Two undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sciences search for salamanders in western North Carolina — and find so much more.

Junior Stephanie Caddell shares how three weeks on a research vessel in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean changed her life.

From dancing to singing to 3D printing, our students tap into their creative side to explore the world around them.

Jenna Hynes is interning with the Piedmont Conservation Council in Siler City, North Carolina, conducting fieldwork and partnering with community members to preserve the city’s water sources.

Carolina junior Jessica Reid has written a book to help people understand climate change and communicate more effectively about the issue.

Carolina’s Galapagos Science Center worked alongside the Galapagos National Park in Ecuador to repatriate giant tortoises into the wild.

As a paleoclimatologist, Erika Wise studies climate trends from the past thousand years. Her methods of inquiry may be complicated — using microscopic crossdating and isotope analysis — but her research begins with something far more common: trees.

Working with the Environmental Defense Fund this summer, Cassidy Harding is realizing her high school dream of becoming an environmental scientist.

Allison Duprey and Andrew Zachman experience new opportunities through hands-on fieldwork — right here, on Carolina’s campus.