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26202
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Undergraduate students are studying conflicts and historical eras of the Southern United States. Jamey Carson is examining problems faced by Creek Indians as settlers came to Alabama. Clay Hodges focuses on a more recent question of school integration in Charlotte, North Carolina and one judge’s effort to change the system.
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26212
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Moral philosophy is the systematic attempt to examine and understand ordinary ethical decisions. Several approaches to ethics taken by members of the philosophy department reflect autonomy and self-respect, epistemological and ontological tenets of moral realism, and professional roles and ethical integrity.
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26214
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Master of Fine Arts candidate Jennifer Schneider translates designers’ ideas into workable theatrical costumes. The costumes are built to accommodate time period differences and meet the demands of the contemporary stage.
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26215
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Andrea Bolland, a doctoral student of art, is studying an early European Renaissance artist named Andrea Mantegna. Bolland sheds new light on the fusion Mantegna provides between the classical stylists of central Italian artists and the more ornate tendancies of those in northern Italy.
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26217
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Logan Browning, a doctoral candidate in the English department, is exploring miserly characters in 19th century fiction and art. In particular, he focuses on how Charles Dickens’ preoccupation with misers influenced his novels.
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26221
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The changing political climate in the Soviet Union may allow Daniela Spenser, a history doctoral student, access to Soviet archives hitherto off-limits to Western researchers. Her dissertation work will focus on Mexican-Soviet post-revolutionary relations.
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26223
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Jih-Fang Wang, a doctoral candidate in computer science, is working on head-mount technology. He has created a device called an optic tracker, equipped with small cameras that relay information about a virtual-environment user’s position to a computer.
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26234
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Stephen Walsh and his geography students use a Geographic Information System, or GIS, to organize descriptive data that can be related to maps. They are using GIS in drought evaluation, water quality modeling, and analysis of geomorphic effects of snow avalanches.
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26237
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Professors in the Department of Romance Languages study and teach the breadth of eight languages, all genres, and all periods of literature and criticism. Ultimately, their work focuses on the study of text and its relationship to the author, the reader, and its time and place in history.
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26238
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Sixteenth-century Italian madrigals of the High Renaissance is a form of poetry and music written for voices but not necessarily for instruments. James Haar, professor of music, studies the origins, characteristics, and development of this musical genre.
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27077
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This weekend's Festival on the Hill, which occurs at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, explores the interactions between music and science. Launched in 2002 by the Department of Music, this biennial festival fosters discussion between scholars, composers, and performers. This year’s theme is Music, Science, & Nature, which stems from the work of UNC composition professor Lee Weisert.
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is facing its third straight year of budget cuts and the effects are being felt. Many feel the quality of the university is decreasing. Others believe this negative point of view is a matter of perception. Faculty received a raise and is the fifth highest paid faculty in the South. Still, the pay is behind other nation’s universities and the cuts are affecting money for materials, library services, and graduate student stipends.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 8 Issue 37, September 12-18 1990,
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27850
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Claims from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that the majority of their coal comes from deep mines are explored. IndyWeek investigated these claims and found that a major supplier supplies coal from mountaintop removal mines. The other sources of UNC-CH’s coal supply are explored along with their environmental impact.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 7, February 2010,
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27884
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The University of North Carolina is considered a regional leader on environmental issues but continues to burn thousands of tons of coal each year in its power plants. The university is in debt on its cogeneration power plant and will have to burn coal until at least 2022. Several groups have called for the university to end coal use in five years, but that will not be possible. The various ways UNC is examining to go carbon neutral by 2050 are explored.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 27 Issue 12, March 2010,
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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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