Building a sustainable Chapel Hill
Through the UNC Institute for the Environment's semester-long Sustainable Triangle Field Site, Carolina students are researching Chapel Hill's creeks to help the town develop stronger flood mitigation plans.
Research
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The sanctity of Cherokee
As a result of systemic oppression, there are fewer than 200 native Cherokee speakers in North Carolina. To keep the language alive and pass it to the next generation, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher and Eastern Band Cherokeean citizen Benjamin Frey has teamed up with computer scientists Mohit Bansal and Shiyue Zhang to create a new translation model and grow the literary library of works available in Cherokee.
Power hour
Associate Professor Kara Hume coaches Power Hour, a fully inclusive adaptive fitness class for young adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. A new fund for faculty in the UNC School of Education is empowering Hume to pilot a study to examine the social and health impacts of Power Hour.
Championing public health
Researchers at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health are developing filters to remove toxic chemicals from drinking water, revealing the harmful side effects of e-cigarettes, studying the long-term effects of injury and violence, creating interdisciplinary teams to research and understand obesity, improving access to treatments for opioid use disorder, addressing cancer prevention and control — and so much more.