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-8 THE Seahawk/April 5, 200 1 Professors’ research projects help students Ldrrie Laliberte ■■■ CORRCSPONDENT Full-time professors must do research outside the classroom. UNC A\^lmington oflfers students the opportu nity to woik with professors on research projects de signed to give hands-on learning experience in vari ous fields of study. Chemistry major Tomi Hill has worked in chemis try professor Joan D. Willey’s marine and atmo spheric chemistry research lab for two years. She has learned how to use the high- performance liquid chro matograph, which separates a sample’s chemical compo nents. “Working in a lab has helped me understand the — concepts in my classes because I get first hand knowledge,” Hill said “It makes things easier to visualize.” J. Mari; Galiao, professor of psychology, said he could not “miagine being an effec tive teacher at the university without active research and scholarship.” He and two other faculty members, Julian Keith, associate professor of psychology, and Ray Pitts, assistant professor of psychology, are studying the effects of various drugs on leamingandmemoryusingaratmodel. They have a grant fiom the National Institute on Drug Abuse for the study and are using sev eral graduate and undergraduate students to ^assist them in their nssearch. Galizio is also working with Carol Pil grim, another professor of psychology, on a F/te photo D. Fritz Kapraun project that studies cognitive development in children ages 2 to 11 years old. They have several students working with them ‘ “Research involvement provides students with the best learning oppor tunities available,” Galizio said. “A fascination with learn ing, behavior and the brain in general, and problems of dmg abuse in particular,” said Galizio, are what interested him in his current studies. D. Fritz Kapraun, profes sor of biology, was the first UNCW professor to receive recognition for both his teaching and research. When he first came to the univer sity almost 20 years ago, he chose research projects that would enhance his teaching and help undergraduate stu dents learn by involving them in his woik. Kapraun chose to study seaweed so that he could relate his findings to his botany and marine botany classes. He studied the ge nome of thousands of samples of brown sea weed to see if the genome size was related to how the seaweed developed. He called his research an “architectural portrait,” relating it to his watercolor of a San Antonio land scape. His watercolor told a lot about the area; smiilar to his research on the genome, which is like a portrait of the seaweed. Katherine Bruce, professor of psychol ogy, specializes in animal behavior and hu man sexual behavior She is currently work ing on two research projects involving four graduate students and three undergraduates. They are studying “mate choice in fish TipAl Wilmington's Only Member Owned and Operated Natural Foods Grocery Store Coopecatfve Foocj Macket Z Come see what you've been missingi Fre*h Organic T*roiuce Natural fir Orunic 6rocerie« Culinary Herb# and Spice# Organic and Smoothie &ar Natural Pet Product# Natural Beauty Product# Highest Quality Vitamin# and Supplement# Organic Meat# and Cheese#...and #o much more! 4406 Wrightsville Avenue at Kerr 799-2667 (Gambusia)-mosquitofish, local guppies and understanding aspects of risky sexual behav ior,” she said. The March issue ofPsychohgical Record published her paper on fish mate choice. Bruce said a “long-standing interest in animal behavior, health education and hu man sexual behavior'’ was what prompted her research, which has also included stud ies of hormones and behavior in rodents and primates. “It enhances teaching - to stay active in research projects,” she said. Relay, from page 7 Nurse Christi Mulinax is the team leader for Carolina Oncology Associates in Salisbury. “If you think a little ftmdraising and fif teen hours of walking/running is too much, remember cancer patients live with cancer 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” she said. The first lap of the marathon is dedicated to cancer survivors. Those attending the event can purchase luminaries to line the track through the night Each will display the name of a cancer survivor or cancer patient who passed away. A memorial ceremony will be held during the night Relay for Life began in May 1985 when Dr. Gordon Klatt of Tacoma, Wash, walked around a track for 24 hours and raised $27,000 for the American Cancer Society. The next year, 220 supporters and fellow walkers accompanied Klatt. Since then, the overnight marathon has been held annually all over the country. For more information or details on par ticipation in Relay for Life, call the Ameri can Cancer Society in Wilmington at (910) 343-1711. from page 7 the Division for Academic Affairs, the Col lege of Arts and Sciences and the Leader ship Center. For more information, contact Dr. Kate Bruce, director of the Honors Scholars Pro gram at 962-3374. SEANC scholarships The State Employees of North Carolina Inc. Scholarship Foundation is accepting applications for its annual scholarship prx> gram. Applicants must be enrolled or have applied to a recognized and accredited post- s^ndary school, college, trade school or other institution of higher learning. To ob- ^ ^ plication, call Gloria Crowell, at ^2-2301. The application deadline is April Race, from page 7. tend UNCW because of the basketball pro gram and the reputation of the business school. ‘T did research in my field, which is busi ness, and I knew the Cameron School had a good reputation.. .even within the accredited schools,” he said. Although Green said he has never felt uncomfortable or unwelcome at UNCW, he said that could be because he is from Wihnington and has his family and old fiiends here to support him. “It could be dif ferent for other people,” he said. Junior Eric Smith, a black student, said he sometimes feels uncomfortable on cam pus, depending on the occasion. “Everyday when I’m on campus, I see maybe five black people walking around here,” he said. “1 don’t care, but I do notice.” Many of his fiiends decided to go away to school because they wanted to leave home, Green said. He also said the perception of local high school students has improved since he was in school, since his younger brother, who is still in high school, has lots of fiiends who are going to attend UNCW. Schmidt agreed. “I think [students] think it s a good school, but some of our minority students want a historically black college and then there’s a group of students who want to get out of Wilmington.” Green suggested that a way to encourage minority students to attend UNCW would be to offer more minority students from Wilmington scholarships. Maybe there should be some program for students interested in coming here, espe cially need-based scholarships for students who might want to go to college but can’t get away,” he said. Schmidt said one of the reasons minority students fixjm Wilmington decide to attend UNCW is the good financial aid they can receive. Tt seems we’ve had students in the past who ve gotten good financial aid packages, and that encourages them to go,” Schmidt said. According to a General Administration evaluation of minority enrollment for 2000, black enroUment at historical ly white univer sities is up 1.6 percent from the year before. White enrollment at historically black uni versities is down 6.9 percent, making the to tal number of white students enrolled at his torically black students less than 15 percent the GA’s target enrollment. ‘I would say the UNC system needs to increase its efforts,” Nottingham said. “The university can only plan within (the system’s) restraints, ani f it is doing an admirable job in a city that has its own problems with people who are diflerent.”
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