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JFK'S HISTORIC VISIT TO ECC 50 YEARS AGOBY DR. JOHN A TUCKER

WORK CONTINUES ON REPUTED BLACKBEARD SHIPWRECKBY JEANNINE MANNING HUTSON

BIOLOGIST FINDS FIRST MONOGAMOUS FROGBY ECU NEWS SERVICES

GEOGRAPHY PROFESSOR APPOINTED RESEARCH FELLOW

NEW ONLINE GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM AVAILABLE AT ECU

MIDDLETON TAPPED FOR TONI MORRISON HONOR

HARRIOT FACULTY RECEIVE ENHANCEMENT AWARD

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ifty years ago, on September 17, 1960, history was made in an unforgettable way

on the campus of East Carolina College. As the Democratic Party’s nominee for the presidency, then Senator John F. Kennedy flew into

Greenville aboard his private jet, the Caroline, for a campaign stop that climaxed with a major rally at College Stadium on the east end of the ECC campus. JFK’s visit on Sept. 17 was the first ever in Eastern North Carolina by a presidential nominee representing a major political party.

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Carolina and the rest of the South had been so solidly Democratic that candidates rarely bothered to campaign personally in the region. However, after the Republican nominee, then Vice President Richard Nixon, had staged surprisingly successful rallies in Greensboro, NC, Birmingham, AL, and Atlanta, GA, the Kennedy campaign felt compelled to devote campaign time to the South or face the real possibility that Southern states would cast their support for the Republican nominee.

Not only was Kennedy’s campaign stop in North Carolina - beginning in Greenville - the first ever for the

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“Alpha Delta Pi Girls” – A delegation of sorority members greet Kennedy at the airport. Courtesy of the Daily Reflector Image Collection.

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region, but it was the first major campaign excursion the Senator from Massachusetts was to make in the South. Before the day was over, JFK campaigned at the Greensboro Airport, in the Charlotte Coliseum and at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh.

Before the College Stadium rally - reportedly attended by some 12,000 people - Kennedy had been greeted by an old PT boat buddy, Joe Butterworth from Bethel, NC. At the airport, Kennedy was welcomed by Mayor Eugene West and presented with a key to the city. A delegation from the Alpha Delta Pi Sorority, including Miss Betty Lane Evans (Miss North Carolina, 1958), was on hand wearing white sailor dresses and “JFK for President” hats to greet Kennedy.

After the airport, Kennedy’s motorcade stopped at Farmer’s Warehouse, north of the Tar River from downtown Greenville. There, the presidential nominee witnessed a mock tobacco auction conducted by the famous auctioneer, Ray Oglesby. Over 1,000 supporters had gathered for Kennedy’s brief appearance. Arthur Tripp, owner of Farmer’s, presented Kennedy with a plaque outlining the basics of the Democratic Party’s farm program.

Upon exiting Farmer’s Warehouse, the Kennedy motorcade crossed the Greene Street Bridge and passed the Sycamore Hill Baptist Church where the C. M. Eppes’ Marching Band, lining both sides of Greene Street, greeted them. The Kennedy

procession turned onto Fifth Street, at the intersection with Greene, and then passed the State Bank Building at Five Points before proceeding to the College Stadium area located at the eastern end of the campus where the Speight, Fletcher and Brewster Buildings now stand.

Traveling with Kennedy that day were a host of prominent Democratic politicians, including the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Terry Sanford; North Carolina’s two senators, Sam Ervin and B. Everett Jordan; then Governor Luther Hodges; and a host of North Carolina’s congressmen, including L. H. Fountain, Harold Cooley and Herbert Bonner. John G. Clarke, Sr., chair of the Pitt County Democratic Party, personally escorted Kennedy to the stage at the Shady Lane end of College Stadium.

Kennedy’s speeches in North Carolina on Sept. 17 did not overlook the historic legacy of Thomas Harriot and the early settlers along the Outer Banks. Alluding to those settlements, JFK pleased the College Stadium crowd by noting that he had come “from a section of the United States which claims to be the oldest section of the Unites States to North Carolina, which is the oldest section of the United States.”

In the prepared remarks for his Reynolds Coliseum address, Kennedy noted how it was in North Carolina that “in 1585 -- one hundred and eight brave men established the first English-speaking colony of the New World.” And while that

colony soon disappeared, that the “daring of those men … has never disappeared from North Carolina or from America.” Those “same qualities of courage and strength and determination,” Kennedy emphasized, were ones he sought to summon for “the conquest of America’s New Frontier….”

Kennedy then highlighted the “historic link” between his state and North Carolina by praising the pioneering spirit of “America’s first settlers – from Roanoke Island in North Carolina, to Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts,” before moving on to more distinctly political themes.

While Kennedy’s understanding of early American history was clearly Eurocentric, there can be little doubt that it was well received by North Carolinians at every stop - Kennedy carried the state by a secure margin of 52 percent to Nixon’s 47 percent. Most impressively, however, Kennedy carried Pitt County with a whopping 78 percent of the vote. Needless to say, the ECC campaign stop had been well worth his time.

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“Kennedy Motorcade” – Kennedy (sitting behind driver) greets a crowd lining the road as his motorcade continues on its way. Note Christenbury Memorial Gymnasium in the background.

TOP LEFT: “Hanging Signs for Kennedy” – On the left, holding the banner, is J. B. Spilman. On the far right is John G. Clark Sr. Clark was chair of the Democratic Party in Pitt County in 1960 and rode in front of JFK in the motorcade approaching ECC College Stadium from the Greenville airport on Sept. 17, 1960. TOP RIGHT: “Campaign Poster” – A campaign poster reads “Kennedy for President.” BOTTOM: “Campaign Support” – Two campaign supporters organize flyers and memorabilia for Democratic candidates, Kennedy and Johnson.

“Kennedy Speaking”

Images Courtesy of the Daily Reflector Image Collection.

