August 2001 Archives

August 2001

N.C. Botanical Garden has fun fall planned, with new classes, exhibits, trips (Aug. 31, 2001)
New study: law officers promote gun locks, but don’t seem to like using them (Aug. 31, 2001)
Exhibitions highlighting exemplary collections to open Sept. 9 at UNC's Ackland Art Museum (Aug. 31, 2001)
New research shows workplace homicides more likely at smaller businesses open late, Saturdays (Aug. 29, 2001)
CDC official’s Wednesday talk kicks off yearlong seminar series on genomics and public health (Aug. 28, 2001)
New study to compare digital, film mammography in massive $26.3 million effort to save women’s lives (Aug. 28, 2001)
UNC project aims to help people with life-limiting illness (Aug. 28, 2001)
Environmental program opens Burch Field Research Seminar site in Manteo (Aug. 27, 2001)
English professor to speak on North Carolina pottery (Aug. 24, 2001)
Things to know about the South to be topic of Sept. 9 lecture (Aug. 24, 2001)
Things to know about the South to be topic of Sept. 6 lecture (Aug. 24, 2001)
‘World Foods’ seminar in Cornelius to address need for more diverse training (Aug. 24, 2001)
UNC scientists develop new way to calculate proteins’ stability; study may influence protein design for drug development (Aug. 24, 2001)
Gray-Little, Allred named to key posts in provost’s office (Aug. 23, 2001)
UNC to hold open forum on development plan Sept. 10 (Aug. 23, 2001)
Moeser to give ‘State of the University’ speech Sept. 5 (Aug. 23, 2001)
Slave narratives, now complete online, offer insights into what slaves endured (Aug. 23, 2001)
New multidisciplinary program for prostate, other urologic cancers at Lineberger center (Aug. 21, 2001)
Retirement doesn’t slow UNC fungi expert Kohlmeyer or stop his award-winning work (Aug. 21, 2001)
WUNC-FM to shift format to all news, information programs (Aug. 20, 2001)
Promoting travel safety on UNC campus to be focus of new awareness campaign (Aug. 20, 2001)
New volume, ‘Free to Die for Their Country,’ tells Japanese-American draft resisters’ story (Aug. 17, 2001)
Fallfest alcohol-free street fair to welcome students to UNC (Aug. 17, 2001)
UNC Center for Genome Sciences to inaugurate new seminar series with help of national experts (Aug. 16, 2001)
Study suggests that restricted diet may not be necessary before screening (Aug. 15, 2001)
Doris Betts reading, salute to writers to open Second Sunday author series (Aug. 15, 2001)
‘Make-A-Planet’ program to introduce children to ‘personalities’ of planets (Aug. 15, 2001)
Fall Back-to-school fact sheet (Aug. 15, 2001)
Renowned South African journalist to teach at School of Journalism and Mass Communication (Aug. 15, 2001)
UNC to conduct first comprehensive survey on American teens and religion (Aug. 14, 2001)
Bull City blues legacy to be honored with historical marker, public ceremony (Aug. 13, 2001)
UNC sociologist wins top book award (Aug. 13, 2001)
Acclaimed fiction writer named to Doris Betts Chair at UNC (Aug. 13, 2001)
Leading Latin scholar named to distinguished professorship (Aug. 13, 2001)
Bus service connects UNC and Duke (Aug. 13, 2001)
New advising survey results show sharp gains in student satisfaction (Aug. 10, 2001)
Weight more closely linked to puberty in preteen white girls than black girls (Aug. 7, 2001)
Planetarium to host free session to observe dazzling meteor shower (Aug. 3, 2001)
UNC airport making safety improvements (Aug. 3, 2001)
W.M. Keck Foundation awards $1 million for nanoscience initiatives (Aug. 2, 2001)
Discovery will change the way researchers look at DNA transcription, scientists say (Aug. 2, 2001)
Federal grant enables biologists to buy state-of-the-art confocal microscope (Aug. 1, 2001)
Law enforcement officers leaving loaded guns unlocked, study shows (Aug. 1, 2001)