Meredith Emery, a third-year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pursuing a major in studio art and a minor in geography, was recently selected for the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship. Emery will graduate in December 2019 and … Read more

Jaye Cable (current chair of the Environment, Ecology and Energy Program (E3P) has been named senior associate dean for natural sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences. Her appointment is effective immediately, but she will also remain chair of E3P … Read more

More than three-quarters of private drinking water wells tested in Iredell County had levels of Chromium 6 above the state health screening level, but the source of the compound is unknown. Scientists from UNC Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech, who conducted … Read more

It began nearly two years ago with a cluster of hungry honeybees swirling around a campus trash can. That sight reminded Bryn Walker, then a first-year student, that she had intended to look into Carolina’s Beekeeping Club, one of the … Read more

Michael Piehler, director of the UNC Institute for the Environment, said development has been shown to have an effect on increasing water runoff. “That runoff is the primary source of stormwater,” said Piehler. “That water itself would not be as … Read more

The Environmental Science & Technology journal has recognized “Mitigating the Expansion of Harmful Algal Blooms across the Freshwater-to-Marine Continuum” as one of the “Best Papers of 2018.” Hans W. Paerl, an aquatic ecologist at the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences, … Read more

Jonas Monast directs the Center on Climate, Energy, Environment & Economics (CE3) at UNC’s School of Law. He is focused on aligning energy policy and environmental goals while also studying how today’s decisions will influence the future.

At the House Environment Committee meeting yesterday, lawmakers received an update from the NC Policy Collaboratory about its NC PFAST Network. More than a dozen university scientists are studying the presence, health effects and potential removal treatments of emerging compounds, … Read more

For the last 34 years, the UNC Institute for the Environment’s outreach unit, the Environmental Resource Program (ERP), has been committed to connecting environmental researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with communities in North Carolina. Now, … Read more

At the UNC Institute for the Environment, we believe that great research achieves its full potential only when it moves out of academia and into the world on a scale large enough to effect change. We work to connect environmental … Read more