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A classroom on the Core Sound
Carolina undergraduates studying in the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Morehead City Field Site worked with the National Park Service to study a new issue impacting the barrier islands of the Cape Lookout National Seashore. The students studied several ponds created by overwash from Hurricane Dorian in 2019 to help the park service understand the ponds’ ecology and make appropriate plans in the years ahead.
Moments of clarity
In the past, cochlear implants were employed in people with severe hearing loss, improving their ability to hear the conversations around them. But now, studies show that these devices offer benefits to patients with mild or moderate hearing loss.
Concussion care on the front lines
A current multidisciplinary initiative led by Carolina's Jason Mihalik, in partnership with Fort Bragg's U.S. Army Special Operations Command, is tracking neurological function in elite warfighters. Special Operations Forces soldiers complete a series of tests, including neurocognition, balance, vision and sensory performance, blood biomarkers and neuroimaging.