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Senior to work as
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Stories will focus
on University
BY LAUREN HARVEY
STAFF WRITER
UNC journalism students land
internships at publications across
the state and the nation, but senior
Tracy Boyer just got the job of
which most only dream.
She will serve this year as a col
lege correspondent for CNN.com,
producing weekly multimedia
pieces.
It started
when Boyer
received an e
mail from one
of her professors
about applying
for the position
an opportu
nity available to
students across
the nation.
Boyer who
was one of sev
eral students to
film a documen-
Senior Tracy
Boyer will
work for CNN
as a college
correspondent.
tary in Mexico, which was shown
at President Clinton’s annual sum
mit last weekend followed her
professor’s advice and said she has
thought about being a correspon
dent every day.
“I really didn’t think I’d get it.
At first, they said they were going
to choose 15 to 20 students, but in
the end they only chose eight,” she
Medical student studies
obesity impact on heart
Received funds
from Pfizer ,
BY JENNA RAMAN
STAFF WRITER
One UNC student has found
that listening to your heart is as
much about using a stethoscope as
it is about pursuing dreams.
Second-year UNC medical stu
dent Kim Gardner received the
Satcher Fellowship to research the
effects of obesity on the left ven
tricle of the heart.
“Cardiovascular disease is one
of the lead
ing causes of
death for black
women, and I
just felt it was an
important cause
to observe,”
Gardner said.
Gardner con
ducted research
in her home state
at Kings County
Hospital Center
in Brooklyn,
NY.
Medical student
Kim Gardner
conducted her
research in
Kings County.
She said there was a pre-exist
ing infrastructure at the center for
work on cardiovascular disease
that allowed her to complete her
research.
The fellowship, which is spon-
Citizen-Soldier aims to grow
Program supports
military families
BYASHLEE SADLER
STAFF WRITER
What started as a UNC program
to help families of deployed mili
tary personnel in five N.C. counties
has grown into a statewide —and
possibly national effort.
The Citizen-Soldier Support
Program is designed to work with
the Army and Air Force National
Guard and communities to aid
families who are coping with a
member called away for active
duty.
The program, housed at the
Odum Institute, first operated in
Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro,
Rocky Mount and Wilmington.
Now it operates in every N.C.
county.
The program’s in-state success
led officials to ask the U.S. Congress
for an additional $5 million to cre
ate a national technical assistance
training center to help other states
set up similar programs, said
Allison Rosenberg, associate vice
chancellor for research and co
founder of the program.
Congress would allot the money
in a defense appropriations bill. A
report will be published this week
indicating whether the program
will be granted the money.
“I’m very optimistic that we will
have a very healthy appropriation,”
‘Tm excited about representing my school
in any way I can. I can portray it any
way I think will be good for the school.”
TRACY BOYER, senior journalism student
said.
“I’m excited about representing
my school in any way I can. I can
portray it any way I think will be
good for the school.”
Asa correspondent, Boyer will
be responsible for one story a
week.
She said she will be able to cover
anything she wants, as long as she
can find an angle unique to the
University. She’ll have to e-mail
a list of story ideas to CNN.com,
from which her supervisors will
assign one to cover.
Boyer said she wants students
to approach her and tell her what
is going on within their respective
campus groups. She said she is
willing to cover any organization
that has a cause worth sharing with
the public.
She will work on campus and get
paid as though she were freelanc
ing for CNN.com. More important
than the pay, Boyer said she knows
this is a great opportunity for her to
network and gain experience.
“I’d really like to move to
Washington, D.C., and do multi
media work on the Web sites of
either the Washington Post or USA
Today,” Boyer said, regarding her
“Cardiovascular disease is one of the
leading causes of death for black women,
and I justfelt it was an important cause.”
KIM GARDNER, unc medical student
sored for the first time by Pfizer,
is a collaborative effort with
the Student National Medical
Association. The organizations
partnered for former Surgeon
General David Satcher’s “Healthy
People 2010” initiative.
“In terms of building aware
ness, especially for obesity, we are
in line with the way medicine is
moving to health care —and it’s
been very beneficial,” said Steven
Muhammad, director of programs
at SNMA, about the Pfizer part
nership.
Gardner is one of five recipi
ents receiving $5,000 to study the
effects of obesity or other diseases
on minorities.
The fellowship was granted to
SNMA students based on their
research topics, academic achieve
ments and commitment to com
munity service, among other fac
tors.
The students must present
their findings at the association’s
42nd annual Medical Education
Conference this April in San
Francisco.
“I have a wife and daughter. They
would definitely benefitfrom some kind
of program designed to ease the burden.”
JON HART, UNC ARMY ROTC SUPPLY technician
Rosenberg said.
Dennis Orthner, a UNC pro
fessor and co-founder of the pro
gram, said the statewide effort is
necessary because of the 25,000
Guard and Reserve families living
in North Carolina.
“You can go as far as Mitchell
County or Cherokee County, and
there are National Guard and
Reserve soldiers being deployed,”
he said. “And yet the people in
those communities don’t know
how they can help them while
they’re gone.”
To offer family support, the
program helps local services and
agencies understand the needs of
their communities so they can help
accordingly, Orthner said.
“What we do at UNC is get the
local libraries and local parks and
recreation programs to reach out
and provide low-cost, stress reliev
ing activities for families,” he said.
Orthner also said the program
strives to prepare medical facili
ties to deal with needs specific to
military families.
“We’re also working with the
medical school both at UNC and
Duke to help them get better train
ing to deal with health and mental
plans after graduation.
Boyer said she thinks that
internships are an important way
to gain experience in any field of
study.
She said she spent this past
summer working for The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution. She also
worked at Cuberis —a web design
company located in Durham last
spring.
Boyer said she also gained
real-world journalism experience
through groups on campus.
She is the UNC chapter president
of the Society of News Design, an
international organization focused
on visual design and storytelling.
Later this fall she’ll travel to
Peru with a group of journalism
students who are going to create a
documentary.
Coupled with her other activi
ties, Boyer said she’s hopeful that
CNN provides her with what she
needs to enter the job market.
“It’s an awesome experience just
to have on my resume and to get to
work with professionals using my
own equipment and story ideas.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
“The students have just recent
ly finished their research and
many of them found very inter
esting projects,” Muhammad
said.
Gardner attended Columbia
University to attain her bache
lor’s degree. She said she chose to
study medicine at UNC because
of the culturally diverse atmo
sphere.
“It was my favorite place that
I visited,” she said. “It had a good
balance, which is very important
to me.”
Gardner also said she likes how
the faculty focuses on more than
just medicine, incorporating the
social determinants of health with
the physical determinants.
Though Gardner said she is
not set on her plans after com
pleting medical school, she said
she is interested in oncology and
infectious diseases and would
like to further investigate those
areas.
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at udesk@unc.edu.
issues that families might experi
ence,” he said.
Jon Hart, a supply technician
for UNC’s Army ROTC program
and a member of the Guard, said
the support system is necessary.
“I have a wife and daughter,” he
said. “They would definitely ben
efit from some kind of program
designed to ease the burden.”
Lt. Col. Andy Anderson, a pro
fessor of military science, said the
program fills a need for stronger
support for soldiers who are not in
the active army.
“It’s relatively new that our
National Guard and reserve forc
es are deployed on a regular basis,”
he said. “A program like this would
augment what’s already there and
be very helpiul and beneficial.”
Orthner said the program aims
to increase the aid the National
Guard already provides.
“We know that all the military
services do a great job in support
ing the families,” he said. “We’re
trying to complement what they
do and provide the resources to
help them to do their job better.”
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
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