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Illustration representing the new Institute for Risk Management and Insurance Innovation, which will accelerate research on extreme weather and cybersecurity, featuring illustrations of a woman walking and icons representing markets, cybersecurity and weather

3 min read

Institute translates environmental threats into financial risks

An aerial shot of the Galapagos Science Center with a beach in the foreground

5 min read

Inaugural Kenan Galapagos Fellows launch new research

Keith Sawyer faces the camera with fun expression and hands in the air; a blackboard with water drop motif is in the background

4 min read

Ask a Professor: Keith Sawyer

A closeup of fingers holding a small fish in a clear plastic sample box

9 min read

From riverbanks to labs

Jinsong Huang stands in a lab next to a window holding a solar panel

3 min read

Ask a Professor: Jinsong Huang

Joe Spencer holds a certificate for a perfect sanitation rating beside his hot dog stand.

4 min read

Blue skies, red dogs and all the toppings

Karen Jordan calling for the UNC crew team as coxswain.

3 min read

Steering toward sustainability

Rada Petric sits on a rock at a campsite with her hands resting on a hiking backpack. A white dog is in the background.

3 min read

Join the BatPack to help conserve bats

A harvest mouse perches on a branch of blackberries.

6 min read

A field guide to small animals

Four people stand along a creek, one person is pointing at the water

6 min read

Restore a watershed, protect an ecosystem

Three men in hardhats stand in a water treatment plant. The man in the middle is pointing at a piece of equipment.

1 min read

Flowing together

Rada Petric releases a bat at night - the bat is in the foreground flying toward the camera

2 min read

Ask a Professor: Rada Petric