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Kenan Galapagos Fellows Program launches Fall 2024

April 22, 2024

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

International Women’s Day: Alice Skehel

March 15, 2024

March 8 is International Women’s Day, a global day to celebrate the achievements of women everywhere, raise awareness about continued discrimination based on gender, and take action to promote gender parity. The Galapagos Initiative is home to incredible female leaders … Read more

International Women’s Day: Salomé Jaramillo Gil

March 14, 2024

March 8 is International Women’s Day, a global day to celebrate the achievements of women everywhere, raise awareness about continued discrimination based on gender, and take action to promote gender parity. The Galapagos Initiative is home to incredible female leaders … Read more

International Women’s Day: Cristina Vintimilla

March 13, 2024

March 8 is International Women’s Day, a global day to celebrate the achievements of women everywhere, raise awareness about continued discrimination based on gender, and take action to promote gender parity. The Galapagos Initiative is home to incredible female leaders … Read more

International Women’s Day: Stella De La Torre

March 12, 2024

March 8 is International Women’s Day, a global day to celebrate the achievements of women everywhere, raise awareness about continued discrimination based on gender, and take action to promote gender parity. The Galapagos Initiative is home to incredible female leaders … Read more

International Women’s Day: Gina Chowa

March 11, 2024

March 8 is International Women’s Day, a global day to celebrate the achievements of women everywhere, raise awareness about continued discrimination based on gender, and take action to promote gender parity. The Galapagos Initiative is home to incredible female leaders … Read more

CGS seed grant funds research on host-pathogen dynamics on San Cristobal Island

November 30, 2023

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.