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E3P major, Diamond Holloman receives IME Doctoral Candidacy Award

January 16, 2019

Environment, Ecology and Energy Program PhD candidate Diamond Holloman recently received the prestigious IME Doctoral Candidacy Award. Associate Professor of Geography at UNC, Dr. Gabriela Valdivia nominated Diamond Holloman for the award. The Initiative for Minority Excellence (IME) focuses on the retention and … Read more

E3P Major, Erin Spencer wins Three Minute Thesis competition

October 31, 2018

E3P graduate student Erin Spencer competed in the 2018 Three Minute Thesis completion and won. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic competition where participants have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research project … Read more

E3P major, Emily Kian, competes for international startup prize

October 4, 2018

Student startup pitched business to world leaders at the United Nations headquarters Current Carolina students Eliza Harrison, Lucy Best and Emily Kian will pitch their startup company to world leaders at the United Nations headquarters this weekend. By Korie Dean, University … Read more

Well Said: Battle Grove Restoration

September 27, 2018

The gentle stream that flows beside McIver Residence Hall hasn’t always been part of the campus landscape. It just looks as though it has. A pipe beneath the street combined with the natural path of rainwater and nearby springs presented … Read more

Southern Research Circle Poster Session

September 7, 2018

What do subsurface property rights and flood recovery efforts have to do with colonial Spanish Louisiana and the southern gospel of “good roads”? Thank you for joining us at CSAS for a research poster session featuring the Center’s 2018-19 grant and fellowship recipients. … Read more

Energy and Water Faculty Cluster Hire

August 17, 2018

The College of Arts and Sciences at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting five outstanding tenure track faculty at the assistant or associate professor rank to expand interdisciplinary programming in the environment.  This recruitment strategy will … Read more

Student shows how wetlands impact fishing communities

July 17, 2018

Institute of Marine Sciences graduate student Shelby Ziegler talks about her research on different marsh habitats. https://wcti12.com/news/local/student-shows-how-wetlands-impact-fishing-communities

Carolina To Cristóbal: what you can’t learn in the classroom

June 20, 2018

Recent graduate Haley Moser ’18 thought she could study the environment through computer models and virtual simulations. Then she went to the Galápagos. https://campaign.unc.edu/story/carolina-to-cristobal/?utm_source=now_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180620we&utm_content=haley_moser_title 

Marsh Madness

June 13, 2018

North Carolina’s marshes continue to fragment every day. Carolina Ph.D. student Shelby Ziegler attempts to rebuild them by gathering data from the healthy wetlands that remain — a feat she often tackles in the middle of the night. https://www.unc.edu/discover/marsh-madness/