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Alyssa Young was selected as a Greensboro Graduate Scholar through the University Graduate School. Her advisor is Dr. Sally Koerner.

Kristina Morales is the recipient of the UNCG Inclusiveness Fellowship Award for 2019-2020. The campus-wide selection process seeks to award graduate students contributing to strengthening diversity and inclusiveness within their graduate program through outreach. The recipients are chosen by the Vice Provost of Graduate Education. Her advisor is Dr. Martin… Continue reading…

A Natural, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences award went to Austin Gray at UNCG’s 7th annual Graduate Research Expo for his project entitled Antibiotics in our Streams and Drinking Water: Implications on Environmental and Human Health.  Austin’s Faculty Mentor is Anne Hershey and Daniel Todd from the Chemistry/Biochemistry department was a coauthor…. Continue reading…

Biology’s Alma Rosa Chanelo presented her research at UNCG’s 7th annual Graduate Research and Creativity Expo and was awarded the Health Sciences Award for her project titled the The Role of Naringenin on ERRα and Adipocyte Metabolism. Her faculty mentor is Dr. Yashomati Patel. Good job!

Nima Hajhashemi, an undergraduate student in Dr. Gideon Wasserberg’s lab, was awarded the second place CANCAS Deriuex Award at the 2019 Meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science. His poster presentation was titled “cost of autogeny in sandflies.” Nima was mentored by Dr. Tatsiana Shymanovich and Dr. Wasserberg. For more information about… Continue reading…

Save the date: 13 April 2019: UNCG Science Everywhere! For more information: http://scienceeverywhere.wp.uncg.edu/

Our own Dr. Kirchoff was quoted  in the Washington Post! Please read more here about the science behind the children’s song “On Top of Spaghetti.”

Dr. John Kiss was selected to give the Kaplan Lecture at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America. This is one of the plenary lectures of the meeting and he will be giving a talk entitled “How will space zucchini and Arabidopis help get us to Mars?”

Rada Petric, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell’s Lab, was a finalist in the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the University of Tennessee for her talk entitled “The effect of manmade noise on mice.”

Yener Ulus, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Martin Tsui’s Lab, has just received a research grant from Joint Graduate Student Research Funding from North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI) and North Carolina Sea Grant (NCSG) to support the second chapter of his dissertation entitled “Effects of Salinization on Mercury Bioavailability… Continue reading…