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Carolina Stories

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Heat mapping for change

4 min read

This Royster studies oysters

Carolina women's soccer team members jump with glee on the soccer field.

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Because of you: 2024 giving highlights

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

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Inaugural Kenan Galapagos Fellows launch new research

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

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Flowing together

Ruitian Yan leans against a railing facing the camera outdoors.

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Community-based climate research

Haley Plaas researches if blooms correlate with poor air quality.

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Algae in the air

Amy Kryston sits in front of her computer, running data.

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Studying septic systems

Two students work in a field.

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Crouching researcher, hidden sparrow

Emily Harmon holding a net while standing on a thigh deep water level lake

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Plasticity and evolution

UNC PhD student Riley Vickers stands in front of a pond at Carolina's North Forest.

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Membranes and Modeling