Summer couldn’t come fast enough for Boston-area families in 2013. Three months removed from the Marathon bombings, people were eager to distance themselves from the assault on their city. The Browns were no different. In mid-July, Jeff Brown, his wife, Carolynne, and their 6-year-old son, Grant, came to North Carolina to visit Carolynne’s parents at […]
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Cuts to UNC degree programs could threaten education grads
If you peruse the list of the 46 UNC System degree programs that are on the chopping block, half contain the word “education.” As a former university administrator, I see the problem as not strictly political, but also structural. The way the review process is conductedand how “low-productivity” is definedpenalizes some students seeking certain teaching […]
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Duke’s Bob Lefkowitz wins the Nobel Prize
Biochemistry 101: a glossary Receptor A structure found on the surface of cells, or within cells, that recognizes external signals and triggers responses. Examples of these external signals include hormones, nerve chemicals and allergens. Receptors can also be stimulated by light, sound, pressure, touch and chemicals that give odors their smell and foods their taste. […]