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• New ACE president an experienced leader

  - 2008-04-01

  MOLLY CORBETT BROAD WILL BECOME THE American Council of Education's twelfth president on May 1, but she takes the lead as the first woman to head the 90-year-old organization. "It's not only a great honor but a special privilege to serve an organization Like ACE," says Broad, who has...

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• Golden LEAF Scholarship Program Available for N.C. Students

  - 2008-01-29

  To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Robbie Schultz of the N.C. State Education Assistance Authority, +1-919-248-4686, robbie@ncseaa.edu; or Ben Kittner of College Foundation, Inc., +1-919-835-2336, bkittner@cfi.org RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 2008-09 Golden LEAF Scholarship applications are now available at http://www.CFNC.org. Administered by the North Carolina State Education...

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• Fitch Rates Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill $287.6MM General Revs 'AA+'

  - 2007-11-05

  NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA+' rating to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's (UNC-CH) approximately $287.6 million general revenue bonds, series 2007, of the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina. The bonds are expected to be sold on or about Nov. 14...

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• A simple, affordable household filtration device

  - 2007-06-01

  A simple, affordable household filtration device can reduce the incidence of diarrhea--one of the leading causes of disease and death in developing countries--by up to 40%, researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, have shown. 'We can tremendously improve people's health and quality of life if we can...

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• University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill

  - 2006-09-01

  University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, $102,665 Institutional Development Grant from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for "Equipment Acquisition for the R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics Core facility."

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• Fighting death with taxes.

  - 2006-08-21

  Aug 21, 2006 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Higher taxes should be imposed on food and drinks high in sugar. Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina, US, told a meeting of agricultural economists on Queensland's Gold Coast in mid-August 2006 that ...

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• LODESTAR Energy Management Software Implemented at an Educational Facility.

  - 2006-08-01

  PEABODY, Massachusetts, August 1 /PRNewswire/ -- LODESTAR Corporation announced today that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Energy Services group has successfully implemented and started using LODESTAR software. The Energy Services group at the university recently purchased a license for BillingExpertR...

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• IN BRIEF

  - 2006-05-01

  POSTHUMOUS PULITZER Composer and musician Thelonious Monk received a posthumous special citation from the Pulitzer Prize board for his "body of distinguished and innovative musical composition that has had a significant and enduring impact on the evolution of jazz." JAZZ GENIUS Miles Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll...

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• Multi-Level Financial Analysis Of Residential Water And Wastewater Rates And Rate Setting Practices

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  This paper examines North Carolina water and wastewater utilities' rates and rate structures and their impacts on utility financial health, customer financial capacity, and resource use. Unlike other studies, this investigation places rate data into a model that calculates residential charges/expenditures for water and/or sewer throughout the state for any...

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• Race over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900.(Book review)

  - 2006-03-22

  Race Over Empire: Racism and U.S. Imperialism, 1865-1900. By Eric T. L. Love. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xii, 245. $19.95.) This work is a reinterpretation of how race influenced United States imperialism from 1865 to 1900. Previous studies...

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