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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

  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 … Continued

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. … Continued

  “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 … Continued

Name: Caroline Hall Hometown: Oak Ridge, NC High School: Northwest Guilford High School Major(s)/Minor(s): B.S. Environmental Sciences | Minors: Geographic Information Systems and Information Sciences Expected Graduation: May 2017 University highlights, achievements, awards: Deans List   I chose to attend … Continued

by Cinnamon Moore Jason West, an associate professor in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, studied civil and environmental engineering as an undergraduate, but it wasn’t until he was a graduate student that he found his passion—climate change. … Continued

Air quality analysis center receives contract worth up to $10.2 million to continue, expand operations (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Oct. 20, 2016) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Environment has been awarded a seven-year … Continued