UNCG’s Lloyd International Honors College is searching for undergraduate student submissions for next year’s annual Honors Symposium. Any undergraduate can submit an original paper, whether written for a class or created independently. Students whose papers are accepted will present their work in a conference setting before an audience of all… Continue reading…
Gabrielle Ocampo is a 2014 design graduate of UNCG. Last semester, she was awarded first place in the category of Visual Arts at the Undergraduate Research Expo for her piece entitled “What It’s Like to Sleep.” The installation was based on a poem of the same name that Ocampo wrote… Continue reading…
Someone you know probably has toxoplasmosis. The Taxoplasmosa gondii protozoan, which reproduces in cats but infects many other animals, resides in nearly 1 out of 4 people over the age of twelve. The good news: UNCG senior David Sykes is working on the logistics for a vaccine to eliminate the… Continue reading…
Dr. Robert Anemone, head of UNCG’s Department of Anthropology, and Anemone’s student Ashley Bryant spoke with North Carolina Science Now’s Frank Graff about their fossil dig this summer in the Wyoming badlands. See the segment online on the UNC-TV website, or tune in to North Carolina Now tonight at 7:30 p.m…. Continue reading…
Some enterprising college student in Greensboro is going to earn $1,000 in two minutes. This fall, the North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center (NCEC) at UNCG is holding its fourth annual “2 Minutes to Win It” business idea contest, open to full-time students at UNCG, NC A&T, Greensboro College, Guilford College, Bennett College,… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW. A city girl from Metro Detroit, Ashley Bryant had never even slept in a tent, so hunting for fossils in the punishing summer sun of the Wyoming badlands was not on her to-do list. Not until this summer, when one professor challenged her to expand her… Continue reading…
Reposted from Campus Weekly Dr. Terence Nile (Chemistry and Biochemistry) received new funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the project “REU Site: A Multi-site, Multi-institutional International REU”. It will fund a new International Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site for chemistry students. Ten students from colleges/universities in the… Continue reading…
Dominick Defelice is an undergraduate biology student working on honeybee research with Dr. Olav Rueppell. Dominick sat down with UNCG Research to tell us about his work, how he got started in research, and how it changed his life. Tell us about your research You can describe my project two… Continue reading…
Ananya Huria is an undergraduate international business and entrepreneurship student working on a research project with Dr. Esra Memili and Dr. James Milanese. Ananya sat down with UNCG Research to tell us about her work, how she got started in research, and how it influenced her career path. Tell us… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG Now Can you actually measure grit – the ability to persevere no matter the obstacle? Christina Chai Chang, one of the undergraduates on Dr. Paul Silvia’s research team, has seen that you can. Electrodes are attached. The physiology is studied. “The little blips in the heart rate go… Continue reading…
