A team of interdisciplinary researchers at UNC is combining their expertise in areas like human health, ecology, and urban planning to create a long-term holistic plan helping vulnerable communities prepare for the next generation of extreme weather events.
Students in the Pro Bono Program at UNC School of Law are working on a multi-year, multi-pronged effort aimed at providing North Carolinians with the informational tools they need to assess the safety of their well water.
A new study led by Institute for the Environment’s Adam Gold examines stormwater infrastructure inundation and the increase of urban flooding along the east coast of the United States.
UNC researchers receive funding to engage diverse youth in exploring climate impacts and solutions in their communities.
Local biologists team up to study how wetland mitigation affects small mammals.
The Coronavirus Variant Sequencing (CORVASEQ) Surveillance Program, led by a team of UNC researchers, detected the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant in North Carolina. Together, members of the program at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte, Duke, Wake Forest, and East Carolina have sequenced more than tens of thousands of samples from COVID-19 positive patients to track the spread and development of the virus across the state.
CREATE, which is housed in the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, builds new wealth in economically distressed communities through job creation, business growth, useful research and innovative policy.
Last year, UNC-Chapel Hill junior Chloe Hall received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), which she used to continue her research that began in the fall of 2021 at the Highlands Field Site. Her studies focus on microplastics in local rivers and she looks for correlations between storm events and microplastic concentrations in these freshwater systems.
The Coastal Resilience Center has launched a website to help communities plan for and evaluate hazards like hurricanes and wildfires.
In a study by the Nutritional Research Institute in Kannapolis, volunteer participants with cognitive issues consumed wild blueberries daily for six months and their brains’ information processing ability improved.