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26005
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Kyle Hedlund is an associate professor of computer science with an interest in insect biology. To merge his two passions, Hedlund created an online catalog of North American ants.
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Mark Yusko is the new chief investment officer for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will oversee the university's $650 million in endowment and foundation money. He held a similar position at Notre Dame.
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Carl Ernst, Chair of religious studies, went to Iran for a conference on Persian culture. While there is conflict in Iran, Ernst says the culture is misunderstood. He is trying to develop a program in Persian studies to enhance the curriculum in religion and foreign policy.
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UNC faculty and students are collaborating with the Kenan Institute Asia to help with tsunami recovery. Projects involve organizing and training entrepreneurs in sustainable business and agriculture, developing ecotourism, and investigating public health problems.
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Associate professor of Asian Studies, Jan Bardsley, studied how Japanese women perceived the American woman during the 1940s and 1950s. Magazines used exaggerated images of the American woman to convince Japanese women that democracy would improve their lives. Images of stylishly dressed women encouraged Japanese readers to follow Western lifestyles.
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25665
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Bill Ferris is a UNC professor of history and folklorist who records stories and blues music ranging from everyday black farmers and churchgoers to blues masters such as B.B. King and Willie Dixon. Ferris is particularly interested in the meaning of blues music and how it is used to tell stories and bring African American communities together.
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Nineteenth-century print limitations helped define William Blake as a writer, but modern technology is redefining him as a multimedia artist. Blake’s poems are what Joseph Viscomi, professor of English, calls translations. Blake combined his writing and art into one medium he called an illuminated book.
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25675
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The Carolina Economic Recovery Corps is a group of UNC graduate students and recent graduate professionals who aim to help impoverished communities research and apply for federal stimulus funding. Many of the corps interns were recently hired for full-time positions working with the government councils they had worked with.
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28468
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Manners, attitudes, gender communications, and the progress in sexual relations among young adults are discussed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students. The questions and the student responses are prompted after a fraternity rush letter from Phi Gamma Delta was posted on campus detailing how joining the fraternity would help young men have sex. Fraternity members, non-fraternity members, young men, young women, and administrators discuss the sex on college campuses.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 13 Issue 50, December 1995,
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A $10 million campus-wide campaign to aid the libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is underway. Also, the General Assembly has given additional revenues to the UNC system for faculty salaries and capital improvements.
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25547
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Susan Harbage Page is a UNC photojournalist who photographs things abandoned by immigrants along the Rio Grande on the United States-Mexico border. Page has photographed objects such as homemade flotation devices, detention center bracelets, wallets, undergarments, and other intensely personal items.
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Paul Hardin is Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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34937
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Author and professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill outlines why she’s a “born, bred, dead” Tarheel. Growing up in Chapel Hill, she watched as the first black mayor was elected of a predominately white town in the South, desegregation came to pass and integration became the norm, and the college town came alive in the Fall at the start of class.
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UNC could overhaul or scrap the new wastewater treatment system at its Bingham Facility. The facility experienced several chemical leaks and discharges within the past year. Neighbors of the facility repeated told UNC their concerns about the facility’s environmental impact. The university may lose a federal grant and be fined by the state for the leaks. Neighbors are concerned about the quality of their water after leaks.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 13, March 2010,
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28317
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Clara Sue Kidwell is the director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s American Indian Center. Kidwell discusses the reasons for having an American Indian Center on campus, the future of a new building for the center on campus, and the need for research about American Indian communities.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 24 Issue 39, September 2007,
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