North Carolina researchers are creating and testing new interventions to better understand and address the impacts of COVID-19 on student learning. It’s a new initiative led by North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and the North Carolina Collaboratory, funded by $6.73 million in American Rescue Plan grants.
Since 2018, in response to increasing concerns about the threats posed by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the NC Collaboratory, with funding from the NC General Assembly, has invested more than $21 million in a multidisciplinary portfolio of academic research and state agency partnerships to study PFAS and identify solutions for the citizens of North Carolina.
Collaboratory Director Jeff Warren participated in a roundtable discussion with the leadership of US EPA and NC DEQ about addressing PFAS in drinking water.
As part of the 2021 Collaboratory Flood Resiliency Study funded by the North Carolina General Assembly, researchers examined the impact of floodplain buyouts across North Carolina. A recent journal article details the findings.
A $150,000 grant from the North Carolina Collaboratory will allow Brian Byrd, professor of environmental health sciences at Western Carolina University, and his students to identify environmental and behavioral risk factors for La Crosse encephalitis in western North Carolina.
A new North Carolina study called VISION, funded by the North Carolina Collaboratory, will enroll 7,500 adults recently diagnosed with COVID-19 to understand the different factors that impact individual risk for key clinical outcomes including recovery from acute illness, symptom rebound, re-infection and long COVID.
The North Carolina Collaboratory, headquartered at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is funding five new research projects focused on community and local government engagement to assist opioid abatement and recovery efforts across the State.
Noble’s recently funded oyster mortality project with the Collaboratory uniquely connects to a previous Collaboratory-funded project she developed to study COVID-19 throughout North Carolina’s wastewater systems.
In July 2021, a historic $26 billion agreement was reached between states and several large drug distributors and opioid manufacturers. As part of that settlement agreement, the state of North Carolina and local governments across the state are set to receive $757 million over the next 18 years to address the opioid crisis.
The Collaboratory is awarding 11 research and development grants through a new competitive Business-Academia Partnership Program to help address the public health and economic impacts of COVID-19 in North Carolina.
