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26188
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Electric rays shock their prey using electric organs which contain proteins similar to those in human muscle. By studying electric ray proteins, physiologist Robert Sealock may learn why the human disease muscular dystrophy causes muscle cells to die.
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26196
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Sam Bagenstos, an undergraduate in political science, completed his senior honors thesis examining arguments for and against District of Columbia statehood. After analyzing the arguments, he believes the demographic composition is an underlying reason for the adamancy displayed by many statehood opponents.
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Dr. James C. Parke, Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Charlotte Area Health Education Center, has been a part of the effort to create vaccines for children affected with Hib meningitis for twenty years.
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As part of her honors thesis in Asian studies, Carolyn Berndt translated the story of one of the Japanese Army’s comfort women during World War Two. Comfort women were recruited or kidnapped to provide sex for Japanese soldiers.
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The long-term effects of childhood sexual abuse often go unseen. UNC School of Medicine researchers Mark Corrigan and James Garbutt investigate which aspects of childhood sexual abuse, such has early age of onset, most negatively affect psychiatric outcomes in adulthood.
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26177
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John Chasteen, associate professor of history, is writing a book charting how Latin American dance has spread to other cultures. Latin dance was heavily influenced by the culture’s history, politics, and African samba.
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26201
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Undergraduate students in psychology examined factors that might be associated with depressive symptoms. These factors included parental characteristics, and standard Christian religious beliefs and behaviors.
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The Fayetteville Area Health Education Center (FAHEC) is making a significant effort to educate school-age children about AIDS.
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26199
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Biology undergraduates are working with Seth Reice, chair of the Ecology Curriculum, to examine New Hope Creek for their senior theses. They will study the various physical influences that cause macro-invertebrate species, called benthos, to select particular stream habitats.
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Jennifer Bobo, an assistant professor of communication studies at UNC-CH, has an experimental audience of black women view or read black cultural works, including the film DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST, then interviews them to determine their reactions.
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26208
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In the future, testing children’s hormonal levels may allow clinicians to determine whether a child is likely to develop depression or stress-related illness as an adult. With this goal in mind, Linda Noonan, professor of psychiatry, studies rats to learn how physiological and psychological conditions affect brain development.
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26187
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John Conley, professor of law, and colleagues studied small claims trials to find out what litigants want from the law. They found that lay people are oriented toward their social networks and respond to social obligations, rather than legal rules. What litigants wanted most from the courtroom was the chance to tell their story.
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Catherine Lutz, an associate professor of anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill, has co-authored a book, \"Reading National Geographic,\" that examines the ways in which National Geographic photographs affect Americans' perceptions of non-Western peoples.
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26194
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Della Pollack, associate professor of speech communications, is interested in the way women make their birth experiences meaningful through telling stories about them. Birth stories stimulate thought and conversation about the politics of contemporary birth and gender roles.
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