Check out the recent media coverage of sustainability-related programs and practices at UNC:
I Know What Carolina Did This Summer (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Chapel Hill Herald
I suppose you've noticed by now that Carolina's students are back in town. On campus, move-in started Friday, and classes for all students will begin Tuesday. ...But of everything Carolina did this summer, as individuals and as an institution, I think I'm most proud of a new program launched by our Office of Economic and Business Development. With a grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation, it created the Carolina Economic Recovery Corps. (Holden Thorp is chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.)
http://www.heraldsun.com/pages/full_story/push?article-I+Know+What+Carolina+Did+This+Summer-I+suppose+you-ve+noticed+by+now+that+Carolina-s+students+are+back+in+town%20&id=3243708-I+Know+What+Carolina+Did+This+Summer-I+suppose+you-ve+noticed+by+now+that+Carolina-s+students+are+back+in+town
UNC 2009 research funding totals $716 million – another record high
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s research grants and contracts totaled $716 million in fiscal 2009, the largest amount to date.
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2802/68/
Triangle named No. 4 ‘Nano Metro’
The Triangle Business Journal
The Triangle has been ranked as the No. 4 “Nano Metro” in the United States by the Project on Emerging Nano Technologies. ...The ranking is based largely on the number of companies and universities investigating nanotechnology. North Carolina State University has its Nano@NC initiative in the College of Engineering, Duke University has the Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnlogy, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has The Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, among other nanotech programs.
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/08/17/daily34.html
UNC adds 516 Carolina Covenant Scholars
The Chapel Hill Herald
UNC added 516 more Carolina Covenant Scholars this fall. Officials reported last week that 427 freshman and 89 transfer students joined the program that enables low-income students to graduate from the university debt-free. ..."We think it's more than that," said Shirley Ort, director of the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid. "If it was only the economy we would have seen it in the upper classes."
http://www.heraldsun.com/pages/full_story/push?article-UNC+adds+516+Carolina+Covenant+Scholars%20&id=3243510-UNC+adds+516+Carolina+Covenant+Scholars
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http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2787/68/
Study: Pamlico Sound best area in state for wind energy
The Associated Press
A new study says the best spot for utility-scale wind energy is in the Pamlico Sound off Buxton along North Carolina's Outer banks. The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk reported that feasibility study found most other state waters aren't suitable for wind-energy development. UNC Chapel Hill researchers conducted the study, which was requested last year by Dare Sen. Marc Basnight.
http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/aug/24/study-pamlico-sound-best-area-state-wind-energy/news/
Getting government and nature in line (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
Jordan Lake is much in the news lately due to controversy surrounding a proposed development. At issue is whether land for the so-called "751 development" being planned by Southern Durham Development, Inc. falls within the "critical area" around Jordan Lake, in which such high-density development is prohibited. (Philip Berke is a professor in the Department of City & Regional Planning and Institute for the Environment at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dean Urban is a professor in Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. The writers represent a group of collaborators on this issue at N.C. State University, UNC and Duke.)
http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/columns/story/1657201.html
Creative, cheap village relocation
The Alaska Dispatch
Sixty-five miles southeast of here near the west end of Baird Inlet, an experiment began this summer to see if coastal Alaska villages threatened by erosion can be saved for something less than the hundreds of millions of dollars relocation has previously been estimated to cost. (Anna York, a reporter for "Powering a Nation," a News21 project by students of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UNC-Chapel Hill, was in Newtok and July and filed this report.)
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/news/rural-alaska/1579-creative-cheap-village-relocation
-Thanks to UNC News Services for finding these great stories AND compiling the summaries! You can find more UNC media coverage and stories online at:
http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/category/8/34/103/
