Responding to the challenge of developing resilient communities as the world faces more frequent and severe extreme weather events, Kathleen Gray and Dana Haine of the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Center for Public Engagement with Science were recently awarded … Read more
Coming Full Circle On the morning of Friday, September 13, The Great Hall in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union was abuzz with excitement as students gathered to learn more about the Circular Economy. The Institute for the Environment and … Read more
Faculty members from UNC-Chapel Hill got a first-hand look at the work done by the school’s Institute for Marine Sciences (IMS) in Morehead City during a tour of the Neuse River Thursday.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Environment is hosting its 18th annual Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) Conference Oct. 21-23 at the university’s Friday Center. The annual conference has become an international hub and … Read more
The G. Timothy (’80) and Jessica Hope (’07) Pate Environmental Science Field Program Scholarships, or simply the Pate Scholars Program, recently received a renewal in its funding. The Pate Scholars Program is a need-based scholarship opportunity that helps reduce the … Read more
Connecting Teachers with State Parks This summer I had the opportunity to work for UNC Institute for the Environment through an APPLES service-learning internship. I primarily worked on the “A Park for Every Child” project for the duration of my internship position. … Read more
UNC Institute for the Environment‘s Center for Public Engagement with Science along with UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health‘s Center for Environmental Health + Susceptibility maintains a disaster response + recovery resource for NC. In recent years, hurricanes and tropical … Read more
During their summer break, elementary school teachers from across the state braved the rain and the heat to learn environmental education techniques from specialists with the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation and the Institute for the Environment’s (IE) … Read more
As part of the Institute for the Environment, the UNC Clean Tech + Innovation Program has launched a storytelling platform called, Clean Tech Stories. The content will bring the topics of global and regional transformation to life through student travel … Read more
Each year, Americans slurp up 2.5 billion oysters. They’re an important part of coastal cuisine, and in North Carolina alone the fishery is worth about $4 million dollars. But there’s more to the acclaimed Eastern oysters than meets the eye. … Read more
