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.
Civil War monuments: Should they stay or should they go?
November 27, 2018
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. Picture this: it’s the late 1800s, the Civil War has recently … Continued
Crisis in Myanmar
October 24, 2018
Jordan Richmond graduated in May 2018 with a degree in political science and international and global studies, with minors in Chinese and women’s and gender studies. She completed her project, “Crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh: Sociocultural Underpinnings and Political Barriers to the 2016-2018 Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing Crisis,” during her senior year, … Continued
Not legal yet: Legalizing marijuana fails to end racist arrest patterns
September 27, 2018
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. The decriminalization of marijuana usage in some states has been in … Continued
Umbrella in the rain: The detrimental effects of stigma on schizophrenia
September 27, 2018
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. How many times have you been quick to judge someone based … Continued
A Common Language
May 2, 2018
Martha Reyes can’t help but feel a special connection to students whose first language isn’t English.
Hitting His Stride
March 25, 2018
It started with a rolled ankle during a daily run. That’s when undergraduate Jason Moody first thought about the body’s biomechanics. How did his ankle turn, and what did it mean?
Fighting back against MRSA
December 20, 2017
Manead Khin is a junior chemistry major conducting research under the direction of Dr. Nadja Cech, a professor in the Department of Chemistry. Khin’s project is titled “Identification of Antimicrobial Compounds from Macleaya cordata.” Describe your project. “My project mainly focuses on extracting bioactive compounds from Macleaya cordata, a plant … Continued
Participatory Budgeting
December 7, 2017
Jessica Clifford and Margaret Bozovich partnered on their project “Participatory Budgeting: Research and Evaluation Report 2016.” Clifford is a senior undergraduate majoring in communication studies. Bozovich was a senior in communication studies at the time of the project and is now a graduate student in the same department. Their project … Continued