Eleftheria “Ria” Kontou is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She uses transportation models to uncover whether ride-sourcing platforms like Uber and Lyft affect city road crashes, injuries, fatalities, and DUI rates to help urban planners identify solutions for safe, efficient mobility.
Research UNCovered: Eleftheria “Ria” Kontou Read More »
Carolina senior Purshotam Aruwani, biology and political science double major, had the opportunity to intern with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety. Aruwani focused on identifying gaps in current DPS policies and designing preemptive policy solutions.
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Diamond Holloman, a Ph.D. candidate in Carolina’s Environment, Ecology and Energy program, is the first recipient of a post-Florence disaster relief grant from the Carolina Center for Public Service. She is investigating ways that communities of color in Lumberton, North Carolina, experience and recover from natural disaster.
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UNC-CH junior and policy/economics major Abby Boettcher was a 2019 APPLES summer intern with Wake County Commissioner Matt Calabria. A native of Cary, North Carolina, Boettcher spent her summer conducting policy research on a variety of issues, including increasing voter registration and reducing gun violence.
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Asian studies’ Uffe Bergeton was among four winners of the 2019 annual Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prizes for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. They were awarded to faculty who exemplify groundbreaking and innovative research along with future career promise.
Asian studies’ Uffe Bergeton receives Hettleman Prize Read More »
Pallavi Gupta (geography) worked on a photo-narrative project with a group of women workers in Hyderabad, India, to visualize and build public understanding of the dangers of unsanitary conditions in Hyderabad train stations and to advocate for the health and well-being of sanitary waste workers.
A path to public humanities work: Graduate student Pallavi Gupta Read More »
As a Town Council intern, rising junior Daniel Bowen is making his adopted hometown of Chapel Hill a better place to live.
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The Odum Institute, the first social science research center in the world, has trained and supported hundreds of researchers specializing in everything from anthropology to city and regional planning to public health for the past 95 years. And it all exists thanks to the determination of one eccentric man.
A Father for Social Science Read More »
A new study reveals substantially higher risks of death between ages 1-24 for children living in families with lower levels of parental education, lower levels of family income, and/or for those living in a single parent family – all independent of one another.
New research links early-life mortality and family structure, education, income Read More »
After 25 years as director of the UNC Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), Bill Rohe stepped down and entered phased retirement on June 30, 2019. CURS’ Andy Berner sat down with Rohe and talked about his time at the center.
A Center for Interaction and Research: Bill Rohe’s leadership at CURS Read More »
