Research

The UNC School of Education graduate students’ interdisciplinary work informs suicide prevention and recovery efforts for the future.

The pandemic has dramatically increased the number of home-schooled students nationally. In North Carolina, the number is larger than all but two of the state’s school districts.

How to interest middle and high schoolers in science? One answer from Carolina’s School of Education: Build lessons around topics they care about.

Good health communication translates hard science into plain language to show people what to expect from their behavior, which ultimately saves lives.

Tropical Storm Henri gave researchers at the Coastal Resilience Center a chance to test the ADCIRC Prediction System, which calculates the consequences of extreme weather and how it will impact critical infrastructure.

A UNC School of Education study found that pre-K programs not only work, but point to ways to build on early educational gains.

Carolina research found that once one member of a household tests positive for COVID-19, the other members have a 32% chance of also contracting the disease.

A collaboration among Carolina clinicians and researchers is leading the way in how we think about tracking viral variants.

Researchers in the Joel Kingsolver Lab study butterflies and moths to understand how changing temperatures are impacting the relationship between certain species and the plants they live on.

For 30 years, researchers at the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center have studied the long-term effects of injury and violence and worked closely with practitioners to change policies and save lives.