Tar Heel Bus Tour 2008

Here is a look back in pictures at some of what this year's Tar Heel Bus Tour participants saw and learned:

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Photos above from left to right (All photos by Dan Sears):

1. Martin Doyle, left, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Landscape Change and Health at the Institute for the Environment, talks to participants in the 2008 Tar Heel Bus Tour about the removal of the Deep River Dam in Carbonton on the second day of the tour. Shown in background is the powerhouse for the former hydroelectric facility.
   
   
2. Charlotte Boettiger, assistant professor in the Psychology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sits in the driver's seat of a NASCAR simulator during a stop by the Tar Heel Bus Tour at Victory Junction Gang Camp in Randleman Friday (May 16). During the stop participants learned about the camp which was established by the Petty Family for children with medical and physical disabilities to experience the joy of summer camp and NASCAR.
   
   
3. Elder Odetta Porter testifies on her emotional experience surviving breast cancer.
   
   
4. Faculty Chair Joe Templeton and Tar Heel Bus Tour participants disembark at the NC Research Campus in Kannapolis.
   
   
5. Dr. Keith Amos gets a hug from breast cancer survivor Vanessa Rorie as Odetta Porter, another breast cancer survivor looks on at the 2008 Tar Heel Bus Tour at the tour's first stop in Rocky Mount Monday (May 12).
   
   
6. Participants in the 2008 Tar Heel Bus Tour pose for a group photo at the tour's first stop in Rocky Mount Monday (May 12). During the stop at Dudley's Beauty Center, the group learned about the work of Breaking Free!, a project that uses community representatives to increase breast cancer awareness among black women in Nash and Edgecombe counties. Breaking Free! has trained seven area cosmetologists to speak with their hair clients about breast health while the clients are receiving salon services.
   
   
7. Participants in the 2008 Tar Heel Bus Tour enjoy a traditional North Carolina barbeque luncheon by the site of the Deep River Dam in Carbonton on the second day of the tour. Restoration Systems, a Raleigh-based company led by several Carolina graduates executed the removal of the dam, the largest dam removal to date in North Carolina. In background is the powerhouse of the former hydroelectric facility.
   
   
8. Dr. Steven Zeisel, center, director of the School of Public Health's Nutrition Research Institute left, talks to participants in the 2008 Tar Heel Bus Tour in the four-story atrium of the David H. Murdock core research laboratory building on the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis on the second day of the tour.
   
   
9. Joe and Vivian Bailey, left, show pictures of their 11-year-old son Cameron who has a cleft lip. The Baileys have participated in Victory Junction's family weekends.
   
   
10. Dr. Steven Zeisel, center, director of the School of Public Health's Nutrition Research Institute left, points out the UNC-Chapel Hill building (left) to participants in the 2008 Tar Heel Bus Tour on a visit to the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis on the second day of the tour. The 125,000 square foot building will have laboratory space for UNC-Chapel Hill researches on the first three floors. The campus is a 350-acre hub of biotechnology nutrition and health research. At right is a building that will house research space for North Carolina State University.

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