Prof's research cited among top discoveries of the year

Research on animals' use of magnetic fields for orientation by a visiting assistant professor of biological sciences, Larry C. Boles, was cited by Discover magazine as one of the top 100 scientific discoveries of the year. Boles published the work with his doctoral adviser, Kenneth J. Lohmann, professor of biology at the University of North Carolina.

Boles' research was ranked 65th among the year's top 100 discoveries in a recent issue of Discover. His article "True Navigation and Magnetic Maps in Spiny Lobsters" was published in the Jan. 2, 2003, issue of Nature.

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