Additional funding opportunities are expected to spark innovation across North Carolina’s research landscape. The 2022-23 N.C. budget provides the Collaboratory with $500,000 of additional recurring funding for the HMSI Research Grant Program.
From June through December 2020, a group of UNC-Chapel Hill researchers conducted this observational study investigating the spread of COVID-19 among essential workers employed in the farming and food processing industry and their households.
Eighteen undergraduate and five graduate students will provide support to the Collaboratory and assist with the dozens of ongoing projects in our research portfolio.
The North Carolina Collaboratory has been nominated for an EdScoop 50 national award.
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 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.
Building on the work of READDI, the NIH-funded center will develop oral antivirals to combat pandemic-level viruses like COVID-19.
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.
