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Tyler Zeller, center for University of North Carolina's basketball team poses on arrival for the 27th annual Sports Spectacular in Los Angeles on May 20, 2012 in California. The event was established in 1986 in response to the promise of genetic research leading to the understanding of numerous genetic diseases found in children and adults, and since then raising more than $21 million to benefit the life-saving work of the Ceders-Sinai Medical Genetics Institute.

Newsday's coverage

  • Page: Making student loans 'cool'

    talking about the president's appearance Tuesday night on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon ." In front of a live audience at the University of North Carolina , the nation's commander-in-chief took charge in "slow jamming the news," an occasional feature on the   Read more »

  • GOP follows Romney's lead in parrying Democrats

    on Monday endorsed the $6 billion move to forestall the interest rate increase, even before Obama set foot on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill . Boehner quickly slated a vote tapping unspent money from Obama's unpopular health care law   Read more »

  • Obama woos students, pushes low rate student loans

    election-year message to three states crucial to his bid to hold onto the White House.Obama told students at the University of North Carolina that he personally understood the burden of college costs, noting that he and first lady Michelle Obama had "been   Read more »

  • Study: Most gas pedal accidents involve women

    injured.The study was conducted by TransAnalytics LLC of Quakertown, Pa., and the Highway Safety Research Center at the University of North Carolina under contract for NHTSA . Researchers drew on several sources of information: other studies of gas pedal accidents;   Read more »