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UNC touts new hires
with data expertise
BY SETH WRIGHT
STAFF WRITER
The School of Information and
Library Science can now boast the
$lO million research portfolio of a
world-renowned digital informa
tion group.
The Data Intensive Cyber
Environments group, recently
recruited from University of
Califomia-San Diego, collects and
organizes large amounts of data
and keeps it in the most recent and
usable format for use.
DICE’S past projects have
included earthquake simulation
and biomedical brain imaging, but
their UNC undertakings will be
more academically minded.
“We didn’t bring the group here
to operate in a similar environment,
we brought them in to operate in
the academic environment,” said
Jose-Marie Griffiths, dean of SILS.
DICE’S new initiatives might
include genome projects and digi
tal libraries.
When DICE members came to
visit UNC in March, Griffiths said,
student interest was high. ,
“The whole atmosphere seemed
Students gear up to fight
anti-immigrant policy
BY REBECCA PUTTERMAN
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
Instead of merely regrouping
after a three-month vacation, a
student group found itself plan
ning a summit on college access
for undocumented immigrants at
its first meeting of the year.
When the Coalition for College
Access members left in May, their
strategy for fighting anti-illegal
immigrant education policy had
some loose ends.
But one member spent part of
his summer planning a statewide
conference and sprung the event
on the group at Thursday night’s
meeting. _
“I know thatis pot, wfrat yep
expected tonight,” the "member,
senior Nick Anderson, told the
group as members delegated
responsibilities for the summit.
“No, this is what I wanted,”
said junior Ron Bilbao, a coalition
member.
N.C. Attorney General Roy
Cooper’s controversial opinion that
N.C. community colleges should
ban illegal immigrants came days
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to be very energetic,” said Paul
Tooby, community development
coordinator for DICE.
Soon, office space was created,
salaries were offered, and UNC was
able to persuade the world-renowned
group to become Tar Heels.
Four members of DICE will
remain in San Diego working
through a subcontract, but all oth
ers will move to North Carolina
throughout the year.
“Much of the work at DICE is
going to be multi-institutional,”
Griffiths said. “We felt it was actu
ally going to be good for them.”
And much of their work will be
collaborative.
DICE will continue to work on
old projects from the San Diego
Supercomputer Center while tak
ing on new academic initiatives at
UNC.
“Our history is more coming from
the science community,” Tooby said.
“This will open up more of the digi
tal library kinds of collaborations.”
But Tooby also said DICE was
involved with the sharing of their
collected information, creating
data grids that allow people all over
after the spring semester closed,
making it difficult for Coalition for
College Access to take immediate
action.
“We scrambled in May because
we were worried about the summer
session,” Bilbao said. “Now, we have
a second chance.”
Some group members lob
bied legislators and attended N.C.
Community College System meet
ings during the summer. They
returned excited about getting
involved again.
“Our administration and elected
officials aren’t going to stand up for
this, so students have to lead this
so that our friends, our peers,
and people wellon’t e\y n know, in
the fhture will have me. samCeduca
tion that we had,” Bilbao said.
The coalition, composed of ESL
tutors, Latino mentors, migrant
farm worker advocates and immi
grants, is scrambling to plan a
statewide convention at N.C.
Agricultural and Technical State
University in two weeks.
Members plan to reach out to all
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the world to share information in
an organized manner.
Members of DICE that do
move to North Carolina will be
based in Chapel Hill’s Renaissance
Computing Institute, located on
Europa Drive.
“We’re excited to have this very
well-respected, world-renowned
group here,” said Karen Green,
spokeswoman for RENCI. “We
look forward to some exciting col
laborations with the DICE group
and with SILS in general.”
Griffiths said that three mem
bers of DICE already are at UNC
and are becoming more familiar
with the campus atmosphere while
continuing to work on their previ
ous projects.
The group is expected to take on
their new digital creation projects
soon, which Griffiths said will allow
SILS to move quickly.
“That will allow us to raise our
own sights and our own expecta
tions of our own abilities,” she
said.
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recruit a delegation from each school
for the conference.
“We need students to take a
stand choose a side,” Bilbao
said. “The conference is a great
idea to see each other across the
state.”
The coalition also plans to bring
a petition advocating higher edu
cation access for undocumented
immigrants it circulated last semes
ter at UNC and other campuses.
The group hopes to use die sum
mit for forming small enclaves of
students who will lobby the N.C.
General Assembly in January and
present legislators with the state
wide petition from UNC-system
students.
The coalition also wants to lobby
N.C. Community College System
board members before the recon
venes in January. The board voted
earlier this month for a closed-door
policy toward undocumented immi
grants until it conducts an indepen
dent study on the issue.
Contact the State Cf National
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Touch downtown
University and town officials
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downtown. See pg. 1 for story.
Brick and mortar
The Board of Trustees approve
plans for the Innovation Center at
Carolina North. See pg. 3 for story.
Taking the test
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Power of protest
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News
State researches ethanol trees
BY JACKI HUNTINGTON
STAFF WRITER
Research at N.C. State University
could change the face of energy in
the Southeast.
Scientists are studying geneti
cally modified trees to see if they
could be a viable, less expensive
source of ethanol.
Production is still in the early
stages and most experts believe it’s
not quite ready to be a major fuel
source.
The Midwest has explored corn
based ethanol for years, and if this
research proves viable, it could
bring about a more regionalized
approach to energy, said Hasan
Jameel, an NCSU professor of
wood and paper science who is
involved with the research.
'i “We have to learn to use what we
have available,” Jameel said, refer
ring to the Southeast’s wealth of
forest resources.
However, there are many obsta
cles to this scientific venture that
no number of trees can overcome.
“I think the supply’s here; it’s just
a question of getting the technol
ogy” said Eddie Miller, assistant to
the director of the N.C. office of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
And these efforts come up
against a yearly American appetite
for gasoline that ethanol produc
tion can’t meet on its own.
Greg Carlisle, vice president of
Raleigh-based Clean Bum Fuels,
called increased ethanol produc
tion of all kinds the “first step in a
marathon.”
Ethanol production reached 6.5
billion gallons in 2007. Virtually all
that is produced is used as an addi
tive to motor gasoline replacing
an old additive that was found to
contaminate groundwater.
"We are currently filling an exist
ing market demand,” Carlisle said.
A Hoke County ethanol plant
currently under construction by
Clean Burn Fuels will be able to
produce 63 million gallons of corn
ethanol upon its completion in
spring 2009, Carlisle said.
And once the N.C. State
researchers know a bit more about
the genetically-modified trees,
those too will be farmed and con
verted into ethanol in the Hoke
County plant.
Carlisle said only minor modifi
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cations to the plant would be nec
essary in order to work with the
modified trees.
Jameel estimated that the wood
technology could become a viable
commercial fuel option in just five
years.
“I think that in 10 years you will
see 10 percent of our motor fuel
provided by biofuels,” Carlisle said.
However, the marketability of
biofuels depends on the continued
costliness of petroleum-derived
gasoline, he said. Gasoline prices
have been a catalyst for increased
biofuel exploration.
This research was the brain
child of N.C. State professor of for
estry and environmental resources
Vincent Chiang.
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He began thinking about the
genetic modification of trees
twenty years ago, but the idea
then was to create more suitable
wood for pulp and paper produc
tion.
Now the main focus is to produce
ethanol from these trees, which is
easier because of the genetic modi
fications.
His shift in thinking came in
2002 and has since received sub
stantial funding through grants.
He has also collaborated with col
leagues, using other materials such
as switch grass for conversion to
ethanol.
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