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Research in the Capital

NC Senator Charler Carter (Dem. - District 28) discusses SOHP research with Jacquelyn Hall (center), Kathryn Newfont, and others

On April 1 2001, scholars from the SOHP shared their work with the General Assembly and its staff at the first annual "Research at the Capital" symposium. During the symposium, legislators heard from undergraduates and faculty who offered their findings on a wide range of social, economic, and cultural topics including increasing mass transit use in the Triangle, the success of Latino community-owned credit unions in Durham and Charlotte, factors in the economic growth of North Carolina counties, the educational needs of at risk children, changes in the ozone layer, and the challenges facing the North Carolina hosiery industry. SOHP director Jacquelyn Dowd Hall offered remarks during the proceedings, Kathy Newfont presented her work with "Listening for a Change," and Ann Quarles, a UNC undergraduate whose senior honors thesis involved an oral-history based study of the service oriented A.P.P.L.E.S. program.

Patricia Pukkila, associate professor of biology and director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at Carolina, organized the symposium around the idea that students learn best when they use research to find creative and effective solutions to pressing questions. Other participating members of the UNC community included Kerry Bloom, professor of biology, and Russell Taylor, research professor of computer science, who both used the symposium to further their involvement with undergraduate research. This year's symposium included students from the UNC Triangle universities and UNC Asheville. In the future, the symposium will include students and teachers from other branches of the UNC system.





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