In The Media
The Chronicle of Higher Education
January 18, 2022
How to Give Our Students the Grace We All NeedProfessors Nicole Else-Quest, Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan share six ways that faculty members can better support students without exhausting themselves in the effort in this piece. Quest is an … Continued
Spectrum News
January 7, 2022
Coastal flooding closes section of N.C. Highway 12Residents and visitors along North Carolina’s Outer Banks are still dealing with lingering effects from the storm system that brought severe storms and snow to parts of the state Monday, … Continued
The News & Observer
January 5, 2022
High home prices add to soaring rents. Here’s how that keeps people from buying houses… Roberto Quercia, a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill who studies low-income homeownership, said it can take a long time for low-income families to buy a home when rent stays high. … Continued
Chapelboro
January 3, 2022
‘Wrong Place at the Wrong Time’: UNC Researchers Study Why Sea Turtles DieNorth Carolina’s estuaries – the place where freshwater and saltwater meet – are home to things like shellfish, plants, fish and turtles. Researchers in Morehead City are studying the human … Continued
Chatham News & Record
December 20, 2021
‘Geology of the Carolinas’ explores uniqueness of N.C.’s Blue Ridge, Piedmont and Coastal Plain regionsNorth Carolina’s mountains, Piedmont and coast provide more than just gorgeous landscapes and vacation destinations — they contain geological features that have played an important role in the human history … Continued
WRAL
December 16, 2021
COVID-19 test strip takes advantage of virus’ ‘sweet tooth’Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are using a sugar-coated test strip to track coronavirus variants. We have turned the tables on the virus by using … Continued
Nautilus
December 10, 2021
A Lab of Her OwnUNC biologist Bob Goldstein wrote this piece for Nautilus on the life and ground-breaking discoveries of Rita Levi-Montalcini, who discovered how the nervous system is wired while sheltered in her … Continued