The UNC School of Government’s Criminal Justice Innovation Lab has received $500,000 in new funding from the Charles Koch Foundation. To date, the Lab has received more than $1.6 million in funding from the Foundation.
Treating pregnant women with substance use disorder is complex, but a one-of-a-kind collaboration in NC that allows providers to work together is showing promise.
Kimalee Dickerson is conducting a qualitative research project examining the experiences of women of color — particularly Black women — working in local and state government in North Carolina.
The funding will support diversity and rural care programs at the school and throughout North Carolina.
Madison Milotte used a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to study how increasing temperatures affect the pupation of cabbage white butterflies.
While studying small mammals in the Blue Ridge Mountains, juniors Marie Young and Cole Prezant discover a love for field work.
A $45K award from the UNC Health Foundation for Whole Community Connection established with a gift from the Kenan Trust will allow researchers from the UNC-Chapel Hill Schools of Pharmacy and Public Health along with community partners to expand current work on adult mental health to include children.
Military families living at Fort Liberty (formerly Fort Bragg) are now enjoying healthier food thanks to the work of the Fort Liberty Public Health Partnership, a collaboration between the Fort Liberty Department of Public Health (DPH), Cumberland County DPH, UNC-Greensboro, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and UNC Lineberger.
Postdoctoral researcher Jiaqi Zhou and her faculty colleagues at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have identified toxic chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the air close to a fluoropolymer manufacturing plant in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Leaders from a Sampson County, North Carolina, community welcomed Assistant Professor Courtney Woods into their local environmental justice efforts.