Record #:

25728

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 25 Issue 2, Winter 2009, p4-15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research

Record #:

25734

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

Carolina biologist Darrel Stafford has developed a way to check blood clot patients for certain types of mutations that make people more or less sensitive to the drug warfarin. His new method could help researchers make better blood thinners with fewer side effects.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 25 Issue 2, Winter 2009, p32-33, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research

Record #:

25736

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

Terry Sullivan leads an all-volunteer team to find out what outgoing presidencies have learned, and thereby help ease the transition for incoming White House administrations. The project team interviews former staff and presents their memos to the president’s transition team.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 25 Issue 2, Winter 2009, p38-41, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Political science

Record #:

25781

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

Biologist Peter White codirects the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), an ongoing project dedicated to preserving the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ecosystem. The ATBI has discovered over six thousand species new species in the park and aims to document every living species in the park.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Spring 2009, p5-13, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Ecology and conservation--North Carolina; Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)

Record #:

25787

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

As part of the 2009 Carolina Summer Reading Program, first-year students are reading Paul Cuadros’ new book called, A Home on the Field. It is the first book the selection committee has chosen that was written by a UNC faculty member. It is also a true story that the committee thinks will spark discussion about immigration in North Carolina.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Spring 2009, p34-36, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Record #:

25790

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 25 Issue 3, Spring 2009, p43-45, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Record #:

25795

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 24 Issue 1, Fall 2007, p24, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Theater; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Record #:

25797

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 24 Issue 1, Fall 2007, p28-32, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Social movements; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research

Record #:

25800

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

Physicists Yue Wu and Alfred Kleinhammes use nuclear magnetic resonance to find out if carbon-based nanomaterial can effectively store hydrogen. If so, then hydrogen tanks could be used to fuel cars and the only by-product would be water.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 24 Issue 1, Fall 2007, p38-40, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Alternative fuel industry; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research

Record #:

25801

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 24 Issue 1, Fall 2007, p41-43, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Record #:

25802

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

Oliver Smithies won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, and is UNC’s first Nobel Prize winner. Smithies developed the initial method for gene targeting that led to mice that model hundreds of human diseases.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 24 Issue 2, Winter 2008, p10-15, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Prizes; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Medical schools

Record #:

25810

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

Archaeologists Brett Riggs and Stephen Davis recently discovered Nassaw, the central town of the Catawba tribe, and are looking deeper into the decline of American Indians. Medical student Anthony Fleg started the Native Health Intitiative, which sends student volunteers to Indian communities to learn about tribes and collaborate on health and education issues.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 24 Issue 2, Winter 2008, p33-37, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Indians of North America--North Carolina; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research

Record #:

25811

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

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.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 24 Issue 2, Winter 2008, p38-39, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Coral reefs and islands; Global warming; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research

Record #:

25812

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

Daniel Wallace teaches creative writing at UNC and is the author of four novels. He was previously a student at UNC but quit school to work for his father’s business. He returned to Chapel Hill to give writing a shot, and ended up writing the novel, Big Fish, which became a movie directed by Tim Burton.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 24 Issue 2, Winter 2008, p40-42, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Writers; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Record #:

25813

Author(s):

Derewicz, Mark

Abstract:

Sociologist Charles Kurzman studies Iranian revolutions and social movements. His recent study of Iranian attitudes toward gender equality shows that a majority of Iranians are feminists. This finding is a sign that Iranian society may be evolving away from an extreme revolutionary ideology.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 24 Issue 2, Winter 2008, p43-46, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Social movements; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research