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• Saba Centra Enables University of North Carolina at Charlotte to Deliver Engaging, Interactive Distance Learning Programs

  - 2008-03-25

  Professors and Students Participate in Virtual Classrooms That Promote Collaboration and Learning Regardless of Location REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Saba Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:SABA), the premier people management software and services provider, today announced that the University of North Carolina UNC Charlotte, the fourth largest of the 16 institutions within...

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• This Book Provides Full Coverage of Surfaces, Interfaces, and Film Fundamentals for Microelectronics

  - 2008-02-26

  DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c84033) has announced the addition of "Surfaces, Interfaces, and Films for Microelectronics" to their offering. Based on a course taught by the author for over 25 years at the University of North Carolina, this book offers a unique and informative blend of fundamental...

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• Dr. Gary J. Pielak, a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, has received a $2.5 million, five-year Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health

  - 2006-09-01

  Dr. Gary J. Pielak, a professor of chemistry at the university of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, has received a $2.5 million, five-year Director's Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health. Pielak, the first UNC-Chapel Hill scientist to receive the award, will use the funding to study the role of proteins...

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• Almost persuaded

  - 2006-08-22

  ALMOST PERSUADED: The curmudgeonly Will Campbell, a Baptist minister, says that when he went to Yale Divinity School he nearly became a Methodist. He didn't want to take the Baptist polity course because he thought that the professor was boring and that the professor teaching Methodist polity was entertaining and...

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• The unpredictability of revolutions is a lesson that never makes much of an impression on leaders who think that they can manipulate history through force, maintains Charles Kurzman, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at

  - 2005-04-01

  The unpredictability of revolutions is a lesson that never makes much of an impression on leaders who think that they can manipulate history through force, maintains Charles Kurzman, associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since the U.S. seems to be planning a long-term...

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• Can't manufacture time: people overcommit because of poor forecasting.(Outliers)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-04-01

  Many of us have appointment schedules we can't possibly live up to because we make faulty assumptions about the future. Research by two business school professors reveals that people overcommit because they expect to have more time in the future than they have in the present....

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• North Carolina Central University

  - 2005-02-24

  JULIUS L. CHAMBERS has been appointed the Charles Hamilton Houston Distinguished Professor of Law in constitutional and civil rights law at North Carolina Central University's School of Law for the spring semester. Chambers earned a bachelor's from NCCU and a juris doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

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• Mississippi Valley State University

  - 2004-03-25

  DR. MAXINE FUNDERBURK MOORE is the new vice president for academic affairs at Mississippi Valley State University. Moore comes from Johnson C. Smith University where she was a dean and professor of English. She earned a bachelor's degree from Johnson C. Smith University, a master's from the University of North...

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• UNC professors seek memorial to honor late Sen. Wellstone - noteworthy News - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Paul Wellstone - Brief Article

  - 2003-01-30

  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. A professor and a dean at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are seeking a memorial on campus to the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, a two-time Carolina alumnus who died in a plane crash Oct. 25. Dr. Joel Schwartz, an adjunct professor of...

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• Public Funding for North Carolina University Endowments Trails Private Gifts.

  - 2003-01-20

  By Jane Stancill, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 20--Taxpayers have provided millions since 1985 to help North Carolina's public universities attract distinguished teachers and researchers to their campuses. For every $2 contributed by private donors...

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