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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.
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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.
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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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UNC encourages physicians to consider conducting trials at their clinics. Clinical trials are necessary to advance research and treatment, but recruiting patients is difficult if they think a drug is being tested on them. For liver-cancer patient Don Yarborough, participating in a trial was crucial. If the treatment does not help him, he said, maybe the research would help someone else.
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Harmful algae blooms often occur in China’s third largest lake, Taihu. According to marine biologist Hans Paerl, nutrient-rich sewage from wastewater plants and pollution from factories are the main culprits. Paerl is working with Chinese scientists to recommend pollution controls that could help restore water quality in the lake.
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Experimental philosophers known as x-philes are part of a new movement seeking to answer philosophical questions by asking actual people. Joshua Knobe, a pioneer in the field, uses experimental methods that are not traditionally used by philosophers. This approach makes it possible to learn more about human morality and intentions.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Historian Louise McReynolds studies sensationalistic murder cases in Russia. Her analysis of court archives reveal examples of how tradition and pop culture intermingle and produce injustice. Russian judges typically sold tickets to spectators, and many of the trial transcripts were sold as books or made into films.
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Biochemist Jack Griffith and his graduate student Smaranda Wilcox found ancient salt deposits underneath the desert of Roswell, New Mexico. The salt deposits contain the oldest cellulose macromolecules ever found. Griffith suggests that life on other planets would likely be carbon-based.
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Undergraduate Angela Harper spent six weeks interviewing families in Ghana to understand why parents sold their children into slavery. Child traffickers maximize profits by going to the poorest villages and offering parents a deal. Harper will extend her humanitarian work by attending the UNC School of Law this fall to focus on international law and human rights.
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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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