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BYRICHARDCRAVER
Winston-Salem Journal
The Wake Forest Institutefor Regenerative Medicine hasbeen chosen to lead the secondphase of a high profile researchcontract with the U.S. DefenseDepartment.The institute, a part of Wake
Forest Baptist Medical Center,said Friday it will be in chargeof a consortium of more than30 research institutions. It willhandle 14 direct projects, halfof which are new directivesfrom the Armed Forces Insti-tute of RegenerativeMedicine.The contract for what is
known as AFIRM II was signedSept. 15. Like the first phase,the focus is on theuse of regen-erative treatment for lost limbsor severe burns, the signatureinjuries of the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan.Dr. Anthony Atala, director
of the Wake Forest Institute,said overall funding for the $75million, five-year contract hasbeen budgeted even thoughoverall federal funding hasbeen reduced by the sequester.TheWake Forest Institute is re-ceiving about $20 million fromthe contract.By comparison, the first
phase of the Warrior Restora-tion Consortium was fundedin April 2008 at $42.5 millionoverall for five years.Wake For-est collaborated with the Uni-versity of Pittsburgh’s regen-erative medicine institute onone of the twoAFIRM I consor-tiums.Maj. Gen. Joseph Carav-
alho Jr., commanding gen-
eral of the U.S. Army MedicalResearch and Material Com-mand, said in a statement that“ultimately, we’d like to cre-ate new treatments to repairthese severe injuries like they
never happened.”“The science of regenerative
medicine is one of the ways wefulfill our promise to servicemembers who put themselvesin harm’sway, thatwewill work
our hardest and do our verybest to take care of them.”Atala and Dr. Edward Abra-
ham, dean of the Wake Forest
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JaehyunKim, a research fellow in theWake Forest Institute for RegenerativeMedicine, shows howaprinter is used for skin regeneration in burn victims.
U.S. DefenseDepartment,institute sign$20M contract
Foodhelp tobe cutforpoorAmount recipients geteach month will dropby about 7 percent
BYRICHARDCRAVER
Winston-Salem Journal
A funding cut is coming Nov. 1for recipients of federal food andnutrition services benefits, requir-ing individuals and householdsto further stretch their limited re-sources, even as Forsyth County’spoverty level continues to rise.The cut comes because of the
Nov. 1 expiration of a benefit in-crease from the 2009 American Re-covery and Reinvestment Act, theN.C. Department of Health andHuman Services said Friday.The act temporarily increased
the benefits by an average of $36a month for a household with fourmembers, or by $9 per individual.The adjustment reduces benefitsfor households that receive Sim-plified Nutritional Assistance Pro-gram (SNAP) allotments, formerlyknown as food stamps.For Forsyth County recipients,
the average SNAP benefit is $140a month for an individual and$240 for a household with a single
Polling siteconcernsnot onagenda
BYBERTRANDM.GUTIERREZ
Winston-Salem Journal
Accessibility. Flooding. Power.All could be potential issues at
the Legends building— thepollingplace at Appalachian State Univer-sity selected Sept. 4 by the Watau-ga County Board ofElections in a con-tentious vote of 2-1, split along partylines.Jane Hodges, the
elections directorwho has 27 yearsof experience, saidin an email to theboard recently that they shouldconsider dealingwith those poten-tial issues at the board’s nextmeet-ingWednesday— to no avail.“Specifically, we need to discuss
what actions should be taken re-garding parking lot repavement,van accessibility, and the campuspathway to the sight (sic),” Hodg-es said in the email, dated Sept. 23.A copy of the email was obtainedby the Winston-Salem Journal
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Gift to N.C. State totals $50millionMcClatchy Tribune
RALEIGH — N.C. State University has re-ceived the largest single gift in its history— $50 million to provide scholarships, theschool’s administration and the Park Foun-dation announced Friday.
The donation puts theuniversity closer to fundingits most prestigious schol-arships “in perpetuity,” saidChancellor RandyWoodson.“The earnings from the
endowment will ensure, aslong as there’s an N.C. StateUniversity, that there will beaPark Scholars program that
funds scholarships to the best and bright-est students,” he said.Until now, the Park Foundation — cre-
ated by the late Roy Park, a Dobson na-tive andmember of the class of 1931—hassustained the scholarship program withyearly grants. Friday’s announcement putsthe scholarship in the university’s hands.NCSU plans to raise another $100 millionand then fund the scholarships indefinitelywith investment profits from the new pool
of money.The Park programprovides about 45 full-
ride, merit-based scholarships a year.The gift is the high-water mark ofWood-
son’s three-year push to supplement publicmoney and tuition with private backing. Inhis three years on the job, theuniversity hasgrown its endowment almost 70 percent, to$769million.The chancellor shed “a few tears of joy”
in his office when he heard this spring thatthe deal had been finalized, he said.The $50million summatches the largest
single gift ever received by rival UNC Cha-pel Hill, and it should qualify for a spot onThe Chronicle of Higher Education’s list ofthe largest private gifts to higher education,which ranges from $50million to $600mil-lion for single schools in the United States.“You do not hear of publics, very often at
all, getting gifts of that size,” saidRita Kirsh-stein, director of the Delta Costs Project oncollege spending. Schools have been look-ing for private resources, she said, because“state appropriations have plummeted.”“I think schools have gotten more ag-
gressive; publics have gotten more aggres-sive in reaching out to alumni in general.”
Friends andalumni supportNCSU’s state budget appropriation fell
by 11 percent between fiscal 2008 and fiscal2012. It has rebounded back toward pre-re-cession levels in the past year, butWoodsonthinks the school should continue to findprivate supplements.
“This is another example that in a verydifficult economy, when state funding forhigher education is a challenge, that ourfriends and our alumni and supporters areworking hard to provide the additional pri-vate resources that are needed to keep theuniversity strong,”Woodson said.And there’s little chance, he argued, that
state legislators would simply see that newprivatemoney as a replacement for tax dol-lars.“Givenwherewe are relative to our peers
across the county, I think we have a long
Woodson
Park Foundation money to fund scholarships
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“You do not hear of publics,very often at all, getting
gifts of that size.”Rita Kirshstein
director of Delta Costs Project on college spending
