Name: Brianna Chan Major: Environmental Health Sciences Expected graduation date: 2022 Why did you want to go to China and South Korea?  China and South Korea are both rising leaders in the green sector, regarding clean technology development and innovative … Continued

View slideshow Over the past year, the Institute for the Environment’s Center for Public Engagement with Science (CPES) has teamed up with teachers from Northside Elementary School to create a curriculum that will engage third through fifth grade students with … Continued

This fall, eight UNC faculty members will participate in a five-day intensive course that will explore the operation, safety, federal regulations and data collection capabilities of drones for environmental research. Susan Cohen, associate director for UNC’s Institute for the Environment … Continued

Inaugural Molchanov Scholars Cassidy Harding ’19 and Dylan Burns ’21 discuss their summer internships in this Postcard from the Field. Funded by a $1 million gift from Pavel Molchanov, the program matches undergraduate students with environmental internships where students can … Continued

Is there a connection between wildfire occurrence and debris flows (landslides) within that previously burned area?  University researchers in partnership with state and federal officials are working to answer that question in North Carolina.

A team of air quality monitoring experts will soon kickstart the development of a state-of-the-art emissions testbed to enhance current air quality forecasting systems produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). Leading this team is B.H. Baek, a research assistant professor at the UNC Institute … Continued

On May 22, nine undergraduate students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University set out on a three-day retreat to explore the coast of North Carolina and broaden their knowledge and appreciation of … Continued

The UNC Institute for the Environment (IE) will host twenty middle and high school teachers from across North Carolina for a professional development institute to explore the future of the electric grid June 25-27. These teachers are enrolled in IE’s … Continued

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Environment (IE) recently joined the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Schedule to offer environmental services to federal government agencies. “The GSA Schedule is a different way of doing business … Continued

This summer, the selected undergraduate students from UNC and NCCU will be completing 10-week research internships with faculty in the UNC School of Public Health, Departments of Geography, Geological Sciences, and Marine Sciences, and the NCCU Department of Environmental, Earth, … Continued