University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

support her financially, and her dream was put on hold. In 2012, she was granted her green card allowing her to attend Alamance Community College and graduated with honors. She recently began her journey in the nursing program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel…

Hunting and Gathering, the good, the bad, and the ugly. We all have our favorite foods, likely a McDonald’s Big Mac Burger, or perhaps, Subways Original Sub. But have you ever wondered, what’s in the food you eat? Or where it came from? If it’s even real food? My guess is, no. No, because, truth is, we don’t want to know. We don’t want to know, that by eating the food we do, we’re the very people causing pollution. We don’t want to know, that the animal who gave its life so you could enjoy your…

As the elected leader of the United States, the President’s job is to represent the nation as well as the American people. Chief of state, chief executive, chief diplomat, and chief administrator define just a few of the various capacities the president is required to fill, all while maintaining a solid reputation and serving as a quintessential example of what it means to be an American. The citizens of the United States have consistently proven to have high expectations of the president,…

Introduction Legally pedestrians in the United States always have the “right of way” when interacting with vehicle traffic, and therefore factors like location should not impact pedestrian safety. We wanted to observe if there are any location-based norms of pedestrian-driver interactions and assess whether these differences suggest different allocations of road sharing between pedestrians and drivers. A 2005 paper by Kameda, Takezawa, and Hastie, examines an adaptationist approach to social…

Inside Your Brain,” Claire Maldarelli explains the neurological effects of LSD and highlights a new study about potential pharmacological advances due to LSD. Brian Roth, one of the study’s authors, is a pharmacology professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is studying the neurological effects of LSD and the drug’s properties. LSD is unique among other hallucinogen drugs; its effects are last the longest, clocking in at 12 to 18 hours. Roth and his colleagues have found that…

and no one truly knows what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. In 1585, around 20 years before the famous settlement of Jamestown, the first English settlement happened. This settlement was called the colony of Roanoke which is modern day North Carolina. Roanoke like most colonies had a rough start when they suffered from Indian attacks and lack of food. The colony decided to send their mayor, John White, back to England to get more food for the colony. When White returned to the colony in…

(2015). A Cold, Hard Look: Focus Group Analysis of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, Honor’s Thesis, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (-- removed HTML --) . Easley, D. and Kleinberg, J. (2010). Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World, Cambridge, Massachussets: Cambridge University Press. Garcia, A. (2015). Content Marketing Campaigns vs. Programs: What You Need to Know, Red Bamboo Marketing,Red Bank,New Jersey…

1. Your research paper is due at the end of this week. What did you learn about your research topic? Share your major findings with the class. I learned many things from my research topic that about terrorism and its effects domestically & abroad from many respects (impact on nations, financially, policy, etc.) Yet, the main things I truly learned about my topic is how the prevalence of terrorism can truly setback a nation financially for many, many years. On top of that, terrorism can be…

Library is the central library for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, it is the primary resource for all students, and was completed in February of 1984. Around this time, the Wilson Library was closed for renovations. This led to a transition for thousands of students who relied every day on the vast wealth of information that, at the present time, was only available through a library. These changes brought upon difficulties for the university employees, the students and faculty…

On October 27th, 2016, I attended the lecture "Healthcare Reform and the 2016 Elections: What Happens to Obamacare After Obama?" delivered by Dr. Jonathan Oberlander from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Dr. Oberlander was brought to FSU through the combined efforts of the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy and the Pepper Institute to share his expertise in the topic. He is a professor of Health Policy & Management and is the chair of Social Medicine and his talk…