Frank Leibfarth, the main speaker at Carolina’s Winter Commencement, talks about growing up in a small town, being fearless in his college football career and plastics research, his dog Roscoe and Broseidon the goldfish.
When the COVID-19 vaccine became available for administration in December of 2020, organizations such as the NC Policy Collaboratory rushed to devise a plan to get vaccines into the arms of community members.
A lead investigator for the CORVASEQ (Coronavirus Variant Sequencing) Surveillance Network, a partnership between the North Carolina DHHS and the NC Policy Collaboratory, says that a lot is still unknown about the impact the omicron variant will have.
The final Flood Resiliency Study report presents a comprehensive study of flood resiliency in eastern North Carolina and provides a detailed set of recommendations along with an implementation plan.
Last year, the North Carolina Policy Collaboratory and North Carolina Marine & Estuary Foundation partnered to survey and synthesize fisheries management strategies in 20 coastal states with goals to identify effective fisheries management strategies.
In June 2020, NCCU was awarded $1 million from the N.C. Policy Collaboratory, with support from the N.C. General Assembly and UNC Board of Governors’ Historically Minority Serving Institutions Committee. The money was used to establish the Advanced Center for COVID-19 Related Disparities (ACCORD).
UNC-Greensboro researchers are using toenail clippings in a leading-edge study to investigate the contribution of selenium and zinc to the severity of COVID-19 infection.
An essay by Barbara K. Rimer, Dean and Alumni Distinguished Professor of the UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, about her work with Collaboratory executive director Jeffrey Warren.
A Collaboratory-supported study that monitored surface waters in the wake of 2018’s Hurricane Florence finds that waters contaminated by fecal bacteria were affected by both human and swine waste.
The NC Policy Collaboratory welcomes a new cohort of undergraduate and graduate students as part of the staff for the fall semester.