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WORK CONTINUES ON REPUTED BLACKBEARD SHIPWRECK Conservators will soon again descend upon the site of a shipwreck believed to be the resting site of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, a flagship of the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

Last year, site archeologists recovered an anchor from the 300-year-old shipwreck. This year’s expedition, which begins Sept. 20 and runs for about six weeks, is likely to yield thousands of pieces that will be brought back to a lab at ECU and studied in the years to come.

The Queen Anne’s Revenge, sunk in the waters of Beaufort Inlet, has been the source of much study since its discovery in 1996. Most associated with Blackbeard, it originally was a French slave ship, called

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R/V Shell Point working on site—This is an image of the NC Marine Fisheries’ R/V Shell Point, which is also the work vessel for the QAR project. Much work is taking place as the sluice boxes are running from the digging below and archaeologists are panning the sediment for smaller finds.

La Concorde, that measured 90- to 100-feet long, with three masts and a crew of 150 to 200 people. Blackbeard captured La Concorde in 1717 and renamed it before the ship ran aground in 1718 near what is today Ft. Macon State Park.

A year after its discovery, work began to bring the artifacts to surface, and authorities hope to have all the wreck’s materials off the seabed by fall 2013, said Dr. Mark Wilde-Ramsing, director of the QAR project.

“We’ve seen some really nice tools, some really nice artifacts — a lot of it we don’t know about until we bring it up,” Wilde-Ramsing said. “We call it peering into the Pirates trove.”

Archeologists and conservators had known about the anchor well before recovering it last year. The careful process of bringing it to the surface began after authorities determined another storm season might dislodge the anchor from its site. (The shipwreck has endured 16 named hurricanes, including Earl, since its discovery within three miles of the coast.)

The anchor was brought up from the Inlet in October 2009 and transported to ECU for cleaning and preservation at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab at the West Research Campus. At the lab, which is a partnership between the university and the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, it was photographed extensively, according to Wendy

Welsh, assistant conservator.

This year, a lot of “little things,” are expected to be recovered, Wilde-Ramsing said. Conservators expect to bring up at least 600 concretions — solid masses of mineral deposits and other materials, on average about a foot in diameter — for scrutiny. The masses can contain artifacts as small as glass beads or as large as cannons.

“About 100 individual artifacts are, on average, associated with each one,” Wilde-Ramsing said.

Once recovered, the work has only just begun. Preserving the artifacts can take years from staff and ECU graduate students from the anthropology, chemistry and maritime studies departments. Concretions may be X-rayed. A cannon must undergo an electrolysis process that has to draw the salts out over two or three years. The process of stabilizing recovered items relies on chemistry as well as archeology and anthropology, Wilde-Ramsing said.

“The problem with these artifacts, particularly wood, is that they’re waterlogged … If you just clean them off, put them on the shelf and slowly dry them, they will completely rot. The iron, on the other hand, is full of salt, will eventually crumble if not treated,” he said.

Then, there’s the detective work, as conservators ask questions: Why was this item next to this one, and what does that tell you about what

people were doing on board the ship?

Wilde-Ramsing said some of an expedition’s haul is often displayed for a brief show-and-tell session before undergoing further study. Last year, the 4-foot-by-6-inch anchor, encrusted with three centuries of sea material, was displayed briefly that month at the N.C. Maritime Museum. The QAR lab also loaned about 80 artifacts to the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh for an exhibit, “Knights of the Black Flag,” that ended in January.

Eventually, the anchor and all of the artifacts will be part of the collection at the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort. Conservators hope to have a major exhibition the museum in 2018 — the 300th anniversary of the sinking.

For now, the work continues. “It really is just like a crackerjack box,” Wilde-Ramsing said. “You never know what the prizes are going to be.” To find out more about the Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck project visit www.qaronline.org.


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Bronze Cannon Sequence—Cannon 25 is a bronze signal gun recovered from the stern portion of the vessel. The cannon was recovered encased in concretion with many iron and lead artifacts surrounding it, which were identified in an x-ray. The cannon possesses a wrought iron yoke that was used for mounting on the side rail of the ship. This cannon is currently undergoing conservation treatment at the QAR lab.

Images courtesy of Wendy M. Welsh, NC Department of Cultural Resources.

Amphibians may be a love ‘em and leave ‘em class, but one frog species defies the norm, scientists have found. A trio of biologists, including two from East Carolina University, have discovered in Peru the first confirmed species of monogamous amphibian, Ranitomeya imitator, better known as the mimic poison frog — a finding that provides groundbreaking insight into the ecological factors that influence mating behavior. The scientists’ work, which is to be published in the April issue of The American Naturalist, may be the most solid evidence yet that monogamy can have a single ecological cause. “We were able to tie the evolution of monogamy and the evolution of biparental care to variation in a single ecological factor, and that’s rare,” said Kyle Summers, an ECU biology professor whose specialties include evolutionary ecology and evolutionary genetics. Summers authored the study with Jason L. Brown, a former ECU graduate student now a

researcher at Duke University, and Victor Morales of Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru. Analyzing data on 404 frog species, the biologists found a strong association between the use of small pools for breeding, and the evolution of parental care, including intensive parental care involving egg-feeding and the participation of both parents. The researchers then focused on the mating and parenting habits of two similar frog species, the mimic poison frog and the R. variabilis, more commonly known as the variable poison frog, that differed mainly in the size of the breeding-pool. They theorized that the differences in parental care and mating system between these otherwise similar species stemmed from the relative availability of resources in the breeding pools. The tadpole of the mimic poison frog grows up in much smaller, less nutrient-dense water pools that form in the folds of tree leaves. They are ferried there after hatching by males, who monitor them in the months following birth.

