Earth

Earth: Exploring Our Planet

Win-Win

January 19, 2016

The UNC community applauds doctoral candidate Ted Mansfield, who won a Best Paper Award from the Society for Risk Analysis in December for his research on air pollution in the Research Triangle

The Need for Seeds

January 11, 2016

The North Carolina Botanical Garden collects seeds to ecologically restore native plant species after natural disasters strike

On the Front Lines

December 17, 2015

To better understand the severity of this year’s El Niño, UNC oceanographers traveled to one of the hardest hit places — the Galápagos Islands

Breaking the Silos

December 8, 2015

Theorists, experimentalists, and computational scientists will come together to answer grand challenge physics questions at UNC-Chapel Hill’s new CoSMS Institute

Team Science for Turner Syndrome

December 1, 2015

The NC TraCS Institute and a Translational Team Science Award help collaborators uncover what could be the cause of painful chronic ear infections that plague people with chromosomal and genetic conditions

Secret Sauce

November 19, 2015

Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, the only lab of its kind in the Southeast, powers a collaboration among UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State, and Duke for 50 years

Sparking IDEAs in the Geosciences

August 18, 2015

Most young scientists don't get the opportunity to do field work until college. The UNC Environmental Resources summer program is working to change that.

Beat the Heat

April 30, 2015

As summer approaches, Maggie Kovach is finding ways for North Carolinians to avoid getting sick from the sun.

Tracking the Earth’s Heart Beats

March 30, 2015

A team of researchers uses cutting-edge technology to better predict when and how one of South America’s most active volcanoes will erupt.