heroes<br />           The Triangle Business Journal</a></strong><br />           ...Profiles of the winners will be published as part of a special section in the March 26 issue of Triangle Business Journal. &ldquo;This year&rsquo;s winners truly exemplify the spirit of the Health Care Heroes Awards,&rdquo; says Charlene Grunwaldt, publisher of Triangle Business Journal. &ldquo;By serving the sick, running major health-care operations and building lasting institutions, these winners go above and beyond the call of duty to ensure the Triangle offers cutting-edge services. We thank each of our 28 winners for their years of hard work.&rdquo; (Winners included Sam Weir, medical director for UNC Family Medicine Center, Anthony Viera, assistant professor of family medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Otto Zhou, professor of physics at UNC-Chapel Hill, <br />           <strong>Winner Profiles:</strong><br />           <a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/03/29/focus25.html">http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/03/29/focus25.html</a><br />           <a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/03/29/focus27.html">http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/03/29/focus27.html</a><br />           <a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/03/29/focus16.html">http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/03/29/focus16.html</a></span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/meet-emily-kass/view">Meet Emily Kass<br />           &quot;The State of Things&quot; WUNC-FM</a></strong><br />           Emily Kass grew up with an artist mother who instilled in her a love of museums. Once she was old enough to explore her own creative side, Kass realized she was no artist herself. So she has made connecting people with art her life&rsquo;s work instead. She has served as director of art museums across the country. Today, she is leading the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill&rsquo;s Ackland Art Museum into a new era. Host Frank Stasio talks with Emily Kass about a career spent spreading the gospel of fine art.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/29/411504/science-briefs.html">NCSU process may lead to safer water<br />           The News &amp; Observer (Raleigh)</a></strong><br />           A technique called atomic layer deposition incorporates &quot;biological functionality&quot; into complex nanomaterials, which could lead to a new generation of medical and environmental health applications, N.C. State University scientists and others report. ...&quot;This would be very helpful in the developing world, or in disaster situations - like Haiti - where people do not have access to safe water,&quot; said Dr. Roger Narayan, a professor in the joint biomedical engineering department of N.C. State&#39;s College of Engineering and UNC-Chapel Hill.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/03/29/daily4.html">Startups get boost at Carolina Challenge<br />           The Triangle Business Journal</a></strong><br />           Eight startups or proposed ventures won more than $50,000 during the sixth annual Carolina Challenge entrepreneurial business-plan competition on Saturday. More than 120 teams participated in the challenge, which is sponsored by the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative, part of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.reflector.com/state-news/self-reporting-nc-elections-board-helps-perdue-28576">Self-reporting to NC elections board helps Perdue<br />           The Associated Press</a></strong><br />           Gov. Beverly Perdue has learned from a string of other Democrats that getting out in front of a campaign finance issue often avoids something more uncomfortable -- getting out in front of television cameras to testify under oath. ...The board has been kinder to candidates who self-report because it understands campaign finance rules are complicated and mistakes can be made, said Michael Crowell, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Government who used to represent candidates before the elections board.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/29/411798/low-bid-law-costly-for-local-vendors.html">Low-bid law costly for local vendors<br />           The News &amp; Observer (Raleigh)</a></strong><br />           ...Raleigh&#39;s jersey order highlights a bigger conundrum for North Carolina municipalities trying to balance their desire to offer work to struggling local companies with the requirements of state law designed to make sure the public doesn&#39;t get gouged. The sour economy, with a record 11.2 percent of North Carolinians out of work, has local purchasing departments wondering whether they can give business to in-town employers when they aren&#39;t the lowest bidders, said Frayda Bluestein, an associate dean for the UNC-Chapel Hill&#39;s School of Government and author of a book on state purchasing rules.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2010/03/27/986442">Open Access: Charges vary for copies of public records<br />           The Fayetteville Observer </a></strong><br />           The Fayetteville Observer&#39;s recent Sunshine Week audit revealed some inconsistency in what local governments charge for copies of public records. ...The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill&#39;s School of Government and the North Carolina Office of Archives &amp; History provide guidance on the proper handling and preservation of public records, she said.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://blogs.newsobserver.com/campusnotes/a-blog-spat-over-journalism-education">A blog spat over journalism education (Blog)<br />           The News &amp; Observer (Raleigh)</a></strong><br />           ...So a writer named Chris Lynch doesn&#39;t think much of journalism schools. A former business reporter, Lynch blogged recently about his expectation that schools of journalism will eventually fizzle out and shut down. They don&#39;t teach anything forward-thinking, apparently. ...All of this got Jean Folkerts worked up a little. Folkerts is the dean of UNC-Chapel Hill&#39;s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She countered Lynch&#39;s blog with an entry of her own on the matter.</span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20100328/SERVICES03/3281083?Title=Residents-say-program-too-harsh">Residents say program too harsh<br />           The Times-News (Henderson)</a></strong><br />           A recent study found that most people deported through the 287(g) program were arrested for driving offenses, and some local residents are criticizing the effort as being too harsh. ...A new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who studied arrest data in five North Carolina counties but not Henderson, said the program is intended to prioritize policing serious and violent crimes. The study said it has not done so, and researchers asked whether the money might be better spent on other crime-fighting efforts.<br />           <strong>UNC Release:</strong><br />           <a href="content/view/3458/70/">http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3458/70/ </a></span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://wchl1360.com/detailswide.html?id=14001">UNC Starts New Latino Collaborative<br />           WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)</a></strong><br />           The UNC-Chapel Hill campus will explore how to become more inclusive to Latina/Latino communities and heritage through a new collaborative. Graduate assistant John Ribo says the mission of the initiative is to increase interaction with the Latina/Latino community.<br />           <strong>UNC Release:</strong><br />           <a href="content/view/3478/73/">http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/3478/73/ </a></span></p>         <p class="aaa"><span class="aaa"><strong><a href="http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/03/28/408346/carolina-chocolate-drops-spark.html?storylink=misearch">Carolina Chocolate Drops spark buzz<br />           The News &amp; Observer (Raleigh)</a></strong><br />           ...But the best thing the Chocolate Drops have going for them is freshness, an ability to make old music sound and feel relevant. While they&#39;re not the only current musicians attempting to bring old-time music to life, they might have the most to offer. &quot;No one else carries on with as much vision and breadth as the Chocolate Drops,&quot; said Glenn Hinson, a UNC-Chapel Hill associate professor of folklore. &quot;They&#39;re rethinking the entire genre, what this music used to mean and what it still can mean. There&#39;s a missionary zeal to what they&#39;re doing, but they don&#39;t see themselves as revivalists.</span></p>

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