News & Stories
Welcome to the URSCO blog, where UNCG’s undergraduate scholars share their work and and its impact with the world. This blog aims to highlight the amazing undergraduate research and scholarly activity that takes place on our campus.
Daydreaming Styles and Brain Functional Connectivity
December 17, 2019
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 … Continued
Risk-Taking Adolescents
December 12, 2019
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 … Continued
The Buzz on Bee Size
November 30, 2019
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 … Continued
Battling healthcare: The immigrants’ healthcare double bind
November 27, 2019
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 … Continued
Digging In
October 31, 2019
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 … Continued
Collision Courses
September 20, 2019
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 … Continued
Plucky Pedagogy
July 15, 2019
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 … Continued
Photoactive Drugs As Anticancer Agents
November 29, 2018
Repost from UNCG Now. UNC Greensboro undergraduate Evan Bradner’s interest in medicine began at a young age, during an exceptionally difficult time. As his mother fought cancer, he witnessed the ravages of not only the disease, but of the chemotherapy used to treat it. He often accompanied his mother to … Continued