American Dogwood
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The state flower of North Carolina, Dogwood blossoms appear in early spring all over the UNC campus.
Recent News
Biology Department Holiday Food Drive
And the winner of this year’s Biology food drive is… The needy people of Orange County! The food that was collected by the UNC Biology Department and delivered to the Inter-faith Council for Social Service (IFC) for distribution completely filled a Suburban van and a Honda Accord! While the analysis of which building had the most food donations is still under discussion, the outcome of these donations is that hundreds of meals will be served to needy Orange County families for weeks to come. Thanks to Blaire Steinwand for organizing this effort, Mark Peifer for leading the charge in Fordham Hall, John Craig for helping deliver the food to the IFC, and to all who so generously contributed!
Senior Lecturer Kelly Hogan Receives a Spirit of Inquiry Award
Congratulations to Senior Lecturer Kelly Hogan, who received a Spirit of Inquiry Award from the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy. The Spirit of Inquiry program increases attention to quality teaching by recognizing faculty at North Carolina colleges and universities who teach difficult courses while emphasizing open intellectual inquiry. READ MORE >>
UNC Biology Students Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to these UNC-CH students, enrolled as Biology majors or minors, for their induction into Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society: Ranjan Banerjee, Daniel Louis Bernstein, Ivy Pauline Brisbin, Kit Randall Broome, Nicolette Raquel Chahin, Scott Ryan Ellis, Roger Fan, Samuel Harrison Farber, John Michael French, Jessica Lauren Glatz, Matthew Steven Krantz, Jacqueline Christine Lee, Lei Lei, Zachary Ryan McCaw, Timothy Ryan Palpant, Madison Elizabeth Phillips, Brienne Rae Poole, Kavya Sekar, Eva Janet Stein, Kiri Elyse Sunde, Emily Barrows Welker, and Kelly Alicia Wolfe. READ MORE >>
Assistant Professor Lauren Buckley’s Research on Climate Change Published
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Lauren Buckley and UNC student Madison Foushee, whose research article “Footprints of Climate Change in U.S. National Park Visitation” was published in the International Journal of Biometeorology, and has also been picked up by numerous news organizations. In this study, Buckley and Foushee observe that some human weather-related behavior is being affected by global warming, notably the shifting of peak visitor attendance at U.S. national parks in response to a change in mean spring temperatures. READ THE ARTICLE >>