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UNC faculty experts can help reporters with hurricane stories


As the Gulf Coast region recovers from Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Hanna threatens the East Coast and Ike and Josephine churn farther out in the Atlantic, the following UNC resources and faculty can provide information and expertise on hurricanes and disaster-related topics. read more
charles konrad

Charles Konrad can provide interesting insights on how scientists track hurricanes. He can also share his expertise on other weather events, including heavy rainfall, tornado outbreaks and high winds.
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Carolina to install Thorp as 10th chancellor on University Day
Campus and Community
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
chancellor holden thorp The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will install Dr. Holden Thorp as its 10th chancellor on University Day, Oct. 12, the birthday of the nation’s oldest state university. Thorp will give an installation address, and the University will honor distinguished alumni during a festive ceremony steeped in campus history.
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Gillings Innovation Lab takes novel approach to personal responses to arsenic in drinking water
Science and Technology
Thursday, August 28, 2008
The newest Gillings Innovation Laboratory at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health will tap new technology to help researchers examine individual differences in the metabolism of inorganic arsenic and in the susceptibility to adverse effects associated with chronic exposures to arsenic.
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Newly-defined factors may prevent postpartum smoking relapse
Health and Medicine
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Although many women quit smoking during pregnancy to protect their unborn children from the effects of cigarettes, half of them resume the habit within a few months of giving birth.
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PlayMakers to tell tale of two women with HIV
Arts
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
“In the Continuum” is the story of two black women – one in South Central Los Angeles and the other in Harare, Zimbabwe – and how their simultaneous HIV diagnoses bring the international AIDS epidemic down to very human terms.
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Upcoming Events @ Carolina - September 2008
Campus and Community
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
September hosts 2008 election series, concerts and plays

Following is a sampling of September events at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Media are invited to use this information for calendar listings and postings and in planning their event-oriented coverage. Events are free to the public unless otherwise noted.
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CAROLINA IN THE NEWS

Brain cancer breakthrough?
The Herald-Sun (Durham)

A nationwide team of scientists, including researchers at UNC Chapel Hill's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, have reported the first results of a large-scale, comprehensive study of the most common form of brain cancer, glioblastoma. The findings from the study -- conducted by the Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network, a collaborative effort involving 18 institutions and organizations across the country--- appeared Thursday in the online edition of the journal Nature.