Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Helping a coastal town monitor water quality

Adam Gold checks on a water monitoring station that he designed and built in the lab. A true Tar Heel, Gold is a Ph.D. student in the Ecology, Environment, and Energy Program, and previously earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UNC. (Photo by Sarah Loftus)

A doctoral student’s innovative design project is helping the North Carolina town of Beaufort keep a check on water quality issues in creeks and streams using inexpensive monitoring stations. The health of North Carolina’s coastal watersheds are essential for industries like tourism and fishing.

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Undergraduate researcher helps develop data-encoding tools for future supercomputers

Jess Woods (photo courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Leadership Computing Facility)

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program, computer science graduate Jess Woods has been tasked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with exploring different ways of representing data and enabling operations to be performed on that transformed data.

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Three students selected as 2020 Weir Fellows

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Three students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were selected as recipients of the 2020 William D. Weir Honors Fellowship in Asian Studies, a program designed for students who have started their Chinese language journey and would like to develop advanced working language skills.

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