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Since the early 1970s, Carolina's Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City has been studying the sharks that live along the Atlantic Coast. It's the oldest such program in the country. Learn more about their work and what they've learned about sharks and the ocean ecosystem over the decades: https://unc.live/2uHUIPR.

Shark Week lasts for decades at Carolina

A student startup plans to revolutionize seaweed farming in temperate waters, creating jobs, reducing plastic pollution and cleaning carbon from the atmosphere along the way.

Combating global warming with seaweed

Carolina doctoral student Jennifer MacCormack studies how physical states impact human emotions. In her most recent study, she examined what makes people hangry.

Hanger Management

Nearly 4,000 undergraduates are just a few days away from becoming alumni. As we inch closer to Commencement day, take a look back at the last few years — from move-in day to the upcoming graduation.

Class of 2019 throwback

The Good Bowls project, created by UNC-Chapel Hill nutrition professor Alice Ammerman, aims to provide better access to nutritionally valuable food for lower-income consumers and create economic opportunities for local farmers and food entrepreneurs. So far, Ammerman and her team have worked closely with organizations like Working Landscapes, a non-profit group dedicated to building more sustainable livelihoods in the areas surrounding Warren County, North Carolina, to help distribute Good Bowls and get the word out about the project.

Bringing healthy food to all consumers

Carolina's C-STEP (Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program)  and Southwestern Community College in Sylva are partnering to increase the number of students transferring to and graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill. SCC is the 11th community college to partner with C-STEP and Carolina.

Carolina Expands College Access to Western North Carolina

The Mountain Area Health Education Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are celebrating the construction of a new academic health center building on MAHEC’s Biltmore campus in Asheville. UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC seeks to address health care worker shortages and improve education across a number of health science fields in Western North Carolina.

Improving Health Care in Western North Carolina

Mitch Prinstein, the John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Carolina, looks at why some people are popular, why others struggle and “what you can do to make sure you have the kind of popularity that predicts the most fulfilling and longest life possible.”

The right kind of popularity

Carolina professor emeritus of history and folklorist William Ferris looks back on his career and his recent nomination for two Grammy awards. His box set, "Voices of Mississippi," which features decades of his recordings and films and was produced by Dust to Digital, is nominated for Best Historical Album and Best Liner Notes. Photos and audio are from the William Ferris Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Professor, Folklorist and Grammy Winner

Angela Stuesse, associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, can be reached via email: astuesse@unc.edu     "By the time I arrived to work in Mississippi’s poultry communities alongside the Mississippi Poultry Workers’ Center in 2002, over half of the country’s quarter-million poultry workers were immigrants,  most of them in the South."   - Angela Stuesse  "The poultry industry recruited them. Now ICE raids are devastating their communities," The Washington Post  

A cultural anthropologist explains how poultry workers went from being mostly white women in the 1950s to Hispanic immigrants today.

A History Of Hispanic Immigrants In Mississippi’s Poultry Industry

A new form of family separation leaves children of immigrant workers wondering when they will see their parents again.

Mississippi raids split families and leave children adrift: ‘I just want my mom and dad’

How immigrants established vibrant communities in the rural South over a quarter-century.

Expert on immigrant labor in the South can discuss community impact of ICE raids

- Angela Stuesse

"The poultry industry recruited them. Now ICE raids are devastating their communities," The Washington Post