December 2017

UNC-Chapel Hill Research Exceeds $1 Billion Annually for First Time

Research at Carolina provides students with unique learning opportunities through hands-on research projects. Currently, more than 60 percent of UNC-Chapel Hill’s graduating seniors conduct independent research and contribute to discoveries made by the University’s research scientists. Photo courtesy of UNC Chapel Hill.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has surpassed, for the first time, $1 billion in annual research expenditures, according to the nation’s annual Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) survey. This news continues UNC-Chapel Hill’s decade-long rise as one of the world’s top universities for sponsored research.

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NASA Awards Grant to UNC: Land Cover and Change on Global Island Ecosystems

The Galapagos Islands. Photos courtesy of Steve Walsh.

The NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a three-year grant in the amount of $720,000 to examine the effects of social and ecological factors, particularly, human migration and tourism on the environment and on the sustainability of island ecosystems.

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