In response to requests from state and local partners following Hurricane Florence, the UNC Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility (UNC CEHS) has compiled a list of online environmental health resources to assist communities who are recovering and rebuilding. The … Read more
Emily Liu, an alumna of the Institute for the Environment’s 2017 Climate Leadership and Energy Awareness Program (Climate LEAP) and a senior at East Chapel Hill High School (ECHHS), recently received the President’s Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) from the U.S. … Read more
Kate Fialko is an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is pursuing a degree in Environmental Science with a minor in Information Science. Kate works with the Environmental Finance Center at UNC (EFC) … Read more
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Environment is hosting its 17th annual Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) Conference Oct. 22-24 at the university’s Friday Center. The annual conference has become an international hub and … Read more
By Megan Hoert Hughes On July 25, 2018, more than 130 undergraduate researchers from fourteen different programs came together for poster and oral presentations at the 4th Annual Summer Undergraduate Pipeline Research Symposium hosted by The Graduate School at UNC-Chapel … Read more
By Joseph Delesantro Joseph Delesantro is a Ph.D. student in ecology at UNC-Chapel Hill. The Jordan Lake Reservoir was completed in the early 1980s to prevent flooding and allow for greater growth and economic opportunities in the region. Today the … Read more
Eighteen 4th and 5th grade teachers from North Carolina got their feet wet, literally, learning about how to incorporate outdoor education into their classrooms at the 2018-2019 kick-off of ExPLORE NC, a teacher professional development program. ExPLORE NC is an … Read more
Agriculture Technologies: Produce More with Less Produced by Aaron Williams, Chase Porter, Jintong Wu and Kelly Williams North Carolina at the Forefront of Solar Energy Produced by Rob Gourley, Margaret Hassell, Jack Davidson and Jonathan Gonzalez View more videos from … Read more
By Michael F. Piehler Scientists have documented many benefits of living shorelines, but until now there have been no studies on their capacity to remove nitrogen from the water, a natural process called denitrification. The ability of living shorelines to … Read more
This spring, I participated in a senior capstone class with students in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program (E3P) and led by the Institute for the Environment’s Andrew George. A capstone is an engaged scholarship course that allows students … Read more
