Two teams of student engineers from NCSSM participating in the NASA HUNCH (High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware) program traveled to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, this spring to pitch projects for possible flights to the International Space Station. Juniors Michelle Bao, Angela Chen, Deven Jahnke, Adithi Rao, and Emily …
Matthew McDonough didn’t know much about the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Exceptional Research Opportunities Program until he learned that a couple of his Western Carolina University instructors nominated him to participate. So the junior from Asheville applied and was surprised to be chosen to participate in the program that provides summer research experiences in HHMI …
Undergraduate students Mary (Tess) Overton and Nemah-Allah Saleh have received Goldwater Scholarships, as only the second and third students at the University ever to receive this award. The scholarship is the premier undergraduate award of its type in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. Saleh, a Biology Honors student, is …
UNC initiative aims to help former students earn their undergraduate degrees It was a bittersweet moment when Isaac Smith attended his 50th anniversary reunion at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University last year. While he enjoyed visiting with his former classmates, Smith said he felt incomplete because they had earned their diplomas and he …
UNCW senior Mary Jaskowiak ’17 won the latest BB&T Discovery Forum Series for developing an affordable, effective method for testing water quality using a substance found in laundry detergent. The project earned the $10,000 first prize in the competition for young social entrepreneurs. Jaskowiak’s research, conducted under the supervision of UNCW biology and marine biology professor …
Joint speech program between UNCG, WCU gives students a way to earn their doctorate Summer McMurry runs a full-time business she started in Asheville in addition to being a wife and mother of three children. Pursuing her doctorate, without a nearby program, wasn’t an option for her –until now. McMurry is one of three doctoral …
Doctoral student helps develop cancer-fighting compound Having your name on a U.S. patent isn’t so unusual for university scientists. But to have your name on a patent while still a student – that’s another story. But Daniel Ladin isn’t an ordinary student. First, he’s a doctoral student in the pharmacology and toxicology program at the …
Forget Jurassic Park. Appalachian State University will soon have its own Triassic Park – complete with its very own dinosaur-like creature. In truth, the “park” will be a reconstructed aetosaur habitat in the Fred Webb Jr. Outdoor Geology Laboratory/Interactive Rock Garden that runs along Rankin Science South. The garden will be home to a cast …
Unique partnership puts UNC system professors, students on display at Museum of Natural Sciences For Jim Johnson, it’s one thing to discuss paleontology with his eighth grade science class at Lucas Middle School in Durham. It’s quite another for him to show his students actual paleontologists at work. On a field trip to the North …
From exploring the role social media can play in healing America’s divides to increasing diversity in the tech industry to combatting Islamophobia online, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University students engaged Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a wide-ranging and thoughtful conversation as part of the inaugural Chancellor’s Town Hall on March 13. …