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UNC reports H1N1 case

Update: UNC H1N1 resource page.

This from UNC Health Care:

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Today UNC Health Care learned that a staff member with what was later confirmed as a case of H1N1 influenza came in contact with patients and staff at our University Pediatrics at Highgate clinic in Durham this week.

We have contacted everyone who was potentially exposed to let them know about this and to offer our assistance. We are also advising exposed persons in accordance with the current recommendations from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and are making ourselves available to them as needed.

We will provide updates as additional information becomes available.

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Sports

Message from the Chancellor

Holden Thorp says enjoy the game and be careful out there people.

An e-mail message sent today by Chancellor Holden Thorp to UNC students

Message from the Chancellor: Cheering for the Tar Heels

It’s April, and we’re in the Final Four. We have so much to celebrate … the best coach and staff in college basketball, a fantastic team that continues to amaze us, and an athletics department that is a class act and does so much to define Carolina as a great university.

My family and I will be in Detroit cheering our hearts out. I encourage fans here to do the same in the Smith Center. And when you go to Franklin Street to celebrate, have fun.

But don’t forget safety.

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Arts & Music Community

Train lecture

Chad Bryant, UNC associate professor of history, will present “On the Train: Time, Space and the Modern World” on Thursday, March 26 at 7 p.m. as part of the Ackland Art Museum’s ongoing series, Perspectives on Progress. The lecture series offers unique perspectives on the Ackland’s exhibition “At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron and Steel since 1750 – Industrial Imagery from the Collection of John P. Eckblad.” It will be at the Ackland Art Museum. General admission is $5. It’s free for Ackland members.

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Miscellany

UNC plans “mini” medical school

UNC’s popular Mini-Medical School features all the benefit of lectures and discussions hosted by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill without those pesky dissections and labs. The three-part program, designed for non-medical people, includes:

March 3 — Small Wonders: Nanotechnology Medicine
March 10 — Bug Wars: Bacterial Infection Control
March 17 — Personalized Medicine: Treatment Tailored to Your Genome

Classes are from 7-9p.m. at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill. Details and registration information is available at www.med.unc.edu/cme.

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Community

First Eve Marie Carson Scholarship awarded

UNC junior Elinor Benami, from Knoxville, Tenn., was awarded the first Eve Marie Carson Scholarship for her exemplary leadership and dedication to working for the environment. The scholarship will fund a summer experience after her junior year and financial aid for her senior year. The scholarship was established in Eve Carson’s memory to honor ambitious students who have shown strong involvement in a leadership role at UNC. Benami is in the honors program and North Carolina Fellows, a leadership development program and she co-chairs the Student Government Environmental Affairs Committee. For more information about the Eve Marie Carson Scholarship visit the website at www.unc.edu/eve/index.html.

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Community

UNC summer reading announced

UNC’s own journalism professor, Paul Cuadros, will be read this summer by thousands of incoming freshmen. The 2009 Summer Reading Program Book Selection Committee has chosen his book “A Home on the Field” as the summer reading. The book explores class and ethnic conflict through the story of a Latino high school soccer team in Siler City. It offers insight into the complex issue of Latino immigrants coming to North Carolina to seek better lives and steady work and the resistance they encounter. The committee chose Cuadros’s book from 239 other book recommendations.

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Miscellany

Circadian clock and cancer progression linked

This from UNC:

UNC study: Tinkering with the circadian clock can suppress cancer growth

CHAPEL HILL – Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill have shown that disruption of the circadian clock – the internal
time-keeping mechanism that keeps the body running on a 24-hour cycle –
can slow the progression of cancer.

The study disputes some of the most recent research in the field
indicating that alteration of this daily cycle predisposes humans and
mice to cancer. The UNC researchers found that genetically altering one
of four essential “clock” genes actually suppressed cancer growth in a
mouse model commonly used to investigate cancer. The findings could
enable clinicians to reset the internal clock of each cancer cell to
render it more vulnerable to attack with chemotherapeutic drugs.