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25899
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The Carolina Environmental Program seeks ways to reduce the carbon footprint of people and their communities. According to researchers, the most critical factors to address are atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, other nations imitating our industrial revolution, and global population growth. They suggest redesigning sustainable communities and providing mass transit.
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Philip Meyer is a professor of journalism who has studied public-opinion research for decades. Newspapers typically use polls to collect public opinion data, but according to Meyer, they could use more in-depth social science methods to find underlying reasons for people’s decisions and actions.
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Fulton Crews’ research on binge drinking shows how brain damage that impairs decision-making can occur long after the drinking stops. Binge drinking can cause loss of neurons and changes in the brain structure, leading to repeated behaviors and difficulty relearning.
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Director Rob Hamilton adapted the novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, to a four-hour play that premiers this summer at UNC’s Kenan Theatre. The story is about two Chinese boys sent to the countryside for reeducation during Mao’s Cultural Revolution in the early 1970s, and both fell in love with the same girl.
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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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Located in Alamance County, Graham is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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Ali Neff, a graduate student in folklore curriculum, is writing a book about Mississippi Delta hip-hop. One of her subjects includes rapper Jerome Williams who uses improvisation or freestyling.
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According to UNC sociologist Charles Kurzman, the kind of radicalization that leads to violence is much less common in the United States than in Western Europe. Reasons for this could be demographics, law enforcement, communication, and political activism. Omid Safi, a religious studies professor, says that Muslim Americans should become more involved in public discourse to help curtail radicalization and terrorism.
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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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Yekta Zülfikar, a sophomore majoring in international studies, took part in the Burch Field Seminar in Turkey to study why coups occur and how they impact people’s lives. Yekta believes that Turkey is heading in direction that should help stop coup attempts.
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Marine ecologist John Bruno and his graduate student Elizabeth Selig studied the coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean for two years. They found that the world’s coral reefs are rapidly declining because of global warming and climate change.
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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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Wendy Wolford studies economic inequality and poverty rooted in Brazil’s land politics. After World War Two, policies forced farmers and rural workers into the Amazon and cities. Brazil’s Landless Movement is now pressuring the government to create settlements with farmland.
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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 researchers are using visualization techniques to simulate processes occurring in protein molecules, electrical currents, and nature. Recent developments include visualizations that will help North Carolina prepare for weather-related disasters, and scanning techniques that create 3-D models of human organs.
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