The Fountain
Water Works
Spring 2013
- The Big Picture
- Across the globe, we all share a need for water. Carolina's faculty and students have embarked on two years of research, outreach and celebration focused on our relationship to this invaluable resource.
- Water Facts
- Koalas don't drink water, but humans can only go a week without it. What else can water teach us about life in our world? (And why are our blue jeans are more precious than we think?)
- Testing the Waters
- Graduate student Alice Wang has traveled the world, applying her research on water contamination to communities in urgent need.
- Water + Jellyfish = Marine Math
- Consider the anything-but-boring jellyfish: inspiration for innovation as cool as underwater vehicle design and as helpful as filtering water after an oil spill.
- The Power of Water
- Multimedia journalism student project 100 Gallons documents, in vivid detail, how water powers life from birth to death.
- Drips, Drops and Water Spots
- MFA student Damian Stamer uses a variety of tools to create art that has fluidity and a strong sense of place.
- Lane Change
- Athletic training master's student Reid Jones works with and studies Carolina's swimming and diving team to pinpoint what exactly is causing shoulder injury and, ultimately, how to protect these athletes.
- Making Waves
- Tommy Sheppard studies U.S. naval history, including the rapport between officers and the Secretary of the Navy (and President). He finds the relationship has not always been smooth sailing.
- Dark Water Rising
- The name of a North Carolina river inspires the name of a talented band, which blends aspects of the Lumbee culture with a mainstream sound.
- From the Source: Danielle Spurlock
- A professor's story led Royster fellow Danielle Spurlock to study ways that planners and public health officials can enhance watershed protection.
- Using Data to Predict the Future of Water Worldwide
- Christine Boyle received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011. Before she graduated, she founded her company Blue Horizon Insight to address water issues in the United States and abroad.
- Drips, Drops and Water Spots: Extended Feature
- Artist Damian Stamer: “I'm drawn by the immateriality of clouds…So the idea of capturing them, this almost mist, with something solid like paint is really interesting to me.”
- Alumna's Training and Talent Help Her Communicate the Water Institute's Story
- Enelda Butler never learned how to swim. She always wanted to learn, though, and she thinks working for the Water Institute just might motivate her to jump in.
- Royster Fellows Foster Scholarly Discussion about Water
- What's the big deal about water? And what do a journalism professor, geology professor and public health visiting scholar each have to say about it?
- Weiss Fellows Unite Water Justice Advocates
- In an event demonstrating Carolina's continuing emphasis on engaged scholarship, five experts deliver “lightning round presentations” on issues centering on water justice and community outreach.
- GEAB: Making a Difference
- Businessman and professor Harold Glass knows what graduate students need to succeed in dissertation research: time. He has made a tremendous contribution toward meeting this need at Carolina.
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