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26128
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Eighty years after the USS San Diego exploded and sank in the North Atlantic, historian Russel Van Wyk found the confessions of a German spy named Kurt Jahnke. Jahnke confessed to the Russians that he was responsible for the ship’s explosion, and had led the diversionary activities of German intelligence in the United States from 1914 to 1918.
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26129
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Researchers at Carolina’s alcohol-studies center work to help remedy alcoholism, by searching for its causes and by developing new treatments and diagnostic methods. They found that alcoholism may be indicated by a preference for sweets, and the herbal remedy St. John’s Wort can reduce alcohol cravings.
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26148
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Chapel Hill and Carrboro can use nine million gallons of water a day. Pumping that much water is a big and expensive job. Using dynamic programming, graduate student Amy Buege figured out an efficient water pumping schedule that maintains water quality standards.
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26151
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UNC chemists are using chemistry to help industries save money and be environmentally safe. Joe DeSimone invented a soap mixed with compressed carbon dioxide that can dry clean clothes. Tom Meyer is developing artificial photosynthesis to end our reliance on fossil fuels.
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26152
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Dennis Orthner, professor of social work, has been tracking the well-being of North Carolina families through a survey called the Family Strength Index. His work is showing that families are handicapped by weak social networks.
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26153
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Jeff Dangl, professor of biology, is trying to determine how plants fight off fungi and other invaders. He wants to find out what genes control the process, what chemicals signal those genes to set it off and to stop it.
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26154
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Risa Palm, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of geography, studies how people cope with earthquake risk. She discovered that Californians often think the potential for danger is minimal. They choose to believe that low risk means no risk and fail to take precautions.
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26157
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Barbara Entwisle, professor of sociology, is studying how couples in Thailand choose to use contraception. Using maps to help communicate with locals, she’s learned that easy access to contraception and family-planning services encourage people to use them.
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26158
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Anthropologists are using a geographic information system (GIS) to map land use patterns in Burgandy, France. They are studying the habits of people and animals that have caused crops to flourish, soil to erode, and trees to die.
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26160
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Clark Larsen, professor of anthropology, helped set forth the field of bioarcheology, which interprets behavior from the human skeleton. He is examining skeletons of the twelfth century Guale people who lived in coastal Georgia and Florida. The skeletons revealed information about disease, nutrition, fishing and agricultural practices.
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26161
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UNC researchers are trying to make children’s lives better. Child development researchers are studying the quality of day-care centers, and the impacts of visual impairment to learning. Others are looking into children at risk, and exposure to age-inappropriate sexualization.
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26163
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Conflict in Eastern Europe has divided land and languages. Linguist Robert Greenberg is studying how Bulgarian and Macedonian languages evolved from a single tradition and formed new dialects in response to politics.
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26164
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Schizophrenia is a complex disorder that remains largely unexplained and difficult to treat. UNC psychiatrists are leading a study to evaluate subjects for severity of psychotic symptoms and side effects from a new generation of medicines.
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26165
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Bill Kier, associate professor of biology, studies squid movement. He discovered that squids move with surprising speed and agility because of the special traits of their muscles.
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26167
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Donald Lysle, an associate professor of psychology, and his colleagues have identified critical links between psychological processes and the immune system. They found that certain types of cancer are associated with certain personality types.
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