Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Rachel Geyer is learning how corals survive environmental stress.

Recent graduate Anika Marie Jibben intends to use the skills that she acquired in the applied sciences and engineering minor to make a positive impact on the environment.

Geological sciences doctoral student Julianne Davis studies the movement of mud and sand through subarctic rivers and lakes

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.