Graduate Students Serve North Carolina- Each year, The Graduate School at UNC-Chapel Hill presents Graduate Education Advancement Board Impact Awards to graduate students whose research is of exceptional benefit to North Carolina. This year, we have 41 Impact Award recipients—the most since we began in 2006.

Despite great gains in total acres reforested, one particular criticism of China’s reforestation programs is that they have suffered due to a prioritization of the quantity rather than the quality of restored forests. Chris Hakkenberg secured a fellowship to investigate precisely this.

Part Swiss army knife, part compass: that’s Greg Gangi.

The North Carolina Botanical Garden is a "conservation garden." Our guiding mission is to inspire understanding, appreciation, and conservation of plants in gardens and natural areas and to advance a sustainable relationship between people and nature.

Kristie Wendelberger received The Botanical Garden Award at the April 2010 Association for Southeastern Biologists conference.