Practicum education is an integral part of every unlicensed social worker’s training, placing students in a work environment with professional caregivers and advocates. Each student pursuing a master’s degree in social work first takes on a generalized practicum assignment, and … Read more

Childhood obesity is at an all-time high in the U.S., a trend mirrored across Latin America. Researchers working on interventions to reverse this trend shared recent results and lessons learned at the Childhood Obesity Prevention Across Borders project, coordinated by … Read more

The VI Symposium on Research and Conservation of Galapagos, a multidisciplinary event that brings together experts and the community, concluded successfully after presenting the most relevant scientific research conducted in the archipelago.

Sarah Darwin, the British botanist, conservationist, author, and scientific researcher who is also the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin. It’s her first time returning to San Cristóbal in 24 years. She also learned more about the Galapagos Science Center’s work with the … Read more

Australia and the Galapagos lie at opposite ends of the Pacific Ocean, with ecosystems and species as widely different as the seas between them, but are linked by a changing climate, shifting species and the growing scourge of plastic pollution. … Read more

Salome Jaramillo Gil is a PhD candidate in the Department of Biology within the UNC College of Arts and Sciences and conducts research with the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies. As a Fulbright scholar, she is embarking on her PhD in … Read more

The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust awarded $1.5 million to the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies to create the Kenan Galapagos Fellows Program, which will support three graduate students per year for three years and one post-doctoral fellow per … Read more

The Galapagos Initiative is home to incredible female leaders and scientists at UNC, USFQ, the Galapagos Science Center (GSC), and collaborators through our International Galapagos Science Consortium. International Women’s Day is a great opportunity to highlight some of these talented women in our global community! 

The Center for Galapagos Studies has awarded three new Seed Grants to UNC-Chapel Hill researchers from the Gillings School of Public Health, the Carolina Population Center, and the College of Arts and Sciences to launch new projects in the Galapagos this summer. 

Thanks to the funding of a Center for Galapagos Studies seed grant, Senay Yitbarek, Peter Thacher Grauer Fellow and assistant professor in the department of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, traveled to the Galapagos this summer to conduct research on host-pathogen dynamics on San Cristobal Island.