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for "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Research"
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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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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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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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26200
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Sam Best of the political science department is researching the 1987 Florida Service Tax, a controversial amendment that was repealed only six months after passage into law. Best will examine the roles of media, government elites, and interest groups.
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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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26204
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David and Catharine Newbury are UNC professors are examining social formations in Central Africa. Their research has covered the Rwandan Revolution, formation of a new social order, social transformations in response to agricultural production, famine and historical conflict.
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26206
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UNC researchers believe one way to prevent chronic respiratory disease in adults might be to reduce chronic respiratory problems in children. They are conducting a study that involves direct interventions to educate a child’s main caretaker about the hazards of exposure to tobacco smoke.
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26207
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Kermit Nash and Kathryn Kramer, researchers at the School of Social Work, are studying the support systems sickle cell disease patients use to overcome the effects of the disease. Their longitudinal project uses social science research methods to understand how physiological, psychological, and social components interact with a patient’s well-being.
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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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26219
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Jonathan Veum, an economics doctoral candidate, is examining the effects of mandatory child-support payments on the poverty levels of absent fathers and custodial mothers. He suspects that family breakups contribute to income inequality.
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26220
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A central part of Chinese guanxi, or relationships, is their union of material obligation and human emotions. According to anthropology doctoral candidate Andrew Kipnis, through the exchange of gifts one can act on a relationship, making the feeling and obligation more or less intense.
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26222
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Biology doctoral candidate Jonathan Parkinson is researching patchy ephemeral resources, transient habitats such as mushrooms that sprout after it rains. He believes his work in patch dynamics has practical applications in conservation and agriculture.
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26224
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Maria Wagner-Recio, a biochemistry doctoral candidate, is trying to understand the biochemical response of the human nervous system to toxic substances. She is participating in a research project that uses a relatively safe toxicant as a model system for other more common, hazardous pollutants.
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26226
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SNR0540-69.3 is the name of the nebulous remains of a supernova explosion. Jeff Knerr and Jon Morse, doctoral candidates in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, have created a computer simulation to study the underlying physics of supernova explosions.
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26227
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Many women who exercise regularly want to continue to do so once they become pregnant. Margaret Gall, a master’s candidate in physical education, is researching whether aerobic exercise poses a threat to fetal development.
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