Sarah Fitzgerald will spearhead initiatives to further communicate the Collaboratory’s work and understand its audiences to strengthen the connection between the Collaboratory and the many groups with which it serves and works.
North Carolina scientists are working to understand the possible exposure avenues and potential health effects of PFAS.
In early February, the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory released a five year report, commemorating its fifth anniversary and reflecting on the program’s work.
Extending 28 miles up the Neuse River, Falls Lake is a 12,410-acre reservoir that stretches across the counties of Durham, Wake, and Granville. It was built to control flooding, serve as a water supply source and protect downstream water quality.
Five years in, the innovative policy model has proven enormously effective at turning state funds into life-changing research.
For federal and state lawmakers who have an unending procession of meeting requests, committee hearings, markups, fundraisers, and other demands on their schedules, time is perhaps the most valuable finite resource.
The NC Policy Collaboratory is excited to welcome Dr. Greer Arthur as the organization’s new Research Director. This position will play a significant leadership role in accomplishing the Collaboratory’s mission of utilizing university research to inform and assist state and local government decision-makers.
Convergent science is characterized by cross-disciplinary research teams created to tackle big problems and speed the application of new breakthroughs to commercialization. At UNC-Chapel Hill, the Institute for Convergent Science is at the forefront of this pioneering framework.
The first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in North Carolina was discovered by a member of the CORVASEQ program – a partnership between the NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Division of Health and the North Carolina Collaboratory.
Carolina researchers design rapid sensing COVID-19 test to meet the challenge of universal testing and tracking variants.
