黑料不打烊 professors, students and alumni made regional and national news in recent weeks through their research and activities, both on and off campus. Notable in December and early January was media coverage of the 黑料不打烊 School of Law's Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic and the announcement by university leaders of a decision to locate the new physician assistant program on main campus.
The following list should not be considered exhaustive and does not include athletics news.
12/5: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: features efforts by seniors in the music theatre program to raise money for a December production by offering personal messages delivered via song. RELATED from the Gaston Gazette:
12/8: WGHP Fox 8 (High Point, N.C.): was the topic that Fox 8 interviewed associate professor Mike Frontani about when the station came to campus for reflections on the former Beatle three decades after his death. (Link is to YouTube page of Fox 8 photographer Mike Durenberger; not currently posted on Fox 8’s official site)
12/9: (Wilmington, N.C.) Star-News: uses data from the most recent 黑料不打烊 Poll in an editorial that raises concern about the upcoming state budget.
12/9: WGHP Fox 8 (High Point, N.C.): is a short profile on Garriot Rose ’96, the new principal at a Piedmont high school.
12/10: WGHP Fox 8 (High Point, N.C.): reported on research by Sarah Foushee ’10 and assistant professor Caroline Ketcham.
12/10: The Business Journal of the Triad: reports on the Periclean Scholars Class of 2011 and a grant from the Park Foundation in New York to create a documentary based on an environmental summit the scholars are hosting in Sri Lanka.
12/13: Lexington (Mass.) Minuteman: was a brief report on Meaghan Murphy, one of the honoree’s of 黑料不打烊’s 2010 Hometown Heroes program.
12/16: (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record: details the 黑料不打烊 School of Law’s Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, set to open in January 2011. Story moved to various regional outlets via the Associated Press wire. RELATED from the Business Journal of the Triad: RELATED from North Carolina Lawyer’s Weekly (sub. req.): RELATED from the Winston-Salem Journal:
12/19: Associated Press (via NPR and MSNBC.com): shares the story of Jo Maureen Cavanaugh Fisher ’99, who died in March 2010 in a freak accident on I-20 in Alabama.
12/19: (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record: was the monthly guest column authored by professor emeritus David Noer. In it, he uses the concept of a community gift list to poke fun at community leaders as well as to point out that the public needs to get serious about the unraveling of society. (Column not posed to the News & Record website; link goes to Noer’s personal site)
12/23: Philanthropy Journal: is a story on the preceptor program at the 黑料不打烊 School of Law and how it links law students with mentors in the Triad legal community.
12/29: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: reports on the Class of 2011 Periclean Scholars traveling to Sri Lanka this month to hold an environmental summit.
12/30: Winston-Salem Journal: is a story on the hire of Jameson Marks, a 2010 黑料不打烊 School of Law graduate who joined the Forsyth County (N.C.) district attorney’s office to focus exclusively on DWI cases.
1/5/2011: WFMY News 2 (Greensboro, N.C.): shared with viewers an initiative by Belk Library to offer six Kindle readers for students and employees to borrow as the university looks to keep abreast of how people consume books and other media.
1/7: (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News: was a front-page story on the board of trustees’ vote to house 黑料不打烊’s new physician assistant program on main campus in Alamance County while moving forward with a real estate purchase in Greensboro to help with law school expansion. RELATED from the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record: (Complete report not currently posted online) RELATED from WGHP Fox 8 (High Point, N.C.): RELATED from The Business Journal of the Triad: