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UNC faculty and students are collaborating with the Kenan Institute Asia to help with tsunami recovery. Projects involve organizing and training entrepreneurs in sustainable business and agriculture, developing ecotourism, and investigating public health problems.
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Small companies in North Carolina are finding niche markets where know-how and flexibility mean more than large-scale production. UNC experts advise local companies to build on strengths, develop a network of interdependent businesses, and invest in university-based research that leads to new technologies.
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In 1995, the Stonecutter Mill, located in Spindale in Rutherford County, was the center of life for the town. The mill ran three shifts, and times were good. In June 1999, the plant began shutting down for good. Caudle examines forces affecting the textile industry in North Carolina, including lower priced foreign goods and rising labor costs.
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Researchers at the School of Public Health are examining how people and their communities make decisions that encourage or discourage physical activity. They found that levels of physical activity are related to new urban ideals, safety, transportation services, and equity.
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Coral reefs are threatened by global warming and overfishing in the Caribbean. John Bruno, assistant professor of marine sciences, found that nutrients from chemical fertilizers accelerate coral disease.
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Conservationists believe Maasai people are threatening wildlife, but anthropologist Paul Leslie points out that the Maasai are a part of nature too. Now that the Maasai are forbidden to live in the Serengeti National Park, Leslie is studying the consequences of change for Maasai families and their health.
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Richard Mailman is a professor of psychiatry, pharmacology, and medicinal chemistry. His research has focused on dopamine receptors and their potential as treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Mailman’s lab is currently studying drug tolerance of dopamine receptors.
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Bruce Winterhalder, an anthropologist and behavioral ecologist, researches motives of hunter-gatherers sharing food. One explanation he found is avoiding risk. Winterhalder also uses mathematical models to learn how foragers make decisions about which prey or plants to harvest.
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Kevin Guskiewicz is research director of UNC’s new Center for the Study of Retired Athletes. He investigates how repeated concussions are associated with the early onset of diseases and neurological disorders. In his upcoming study, Guskiewicz will send a survey to retired professional players to identify the most pressing health problems of retired players and to help set priorities for research.
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Brian Billman, assistant professor of anthropology, stumbled upon a twelfth century Anasazi crime scene in the Mesa Verde floodplain of southwest Colorado. Billman and a team of archaeologists discovered human bones of an entire community killed by cannibals. They suspect the community was raided over territorial conflict.
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UNC is leading research in cell-signaling, the way a cell interprets information from its environment and genetic code. Scientists believe that untangling questions about cell signaling will be the next, necessary step toward treatments for cancer and many other diseases.
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Marine scientist Chris Martens went to Brazil to track the effects of land use on atmospheric gas exchange. He is interested in Amazonian rain forest respiration because it may protect us from global warming and influence oceanic processes.
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After Hurricane Fran ravaged the coast in 1996, the UNC Center for Urban and Regional Studies studied ways to minimize coastal storm destruction. Among the 1997 study recommendations were purchase of high hazard properties by state or local governments for use as recreation areas or wildlife refuges and limiting governmental subsidies for construction in vulnerable areas.
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UNC chemists are using chemistry to help industries save money and be environmentally safe. Joe DeSimone invented a soap mixed with compressed carbon dioxide that can dry clean clothes. Tom Meyer is developing artificial photosynthesis to end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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Clark Larsen, professor of anthropology, helped set forth the field of bioarcheology, which interprets behavior from the human skeleton. He is examining skeletons of the twelfth century Guale people who lived in coastal Georgia and Florida. The skeletons revealed information about disease, nutrition, fishing and agricultural practices.
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