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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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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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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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Aldrich, Kenan professor and director of graduate studies in sociology, is intrigued by the growing number of women business owners. He’s found that even though women own a third of United States businesses, they are still shadowed by the pervasive notion that they do not manage like men.
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Historian Tom Buell analyzed library collections of Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee’s letters and the government’s official records. After rethinking the Civil War, Buell says our modern perception of Lee’s leadership in the war is based mainly on myth, folklore and nostalgia.
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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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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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26159
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Jan Boxill, lecturer and associate chair of philosophy, says sports reflect our values and teach us how to view ourselves and the world. Because athletes have a public role, Boxill believes there should be a mentoring system to teach athletes how to set a good example.
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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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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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26162
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A multidisciplinary research team is studying electrical and chemical malfunctions that can cause heart attacks. Using a chemist’s sensor, cardiologists hope to be able to predict a heart attack before it happens.
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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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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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26166
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Warren Nord, lecturer in philosophy, contends that public schools and universities today come close to indoctrinating students against religion by almost completely ignoring it. He argues that neutrality doesn’t just mean that it’s okay to teach students about religion, but that you’re required to teach them about it if you teach them things that are hostile to religion.
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