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(02/20/11 9:15pm)
Mired by complaints and critics, the UCommons referendum to renovate the bottom floor of the Student Union was voted down Feb. 8 with about 54 percent of the 7,123 votes.
(02/10/11 9:23pm)
For the second consecutive year, the University admitted too many out-of-state students.
(02/09/11 10:48pm)
Though they’ve only worked together for three weeks while campaigning, the Campus Y’s new co-presidents say they complement each other perfectly.
(02/07/11 9:29pm)
After several months of searching for UNC’s next vice chancellor for research, three finalists have emerged: a familiar face, a former UNC department chairman and a wild card.
(01/30/11 11:15pm)
Patients afflicted with multiple sclerosis may soon have the treatment they’ve been waiting for.
(11/29/10 3:10am)
The Greek community has a new power couple.
(10/27/10 2:47am)
Standing outside Lenoir Hall, a dozen Zeta Tau Alpha sorority members turned the Pit pink on Tuesday.
(10/04/10 2:26am)
Despite preliminary estimates that pointed to a trend of students keeping their pre-existing plans, University officials said a surprising number of students remained in the mandated University health insurance policy last week.
(09/13/10 3:01am)
Nine years later, the University remembered the 81 minutes that took the lives of nearly 3,000.
(09/08/10 2:44am)
The undergraduate field of biomedical research has grown by 215 percent in the past decade.
(09/01/10 2:58am)
Stories dominate the life of folklore professor William Ferris.
(08/30/10 1:19am)
To become a star Friday night, students had to complete four tasks: relax, concentrate, imagine and laugh.
(07/14/10 6:41pm)
Not many people celebrate their 90th birthday on a college campus.
(07/14/10 12:22am)
Tar Heels have always been ones to celebrate success.
(07/08/10 4:52pm)
After 22 years at the helm of UNC’s students, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Melissa Exum will be leaving the University.
(07/07/10 11:02pm)
The UNC Environmental Finance Center has become part of a new federal stimulus project focused on promoting the use of clean energy.
(07/01/10 3:51am)
Fall rush could become a thing of the past.
(06/24/10 5:00am)
After six years of support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI) will begin its first self-funded term — and it might lose some programs.
(06/17/10 5:28am)
The foundation that brought Eve Marie Carson to UNC now has plans to help carry on her legacy.
The Chapel Hill-based Morehead-Cain Foundation has endowed a merit scholarship with $400,000 to honor the former student body president, who was killed in March 2008.
The Eve Marie Carson Carolina Way Scholarship will accept one student every four years. It will cover the full cost of tuition, fees, room and board. Its first recipient is expected as early as the 2011-12 school year.
“Eve Carson embodied everything that phrase (Carolina Way) represents,” said Megan Mazzocchi, associate director of the Morehead-Cain Foundation.
“In simple terms, the Carolina Way is ‘excellence with a heart.’ That is what Eve was all about.”
Carson was a Morehead-Cain Scholar from Athens, Ga. She studied abroad in Cuba and spent her college summers in Wyoming, Ecuador and Egypt on trips funded through Morehead-Cain summer enrichment programs.
The scholarship will give preference to out-of-state applicants.
It will also provide the recipient with special programming, including research grants, summer enrichment opportunities and study abroad.
This is the second UNC scholarship to honor Carson. The first, the Eve Marie Carson Memorial Junior-Year Merit Scholarship, funds a summer experience for students after their junior year and financial aid for their senior year.
Current UNC students believe that the scholarship is an appropriate way to honor Carson’s memory.
“It’s something that a lot of people care a lot about,” junior Paige Smith said. “And I think it’s great to incorporate the issue with helping students.”
Some students see it as a good way to promote education.
“I think that’s great,” junior Melissa Auton said. “The more people that can have the ability to attend UNC, the better.”
Those involved with the foundation hope that eventually the Carolina Way scholarship will be able to accept more scholars into the program.
“As the Eve Marie Carson Carolina Way Scholarship Endowment Fund grows, the number of scholars will also be able to grow,” Mazzocchi said.
“The fund is set up so that others can make donations if they would like to help us honor Eve by bringing some of the nation’s best students to the Carolina campus.”
The Carolina Way Scholarship will center its selection basis on having a well-rounded individual. It will select its recipient based on similar ideals as the Morehead-Cain Scholarship does.
“Recipients will be chosen for academic excellence, observable optimism and enthusiasm, and a proclivity to connect and engage diverse people,” Scott Ragland, UNC director of development communications, stated in an e-mail.
Mazzocchi hopes to use the scholarship as a vehicle to share Carson’s character and the “Carolina Way” with incoming and future students.
“There will never be another Eve Carson,” Mazzocchi said. “However, with the Eve Marie Carson Carolina Way Scholarship, we are hoping the University will be able to attract students who share Eve’s remarkable intelligence, enthusiasm and optimism.”
Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
(06/10/10 6:22am)
That Krispy Kreme doughnut could cost you a little more.A recent study released by UNC researchers at the Gillings School of Global Public Health found a correlation between the price of fast food and the amount of consumption by the public.The study, which consisted of 20 years of research and over 5,000 participants, showed that the more expensive fast food and soda become, the less they are purchased and consumed.“Our findings provide empirical evidence that price policies, including taxes, might be effective in efforts to reduce weight and related cardiovascular diseases,” said Dr. Penny Gordon-Larsen, a UNC associate professor of nutrition and one of the researchers who worked on the study.The study also found that those same price policies correlate with lowering the risk of diabetes in adults. The study found that diabetic participants concluded the study with lower scores in homeostasis model assessment-estimated insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) as an effect of the higher prices on unhealthy foods.Lower HOMA-IR scores mean that diabetic participants’ resistance to insulin was lower, preventing them from becoming immune to insulin’s effects.According to the research, a $1 increase in soda prices was associated with lower daily intake and lower weight in consumers. Similar trends were found with regard to the price of pizza.A $1 increase in soda and pizza resulted in greater changes in the total daily energy intake by consumers, as well as lower body weight and lower HOMA-IR scores for diabetics.The idea of taxing unhealthy items has also extended to non-food products. In some states, a tax on cigarettes has been placed.“In the case of cigarette smoking, taxation was one strategy to help reduce smoking,” said Gordon-Larsen.For the consumer, this means that a food tax could be placed on items that qualify as “unhealthy” as a method to lessen the amount of daily intake, and therefore lessen the risk of weight-related problems.“In a number of European countries, taxes are used to discourage consumption of less healthy foods and encourage healthy diets,” Gordon-Larsen said.North Carolina legislators also agree with the approach of taxing soft drinks and sweets and have already implemented a tax on these items.“It’s a great approach. We’ve already put a tax on soft drinks and sweets, and we’ve seen some change because of it,” said Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird, D-Orange.However, the concerns of unhappy constituents has hindered the decision making process of legislators.“I think it’s a great idea, but it would have a tremendous outbreak in riots,” Kinnaird said. “It’s a matter of where is the line drawn for controlling, or trying to control, what people eat.”Kinnaird said that even though public opinion would be negative, the motives behind this action are positive.“It’s a great approach, but it would be extremely difficult to get passed,” Kinnaird said. “I think we would see huge problems with the public, but the intentions are good.”Contact the University Editor at udesk@unc.edu.
