Check out the recent media mentions of sustainability-related programs, practices, people at UNC:
Researching, acting on energy, environment (Column)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Energy and the environment are two of the toughest problems the world faces today. How do we use one without destroying the other? Carolina is a research university. It's our job to put the brilliant minds of our faculty and students to work coming up with solutions to these problems. And they are responding admirably.
Holden Thorp is chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Readers can contact him at holden_thorp@unc.edu.
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Where Is the Oil Headed?
Science Magazine
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) currently tracks wind and tidal data in the gulf. That data has helped offer an initial, course-grained look at the likely path of the oil. ...Last month, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security quickly backed a proposal to use highly detailed supercomputer models to forecast how the oil will affect coastal areas. Over the past decade, modelers led by Clint Dawson of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas, Austin; Rick Luettich of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Joannes Westerink of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana developed a model, known as ADCIRC, to predict hurricane storm surges throughout the gulf.
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State awards nearly three-quarters of a million dollars for clean fuel car promotion (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The N.C. Solar Center is distributing $734,384 to 16 grant recipients throughout the state to promote clean fuel and electric vehicles. The money, courtesy of the N.C. Department of Transportation, will largely be used to offset the cost of purchasing electric cars. ...The N.C. Department of Administration, Town of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill and RTI International will buy "neighborhood electric vehicles," or NEVs, as the two-seater buggies are known.
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UNC study: Women, minorities still rare on boards of N.C. public
The Triangle Business Journal
North Carolina’s largest public companies have made scant progress in diversifying their boards of directors over the past few years, a new study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s law school concludes. Just 12.3 percent of board members serving the state’s 50 largest public companies are female, and a mere 7.1 percent are minorities, according to the survey. ...“It’s awfully slow improvement, and it’s almost meaningless,” says Lissa Broome, a UNC law professor who worked on the survey. “We’re going in the right direction, but it’s going to take forever to get there I think.”
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Green Gardeners seeks volunteers
The Chapel Hill Herald
Interested in talking to other gardeners about their gardening successes, failures, and questions? The N.C. Botanical Garden invites you to join The Green Gardeners — special volunteers who offer help and advice to visitors, callers, and e-mailers for a short shift each weekday.
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N.C. coast not worried about Gulf oil ... yet
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
Boaters, fishermen and tourists along the North Carolina coast said Friday that they remain hopeful that oil from the ongoing spill in the Gulf of Mexico doesn't stain the state's waters or beaches. ...The Duke Marine Laboratory and the Duke-University of North Carolina Oceanographic Consortium operate the Research Vessel Cape Hatteras, a 135-foot-long owned by the National Science Foundation.
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The price of the pelican (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)
...A study in the journal Science, conducted 14 years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound in 1989 and fouled 1,300 miles of Alaskan coastline, found that pink salmon, sea otters, harlequin ducks were either still dying or not reproducing at “astounding’’ rates. Exxon settled with the federal government and the state of Alaska in 1991 for $1 billion for environmental restoration, but lead researcher Charles Peterson of the University of North Carolina said toxic levels of oil from the disaster continued to contaminate the food chain for wildlife in “surprisingly large’’ hidden pools in sediment and underneath boulders.
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UNC Researcher Uses Software To Track Oil Spill
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
Computer models designed to track the movement of water and hurricanes are now being used to chart the oil spill along the Gulf Coast. Director of the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences Rick Luettich worked with other researchers to create the hurricane charting technology to find out about their effects in areas like estuaries and sounds. Luettich says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses models designed for scenarios taking place on the open ocean and are less suited for areas like the Gulf Coast.
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-Thanks to UNC News Services for finding these great stories AND compiling the summaries! You can find more UNC media coverage and stories online at http://uncnews.unc.edu/
Researching, acting on energy, environment (Column)
The Herald-Sun (Durham)
Energy and the environment are two of the toughest problems the world faces today. How do we use one without destroying the other? Carolina is a research university. It's our job to put the brilliant minds of our faculty and students to work coming up with solutions to these problems. And they are responding admirably.
