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Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Provides information about its facility, services, treatments, clinical trials and psychosocial support programs.
Institute of Government
Conducts local government training, consulting and research. Site includes course lists and link to subscription-only daily summary of North Carolina legislation.
Research Laboratories of Archaeology
Research on Native American culture and archaeology.
Institute on Aging
Includes interactive learning tool, news, programs, and aging facts and figures.
Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning
Involved in various aspects of people with developmental disabilities. Site includes faculty and staff information.
Center for Developmental Science
A consortium of several North Carolina universities, researches developmental theory related to mental health. Site includes information on fellowships, international exchanges, and summary of research.
Carolina Population Center
Research on population issues, including family, fertility, and children and population diversity and inequality. Site includes descriptions of center sub-divisions.
Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center
Coordinating center in School of Public Health for multi-center public health and medical studies. Provides statistical, data management, quality assurance, and study management services. Site includes information about numerous studies.
Triangle Institute for Security Studies
Promotes communication, education, and research in national and international security. Site includes conference briefs and description of programs.
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
Activities focus on child development and health, especially factors that may put children at risk for developmental problems. Site includes online publications, personnel directory and information on environmental ratings scales.
Highway Safety Research Center
Activities include exploring ways of making roads safer for pedestrians and bicyclists and researching the effects of aging on driver performance. Site includes safety information, list of publications and news.
Injury Prevention Research Center
Has a mission to build the field of injury prevention and control through a combination of interdisciplinary research, intervention, and evaluation and to train the next generation of researchers and practitioners. Site includes fact sheets about different kinds of injuries and descriptions of research project.
Odum Institute for Research in Social Science
Offers various services to social science faculty and graduate students, including a large data archive, grants, research design and computing. Site includes instructions to access downloadable data archive, including Harris and Roper public opinion data.
Marine Sciences Program
Works in areas of Marine Biology & Ecology, Marine Chemistry, Marine Geology, and Physical Oceanography. Site includes course list and detailed faculty biographies.
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies (UNC-CH)
University research center interested in the causes, prevention and treatment of alcoholism and alcohol abuse.
Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology
Uses multidisciplinary approaches to study the effects of inhaled agents on diseased and healthy human subjects following exposures in environmental chambers. Site includes list of publications 2001 and after.
UNC-CH Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Center
Patient-Centered research, training, and treatment center for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and other functional GI disorders
UNC Gene Therapy Center
Located within the School of Medicine, has a goal of merging molecular genetics research with healthcare delivery. Aims to ensure that investigators have promising gene vectors available in the quality and quantities needed for preclinical or clinical studies. Site includes links to several labs and raw spreadsheet data.
Thurston Arthritis Research Center
News, faculty, research, development, patient information, clinical trials, fellowship information.
Neuroscience Center
Offers neuroscience research with a specific emphasis on developmental, cellular and disease-related processes.
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research
Aims to research and affect policy on the accessibility, adequacy, organization, cost and effectiveness of health care. Site includes detailed list of research areas, announcements about available data sets and links to some publications.
Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
Joint venture between Duke, UNC, and NC State for research in electromagnetic nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, few-nucleon systems, neutrino physics, and fundamental symmetries.
The University Center for International Studies
Develops international, cross-disciplinary research initiatives, with a theme of Globalization and the American South. Site includes news, and a searchable database of the faculty's international experience.
Center for Research on Chronic Illness
Conducts nursing research through 24 federally-funded projects, a pilot study program, and a range of services to advance research on preventing and managing chronic illness in vulnerable people. Site includes publication abstracts and news on European Union.
Center for the Study of the American South
Includes online exhibits, links to UNC southern history resources, and information aoout programs, including the Southern Oral History Program.
Center for Urban and Regional Studies
Researches urban, regional and rural planning and policy issues. Site includes newsletter, publication list, and working papers from 2000 onward.
Center for European Studies
Mission is to advance understanding of the social, political and economic events that shape contemporary Europe. Site includes links to publications, and an events calendar.
Institute of Latin American Studies
Encourages research and teaching of Latin American subjects, and sponsors a summer intensive language program in the Yucatec Maya language. Site includes information on library holdings and annual film festival.
National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research
Collects and dissemenates death and permanent disability sports injury data that involve brain or spinal cord injuries. Site includes annual reports of football injuries and data tables.
The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
Includes newsletter and course brochure.
Tissue Culture Facility
Part of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, it is dedicated to the support of in vitro cell culture and molecular biology research. Site includes links to cell databases.
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