Endeavors, April 1996

Cover photo: Fred Brooks, winner of the 1995 Bower Award, and graduate student Juraj Horacek study a fragment of a synthetic protein. The program they use allows researchers to experiment with twisting the bonds between amino acids to learn why the protein takes on a certain shape. Photo by Will Owens.

COVER STORY

Virtually Real: A History of Future-Building

Inspired by the legendary Fred Brooks, who recently won the prestigious Franklin Award for his pioneering work, the Department of Computer Science is creating some new realities for the digital age.

Sidebar: Making the Images Fly

Sidebar: The Driving Force

DEPARTMENTS

NEWSMAKERS: A Team Whose Goal is Women's Health

A newly funded program targets breast cancer.

Sidebar: A Three-Way Attack on Breast Cancer

DIALOGUE: Should Government Provide Funding for the Arts?

VITA: A Profile: Chuck Stone: The Journalist as Ombudsman

On June 23 the Olympic torch will travel down Chapel Hill's Franklin Street to Carrboro's town hall on its way to the Atlanta games. Chuck Stone will take a turn carrying it. Here's more about this renowned journalist.

MARKETPLACE: The Mismatch that Leads to Detection

CAROLINA OPINION: The Sixth Sense: People talk about the unexplained

VANTAGE POINT: Why Social Work?

FEATURES

Sobering Effects from the Lowly Kudzu

Studies show a plant extract may combat alcoholism.

Science and the Face of a Child

The Craniofacial Center's blend of research and special care.

Sidebar: Looking for the Causes

It's Down to Earth for Gertrude Stein

A biographer finds the human in a legend.

Power Protein

Researchers study how to control class II MHC, a protein with an important role in the immune system.

Endeavors is published by the Office of Research Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Each issue of Endeavors describes only a few of the many research projects undertaken by faculty and students of the University.

We welcome letters to the editor, comments and story ideas. Requests for permission to reprint material, readers' comments and requests for extra copies should be sent to Editor, Endeavors, Office of Information and Communications, CB #4100, 307 Bynum Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-4100, (919) 966-6023, endeavors@unc.edu.

Editor: Neil Caudle

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