All Creatures Great and Small
January 17, 2023
Rada Petric's love for nature has led her to study how human presence affects the behavior of small mammals like bats and mice.
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Surveying the Smalls
November 18, 2022
Local biologists team up to study how wetland mitigation affects small mammals.
Algal Rhythms
November 17, 2022
Isabel Silva-Romero studies how ocean temperatures affect the food web on rocky reefs around the Galápagos Islands.
RUNC: Christian Chung
October 12, 2022
Christian Chung researches how to remove “forever chemicals” from drinking water.
Crouching Researcher, Hidden Sparrow
September 27, 2022
Four students spent their summer in Colorado stalking Lincoln’s sparrows in search of answers to fundamental biological questions.
Bewitched by Invertebrates
May 13, 2022
Jared Richards studies bizarre and beautiful sea creatures over 480 million years old.
Galápagos: A Gateway for Global Research
February 8, 2022
For more than 10 years, the UNC Center for Galápagos Studies has been a hub of collaborative research activity spanning many disciplines, with the potential to impact the globe. Diego Riveros-Iregui and Amanda Thompson, the center’s new interim co-directors, strive to use their own experiences from the islands to expand its reach and grow its reputation as a world-renowned research institution.
Searching for Sheepshead
September 16, 2021
Commercial and recreational fishing are important contributors to the North Carolina economy, but there are still lots of unknowns about many fish species. UNC–Chapel Hill PhD student Lewis Naisbett-Jones is trying to unravel some of that mystery by tracking the migration of one popular species in the fishing community: sheepshead.
Hooked on Sharks
July 20, 2021
For the past 50 field seasons, researchers from the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences have collected valuable data on sharks off the North Carolina coast. The survey — among the oldest of its kind in the U.S. — has lasted for decades due to the dedication of UNC researchers, staff, and students.
Dain Ruiz
June 23, 2021
Dain Ruiz is a rising sophomore majoring in biology and a Chancellor’s Science Scholar within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. He studies expansion disorders caused by repetitions in DNA — like Huntington’s Disease, Friedreich’s Ataxia, and Myotonic Dystrophy — to develop therapeutics to treat them.