About once a week, the male calls for his female partner, who lays non-fertile eggs for the tadpoles to eat. The variable poison frog, however, raises its tadpoles in larger pools. Here, as with most amphibians, rearing of the young is handled mostly by the male. To test their theory, scientists moved tadpoles from both species into differently sized pools. Tadpoles in larger pools thrived while tadpoles in smaller pools did not grow. This, the scientists said, means that tadpoles living in the larger, more nutrient-rich pools don’t need the work of two parents as much as their smaller-pond counterparts. Species that raised tadpoles in smaller ponds were more likely to require the skills of both parents. In turn, this likely favored parents who remained devoted only to the offspring that they had produced together. The researchers used genetic analyses based on techniques

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similar to the DNA-based forensic methods used for paternity cases to investigate the mating system of the mimic poison frog. Surprisingly, all but one of the families investigated were completely genetically monogamous. Many animals thought to practice social monogamy have been found through genetic testing to be less faithful than previously believed. Monogamy “turns out to be relatively rare, even in birds and mammals — particularly in mammals — and reptiles,” Summers said. “Finding a frog that has a monogamous mating system was pretty novel for us.” The biologists’ work already has attracted attention from scientific and popular media, both international and national. While the idea that ecological factors — say, scarcity of resources — have contributed to monogamous behavior in humans and other animals is well accepted, Summers cautioned against drawing inferences about human behavior from the findings. “People are interested in whether there are parallels between mating systems of other species and our own,” he said. “Of course, the human situation is so different from other species. It’s somewhat perilous to over interpret the similarities. You can’t just translate it.”

“I am thrilled to join the center,” said Alderman. “The center is an exciting, interdisciplinary environment that will allow me to work with scholars across the campus in a common commitment to sustainable and responsible tourism development.”Sustainability is a growing trend in many industries and is rapidly finding its way into mainstream tourism as well. The increasing popularity of sustainability has led to different understandings of what sustainability really means and how it can be applied, so to help clarify, the ECU Center for Sustainable Tourism has developed a working definition: Sustainable tourism contributes to a balanced and healthy economy by generating tourism-related jobs, revenues and taxes while protecting and enhancing the destination’s social, cultural, historical, natural and built resources for the enjoyment and well-being of both residents and visitors.

During his three-year commitment, Alderman will provide instructional support and student advising for the newly approved Master of Science in Sustainable Tourism, the first interdisciplinary degree of its kind to be offered in the nation. He will conduct individual and collaborative research that supports the center’s “Sense of Place Initiative,” which is a cross-disciplinary concept that recognizes the many ways in which places take on special meaning to people. Finally, he will coordinate network opportunities for the center’s faculty affiliates and broaden the base of affiliated faculty; organize tourism-related panels and paper sessions at professional meetings and public programs; and participate in engagement and outreach efforts with community groups and state agencies.

Alderman is interested in developing the cultural and heritage tourism branch of the center, advancing research on the relationship between place and tourism development and the role of tourist destinations as arenas for the negotiation of identity, social power and memory within communities.

“I am especially interested in studying issues of social equity in tourism as they relate to and impact African Americans in North Carolina and the American South,” said Alderman. “I hope to assist the center in organizing an African American Heritage Tourism Summit that would help black entrepreneurs and community groups gain greater visibility within the wider tourism development landscape.”

Alderman’s excitement at joining the work of the center flows easily from his past and current research.

“Through the center, I will be able to apply my research on race, memory and place in ways that engage the tourism industry and create a dialogue with professionals and the public that would not be possible otherwise,” he stated. “For me, this is a natural step in my intellectual development as an engaged scholar-teacher.”The Center for Sustainable Tourism is believed to be the only such center in the nation fully dedicated to research, community and business engagement, and education and training in sustainable innovations and applications in tourism. In 2007, the center was given formal approval and center designation with the first director assuming duties on October 1, 2007.

Due to its interdisciplinary and collaborative nature, the center works closely with many academic and non-academic units at ECU; with local, regional, state and national governmental organizations; with business and industry; and with nonprofits and travel-related organizations.


Appointed Research Fellow, Center for Sustainable TourismGEOGRAPHY PROFESSOR

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This fall, geography professor and recipient of the 2009 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching, Derek Alderman, not only is teaching his courses in the department but is assisting the ECU Center for Sustainable Tourism, a Division of Research and Graduate Studies. Dr. Marilyn Sheerer appointed Alderman the Center’s Research Fellow in Cultural and Heritage Tourism in April.

Dr. Eric Bailey, professor of anthropology, was instrumental in gaining approval for a new online graduate certificate program that is being offered at ECU. This summer, Bailey presented the idea for the new program in “Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities” at the National Medical Association in Orlando, Florida.

Bailey received ECU approval to implement the new program, which is the only online graduate certificate program of its kind in the US. The program began this fall and currently, three students are enrolled from across the country.

“I feel very fortunate to have received the approval and support of all the ECU committees that reviewed our certificate program, as well as Chancellor Ballard signing off on it, because it shows that ECU will support faculty who try their best to create innovative, applied, culturally-competent, higher educational training programs not only for our ECU students, but also for health and medical professionals in eastern North Carolina,” said Bailey.

Implementation of the new online graduate program may provide a number of potential benefits to eastern North Carolina and the state.“We will have better prepared medical professional and public health administrators who work with ethnic and rural health disparity populations, more participation of ethnically diverse medical professionals and public health administrators being trained in specific areas of ethnic and rural health disparities, and new culturally competent medical and public health programs that will dramatically reduce ethnic and rural health

New Online Graduate Certificate Program Available at ECU

disparities for residents throughout the state of North Carolina,” said Bailey.

Funding for the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities online graduate certificate program is provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration and by a stimulus grant provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Dr. Eric Bailey, director of Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities Gradute Certificate Pogram

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In the letter inviting Middleton to contribute a scholarly essay about Morrison for the festschrift, Middleton is referred to as “respected Morrison scholar,” and was asked to submit an essay about Morrison’s contributions to creative writing or influence on literary criticism.

