The World Summit on Island Sustainability was held from June 26 to 30 in San Cristobal, Galapagos to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Galapagos Science Center, a collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Universidad … Continued

Journalist and professor Patrick Davison led a group of students from the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC – Chapel Hill) to visit San Cristobal Island, Galapagos in March 2022 as … Continued

As a large public university, UNC Chapel Hill has many opportunities for students to get involved in research, but it is not every day that an undergraduate student has his own work published in a scientific journal. UNC Alum Will … Continued

Esteban Agudo recently started the third year of his doctoral program and feels fortunate to be in the Galapagos to conduct his research. He is a marine ecologist pursuing his degree in Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology (EEOB) at the … Continued

Carolina’s Galapagos Science Center (GSC) recently started accepting a limited number of researchers and students back to its state-of-the-art research facility on San Cristobal, Galapagos. First in line was Greg Lewbart, an adjunct professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public … Continued

UNC alumnus, James Ellsmoor ’16 and founder of Island Innovation has collaborated with the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance (SCELG) and launched a survey aiming to better understand how COVID-19 was being dealt with on islands globally. The goal was … Continued

UNC undergraduate Mia Colloredo-Mansfeld, UNC doctoral candidate Francisco Laso and UNC researcher Javier Arce-Nazario have engaged farmers in mapping their own land and shared aerial images with them in order to further the sharing of agricultural knowledge. This latest publication … Continued