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26203
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Professor Charles Peterson and undergraduate research assistant Tracey Langhorne conducted a research project on the nesting habits of the loggerhead sea turtle. They concluded that the number of campers at Hammocks Beach did not interfere with sea turtle nesting success.
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26211
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Ethical dilemmas often occur in newspaper journalism. According to Philip Meyer, professor of ethics, journalists' ethical codes are often oriented toward public relations rather than effective ethical scrutiny. Ruth Walden, a media law expert, says there is a fine line between courts and journalists regarding the freedom of speech and invasion of privacy.
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26212
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Moral philosophy is the systematic attempt to examine and understand ordinary ethical decisions. Several approaches to ethics taken by members of the philosophy department reflect autonomy and self-respect, epistemological and ontological tenets of moral realism, and professional roles and ethical integrity.
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26215
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Andrea Bolland, a doctoral student of art, is studying an early European Renaissance artist named Andrea Mantegna. Bolland sheds new light on the fusion Mantegna provides between the classical stylists of central Italian artists and the more ornate tendancies of those in northern Italy.
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26216
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Martha Nelson, a master’s candidate in folklore, has been studying and photographing Mexican immigrants in North Carolina. She focuses on how geographic dislocation results in shifting personal and cultural identities.
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26220
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A central part of Chinese guanxi, or relationships, is their union of material obligation and human emotions. According to anthropology doctoral candidate Andrew Kipnis, through the exchange of gifts one can act on a relationship, making the feeling and obligation more or less intense.
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26225
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The regulation and control of DNA and RNA is largely contingent upon the proteins that act on them, says genetics doctoral candidate Mike Howard. Howard is working with a protein crucial in aiding against the propensity of DNA to become twisted upon itself.
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26226
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SNR0540-69.3 is the name of the nebulous remains of a supernova explosion. Jeff Knerr and Jon Morse, doctoral candidates in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, have created a computer simulation to study the underlying physics of supernova explosions.
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26231
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Kurt Fletcher, a physics doctoral candidate, studies deuterons, the nuclei of a special type of hydrogen atom known as deuterium. Fletcher focuses his research on a quantum mechanics property known as spin, a nuclear force responsible for holding the nucleus of an atom together.
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26248
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The Center for Alcohol Studies at UNC was established to coordinate the various aspects of research being conducted on alcoholism. Some of their studies include research on the effects of alcohol on brain chemistry, the genetics of alcoholism, and alcohol metabolism.
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26252
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Chemistry professors Thomas Mayer and Eugene Irene are researching the structural and chemical workings of silicon surfaces at an atomic level. Silicon has unique electrical properties used in semiconductors, materials used to operate computer chips.
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