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.
On March 22, campus leaders gathered to cut the ribbon on the Collaboratory’s new dedicated space on campus in the Kenan Labs.
What does it take to measure the health of an entire ecosystem? Joel Fodrie, a professor and researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, seeks to answer this question for North Carolina’s coastal habitats.
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.
