UNC To Launch $11M Environmental Research Center
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will launch the UNC Institute for the Environment on Thursday, April 12.
The center includes an expansion of UNC’s existing environmental program plus additional degree programs, research sites and outreach initiatives.
Funding includes $8 million from UNC and $3 million in gifts from private donors.
“We intend for this institute to become the major resource to which the state will turn as it tries to solve problems associated with community design, energy and environment, health and environmental policy,” said Douglas Crawford-Brown, director of the Carolina Environmental Program. He will lead the institute. “The additional resources invested in the new institute will allow us to conduct the fundamental research needed to inform these issues, and to create the institutional infrastructure by which we can engage with the state and bring that research forward to help the people of North Carolina.”
The four primary initiatives are:
• Adding to existing sustainable energy, environment and economic development programs;
• Creating a center examining landscape change and human health;
• Establishing a center for sustainable community design; and
• Broadening UNC’s environmental public service and engagement programs, offering aid to public schools, local and state governments and environmental and community groups throughout North Carolina.
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