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Rooted: Tori Smith Ekstrand

November 1, 2022

UNC Research has recently featured Royster Distinguished Professor for Graduate Education Tori Ekstrand.

Carolina celebrates American Indian Heritage Month

November 1, 2022

Graduate student Marissa Carmi is a citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. As a graduate student, she’s brought her life experiences and perspective to serve her fellow graduate and professional students.

The layers beneath the church

October 31, 2022

Summer Research Fellow Michelle Freeman visited cemeteries in Croatia, North Macedonia and Greece to learn how saints were venerated in the 4th century.

Prison camps and the Western North Carolina Railroad

October 25, 2022

Southern Futures Townsend Fellow and graduate student Cayla Colclasure is studying the prison labor that built the Western North Carolina Railroad, which weaves through Old Fort in McDowell County, North Carolina.

Warming waters and North Carolina’s fisheries

October 13, 2022

Alongside Associate Professor Janet Nye at the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, graduate student Sally Dowd is working toward a better understanding of how ocean warming affects fish populations in coastal regions and the broader implications of these changes.