Middleton has published numerous essays and given many presentations at conferences on the topic of Morrison’s writing, including works related to oral memory and literacy in Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” and her cinematic, written expression in “Beloved.” Middleton also wrote the inaugural essay for the Toni Morrison Society’s newsletter “Notes and Queries.” Middleton’s essay, “Imagining Paradise,” focused on feminine expression, biblical literacy and feminine subtext in Morrison’s seventh novel “Paradise.”

oyce Irene Middleton, associate professor of English, has been invited by the Toni Morrison Society to write a scholarly essay for a festschrift in celebration of Morrison’s 80th birthday. A festschrift is a book of original contributions, compiled to honor a respected academic teacher and writer during his or her lifetime. Morrison, a Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will be honored at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in February 2011, when she will be presented with the festschrift.

J Currently, Middleton writes about significant links between Morrison’s work, images and the cinematic interests of global filmmaking, including Morrison’s re-writing of Aesop’s fables as children’s books. She is working on a book about film as a rhetorical text and a second book on Morrison’s lingering and influential concept of American literary whiteness into the 21st-century.In addition, Middleton serves as the director of Ethnic Studies at ECU. Her program launched the campus Ethnic Studies Film Series in spring 2010. The series includes films that focus on language diversity. Each fall and spring semester, viewers are able to screen a new list of award-winning films by producers and directors from around the world. As an ethnic studies project, the film series encourages ECU students and academic audiences to think about representations of ethnicity in popular and Hollywood films, in their writing and in their personal experiences.

Middleton received her doctorate from the University of Maryland. She joined the faculty of ECU in 2005.

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Harriot Faculty Receive Enhancement Award

Dr. Eduardo Leorri examines sediment gathered during field work performed in Portugal.

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Two Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences faculty are recent recipients of a $5,000 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Eduardo Leorri, assistant professor of geological sciences, will receive the award in the Physical Sciences discipline, and Xiaoping Pan, assistant professor of biochemistry, will receive the award in the Life Sciences discipline. Each award, given for the 2010-11 academic year, will receive matching funds provided by ECU.

“Being a recipient of the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award goes beyond the funds obtained, and strongly encouraged me to further seek national and international funding for my research,” said Leorri.

Leorri’s project aims to provide the first sea-level reconstructions from salt marsh sediments in southwest Europe over the past 500 years. He says a combination of sediment dating techniques will create an accurate temporal framework for the reconstructions, and vertical land movements will be examined using isostatic (GIA) models.

“The resulting high-resolution sea-level curve will be an important supplement to existing instrumental datasets and, importantly, extend these datasets back in time,” said Leorri. “The project will resolve modern rapid rates of sea-level rise. It will determine when modern rates commenced and will support GIA models to identify the source of the current sea-level acceleration.”

Pan, who is studying the biochemical effects of a military compound known as RDX on a particular strand of microRNA says, “Receiving this award is an inspiration to me and I greatly appreciate the opportunity.”

Through preliminary data, Pan’s research indicates that upon expose to the RDX compound, microRNA-206 exhibits a significant up-regulation. This particular strand of RNA potentially targets two important genes; brain-derived neurotrophic

factor and tankyrase 2, which may regulate RDX neurotoxicity and potential carcinogenicity.“The 2010 Powe Award supports our continuous research to validate these two potential microRNA-206 targets and investigate the biochemical mode of action of RDX,” said Pan.The Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards provide seed money for research by junior faculty at Oak Ridge Associated Universities. These awards are intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty and result in new funding opportunities. For the 2010-11 academic year, the Powe Award Committee received 114 applications and awarded 32 grants.

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Dr. Xiaoping Pan, assistant professor of biochemistry.

AccomplishmentsFaculty and Staff

ANTHROPOLOGYDr. Christine Avenarius, associate professor of anthropology, is the recipient of a Research Creative Activity Grant in the amount of $19,739 for the 2010-11 fiscal year. Her project “China in Africa: In Search of Opportunities to Develop Trust and Understanding Among Chinese and Namibian Retail Shop Owners in Windhoek,” will study the interactions between Chinese and Namibian traders in Windhoek, Namibia.

A new book by Eric Bailey, professor of anthropology, was published this spring. “The Cultural Rights Movement: Fulfilling the Promise of Civil Rights for African Americans,” assesses the progress the United States has made in protecting the rights of all its citizens, with an in-depth look at the Obama administration’s proposed initiatives as they relate to the African American community. Issues analyzed by Bailey include discriminatory lending practices; unfair Congressional redistricting; disparities in physician care and health outcomes; the low number of black students, faculty members and coaches in mainstream universities; the high rate of blacks being arrested, convicted and incarcerated; the continual growth of black underemployment and poverty; and the neglect of the reparations issue.

Dr. Benjamin Saidel, assistant professor of anthropology, has co-authored an article with professor Steven A. Rosen of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Negev, Israel. Their article “The Camel and the Tent: An Exploration of Technological Change Among Early Pastoralists,” appeared in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies 69(1): 63-77. In addition, Saidel conducted a short archaeological survey in southern Israel this summer. The purposed of the fieldwork is to college archaeological data on the sedentarization of the Bedouin (pastoral nomads) during the late 19th through mid-20th centuries.

BIOLOGYDr. Alex Georgakilas recently won the 2010 Terasima Award from the Japanese Radiation Research Society for his paper, “Formation of Clustered DNA Damage after High-LET Irradiation: A Review.” Georgakilas was invited to receive the award at the society’s 53rd annual meeting on Oct. 21 in Kyoto.

