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University Researchers Take a Closer Look at Fisheries Management Strategies
Last year, the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory and North Carolina Marine & Estuary Foundation partnered to survey and synthesize fisheries management strategies in 20 coastal states with goals to identify effective fisheries management strategies.
North Carolina Central University Addresses COVID-19 Disparities in Rural North Carolina
In June 2020, NCCU was awarded $1 million from the N.C. Policy Collaboratory, with support from the N.C. General Assembly and UNC Board of Governors’ Historically Minority Serving Institutions Committee. The money was used to establish the Advanced Center for COVID-19 Related Disparities (ACCORD).
Researchers Study Link Between Nutrition and COVID-19
UNC-Greensboro researchers are using toenail clippings in a leading-edge study to investigate the contribution of selenium and zinc to the severity of COVID-19 infection.
Science for Policy
An essay by Barbara K. Rimer, Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor of the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, about her work with Collaboratory executive director Jeffrey Warren.
Human, Swine Waste Pose Dual Threats to Water Quality After Flooding
A Collaboratory-supported study that monitored surface waters in the wake of 2018’s Hurricane Florence finds that waters contaminated by fecal bacteria were affected by both human and swine waste.