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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physics professor William Hooke has been granted one U.S. patent and two U.S. patent applications for his refinements to a laboratory method for creating diamonds.
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Nationwide, death by handgun is becoming epidemic, and every year about one thousand people in the state die from gunshot wounds. Tragically, over eighty percent of those murdered are killed by people they know.
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2535
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In 1954, Oliver Smithies made one of the most important discoveries in molecular genetics. Forty years of research later, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor is still at the top of his field.
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Established in 1963, the Institute of Outdoor Drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shows communities how to attract tourists through local history dramatizations.
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The University of North Carolina's Institute of Marine Sciences studies forces that affect the coastal environment - for example, whether nitrogen in the Neuse River comes from industrial or agricultural sources.
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For his book on the state's pottery tradition, TURNERS AND BURNERS, University of North Carolina folklore professor Charles Zug visited a number of potters, like Burlon Craig, and also rolled up his sleeves to get the feel of the clay.
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Frederick P. Brooks, Kenan Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, received the 1995 Bower Award for Achievement in Science, which is given by Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and worth $250,000.
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Funded in 1992 by the National Cancer Institute, SPORE (Specialized Program of Research Excellence) is a cooperative, multidisciplinary program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that investigates breast cancer.
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The career of Chuck Stone, Walter Spearman Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at UNC-CH, has been wide ranging and includes being a newspaper senior editor, columnist, hostage negotiator, and advocate of feminism.
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Research studies on kudzu, a plant found along many roads across the South, indicate that extracts from it may be used to combat alcoholism.
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3226
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In 1994, between 8,000 and 9,000 of the 219,000 automobile accidents compiled by the UNC Highway Safety Research Center involved deer. Most accidents occurred in the Coastal Plain during fall hunting season.
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3508
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James Seay, professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is widely recognized as an author of poetry and nonfiction, and for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
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Providers of rural health must deal with a number of problems, including shortage of funds and staff, lack of transportation for health care recipients, an aging population, isolated dwellings, and an increase in AIDS.
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14.A Landmark Liver Transplant Saves Lives by Baragona, Steve Endeavors Vol. 15 Issue 3, Spring 1999
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4172
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The demand for livers to transplant is great; however, donors are in short supply. Fifteen percent of those on transplant waiting lists die before a liver becomes available. For the first time in the state, doctors at UNC Hospitals used a new approach - a living-related, adult-to-adult transplant. A daughter donated to her ailing sixty-seven-year-old mother. Both recovered. Doctors say this technique will supply up to one-third of the nation's needs.
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Bayard Wootten, born in New Bern in 1875, is one of the state's most famous photographers. A portrait photographer in her early days, she later traveled across the South, photographing the effect of the Great Depression, people of Appalachia and the Ozarks, landscapes, and architecture. Today Wootten's work is in the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill's Wilson Library. It is the largest photography collection there - taking up a twenty-foot row of bookshelves.
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