UNC Rural Research Awards
UNC Rural and UNC Research recognize Dr. Laura Villa Torres and Dr. Courtney Woods for their community-campus partnerships through the UNC Rural Research and Engagement Award. Dr. Torres’ team works to increase the capacity of community partners to address the environmental exposures and health issues that farmworkers in North Carolina experience through a joint research project in Bladen, Duplin, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, and Sampson Counties. Dr. Woods’ team works with the Anderson Community Environmental Justice Group (ACE) to create evaluation tools to assess the success of their water quality testing-related projects in Caswell County.