May was National Asthma Awareness Month and Neasha Graves and Megan Hughes, Community Outreach and Engagement Core (COEC) educators, were busy conducting several NIEHS-funded asthma and healthy homes activities and trainings around the region. On May 7, the COEC presented … Read more
Dana Haine, Program Director for IE’s Climate Leadership and Energy Awareness Program, gave a virtual presentation titled Empowering Pre-college Students to Engage in Climate Change Solutions to members of the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness (CLEAN) Network, an informal group … Read more
On Saturday, March 15, the IDEA High School Geoscience Students traveled to Newport News, VA to visit the Virginia Living Museum. Students learned about the hydrology and geology of the Chesapeake Bay, the Appalachian Mountains, and the Virginia Coastal Plain. … Read more
The UNC Institute for the Environment—jointly with the UNC Superfund Research Program, Duke Superfund Research Center and the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources (IJNR)—is hosting 18 journalists from around the country March 3-8 on a learning expedition to explore … Read more
On February 22, 2014 IDEA High School Geoscience students attended Saturday Academy 3. We were joined by IE’s Dr. Lindsay Dubbs for marine science exploration at Nags Head, NC. We also worked with Beky Branagan, from Outdoor Afro, who led … Read more
Dana Haine, ERP’s K-12 Science Education Manager, presented a session titled “Utilizing partnerships with scientists to enhance teacher capacity to address the Next Generation Science Standards” at the Fall 2013 AGU meeting in San Francisco. This presentation featured ERP’s work … Read more
ERP staff presented multiple sessions at the 2013 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) regional conference in Charlotte, NC and the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Approximately 150 teachers participated in the following interactive sessions: Epigenetics: … Read more
Dr. Mike Aitken presented an invited lecture, “Challenges in understanding and influencing the biodegradation of PAHs in contaminated soil,” at the 21st International Symposium on Environmental Biogeochemistry in Wuhan, China. Dr. Aitken and his team in the UNC Superfund Research … Read more
A recent article published in the journal Epigenetics highlights the work of several UNC Superfund Research Program investigators and trainees interested in identifying how prenatal exposure to cadmium can influence newborn DNA and ultimately, long-term health. Cadmium is a known … Read more
On October 22nd, twenty-one science teachers from across NC participated in a day-long workshop titled, Using the iPad in Science Instruction and Energy Education. During this workshop, participants received hands-on training from a trained Apple educator and learned how to … Read more