Holden Thorp is chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Readers can contact him at holden_thorp@unc.edu.
Click here to read more.
Where Is the Oil Headed?
Science Magazine
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) currently tracks wind and tidal data in the gulf. That data has helped offer an initial, course-grained look at the likely path of the oil. ...Last month, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security quickly backed a proposal to use highly detailed supercomputer models to forecast how the oil will affect coastal areas. Over the past decade, modelers led by Clint Dawson of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas, Austin; Rick Luettich of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Joannes Westerink of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana developed a model, known as ADCIRC, to predict hurricane storm surges throughout the gulf.
Click here to read more.
State awards nearly three-quarters of a million dollars for clean fuel car promotion (Blog)
The News & Observer (Raleigh)
The N.C. Solar Center is distributing $734,384 to 16 grant recipients throughout the state to promote clean fuel and electric vehicles. The money, courtesy of the N.C. Department of Transportation, will largely be used to offset the cost of purchasing electric cars. ...The N.C. Department of Administration, Town of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill and RTI International will buy "neighborhood electric vehicles," or NEVs, as the two-seater buggies are known.
Click here to read more.
UNC study: Women, minorities still rare on boards of N.C. public
The Triangle Business Journal
North Carolina’s largest public companies have made scant progress in diversifying their boards of directors over the past few years, a new study by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s law school concludes. Just 12.3 percent of board members serving the state’s 50 largest public companies are female, and a mere 7.1 percent are minorities, according to the survey. ...“It’s awfully slow improvement, and it’s almost meaningless,” says Lissa Broome, a UNC law professor who worked on the survey. “We’re going in the right direction, but it’s going to take forever to get there I think.”
Click here to read more.
Green Gardeners seeks volunteers
The Chapel Hill Herald
Interested in talking to other gardeners about their gardening successes, failures, and questions? The N.C. Botanical Garden invites you to join The Green Gardeners — special volunteers who offer help and advice to visitors, callers, and e-mailers for a short shift each weekday.
Click here to read more.
N.C. coast not worried about Gulf oil ... yet
WRAL-TV (CBS/Raleigh)
Boaters, fishermen and tourists along the North Carolina coast said Friday that they remain hopeful that oil from the ongoing spill in the Gulf of Mexico doesn't stain the state's waters or beaches. ...The Duke Marine Laboratory and the Duke-University of North Carolina Oceanographic Consortium operate the Research Vessel Cape Hatteras, a 135-foot-long owned by the National Science Foundation.
Click here to read more.
The price of the pelican (Opinion-Editorial Column)
The Boston Globe (Massachusetts)
...A study in the journal Science, conducted 14 years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound in 1989 and fouled 1,300 miles of Alaskan coastline, found that pink salmon, sea otters, harlequin ducks were either still dying or not reproducing at “astounding’’ rates. Exxon settled with the federal government and the state of Alaska in 1991 for $1 billion for environmental restoration, but lead researcher Charles Peterson of the University of North Carolina said toxic levels of oil from the disaster continued to contaminate the food chain for wildlife in “surprisingly large’’ hidden pools in sediment and underneath boulders.
Click here to read more.
UNC Researcher Uses Software To Track Oil Spill
WCHL 1360-AM (Chapel Hill)
Computer models designed to track the movement of water and hurricanes are now being used to chart the oil spill along the Gulf Coast. Director of the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences Rick Luettich worked with other researchers to create the hurricane charting technology to find out about their effects in areas like estuaries and sounds. Luettich says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses models designed for scenarios taking place on the open ocean and are less suited for areas like the Gulf Coast.
Click here to read more.
-Thanks to UNC News Services for finding these great stories AND compiling the summaries! You can find more UNC media coverage and stories online at http://uncnews.unc.edu/
