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Chemical engineer William Vizuete and his colleagues at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health designed and developed an innovative air quality testing system. Their new device can detect air pollutants with much higher accuracy than traditional systems. The device is patented and will be commercially available through their startup company, BioDeptronix.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 28 Issue 2, Winter 2012, p12-13, por Periodical Website
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UNC medicinal chemist Jian Jin created a molecular probe which may help to develop more effective treatments for cocaine addiction, mental retardation, HIV, and various types of cancer. The probe is freely available to the scientific community so that others may improve or expand upon the research.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 28 Issue 2, Winter 2012, p24-26, il, por Periodical Website
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Ted Batemen, an associate professor in UNC and NC State’s Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, helped design an experiment with NASA. The experiment sent mice into space to study bone tissue growth. Batemen’s team found that the placebo mice lost bone mass as expected, and the drug-treated mice gained bone.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 28 Issue 2, Winter 2012, p27-29, il, por Periodical Website
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Konrad Jarausch is a UNC professor in the Department of History and the son of a German World War II officer. Jarausch never met his father but finally faced his legacy 60 years later. His father’s wartime letters revealed the emotional realities, values and obligations soldiers faced in the war.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 28 Issue 1, Fall 2011, p16-19, il, por Periodical Website
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Alicia Mullis, a UNC undergraduate student, studied how music can treat chronic pain. Her research suggested that playing music helps to train our brains to not focus on pain.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 28 Issue 1, Fall 2011, p20-21, por Periodical Website
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UNC musicologist Annegret Fauser completed a study on the power of classical music during World War Two. In her research, the federal government used music to combat Nazi propaganda and to serve as a form of therapy for soldiers. Her analysis of Library of Congress archives described efforts to recruit musicians, performers, and composers for army duty. Fauser found that for some people who were too old to enlist or get drafted, touring as a musician was a substitute for combat duty.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 27 Issue 2, Winter 2011, p6-13, il, por Periodical Website
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At the UNC Microbiome Core Facility, researchers have found that our intestines are full of known and unknown species that compose unique bacterial ecologies. UNC researchers share their findings on the role of bacteria in several ailments, including colitis, Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and colon cancer. They are discovering that probiotics begin to help our health when we are babies.
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Frank Baumgartner, a UNC political scientist, studied lobbyists, interest group advocates, and government officials who worked to change policy or preserve the status quo between 1999 and 2002. After six years of research, Baumgartner found that money was not the determining factor in policy outcomes. Rather, it was the accumulation of bias and influential power already in the political system.
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Richard Southall at UNC’s College Sport Research Institute shows how the Atlantic Coast Conference’s (ACC) athlete graduation rates are misinterpreted. The demands of student athletes who work a full-time athletic job while going to school full time do not make it easy for athletes to graduate on time.
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UNC researcher David Hofmann surveyed managers and employees of a company, and later conducted an experiment on UNC students to determine whether extroverts or introverts made better leaders. He found that extroverts are more likely to be seen as better leaders, but both extroverts and introverts can have effective leadership styles.
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Jack Kasarda, director of UNC’s Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, helps cities transform airports to promote economic development. Kasarda advised the development of the Global TransPark in Kinston, North Carolina, and is currently developing a project to transform Detroit into an aerotropolis.
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Martin Kohlmeier and Kelly Adams run UNC’s Nutrition in Medicine program and believe physicians should have a good understanding of nutrition. Their mission is to integrate nutrition education at medical schools and to provide an online curriculum to help medical students, residents, and doctors get the nutrition coursework they need.
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Ned Sharpless is a UNC associate professor of medicine and genetics. Sharpless devised a blood test to measure the p16 protein, a tumor suppressor that builds up in cells as people age. The p16 test could keep cells from becoming cancerous, as well as predict how patients would handle surgery or how well wounds would heal.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 27 Issue 1, Fall 2010, p6-11, il, por Periodical Website
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J. Victor Garcia-Martinez and his lab at UNC transplanted human cells into mice to study diseases particular to humans. Their human-mouse model is the first of its kind and has enabled new possibilities for AIDS research. The Garcia-Martinez lab used the model to find that the Truvada drug can prevent HIV transmission.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 27 Issue 1, Fall 2010, p12-13, il Periodical Website
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Brett Whalen, a UNC assistant professor of history, researches medieval theology and the apocalypse. In his book, Dominion of God, Whalen traces the cycle of apocalyptic thinking throughout the Middle Ages and its influence on the papacy.
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Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 27 Issue 1, Fall 2010, p36-39, il, por Periodical Website
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