UNC Institute for the Environment (IE) Board Member Frances Seymour (’81) and her husband, Michael Kopetski, a former Congressman from Oregon, hosted nearly 30 guests in their Washington, D.C., home May 23 for a meet and greet with incoming IE … Read more
The UNC Institute for the Environment’s Highlands field site was recently featured in a photo essay in Endeavors, a publication by UNC Research. View the full photo essay
On Monday, May 14 at 12:56 p.m., a citizen scientist texted a lake level measurement for Great Lake in the Croatan National Forest, North Carolina, marking the milestone 1,000th measurement for the NASA-funded Lake Level Monitoring Project. Great Lake is … Read more
The Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) held its first biannual CMAS Asia-Pacific Conference in Beijing, China, May 21-23. The event attracted more than 300 attendees from around the world, including nearby Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the Philippines. … Read more
By David Salvesen and Christian Kamrath David Salvesen, is a research associate with the UNC Institute for the Environment and the director of the Sustainable Triangle Field Site. Christian Kamrath is a graduate student in the UNC Department of City … Read more
By Brandon Bieltz Adapted from the University Gazette Watch video For the more than 6,000 students sitting in a sea of Carolina blue in Kenan Stadium on May 13, the journey to graduation was anything but easy. There were … Read more
Thailand field site alumnus Steven Tulevech represented a team of UNC-Chapel Hill students who won second place overall at the 2018 State Energy Conference of North Carolina on April 17-18 with a research poster titled “Life Cycle Assessment: A Multi-Scenario … Read more
What is your name: Brianna Small Major: Dramatic Art and Environmental Studies (Sustainability Track) double major with minor in Hispanic Studies Expected graduation date: May 2019 Why did you want to go to the STFS? I was interested in the … Read more
Amid stations of matching smells to graphics, blowing bubbles and building molecules out of candy, families and children were learning about the science behind a serious emerging public health issue in the United States—vaping. Vaping is the act of inhaling … Read more
By Martha Scott Tomlinson and Paige Bommarito Martha Scott Tomlinson (left) is a doctoral student at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. Paige Bommarito (right) is a doctoral student at the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global … Read more
