Geovani Ramírez is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences. He combines Latina/o studies, environmental humanities, and disability studies to better understand the social and ecological networks within … Read more
UNC’s Office of Global Health Education (OGHE) is awarding $23,000 to teams of global health faculty and medical students to pursue COVID-19 related research and service learning in the spring or summer of 2021. During a time of global travel limitations and … Read more
New research from the Global Food Research Program at UNC-Chapel Hill finds that the food and beverage sector in Chile did not face significant job losses or wage decreases 18 months after implementation of its food labeling and advertising law. These findings … Read more
When Francisco Laso ’21 Ph.D. was a field research assistant at the Galápagos National Park in 2010, he was shocked to learn that there was very limited collaboration with farmers on conservation issues. The Galápagos Islands are known for their … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Undergraduate researchers Chloe Schneider, Maribel Herrera and Megan Raisle, under the leadership of UNC-Chapel Hill geographer Diego Riveros-Iregui, spent two months in Ecuador’s northern Andes Mountains exploring climate change. They came back to Chapel Hill, wrote a paper that was … Read more
A graduate student at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Alyssa Grube honed her research skills by spending her summers at the Galapagos Science Center where she studied antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment. When Alyssa Grube first began … Read more
As Latinx Heritage Month comes to an end on Oct. 15, five Carolina employees with heritages and traditions from different countries tell their stories. One risked prison by defecting to the U.S. One immigrated with two children and $150 in … Read more
Despite the limitations of international travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, the UNC School of Education created a new global opportunity for students this semester: the Student Teachers Across Regions (STAR) of the Americas Virtual Exchange Program. The program is a … Read more
