Reprinted from North Carolina Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Center Dana Brown Haine works for a major research university that is on the cutting edge of scientific discovery. While this research may not have found its way into science textbooks just yet, … Read more
Inspired by her involvement in IE’s Climate LEAP Program, high school senior Grace Baucom produced this documentary that explores how extreme heat affects sustainable farmers in North Carolina’s Piedmont region. Watch documentary
A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill team led by geologist Tamlin Pavelsky has received a $1.5 million grant from NASA’s Earth Science Division to expand a pilot citizen science program to measure lake water storage from North Carolina … Read more
Earth Week will feature several events including a student-led fair in the Pit and a keynote lecture from award-winning climate change communicator and author Susan Joy Hassol. See all #UNCEarthWeek2018 events. The Institute will be hosting Movie Night at the Collider featuring … Read more
Gregory J. Gangi, IE’s associate director for education and a teaching associate professor in the Curriculum for Environment and Ecology, was one of six employees at UNC-Chapel Hill to receive a 2018 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards. The Massey … Read more
David McNelis (Ph.D. ’74) and his wife Gladys Hau McNelis have made a $6 million estate gift to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including support for the Campaign for Carolina. Once realized, the gift will fund initiatives … Read more
Vice Chancellor for Research Terry Magnuson recently announced that Michael Piehler has been named director of the UNC Institute for the Environment. Piehler, an expert on the ecology and biogeochemistry of land-water interfaces and the connection between human activity and the … Read more
Kathleen Gray, UNC Institute for the Environment’s associate director for outreach and public service, recently published a paper in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. In this paper, she proposes a new way to consider how … Read more
What is your name: Felix Evans Major: Environmental Science Expected graduation date: Spring 2020 Why did you want to go to Thailand? I knew coming into college that if I ever studied abroad, I’d want to go to a country that was … Read more
By Jessica Southwell Jessica Southwell is the Project Manager for the Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative. She coordinates the work of the Initiative in six communities in eastern North Carolina that were impacted by Hurricane Matthew. The Hurricane Matthew … Read more
