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general social sciences
- Where the Trail has Led: Carolina’s stories of American Indians.
- Tuned In: The TV is on. What are your kids learning about sex? (fall 2006)
- Virgin Valedictorian or Sexual Sophisticate? (fall 2006)
- Video Games and the Brain: Can the things we watch really change our behavior? (fall 2006)
- What Happens Back Home: We think we know their stories. (spring 2006)
- Safe Isn't an Option: This undergrad didn't come to Haiti for a comfortable view from high on a hill. (fall 2005)
- Are We Down on our kids? (fall 2005)
- Helping Soldier's Families: The Citizen-Soldier project. (fall 2005)
- The Dark, Ragged Wound: How do we heal the scars of family violence? (winter 2005)
- A Culture Emerging: Latino life and labor take hold in North Carolina. (spring 2004)
- Tales of Floyd: Stories after the storm. (spring 2004)
- Measuring Up: $70 million for social science. (winter 2004)
- A License to Live: Putting the brakes on teen accidents. (fall 2003)
- In The Public Interest: Research with North Carolina in mind. (fall 2003)
- Living with Ice: Tallying the cost of North Carolina’s 2002 ice storm. (spring 2003)
- Brazil’s Untold Stories: Domestic servants tell it their way. (fall 2002)
- Not Just Black and White: Latinos add spice to a student’s old neighborhood. (fall 2002)
- After 9-11: Carolina thinkers reflect. (winter 2002)
anthropology
- Sorcerer, Seer, Psychopomp: Shamans are even stranger than we’d thought. (spring 2007)
- Pent-up Passions: Food and sex in post-socialist China. (fall 2002)
- The Nature We Share: Will preservation cost the Maasai their culture? (fall 2002)
- The Nature We Share: Anthropologists say survival is a matter of give and take. (spring 2002)
- Maps from the Mist: Saving space for the mountain gorilla. (spring 2002)
- Service and the City: An anthropologist seeks the Fayetteville outsiders don’t see. (winter 2002)
- The Story in the Bones: They say the dead tell no tales. Clark Larsen disagrees. (spring 1998)
- Time’s Patterns Pieced: From the iron age to the digital era, researchers take a long view of Burgundy, France. (winter 1998)
- Dialogue: The Mixed Blessings of Technology: Is the public disenchanted with science? Paul Jones and Judith Farquar weigh in. (fall 1995)
archaeology
- Bathing Beauties: Ancient Greece and the culture of clean. (winter 2007)
- Settlements Unearthed: Carolina archaeologists explore two Catawba Indian settlements. (fall 2003)
- Digging Crete: A Grecian city destroyed around the sixth century... (winter 2003)
- The Ash of Ancient Hearths: Human remains reveal the unspeakable. (winter 2001)
- Treasures Untold: The wreck of the Queen Ann’s Revenge lies just off the coast of North Carolina. Historians and archeologists are learning more about her and her captain—Blackbeard. (fall 1999)
- The Ghost Field: Occaneechi Indians are rebuilding the village of their ancestors, thanks to finds from a Carolina dig. (winter 1998)
city & regional planning
- Made for Action: Neighborhoods that get us going keep us fit. (winter 2004)
- Loved to Death: The rise and fall of the American elm. (fall 2003)
- The Lessons of Fran: What can we learn from a devastating storm? (spring 1999)
- Sustainable Development: It’s a balancing act—meeting the needs of people today while saving resources that others will need in the future. (fall 1996)
communications
- Auction Fever: Culture, collecting, and desire. (winter 2008)
- A Twist on Pop: Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays on Popular Culture by Lawrence Grossberg. (winter 1998)
- Speaking in Tongues: As he studies black culture, Michael Dyson speaks the languages of academic, public intellecutal, and minister. (fall 1995)
economics
- An Industry Trying to Land on its Feet: How North Carolina textiles can survive the import flood. Second in a two-part series. (spring 2005)
- When the Needles Went to China: After a perfect storm hit the textile industry, a mill town lost more than its jobs. First in a two-part series. (fall 2004)
geography
- Land for Those who Work It: For Brazil’s farmers, the world isn’t flat. (fall 2007)
