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Dr. Margarete Sandelowski, associate professor in the School of Nursing, seeks to understand the transition experienced by couples who overcome infertility. She is studying the types of obstacles couples face and how they confront problem of infertility.
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26243
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Dr. Barbara Germino and Dr. Sandra Funk, associate professors in the School of Nursing, are studying the impact of cancer on family members. They are developing a research instrument and a clinical assessment index that will help evaluate the concerns of cancer patients and their family members.
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26244
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Dr. Nancy Milio, professor of nursing and professor health policy, spent a month interviewing Norwegian officials as a basis for an analysis of the success of a comprehensive government farm-food-nutrition policy. The policy brings food supply into line with a national dietary pattern, and could be successful in the United States.
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Lorna Harris, assistant professor in the UNC School of Nursing, is studying consumers’ thoughts about possible sanctions for substance abuse. In a recent study, she asked consumers’ opinions about substance abuse among health care providers, job performance, and drug testing. She hopes her findings can be used to develop employee drug abuse policies.
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William Kier, an assistant professor in Biology, studies the morphology and biomechanics of invertebrate species. He’s uncovered significant information about how squid and octopuses make rapid, complex, and varied muscle movements, despite the absence of a skeletal system.
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26247
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UNC archaeologists are excavating several Piedmont sites along the Dan River, and studying the impact European colonists had on the established native settlements. These sites were occupied by Siouan Indians until they became in contact with European traders.
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26248
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The Center for Alcohol Studies at UNC was established to coordinate the various aspects of research being conducted on alcoholism. Some of their studies include research on the effects of alcohol on brain chemistry, the genetics of alcoholism, and alcohol metabolism.
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26249
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Child development researchers are studying different ways that public schools can help children who are having trouble learning. For one model they are exploring, a learning disability teacher co-teaches or provides assistance to the classroom teacher.
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26250
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Nancy King, professor of social medicine, believes art should be a means for raising important social issues. She is working with North Carolina theater professionals to design a program which incorporates the humanities and medicine.
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26251
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Frank Biocca, professor of journalism, conducted a study on audiences of the 1988 presidential campaign. Participants used an audience response system to indicate their agreement or disagreement with what a candidate said on television. Biocca found that audience opinion is partly influenced by nonverbal or inadvertent information.
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26252
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Chemistry professors Thomas Mayer and Eugene Irene are researching the structural and chemical workings of silicon surfaces at an atomic level. Silicon has unique electrical properties used in semiconductors, materials used to operate computer chips.
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26253
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The decision of whether to keep an incompetent patient alive or to end treatment is an ethical dilemma. Nancy Rhoden, a bioethicist and professor of law, believes doctors and hospitals, rather than families, should bear the burden of proof when it comes to court-ordered termination of medical treatment for incompetent patients.
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34994
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Through botanical endeavors such as the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), thousands of plants have been discovered in places such as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. However, one such plant’s sole “discovery” being debated prompted an ecologist to ask: was Albert Ruth the only person to find twinflower in Tennessee? Peter White resolved to settle the debate by retracing Ruth’s steps in that 1892 journey.
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34995
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In 2008, UNC photojournalism students travel to Southern Thailand, three years after a tsunami ravished the area. Their journey, told partly through five of the natives’ stories, affirmed that life can go on, even in the aftermath of catastrophic natural disasters.
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34998
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The collaborative efforts of microbiology and immunology grad student, Meg Scull, and associate professor Ray Pickles, was leading the way toward preventing the avian virus H5N1 from becoming a human pandemic.
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