Cassandra R. Davis studies the impact of natural disasters on schools and communities, particularly at the K-12 level. Now the public policy professor is turning her attention to the impact of a global pandemic on first-generation college students.

The new Center for Resilient Communities and Environment is working with NC communities to understand their vulnerability to increasing environmental threats and develop strategies to strengthen resilience.

UNC researchers are working on three areas related to COVID-19 prevention and treatment: a vaccine, an antiviral drug, and monoclonal antibodies, which use cells from recovered patients to help others.

How will COVID-19 affect the already vulnerable coastal communities preparing for the 2020 hurricane season? UNC environmental anthropologist Caela O’Connell unwraps this question in her new research project.

Thanks to an NSF RAPID Grant, an interdisciplinary team of researchers will use mathematical models and simulations to uncover the real-time mobility of SARS-CoV-2 virus-like-particles in fresh, undiluted human airway mucus to learn how to reduce infection in the lungs.

In the first COVID-19 case series of the drug tocilizumab in the United States, Carolina researchers and students report that the drug should be used judiciously until randomized clinical trials determine its true efficacy for severely ill patients.

UNC sociologist Alexandrea Ravenelle is interviewing 200 precarious workers — gig platform workers, creative freelancers, and essential low-wage workers in drugstores and grocery stores — to uncover how the pandemic is impacting their lives now and, ultimately, in the long term.

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media professor Steven King is an expert in using emerging technologies. In this special edition of “Focus Carolina,” he explains how COVID-19 is jump-starting the future of remote work.

In a recent study, UNC epidemiologist Nabarun Dasgupta analyzed location data from 65 million mobile devices to understand the public health impact of social distancing at a county level across the United States.

Alexis Dennis and Nathan Dollar, both predoctoral trainees at the UNC Carolina Population Center, compared recent COVID-19 mitigation measures and policy responses of Georgia and North Carolina to understand consequences for the people within these states.