Jacquelyn Whiteside is a senior majoring in drama, minoring in musical and technical theatre. Along with her research mentor Deborah Bell from the Department of Theatre, Jacquelyn designed the costumes for the UNCG mainstage theatre production of Pippin. My project. The goal of this project was designing costumes for the… Continue reading…
COVID-19 is not the first pandemic our campus has faced. In early 1918, influenza made its way to North Carolina and hit what was then called State Normal and Industrial College. Of the 1,164 students enrolled for the 1918-1919 academic year, about 200 students contracted the flu. Remarkably, no students… Continue reading…
Alex Stewart is a junior majoring in music performance with a concentration in woodwinds; his instrument is the oboe. Along with his collaborator EJ Jones and faculty mentor Dr. Ashley Barret, Alex has been working to manufacture a functional reed for the bombarde, a Celtic wind instrument. Describe your project…. Continue reading…
Recent graduate Dahlia Alharoon – who earned a degree in psychology with a minor in Spanish – used fMRI to investigate the ways different functional networks in the brain relate to different styles of daydreaming. She presented her undergraduate research project “Daydreaming Styles and Brain Functional Connectivity” at the 2018… Continue reading…
Maura Bourne graduated in May 2019 with a BA in psychology and a minor in sociology. During her time as an undergraduate at UNCG, she conducted research under the guidance of Dr. Susan Keane, a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Director of Clinical Training. Her project was… Continue reading…
Kali Cox graduated in May 2019 with a degree in biology. She and her collaborator Jake Herman completed the project below with guidance from faculty mentor Dr. Olav Rueppell. Describe your project. I wanted to know what impact honeybee body size has on the number of ovarioles present or produced… Continue reading…
Minerva Magazine offers a sample of projects by sophomore, emerging researchers in the Residential Colleges. Articles are written by students in the Capstone Courses of the Ashby and Strong Residential Colleges. Below is a repost from Minerva Magazine 2018. Imagine this: You’re going to die. It’s not going to be… Continue reading…
Since 2009, Dr. Joanne Murphy (left) has guided UNCG students like Michael Bell (right) through six-week professional internships at an archaeological field school on the Greek island of Kea. Repost from the Fall 2019 Research Magazine Senior classical archaeology major Michael Bell can easily point to how opportunities for undergraduate… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG Research Magazine Aidan Lytle has been interested in physics – “the purest science,” he says – since he was a kid. But a less-than-stellar academic record meant, instead of pursuing science, he initially focused on another passion – music. That talent led him to playing in a… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG Research Magazine Dixie Ortiz was a fifth-grader when she first heard the violin. A teacher at her elementary school in Winter Haven, Florida, was performing to generate interest in the orchestra program. Ortiz was captivated. “I thought it was the most beautiful, wonderful sound I had ever… Continue reading…
