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The Ramphal Cardiac Surgery simulator was designed by Paul Ramphal at the University of the West Indies, and built in Chapel Hill with the help of Richard Feins, UNC professor of surgery. The simulator uses pig parts arranged like they would be in a human, and is used to train medical residents.
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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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UNC researcher Carol Otey discovered the protein palladin in 1991. Otey and Teri Brenthall of the University of Washington found palladin to be the source of a genetic mutation in pancreatic cancer. Siince this discovery, Otey and UNC pancreatic researcher H.J. Kim have found nine additional forms of palladin. They believe palladin acts as a protective barrier around tumors to resist chemotheraphy drugs.
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Mike Sonnichsen is a lecturer and manager of the print and photo labs in the art department. Sonnichsen creates photograms and prismatic prints of plastic objects using an aquatint etching technique. The technique uses an acid bath to produce an array of vivid, watery hues.
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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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UNC chemists Vyas Sharma and David Lawrence were funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to diagnose diseases in remote African villages by having people spit on seeds. They hope to turn seeds into a cheap, transportable diagnostic kit by tricking seeds into germinating only when they come into contact with an infected patient’s saliva.
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Jay Smith, a UNC professor of history, has been studying the Beast of the Gévaudan. The French have argued about the identity of the eighteenth-century creature that killed more than a hundred people in the southern countryside. Smith suggests that the creature was a wolf, but hunters perpetuated the idea that it was a mythological creature to explain his failures out of fear of shame.
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UNC researchers are finding out why the death penalty debate, whether right or wrong, is fading away. According to political scientist Frank Baumgartner, media framing has a strong effect on juries and public opinion of the death penalty. The idea of innocent people getting executed is a dominant discussion point nationwide.
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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 researchers are trying to develop and manufacture synthetic blood, bone material, and lymph nodes. Synthetic substitutes could be alternatives to blood shortages, dental implants and bone prosthetics, and be used to create a stronger immune response system.
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UNC researchers Mark Norris and Sheila Kannappan are analyzing the Hubble Space Telescope archives to compare the ages of dwarfs and their host galaxies. If they are both of the same age, then the dwarfs are probably giant globular clusters; if they are of different ages, then the dwarf was probably born as a galaxy and later pulled into another orbit.
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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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UNC historian Kathryn Burns has been analyzing the city archives of Cuzco, Peru since 1990. Burns discovered that many of the archives are missing because documents were occasionally sold or covered up by the colonial power system.
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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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Susan Harbage Page is a UNC photojournalist who photographs things abandoned by immigrants along the Rio Grande on the United States-Mexico border. Page has photographed objects such as homemade flotation devices, detention center bracelets, wallets, undergarments, and other intensely personal items.
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