Dr. David Kimmel, assistant professor of biology, received a $44,284 NSF RAPID Grant this past spring to study the impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Kimmel’s research is a collaborative effort with fellow colleagues, Michael R. Roman at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences and Stephen Brandt at Oregon State University. Their research includes mapping of plankton and fish in the northern Gulf of Mexico to determine the possible chemical and biological impacts of the BP oil spill on the ecosystem.

Four additional biology professors have received funding to study the impacts of the BP oil spill. Primary investigator, Dr. Ed Stellwag, and ECU biology colleagues Drs. Anthony Overton, Xiaoping Pan and Baohong Zhang, recently received an NSF grant of $199,477 for their project “RAPID: Influence of Environmental Crude Oil Exposure on Genetic Mechanisms of Fish Development.” The goal will include categorization of developmental defects resulting from the crude oil and pinpointing the molecular mechanisms behind the sensitivity to embryos during this sensitive stage of life.

Drs. John Stiller and Baohong Zhang have received an award of $148,456 from the USDA for their project “Strengthening the Global Competence of ECU Faculty and Students,” which will provide funds for ECU faculty and students to travel to China and collaborate on biotech projects with Chinese researchers. This award is one of only a few USDA grants awarded to individuals in Harriot College.

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CHEMISTRYDr. Kristen Voytek, general chemistry professor, directed a couple of science camps for 2nd-5th graders and 11th-12th graders this summer. The PIRATES Summer Science Camp, attended by high school students, demonstrated the processes involved in making fireworks. Participants also learned about the chemistry of tie-dying and had the opportunity to make their own tie-dye creations. The ECU Summer Science Camp for 2nd-5th graders taught participants about the properties of temperature, pressure and phase changes using liquid nitrogen, and demonstrated how metals can produce bright colored lights like fireworks.

Dr. Paul J. Gemperline, long-time analytical chemistry professor and former acting dean of the Graduate School, was named dean of the Graduate School this September by Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies Dr. Deirdre Mageean.

ENGLISHDr. Margaret Bauer has published a new book “Understanding Tim Gautreaux.” Bauer presents a study of Louisiana storyteller, Gautreaux, through a survey of his three novels and two collections of short fiction, revealing an insider’s view of Cajun culture among other contemporary writers of the blue-collar American South.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURESDr. David I. Smith, assistant professor of German, has been selected to serve as a Research Ambassador for the 2010-11 academic year through the German Academic Exchange Service’s Research Ambassadors Program. The German Academic Exchange Service is a German national agency that supports international academic cooperation. As a research ambassador, Smith will promote research in Germany, serve as a resource to university offices at ECU, and answer questions from students and peers outside of our geographic area.

GEOGRAPHYThe Geography Department’s Urban and Regional Planning Program has two new assistant professors and a new director this fall. The new assistant professors include Dr. Misun Hur, whose research and teaching interests include public engagement, community development, research methods in social relations, environment and behavior research, planning technology with visualization, urban design, analytical methods, Geographic Information Systems and interdisciplinary research; and Dr. Anuradha Mukherji, whose teaching and research interests


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include urban design, housing, sustainability, disaster recovery planning and land use. Dr. Jerry Weitz has joined the program as associate professor and director, replacing Mulatu Wubneh in the director’s role. Weitz’s publications and research interests include growth management, smart growth, land use planning and regulation, regional, community facilities and environmental planning, intergovernmental relations and applied public policy analysis.

Dr. Ron Michelson, professor of geography, recently was appointed as senior research fellow in residence in the division of Research and Graduate Studies. In addition to maintaining his faculty appointment in the department of geography, Mitchelson will provide divisional representation on key university committees, assistance with divisional operations and research program development.

Dr. Tracy Van Holt, assistant professor of geography, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Marianne Schmink Award for the Outstanding Dissertation in Tropical Conservation and Development, given by the University of Florida. The selection committee writes in an email that they were impressed by Van Holt’s dissertation “The Influences of Landscape Change on the Nearshore Ecosystem in Southern Chile,” because of the scope and multidisciplinary nature of the dissertation, the close collaboration with stakeholders ranging from government agencies to fisheries cooperatives, and the way in which the dissertation fulfilled the TCD mission of bridging theory and practice to conserve biodiversity, promote sustainable resource use and advance human well-being.

GEOLOGICAL SCIENCESDr. Siddhartha Mitra, professor of organic geochemistry, recently was quoted in an online National Geographic article concerning the topic of hurricanes and how they may help disperse the oil produced from the Gulf Oil Spill. Mitra also was researching the effects of the Gulf Oil Spill in late May of this year, when he and graduate student Nidhi Patel and undergraduate student Kirsten Grossweiler conducted a 24-hour research trip off the North Carolina coastline. They were collecting water and sediment samples to be analyzed for hydrocarbons present in samples taken from the Gulf of Mexico after the oil spill.

HISTORYDr. Mike Palmer, professor of history, gave an invited presentation “Osama bin Laden: Poster Child of the Islamic Reformation,” at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC, on Sept. 27. The presentation was simulcast to other Department of Defense locations in Washington, Tampa, FL, and Kabul.

MARTIME HISTORY AND NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGYDr. Larry Babits, professor of maritime history, was recognized at the Army Historical Foundation’s annual meeting this June in Arlington, VA. Babits’ book “Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle

of Guilford Courthouse,” co-authored with Josh Howard, was selected as a winner of the foundation’s 2009 Distinguished Writing Award in the category of Operational/Battle History. Babits and Howard each received a plaque and a $500 monetary award.

Drs. Nathan Richards (Maritime Studies) and Tom Allen (Geography) received an $80,000 grant from the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program this summer. The grant will support archeological inventory of the submerged cultural resources from naval conflicts between German and Allied naval vessels during WWII, which will supplement current historical records. This grant is one of 25 National Park Service grants to preserve and protect significant battle sites form all wars fought on American soil, and is being matched by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a total funding of $160,000.

