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Dr. Robert Lee Maril, chair of the East Carolina Department of Sociology, has spent countless hours exploring the lives and work of U.S. Border Patrol agent at McAllen Station in southern Texas. Maril’s work has led to questions about drug trafficking, immigration reform, and organization changes.
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25857
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East Carolina University researchers are aiming to examine and treat combat military service personnel through Operation Re-Entry North Carolina. This federally funded program includes researchers across campus in areas such as speech and hearing, psychophysiology, biofeedback, and family relations.
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25848
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Dr. Michael Wheeler, associate professor of nutrition and dietetics in the East Carolina University College of Human Ecology, is on the cutting edge of answering questions about the 12th largest cause of death in the United States: chronic liver disease. His research has led him to the potential benefits of a North Carolina staple in winemaking—the muscadine grape.
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25765
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Biology researchers at East Carolina University are continuing the study of Darwin’s philosophies, examining reptiles, spiders, birds, and plants through evolution of environmental adjustment and DNA changes.
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25775
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Working with NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, and numerous other partners, Dr. Paul J. Kauffmann, chairman of the East Carolina Department of Technology Systems, has tested the commercial feasibility of a new weather data collection system that might prevent unnecessary flying accidents.
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25696
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East Carolina University political science professor Dr. Maurice D. Simon works in collaboration with researchers at UNC-Greensboro to trace the emergence of twelve Eastern European democracies.
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25697
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East Carolina University has moved up in the ranks of higher education as the UNC Board of Governors approved ECU’s classification as a doctoral institution. Graduate education has grown throughout the 1990s with new doctoral programs in Coastal Resources Management, Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Medical Biophysics.
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25842
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East Carolina University will house the Chapel Hill-based Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) database designed to store information about the region’s coastal areas. The project provides research about human systems and physical processes through collaboration and high performance computing and visualization.
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25769
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Dr. Everett C. Pesci, an assistant professor of microbiology at East Carolina University, has discovered how bacteria communicate, and he is using this information to prevent potentially deadly bacteria from harming patients with compromised immune systems.
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25856
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Being mostly rural with high rates of poverty, eastern North Carolina faces a high mortality rate compared with the rest of the state. Dr. Hope Landrine, the new director of the East Carolina University Center for Heath Disparities Research, is hoping to find ways to reduce these disparities.
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25777
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Cardiovascular disease, obesity, Crone’s disease, allergies, lupus, and many more inflammatory diseases are being exposed by Dr. William Joel Meggs, professor of emergency medicine and medical toxicology at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine. Meggs argues that environmental factors, diet, chemical exposure, and air pollution are just a few things that can trigger inflammation, something he wishes to examine further as the president of the newly created Environmental Health Research Foundation.
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25716
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Centered at East Carolina, The North Carolina Agromedicine Institute has received a $3 million grant to establish the Southeast Coastal Center for Agromedicine, to promote health and safety for workers and communities in agricultural, forestry and fisheries industries.
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25714
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Students and professors at East Carolina University are chronicling the 25 year journey through slavery and beyond of one Allen Parker.
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25772
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Drs. Orville Day and David Pravica, a physicist and mathematician at East Carolina University, have been developing a theory that allows for one to predict the mass and size of a black hole based on energy vibrations. The two are now working with faculty from the Brody School of medicine to apply this theory to the detection of coronary artery disease.
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25771
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The North Carolina Council of State has approved bonds to finance the East Carolina Cardiovascular Institute. The new research institute, branching off of existing strengths of the Brody School of Medicine, will focus on six key research areas and advanced cardiovascular disease risk of eastern North Carolina.
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