IDEA 2.0 students from UNC-Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University are participating in a series of “Geoscience Intensives” over the course of the Spring 2018 semester. On January 26, students toured the campus of the National Institute of Environmental … Continued

The NSF-funded IDEA 2.0 undergraduate geoscience program has launched a series of Saturday Intensives, to take place during the 2017-2018 academic year, designed to introduce students to geoscience research happening throughout the Triangle and beyond. Each experience is planned so … Continued

Over the past five years, the Increasing Diversity and Enhancing Academia (IDEA) program provided meaningful research experiences to 42 undergraduate students and geoscience focused science enrichment programming for 105 high school students. The program achieved its goal of increasing the … Continued

Twenty high school students from Durham, Orange, Chatham, and Alamance counties recently spent a week conducting hands-on activities to examine society’s current use of energy and the technological solutions that will support a low-carbon future at the Energy Literacy, Engagement … Continued

On April 27, six undergraduate geoscientists presented posters at the 18th annual UNC Celebration of Undergraduate Research. The students – Karylle Abella (Mentor: Carol Arnosti and JP Balmonte, Marine Science), Ricardo Garcia (Mentor: Joel Hudley, Geology), Will Larsen (Mentor: Xiaoming … Continued

On Saturday, April 1, faculty and students from two NIEHS-funded centers in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health – Superfund Research Program (SRP) and the Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (CEHS), with assistance from the UNC Institute … Continued

On Sat., Feb. 25, forty high school students from IE’s Climate Leadership and Energy Awareness Program (Climate LEAP) and the Increasing Diversity and Enhancing Academia Geoscience Program (IDEA), along with Action Fellows with the Alliance for Climate Education (ACE), joined … Continued

On January 4, more than 100 UNC students, faculty, staff, and community members joined Dr. Jason West, Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at UNC Chapel Hill, in a Carolina Science Café conversation about global climate … Continued

In their December newsletter, the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership’s (APNEP) featured a collaboration with UNC-IE’s Environmental Resource Program (ERP). Over the summer, twenty 8th-12th grade science teachers spent four days exploring the sounds and the sea at the Trinity Center … Continued

On Tuesday, April 18th, UNC students and faculty gathered at Frank Porter Graham Student Union for the Seventeenth Annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research. The purpose of this event, hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), is to recognize and … Continued