POLITICAL SCIENCEDrs. Alethia Cook and Carmine Scavo, professors in the Department of Political Science, were named 2010-11 academic fellows by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonpartisan policy institute based in Washington, D.C. Cook and Scavo traveled to Israel this summer to attend an intensive, 10-day course in terrorism studies and learn how democracies can defeat the worldwide terrorism threat. The program, held at Tel Aviv University from May 30 to June 8, included lectures by academics, military and intelligence officials, and diplomats from Israel, Jordan, India and the United States.

PSYCHOLOGYDr. Scott Methe, assistant professor of psychology, was selected last spring as associate editor for two journals in school psychology: Assessment for Effective Intervention, published by Sage, and Journal of School Psychology, published by Elsevier.

In May, Dr. Sam Sears, professor in the Departments of Psychology and Cardiovascular Sciences, attended the annual meeting of the Heart Rhythm Society in Denver, presenting research regarding the role of family and spouses in the psychological and quality of life outcomes of implantable cardiac device


Dr. Tracy Van Holt, geography

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patients. He discussed recent research indicating that spouses often present with more anxiety than the ICD patients themselves, which suggests that family-based interventions for cardiac patients are needed.

Sears also completed taping as a participant on this fall’s seventh season of the PBS show “Second Opinion,” related to the psychological aspects of artificial heart replacement. The show appears on more than 350 PBS affiliated stations across the United States. Sears appeared in last season’s show on cardiac arrhythmias.

Dr. Cecelia R. Valrie, assistant professor of psychology, received a multi-year K01 award this summer for her project “Using Electronic Diaries to Assess Sleep and Pain in Children with Sickle Cell Disease.” Funding for the 5-year award will come to just over $618,000 and is a Mentored Career Development Award to promote faculty diversity/re-entry in biomedical research.

SOCIOLOGYDr. Lee Maril, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Diversity and Inequality Research, has written a new book to be published in March 2011. “The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border” brings 30 years of Maril’s personal observation and investigation to the highly politicized “solution” to border problems. Maril interviews border residents, educational leaders, Border Patrol agents, county officials and many others. He analyzes local, state and federal documents from 1999 to present. Avoiding preconceived ideas, Maril suggests specific public policies requiring thoughtfulness of the human issues involved, political negotiation and inevitable compromise.


Dr. Don Bradley, professor of sociology, is now the Harriot College Associate Dean for Planning. Bradley replaced Dr. Larry Bolen, professor of psychology, who is teaching a DE course this year and will be retiring in August 2011.

Dr. Mark Brinson, professor of biology, will be retiring this fall after more than 35 years of service to ECU and Harriot College.

Dr. Robert Christian, professor of biology, will be retiring this fall after 29 years of service to ECU and Harriot College.

Dr. Holly Hapke, professor of geography, is now the Harriot College Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Distance Education. Hapke replaced Dr. Gregg Hecimovich, professor of English, who is now the Chair of the Department of English at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C.

Dr. Jeffrey C. Johnson, professor of sociology, is the 2010 Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor.

Ms. Kathy Kittrell, chemistry office assistant, retired this summer. Kittrell worked as an assistant to the undergraduate program committee, an assistant to the director of undergraduate studies and as coordinator of chemistry placement exams, along with other general office operations.

Ms. Carol Packard, former Harriot College administrative assistant, is now the Executive Assistant to Mr. Bobby R. Woodard, the Executive Director for Student Involvement and Leadership in the ECU Division of Student Affairs.

Ms. JoAnne Poore, former Harriot College personnel clerk, is now the new receptionist in the Chancellor’s office.

Dr. Gerry Prokopowicz, former interim chair of the Department of History, is now Chair of the Department of History.

Ms. Scott Wells, former Harriot College major gifts officer, is now the Director of Development for Administration reporting to ECU Director of Athletics Terry Holland. Wells will primarily be involved in stewardship, fundraising and solicitation activities with major gift prospects for membership in the Sabre Society/Circle of Excellence.

Images from top: Dr. Don Bradley, Dr Mark Brinson, Dr. Robert Christian, Dr. Holly Hapke, and Dr. Jeffrey C. Johnson


Mr. Franklin Dadmun Kizer (Alumni ‘42, ’49), alumnus of East Carolina Teachers College, teacher, chemist, first State Supervisor of Science for the Virginia Department of Education in Richmond, and a long-time scholarship supporter of Harriot College’s Department of Chemistry, passed away on March 13, 2010, at the age of 93. Kizer was awarded the chemistry department’s “Outstanding Alumni Award” at their homecoming celebration in 2008. Memorials may be made in his honor to East Carolina University Foundation, Department of Chemistry, Franklin D. Kizer Scholarship Fund, Greenville, NC 27858.

Dr. Jan Tovey, professor of English and ECU employee since 1993, passed away on June 12, 2010. In the last 17 years, Tovey taught and mentored undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students in English, and she also served as director of graduate studies, interim director of composition, director of the writing studio and as internship coordinator. She contributed to numerous departmental committees over the years and often served as committee chair. In addition, ECU benefitted from her leadership and service. She was the 2008-09 chair of the ECU faculty, secretary of the faculty from 2003-05 and senator from 2002-08, as well as a member of many University committees, including ones related to the SACS review. Memorials may be made in her honor to the Department of English, ECU Foundations Inc., c/o Department of English – Jan Tovey, Greenville Centre, 2200 S. Charles Blvd., Greenville, NC 27858.

