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• Health: It's Over Your Head

  - 2004-10-18

  An estimated 150,000 kids suffer a sports-related concussion each year. With soccer and football season in full swing, here's what you can do to help your son or daughter stay safe: Get the right equipment. Last year U.S. Soccer and the National Association of High Schools allowed soccer players...

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• Video tutor?(News Watch)(Facetop)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-09-01

  VIDEO TUTOR? A new videoconferencing system called Facetop brings people and computers even closer. Created by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the system superimposes the user and the user's desktop, allowing the person on the other end to feel like he...

  Tags: Desktops, E-learning, HARDWARE, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, University of North Carolina, video

• Piedmont--September: "Nepheline Syenite Fillers".(Society Reports)

  - 2003-11-01

  A moment of silence was held in memory of Martin Lucas, of Grace Davison, who died recently. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Society Education Chair, Ron Obie, of the Wood Coatings Research Group, discussed the possible funding of a research internship in ...

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• BYU student, grads win science awards

  - 2003-04-24

  PROVO -- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships have been awarded to a Brigham Young University senior and five graduates. The award, given to college seniors and first-year graduate students studying science, mathematics or engineering, comes with an $18,000 stipend for a 12-month tenure. In addition, $10,500 is...

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• UNC-Charlotte Opens Multicultural Resource Center - University of North Carolina - Brief Article

  - 2000-09-28

  CHARLOTTE, N.C. A new multicultural center is open on the University of North Carolina-Charlotte campus. The UNCC Multicultural Resource Center, inside the university's Cone Center, is designed to provide social, cultural and educational activities and resources to the campus community and the general public. The 670-square-foot center includes...

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• FHWA and NTHTSA Develop Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis Tool - United States. Federal Highway Administration; United States. National Transportation Safety Board - Brief Article - Product Announcement

  - 2000-03-01

  FHWA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have developed a Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Analysis Tool PBCAT through the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center HSRC. PBCAT is a software product intended to assist state and local bicycle coordinators, planners, and engineers with identifying problem intersections and...

  Tags: administration, Databases, HARDWARE, National Highway Traffic Safety, pedestrian, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, Storage, tool, Transportation, University of North Carolina

• Researchers Working on 3-D Video Conferencing.

  - 1999-05-14

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 14 -- Sometime in the not-too-distant future, video conferences may be so realistic that people on opposite ends of the planet will appear in three dimensions to sit in the same office. Sounds like science fiction, but...

  Tags: 3D, Components, computer, HARDWARE, image, PRODUCTIVITY, Projectors, researcher, University of North Carolina

• A Prescription for Electronic Learning at University of North Carolina, School of Medicine.(Acer America's Extensa Scholar Series notebook computers)(Product Information)

  - 1999-01-01

  These days the success of the University of North Carolina's Tar Heels on the basketball court and football field takes the spotlight away from the equally impressive success of an even more important UNC team composed of medical students. Playing on the larger field of the ...

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• 100,000 visitors projected this year to Southern Regional Electronic Campus

  - 1998-07-15

  CHAPEL HILL, N.C.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 15, 1998--Atlanta - The nation's most visited campus - expected to attract 100,000 visitors this year - does not have a single parking space.The Southern Regional Electronic Campus - an electronic marketplace of courses - had more than 100,000 hits on its Web site...

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• Technology transference: using Dow Jones News/Retrieval across two universities. (University of North Carolina at Charlotte and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse)

  - 1992-05-01

  Students at two diverse universities, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, benefit from the employment of Dow Jones News/Retrieval, an online information service. The service provides students with a compendium of information that includes news wire services, company and industry information, stock market quotations...

  Tags: Charlotte, Components, computer, Dow Jones & Company Inc., HARDWARE, Modems, PRODUCTIVITY, University of North Carolina