Category: Research Stories
SURF Stories 2023
From peanut allergies to the death penalty, Carolina’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURFs) are gaining hands-on research experience in the lab and the field. Read more about six of this year’s recipients and their research via our partners over at Endeavors.
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Report from the 2023 Celebration of Undergraduate Research
More than 1200 attendees participated in the 24h annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research on April 26, 2023, making this year the largest Celebration in the event’s history.
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Knowing Neutrinos: Sarah Vickers’ Hunt for One of Physics’ Most Sought-After Discoveries
In advance of the April 26 Celebration of Undergraduate Research,we caught up with junior Sarah Vickers who, will be presenting her work as part of the Gruszko lab in the department of physics and astronomy.
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Wild Things Make Their Hearts Sing
The following excerpt is from an article on undergraduate research in Endeavors magazine.
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The Search for Elusive Zines
The UNC senior’s research took him to libraries and archives in Chicago and North Carolina to find transgender representation in queercore publications from the ’80s to the early 2000s.
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UNC Junior Studies How Climate Change Might Disrupt Butterfly Life Cycles
Madison Milotte used a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to study how increasing temperatures affect the pupation of cabbage white butterflies.
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Sustainable Food Procurement and Stakeholders at UNC
Research completed by an Undergraduate Research Team funded by the UNC Office for Undergraduate Research has been published in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Studies, and Community Development.
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A Storied History
Junior Britney Hong conducted oral histories of Southeast Asian American writers in North Carolina through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
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Research Ripple Effect
We caught up with junior OUR Ambassador Aakanksha Gundu, who does research in the School of Medicine’s Strahl lab.
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