The Brain and Early Experience (BEE) Lab is an interdisciplinary team affiliated with the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. We are currently collecting data for the BEE Study, a longitudinal project investigating how prenatal factors (e.g., prenatal nutrition, sleep, … Read more
Research opportunities for motivated undergraduate students are available in the Baby Brain Mapping lab in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC). Our research mainly focuses on the development of machine learning-based computational techniques and tools for … Read more
The Bai Lab ( https://baigroup.org/ ) in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences (https://aps.unc.edu/ ) invites undergraduate students to join our team and carry on research in the field of bioelectronics and biophotonics. Our research focuses on both fundamental and … Read more
Project NeuroTeen is a longitudinal study examining the important role of peers and parents on neurobiological development during adolescence. We will be following 150 middle/high school students across 5 years. This study is currently beginning it’s fifth year now and … Read more
The RISE (RCT for Innovating Stress-related eHealth) Study is a first-in-kind research endeavor exploring the efficacy of a smart phone-based intervention designed to prevent the onset of posttraumatic stress symptoms, depression, anxiety, and pain after sexual assault. We highly value … Read more
Introduction: Opioid analgesics are commonly used to treat pain but have serious side effects, including addiction, dependence, and death from overdose. The Mouse Grimace Scale (MGS) was developed to quantify characteristic facial expressions associated with spontaneous pain. The MGS is … Read more
Our lab studies learning, decision-making, and emotion in those with and without personality pathology (i.e., symptoms of personality disorders). In particular, our research investigates abnormalities underlying Borderline Personality Disorder and its development during adolescence and early adulthood. To study these … Read more
The CIRCLE Lab at UNC (Psychology and Neuroscience Department) is looking for motivated undergraduate research assistants to join our team! For more information on our lab, please see our lab website at circlelab.unc.edu. The CIRCLE Lab is dedicated to building … Read more
Help us understand how the brain develops and communicates to support functions like thinking, reasoning, emotional states. We will achieve this by creating scripts, running analyses, and producing meaningful data from a range of projects and participant pools. Ideal candidates … Read more
Students will learn to program complex Qualtrics surveys, to review procedures for tracking and administering surveys in this population, and working with caseworkers at LLS-MN to prepare for data collection. We are working on multiple projects, including an evaluation of … Read more