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Isabel standing in the water.

Isabel Silva-Romero

Isabel Silva-Romero studies how ocean temperatures affect the food web on rocky reefs around the Galápagos Islands.

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    Carolina, which ranks sixth among U.S. universities in federal research dollars, has become a real innovation center, generating jobs and a strong economic impact.

  • A student conducting research at the coast.

    A classroom on the Core Sound

    Carolina undergraduates studying in the UNC Institute for the Environment’s Morehead City Field Site worked with the National Park Service to study a new issue impacting the barrier islands of the Cape Lookout National Seashore. The students studied several ponds created by overwash from Hurricane Dorian in 2019 to help the park service understand the ponds’ ecology and make appropriate plans in the years ahead.

  • A man wearing a cochlear implant.

    Moments of clarity

    In the past, cochlear implants were employed in people with severe hearing loss, improving their ability to hear the conversations around them. But now, studies show that these devices offer benefits to patients with mild or moderate hearing loss.