IN MEMORIAM


Promotions & RetirementsFaculty and Staff

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Mr. Franklin Dadmun Kizer

Ms. Andrea Allgood, Chemistry

Dr. Laura Levi Altstaedter, Foreign Languages & Literatures

Dr. Eric Anderson, Biology

Mr. Christopher T. Baker, Sociology

Mr. Michael D. Baker, Psychology

Dr. Tyrell Carr, Biology

Mr. Craig Conticchio, Psychology

Mr. William K. Corbitt, Foreign Languages & Literatures

Mr. Jon Davenport, Biology

Mr. Robert T. Downes, Economics

Mr. Mitchell R. Dudley, Economics

Dr. Ashley N. Egan, Biology

Dr. Andreas Franken, Chemistry

Dr. Grant Gardner, Biology

Mr. Michael M. Griffin, Foreign Languages & Literatures

Ms. Olmanda Hernandez-Guerreo, Foreign Languages & Literatures

Dr. Misun Hur, Geography

Dr. Lee Johnson, Philosophy

Dr. Andrew G. Keeler, Economics

Dr. Aleksey Kletsov, Physics

Dr. Hoitung Terry Leung, Chemistry

Dr. Anuradha Mukherji, Geography

Ms. Megan M. Nelson, Foreign Languages & Literatures

Dr. Melissa Phillips, Psychology

Dr. Michelle Pierotti, Biology

Mr. Kenneth Riley, Biology

Mr. Clifton Ruehl, Biology

Mr. Timothy G. Shortley, Anthropology

Ms. Amy Stockman, Biology

Dr. John Weitz, Geography

Dr. Jarrett Whelan, Biology

Dr. Temma F. Berg, David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, hosted by the Department of English and the Women’s Studies Program

Ms. Melody Bentz, Harriot College Grants Administrator

Dr. Johannes Hattingh, Chair of the Department of Mathematics

Dr. Jeffrey S. Johnson, Chair of the Department of English

Ms. Sherry Lillington, Harriot College Office Assistant

Dr. Luis Yanez-Arancibia, Rivers Distinguished Visiting Professor, hosted by the Department of Biology

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Departmental chairs, distinguished professors and staff

who have joined the college this fall include:

Faculty who have joined the college this fall include:

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Dr. Temma F. Berg, Whichard Distinguished Professor

Dr. Johannes Hattingh,

Mathematics

ECU’s Treasured Pirate Award is designed to reward the special or unique contributions of ECU employees to their college/unit or to the university. The program recognizes any permanent SPA, CSS, or EPA employee within their college or unit. Award recipients receive an award certificate and a gift of their choice from the Treasure Pirate Reward Gift Catalog.

The Treasured Pirate Award program is coordinated by the Staff Development Unit of the Department of Human Resources and is supported through the generous sponsorship of TIAA-CREF.

Congratulations to the Harriot College recipients of the Spring 2010 ECU Treasured Pirate Awards!

Derek Alderman, Department of Geography

Aleeze Banks, formerly of the Department of Psychology

Randy Daniel, Department of Anthropology

Joann Ericson, Department of Psychology

Timm Hackett, Department of English

Cathy Hall, Department of Psychology

Marianne Montgomery, Department of English

JoAnne Poore, formerly of the Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Office of the Dean

Shirley Price, Department of Biology

Chris Riley-Tillman, Department of Psychology

(Treasured Pirate awardees for Fall 2010 will appear in a future issue of Magnetic East.)

SPRING 2010 ECU TREASURED PIRATE AWARDS


UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in TeachingClaudia Jolls, Biology (finalist)

UNC Board of Governors Distinguished Professors for Teaching Shanaz Aziz, Psychology (recipient)John W. Stiller, Biology (recipient)Peter L. Francia, Political Science (finalist)Chad Ross, History (finalist)

ECU Alumni Association AwardsAnthony Capehart, Biology (finalist)Alison S. Danell, Chemistry (finalist)Michael Gross, History (finalist)

ECU Scholar-TeacherErik Everhart, Psychology (recipient)Randall E. Parker, Economics (recipient)Michael J. Spurr, Mathematics (recipient)

Five-Year Award for Excellence in Research/Creative ActivityKyle Summers, Biology (recipient)Walter Robert Scott Curtis, III, Geography (recipient)

Centennial Awards for ExcellenceCategory of “Ambition”Tom Allen, Geography (recipient)Karen Mulcahy, Geography (recipient)

Faculty Receiving US PatentsOrville Day, Jr., Physics andDavid Pravica, MathematicsU.S. Patent # 7,621,875 for “Methods, Systems, and Computer Program Products for Analyzing Cardiovascular Sounds using Eigen Functions”

2010 UNC and ECU Teaching, Research and Service Awards Congratulations to the Harriot College finalists and recipients of the 2010 UNC and ECU Teaching, Research and Service Awards!

Anthony Capehart, Department of Biology“Differential Gene Expression During Synovial Joint Development by Modulation of Matrix Versican”

Alethia Cook, Department of Political Science“Southeast Asian Civil Rivalries: Transitions to Terrorism”

Katherine Ford, Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures“Revising the Stage: The Role of Rewriting in Caribbean Theater”

Richard Hernandez, Department of History“Apocalyptic Dreams and Nightmares: Religion, Politics, and the Socialist Transformation of Rural Russia”

Eli Hvastkovs, Department of Chemistry“Sequence Specific Genotoxicity Sensing: An Electrochemical Approach”

Marie Lounsbery, Department of Political Science“Persistent Intrastate Rivalry in Southeast Asia, 1945-Present”

David Pravica, Department of Mathematics“On the Complete Development of Advanced Differential Equations that Generate Locally-Analytic Wavelet Frames with Applications to Quantum Mechanics”

Thomas Rickenbach, Department of Geography“Preliminary Steps Toward a Climatology of Precipitation Systems in the Carolinas”

Michael Spurr, Department of Mathematics“Cross-Fertilization Between Advanced Differential Equations, Wavelets, and Special Functions with Applications to Quantum Mechanics”

Spring 2011 Thomas Harriot College Research Award Winners Congratulations to the recipients of the Spring 2011 Harriot College Research Awards!

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY AWARDS


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SuccessesCelebrating Student

Five graduating seniors were honored at a reception on May 6 for being named “Outstanding Creative Writers,” by faculty in the English department’s creative writing program. Students honored at the event were Deniz Alemdar, Dawn Allison, Kathryn Jackson, Stephen Mason and Thomas Mock.

