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Guiding China’s Gilded Age: Helping a giant rethink its urban upheaval
City and regional planning professor Yan Song is helping China rethink its urban upheaval. She directs UNC’s Program on Chinese Cities in the Center for Urban and Regional Studies.
Spring 2013 Features, Issues, Spring 2013
They, Robots: The future is already here
If you haven’t come across a robot lately, it’s because they’re still not very good with people, says UNC computer scientist Ron Alterovitz.
Fall 2012 Fall 2012, Features
The Future of the Outer Banks: Climate change’s effect on N.C.’s barrier islands
Laura Moore uses historical maps, geologic data and computational modeling tools to create simulations that show how the barrier has moved since it first formed about 8,500 years ago, and … Continued
Fall 2012 Fall 2012, Features
Fluid Music: UNC musician explores sounds created by water
When Lee Weisert first heard the chords in “The Rite of Spring” as a high school student, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.
Fall 2012 Fall 2012, Features
Total Immersion: The art and science of water in our world
For more stories about water initiatives in the College, click on the links at the bottom of this story. Water. Life depends on it, and this fall the Carolina campus is … Continued
Cover Stories, Fall 2012, Features
Precious Resource: Scientist saves lives through clean water
Greg Allgood (B.S. ’81, M.S.P.H. ’83), a Procter & Gamble scientist, knew his company had developed a packet of chemicals that could clean dirty water in 30 minutes. The product drew … Continued
Fall 2012 Fall 2012, Features
Oyster Culture: Cultivating the foodways of a Virginia coastal community
Bernie Herman is not a marine biologist, but he knows an awful lot about oysters.
Fall 2012 Fall 2012, Features