By Alexandra Grant IE’s IDEA Program (Increasing Diversity and Enhancing Academia) was well-represented at the 2016 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall meeting in San Francisco. This NSF-funded program provides undergraduate research experiences to underrepresented minority students in the geosciences through … Read more

Name: Michael Muoio Hometown: Cary, NC High School: Green Hope High School Major(s)/Minor(s): B.S. Environmental Science: Concentration in Renewable Energy, Business Minor, Chemistry Minor Expected Graduation: 2017 University highlights, achievements, awards: Dean’s List, 2015 NextEra Energy Resources Fellow, 2015 National … Read more

A team of researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University are studying contaminants in the waters near the Lumber River and its tributaries after heavy rains from Hurricane Matthew caused extreme flooding and impacted a large swath of eastern … Read more

By Cinnamon Moore UNC’s Institute for the Environment recently joined up with the U.S. Forest Service to initiate a renewable five-year joint venture, based in IE’s headquarters in Chapel Hill. The goal of the newly established relationship is to foster … Read more

Carolina graduate and Institute for the Environment Board of Visitors member William E. Easterling has been selected to lead the Directorate for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation. His new post supports fundamental research spanning the atmospheric, earth, ocean and … Read more

By Alex Grant Greg Gangi, a joint faculty member in the Institute for the Environment (IE) and the Curriculum in Environment and Ecology, and the associate director of education for IE, said it is time to stop focusing on problems … Read more

Canoeing down the banks of the Coharie River recently as part of a Capstone Course, UNC-Chapel Hill senior Daniel Barnes-Batista said, was the kind of educational experience he could never get at a desk.  Capstone courses at Carolina, which can be major-specific … Read more

  Dear UNC Environment readers, As an Institute, we are committed to solving environmental, energy and development challenges through research, education and outreach. For years, IE has printed UNC Environment newsletter with the impact on the environment at heart. We … Read more

Gregory Characklis, professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of the Center for Watershed Science and Management in the UNC Institute for the Environment, has been named the Phillip C. … Read more

  “It inspires me every year to think that a 9 gram bird is going to fly 2,000 miles and go spend the winter on a coffee plantation in Nicaragua and then fly back to North America to breed–and it … Read more