A few years ago, Nabarun Dasgupta went to a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site and left with an aha moment that’s now helping prevent overdoses in North Carolina. The senior scientist at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center looked at the plastic test kit — vial and swab included inside — and thought, “We should be able to do the same thing with street drugs.”
This summer, Rose Houck ’25 is tackling two projects as an intern for the North Carolina Collaboratory to help improve the health and safety of North Carolina residents. One of her projects focuses on water quality at a local reservoir and the other tackles flood resiliency.
Between February and April 2020, employment dropped 12%, according to the N.C. Department of Commerce. But by November 2022, the state had 218,000 more jobs than it did pre-pandemic. As the economy’s wheels keep turning, businesses are struggling to find enough employees to meet their labor demands.
Executive Director Jeff Warren says the N.C. Collaboratory, the only model of its kind, prioritizes solving issues faced by North Carolinians.
Anna Egalite, Associate Professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State University, wants to know how families choose between public and private schools. To do so, she studies the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which helps students from low-income families attend private school.
As a professor and researcher at North Carolina State University, Barbara Doll has combined her engineering expertise and experience in ecosystem restoration to analyze green infrastructure solutions that could increase flood resiliency in North Carolina.
By Orla Kilpatrick Communications specialist Claire Revere joined the North Carolina Collaboratory team on March 20. With a long line of training behind her, Claire’s expertise will guide the Collaboratory to new extents of transparency and authenticity, including a greater … Read more
Falls Lake — a reservoir built in 1981 by the Army Corps of Engineers — provides potable drinking water to over half a million people in North Carolina’s piedmont, serving residents of Orange, Person, Durham, Granville, Wake, and Franklin counties.
A new study published in Earth’s Future by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill estimates $562 million in previously unquantified financial risks arising from property value changes and uninsured flood damages in eastern North Carolina as a result of Hurricane Florence.
