Gaining Real World Experience Through an Environmentally Focused Internship: The EcoStudio Experience
By Carlisle Shore Carlisle Shore (hometown: Greensboro, NC) is currently a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in environmental studies and political science with a minor in Spanish. She is working as an environmental policy intern with the North Carolina Collaboratory … Read more
Chapel Hill to Azerbaijan: Attending the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Summit
By Maanya Rajesh and Margot Francini Maanya Rajesh (left) is a junior business administration and data science major from Carmel, Indiana. Margot Francini (right) is a senior environmental health sciences and public policy major from Pittsboro, North Carolina. … Read more
Building Resilience: Environmental Research and Policy in North Carolina
By Rose Houck Rose Houck is a rising senior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in Biology and Applied Data Science. For the past three semesters Rose has worked with the North Carolina Collaboratory as an Environmental Policy Intern. Applying Science to … Read more
Pursuing Passions Through Carolina’s Environment and Science Communication Dual Degree Program
By Sarah Padyk A proud double Tar Heel in the making, Sarah Padyk is a master’s student at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media, studying strategic communication. She graduated with distinction in May of 2022 with … Read more
A Closer Look at Flood Plain Buyouts and Environmental Justice Implications
By Ameena Hester Ameena Hester is a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in Public Policy with minors in Environmental Justice and Data Science. She is a National Institute Environmental Health Sciences Connect Scholar and an Environmental Policy Intern with the … Read more
Field-Tripping for Public Health: Water Sampling after Hurricane Florence
By Connor LaMontagne Connor LaMontagne is a PhD student in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC-Chapel Hill. Hurricane Florence and Water Quality Impacts Imagine evacuating your home to escape … Read more
Connecting University Research to Policy
By Steve Wall Steve Wall is a policy research associate with the UNC Institute for the Environment and the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory. In the summer of 2016 the North Carolina General Assembly established and funded the North Carolina Policy … Read more

