Supporting State Action on Energy and Climate Issues: Get to Know IE’s Energy Transition Initiative
Alex Hopkins directs the Energy Transition Initiative at the UNC Institute for the Environment. He joined the IE team in July 2022 as a Research Associate and has led the ETI’s efforts since January 2023. UNC-IE’s Energy Transition Initiative: A … 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
Epsilon Eta: Building a Community for Students with a Passion for Environmental Interests
By Sanjana Venkatraman Sanjana Venkatraman is currently a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill studying Environmental Science (B.S.) on the quantitative energy systems track, and concentrating in energy management. Her current minor is urban planning. She is also involved with Renewable Energy … Read more
Leveraging UNC’s Environmental Research for Impact Across North Carolina
Steve Wall is a policy research associate at the UNC Institute for the Environment and serves as the outreach director for the NC Collaboratory. Steve is a double Tar Heel (B.A. in Political Science ’93 and J.D. from the UNC … Read more
University Scientists Partner to Address Forever Chemicals in North Carolina: An Update on the PFAS Testing Network
By Lucy Gray Lucy Gray is a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in Statistics and Analytics and minoring in Public Policy and Environmental Science/Studies. She spent the summer of 2021 as an intern at the North Carolina Office of State … Read more
COVID-19 Regulations and Their Effect on the Environment
By Olivia Clark Olivia Clark is a 2020 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Reporting Journalism and a first-year law student at the UNC School of Law. Editor’s Note: Olivia’s paper, “COVID-19 Regulations and … Read more
Exploring the Potential of Dual Use Solar in Mitigating Financial Risk
By Rosa Cuppari Rosa Cuppari is a Master’s student in the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering and a Graduate Research Assistant at the UNC Center on Financial Risk in Environmental Systems. It would take between 7 and … 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