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Education
9:11 am
Thu May 9, 2013

Campbell University To Offer Homeland Security Degree

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  • WUNC's Gurnal Scott reports on a first-of-its-kind four-year degree in homeland security being offered by Campbell University.

Campbell University students will become the first in North Carolina to take courses toward a major in Homeland Security.  About 50 students are already on the path to the four-year undergraduate degree. The courses will familiarize them with domestic and international terrorist groups and delve into the background of countries where terror organizations have historically formed.

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Education
2:00 pm
Wed May 8, 2013

Want To Hang Out With Lemurs? Duke Lemur Center Invites Visitors

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A Coquerel's Sifaka lemur at the Duke Lemur Center.
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The Coquerel's Sifaka lemur is the flagship species of the Duke Lemur Center. The center owns all captive animals of this species.
Ring-tailed lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center.
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Lemurs are free to roam the woods in certain areas during warm months, and tours allow people to get within inches of them.
Duke Lemur Center Education Specialist Christ Smith feeds a ring-tailed lemur.
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Education specialist Chris Smith talks to thousands of people a year about the primates. Here, he feeds a ring-tailed lemur a raisin.
Lemurs at Duke Lemur Center being fed.
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Duke Lemur Center keeps about 250 lemurs, and has an additional 118 on loan to other institutions. Mack Deschamps is a lemur technician.
Jovian, a Coquerel's Sifaka lemur who played Zoboomafu in the popoular PBS series.
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The most famous lemur at the center is Jovian, who starred in the popular television program Zoboomafoo. Jovian is 20 years old.
A lemur's tail, trimmed for identification, at the Duke Lemur Center.
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Zookeepers trim certain lemurs' tails in order to identify them.
Duke Lemur Center
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Sprite, named after the soft drink, looks for food. Her tail suffered an injury and had to be amputated earlier this year.
Name tags for lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center.
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Each troop of lemurs is named after a certain theme. This one is soft drinks.
Blue-eyed black lemurs are a rare species at the Duke Lemur Center.
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The Center has about 20 different species of lemurs, including the rare blue-eyed black. This female called West recently gave birth to baby Hiddleston, who clings to her back most of the time.
A school group visits the Duke Lemur Center.
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School groups like this one frequent the center to learn about the animals.
Illustrations by children who've visited the Duke Lemur Center.
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The Center receives 17,000 visitors a year. This walkway is lined with illustrations from some of its younger visitors.
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A Walking with Lemurs tour at the Duke Lemur Center might just seem like an ordinary walk through the woods at first. But at the rustle of a food bucket, tiny, energetic animals begin to descend from the treetops, and you know you’re not walking in any normal forest. Lemurs zip past you at will, some of them with tiny infants clinging to their backs, and there are no barriers between you and the furry primates.

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Education
4:40 am
Tue May 7, 2013

Legislators Take Aim At Local School Boards

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The General Assembly has targeted Wake and Guilford school boards for electoral changes.
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Being on a school board is a little like being the head chef at the local Applebee’s. You don’t get to choose the ingredients and it’s not your recipe, but if someone doesn’t like the Bourbon Street Steak, you’re going to hear about it.

In other words, school boards in North Carolina have relatively little power but plenty of responsibility. And it’s been that way for a long time.

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Education
4:15 am
Mon May 6, 2013

Charter Board Debate Intensifies

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The State Senate will debate the Charter Board bill on Tuesday.
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The State Senate is scheduled to debate a bill tomorrow that creates a separate board to oversee the growing number of charter schools in North Carolina.

Senate Bill 337 has gone through several revisions since it was introduced by Republican lawmakers two months ago. One of the provisions in an earlier bill, for example, removed the requirement that charter school teachers be college graduates. That requirement has since been re-instated.

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