- Bragg’s Butterflies: Critters and conservation at an Army base. (spring 2007)
- The People’s Guelaguetza: The fight for democracy in southern Mexico. (spring 2007)
- DamNation: Let my rivers go. (winter 2007)
- Defending the Galapagos: Invaders threaten Darwin’s enchanted isles. (winter 2007)
- Here there be Dragons: Researchers use GIS to map human footprints over the years. (spring 1999)
- Rattled: Your response to an earthquake may depend on your culture. (winter 1998)
linguistics
- Words and Kids: How a child grasps a verb. (spring 2007)
- Grammar in a Pile of Sand: Laura Janda’s offbeat approach to Slavic languages. (spring 2003)
political science
- The Reasons for Rebellion: The real causes of unrest in Iran. (winter 2008)
- Darwin’s Dissenters: Why does the evolution debate rage on?(fall 2007)
- The Conflicted Voter: Do we really put our votes where our values are? (winter 2007)
- Will it Ever be Safe to Go Home? For many Sudanese, the risks still outweigh the rewards. (fall 2006)
- The Doctor is In: Andrew Reynolds takes the pulse of new democracies. (spring 2005)
- Lessons for Rebuilding Afghanistan: Beyond reconstruction, one country must rise from ruins. (fall 2004)
- Why Women Don’t Run: Are Voters Ready at Last? (fall 2004)
- Purging Paper: Streamlining presidential appointments. (spring 2002)
- Politics and Passions: The unfinished business of democracy. (fall 2001 )
- When Life is Not Peaches ’n Cream: What can be done to recover the value of people who know how to work? (fall 2000)
- The Farther The Better: Research in distant lands is an adventure. It’s also a way to reinvent yourself. (spring 2000)
- The Way Across: Who will enjoy the fruits of Vietnam’s not-so-free market? (fall 1998)
- Rethinking Security in a Changed World: PoliSci undergrads rewrite the book on security and defense. (winter 1997)
psychology
- Why be Happy? How positive emotions do us good. (winter 2008)
- When Does School Start? Earlier than you might think. (fall 2004)
- The Mysteries of Memory: When do we start to remember? (fall 2001)
- Inside the Young Mind: Learning how learning works. (fall 2001)
- Anxiety Disorders: Treatment is all in the family. (spring 2001)
- The Nature of Nurture: In these three stories, researchers tell us that nurturing has its own basis in biology, as does the bond between parent and child. (winter 2001)
- Pulling Together or Pulling Apart: Why do decent people behave indecently when they are banded together in groups? Why do groups compete, even when doing so will cost them? (fall 1999)
- Kids Get the Picture: Changing the focus for kids at risk. (winter 1999)
- Is Day Care Good Enough?: Carolina research studies bring mixed news for parents concerned with the impact of day care on their children. (spring 1998)
- Finding Their Way in a Visual World: How do visual impairments affect the motor and social skills development of young children? (spring 1998)
- Stress and the Immune System: Donald Lysle and his colleagues have discovered some of the critical links between stress and the immune system—yes, stress can make you sick. (fall 1996)
- The Sixth Sense: People talk about their experiences with the unexplained. (spring 1996)
sociology
- Gender and Math: The gender myth in math. (spring 2002)
- Children of the Great Depression: A re-issue of a book that inspired a theory of social change. (spring 1999)
- A Woman’s Place: Howard Aldrich compares female entrepreneurs with their male counterparts. (winter 1998)
- The Paths of Choice: Using a map of Nang Rong, researchers discover that road conditions and contraceptive choices are closely related. (winter 1998)
- Darker Skin, Longer Odds: A national study finds that color still matters in the job market. (fall 1995)
- Women, Work, and Welfare: Debunking some myths about public assistance. (fall 1995)
social work
- How is Work First Working?: The early reports on welfare reform. (spring 2002)
- Common Sense, Communal Action: For Craig White, social work and the environment flow together. (spring 1999)
- Losing Touch: Dennis Orthner uses a survey called the Family Strength Index to track the well-being of North Carolina families. (winter 1998)
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