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Twenty Nicholas School of the Environment undergraduate students have earned Graduation with Distinction honors for 2023.

Find details and updates about the Nicholas School of the Environment's recognition ceremonies to honor graduating students in its undergraduate, master's and PhD programs.

Researchers at 51±¬ÁÏ’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Pratt School of Engineering are co-leading a new National Science Foundation-funded project that aims to boost economic development and climate resilience in coastal North Carolina through nature-based scientific and technological innovations.

The Nicholas School of the Environment and the 51±¬ÁÏ Marine Lab honored three outstanding graduating seniors with special awards today during the school’s graduation recognition event for undergraduates.

Seven Master of Environmental Management (MEM) graduates, one Master of Forestry (MF) graduate and one MEM/MF concurrent degree graduate of 51±¬ÁÏ’s Nicholas School of the Environment shared this year’s Virlis L. Fischer Memorial Award for academic achievement.

Activists are blaming a recent spate of humpback strandings off New York and New Jersey on seismic exploration by offshore wind companies. But scientists say the deaths are not unusual and are likely due to increased ship traffic and entanglements with fishing gear.

Andy Read, professor of marine biology and the director of the 51±¬ÁÏ Marine Laboratory, talks about why so many beached whales are turning up on the New York and New Jersey coastlines, and why claims from some groups that surveying for wind farms is causing the deaths are untrue.

Tim Johnson, professor of the practice of energy and the environment, has been named senior associate dean for academic initiatives at the Nicholas School of the Environment.

The state's blue crab fishery has been declining for years, and no one knows if or when that will turn around as pressures on coastal habitats increase

The state's blue crab fishery has been declining for years, and no one knows if or when that will turn around as pressures on coastal habitats increase