At the 2010 Research and Creative Achievement week this past spring, 200 presentations and four winners were chosen in the Social Science category. Two of the four winners were psychology graduate students, Jessica Hauf and Alyssa Cratty.

Spring 2010 graduate, Sean Fleming, who majored in German, is undergoing a yearlong training program with Bosch staff in Germany. After training, Fleming will return to eastern North Carolina, where he will work for the Bosch subsidiary in New Bern.

Anthony “Garrett” Hazelton, graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program, became the first student in the program here at ECU to receive an American Psychological Association-approved internship. His internship, which began this fall, is being held at Duke University.

Ben Hinton, who graduated in December 2009 with a bachelor of arts in French and a bachelor of science in communications, spent the summer giving English lessons in Poland. This fall, Hinton is interning with the US Embassy in Paris, France. Also, he was accepted to the American University’s masters in US foreign policy, which he will begin upon completion of his internship.

This past May, then freshman, Matt Milner, was named one of the Merck General Chemistry Achievement Award winners for 2009-2010. A representative from Merck was present at the chemistry department’s awards and recognition ceremony held on

May 7, to present the special award to Milner.

Research results of a study performed by Alicia Moran, graduate student in the health psychology doctoral program, was presented this summer at the Associated Professional Sleep Society conference held in Texas. Moran, who performed her research at the Pitt County Memorial Hospital sleep center, studies sleep medicine and the factors affecting sleep apnea.

Chadwick “Chad” Spence, a chemistry undergraduate, spent the summer in a competitive internship at Duke Energy Corporation’s Analytical Laboratory in Huntersville. While interning at Duke Energy, Spence participated in hands-on chemistry in a dynamic, fast-paced industrial laboratory environment. He worked directly with scientists in the fields of environmental chemistry, nuclear and fossil station chemistry, and clean water analytical services.

Chadwick “Chad” Spence, chemistry undergraduate


Goals of the DSLC include providing an opportunity for students to develop leadership skills, voice opinions and concerns, promote communication among students and administration, and strengthen ties with alumni.

Activities of the DSLC include regular meetings with the dean, serving on selection committees for college teaching awards or scholarships, serving as ambassadors at college events and participating in fall and spring academic Open Houses.


2010 - 2011 Dean's Student Leadership Council Announced

Congratulations to the 2010-11 members of the Dean’s Student Leadership Council: Binta L. Dixon, Anthropology; Dino Maglic, Biology; Colston K. Nelson, Chemistry; Zachary Joseph Carideo, Economics; Kelly Hunnings, English; Patricia Musileck, Foreign Languages and Literatures; Erica N. McCarthy, Geography; Scott Elkins, Geological Sciences; Kristin A. Gray, History; Christian W. Potter, Mathematics; Jennifer M. Johnson, Philosophy; Matthew N. Stump, Physics; Chelsea S. Roach, Political Science; Benjamin M. Noble, Psychology; and Dorothy Castillo, Sociology.

The Dean’s Student Leadership Council is a committee of students (one from each department in the college) whose purpose is to facilitate interaction between students and the dean on various issues of importance, enriching the university experience of all students in the college and promoting involvement in college activities.

STUDENTS

November 2 – “Frankenstein”Dr. Temma Berg will present "Frankenstein: Engendering a Text , Embodying a Text" at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 2, in Wright Auditorium at East Carolina University. The lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Thoma Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Women's Studies Program. For additional information, visit www.ecu.edu/wost.

November 5 – “Spam Allstars” ConcertThe Miami-based band “Spam Allstars,” will perform at 8 p.m. in Wright Auditorium. Tickets are free to ECU students and $10 for the general public. Tickets are available through the ECU Central Ticket Office by calling 1-800-ECU-ARTS. The event is sponsored by “Art without Borders.”

November 9 – “Reinventing Christianity”Dr. Matthew Fox will give the Jarvis Lecture on Christianity and Culture in the 2010-11 Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series. Fox will discuss “Reinventing Christianity,” at 7 p.m. in Wright Auditorium. This event is free to all in attendance. For additional information, visit www.ecu.edu/voyages.

March 24, 2011 – Voyages: Thomas Harriot LectureMs. lebame houston, Elizabethan scholar and historian for the Roanoke Island Historical Association, will give the Thomas Harriot Lecture in the 2010-11 Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series. She will present, “A Briefe and True Report of The Lost Colony Drama in the New Found Land of Virginia.” For additional information, visit www.ecu.edu/voyages.

April 4-8, 2011 – Research and Creative Achievement Week 2011

EVENTSTHOMAS HARRIOT COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES


Physics Dr. John Sutherland, Chair

Political Science Dr. Brad Lockerbie, Chair

Psychology Dr. Kathleen Row, Chair

Sociology Dr. Leon Wilson, Chair

Anthropology Dr. Linda Wolfe, Chair

Biology Dr. Jeff McKinnon, Chair

Chemistry Dr. Rickey Hicks, Chair

Economics Dr. Richard Ericson, Chair

English Jeffrey S. Johnson, Chair

Foreign Languages and Literatures Dr. Frank Romer, Chair

Geography Dr. Burrell Montz, Chair

Geological Sciences Dr. Steve Culver, Chair

History Dr. Gerry Prokopowicz, Chair

Mathematics Dr. Johannes Hattingh, Chair

Philosophy Dr. George Bailey, Chair

African and African American Studies

Asian Studies

Classical Studies

Coastal Studies

Ethnic Studies Great Books

Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

International Studies

Leadership Studies

Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Multidisciplinary Studies

Neuroscience

North Carolina Studies

Religious Studies

Russian Studies

Security Studies

Women’s Studies

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THOMAS HARRIOT COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS

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