In June the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released four new drinking water health advisories related to PFAS contamination. The soundness of these advisories has since been called into question and in late July a lawsuit was filed seeking to overturn two of them.
The NC Department of Public Instruction and the Collaboratory are leading a joint $6 million effort to spur research on the impact of COVID-19 on student learning and the evaluation of existing policies and programs aimed at overcoming those challenges.
The first four Collaboratory Research Fellows are experts in their fields and since its establishment have been leaders of the PFAS Testing Network.
The Collaboratory is requesting research and evaluation proposals addressing the impact of COVID-19 on student learning across North Carolina and the efficacy of state and local policies and programs put in place during the pandemic.
The North Carolina Collaboratory is hiring a Graduate Research Assistant for the 2022-23 academic year. The position will assist with the coordination of research studies, develop policy proposals and provide background research.
The Collaboratory is requesting proposals from businesses partnered with academic research groups in North Carolina to monitor, assess or address the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19 in North Carolina.
Building on the work of READDI, the NIH-funded center will develop oral antivirals to combat pandemic-level viruses like COVID-19.
On Collaboratory Conversations’ fourth episode, communications intern Taylor Fitzgerald speaks with Dr. Michael Piehler about the Collaboratory’s Jordan and Falls Lake Nutrient Management Study.
On April 7, the North Carolina Collaboratory, in partnership with the UNC Institute for the Environment and the Upper Neuse River Basin Association, hosted a research symposium focused on the Falls Lake Study.
In this episode of Collaboratory Conversations, communications intern Sascha Medina spoke with Dr. Jamie DeWitt about her ongoing research on the health effects of PFAS, a group of over 12,000 man-made chemicals.
