Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities
Spring 2020 Upcoming Deadlines and Events
- CURCA’s Spring Travel Grants for undergraduate researchers are due January 31, 2020.
- Abstracts for the Annual Research Conference (to be held March 13) are due February 14, 2020.
- CURCA's FUSE program for faculty applications for Summer 2020 are due February 7, 2020.
- Check out our Student Opportunities page and Faculty Opportunities page for more information.
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Alumna earns first prize for paper on Latinos' access to health careCarrie Leon, a May 2019 graduate of University of North Georgia (UNG), earned first prize for her paper "Latino Access to Healthcare in Response to Recent U.S Immigration Policies" at the Georgia Soci
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Forestry commission to fund study of state's tree canopyDr. Huidae Cho, assistant professor of geospatial science and computing at the University of North Georgia (UNG), and two UNG undergraduate students are conducting the same research based on 2009 data
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Senior Tyler Holman wins history awardTyler Holman won the Award for Excellence in Student Research Using Historical Records, Undergraduate Level, from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council (GHRAC). It was for his paper "'Drunke
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Environmental journal publishes research article from trio of facultyAfter undergraduate and faculty research concluded, a handful of University of North Georgia (UNG) faculty members and students saw their work published in a science journal.
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Biology faculty have new facility to expand natural history collectionEarlier this year, a few faculty members in UNG's biology department were elated to learn a standalone Carcass Processing Facility to perform necropsies and dissections would be built next to the Ecol
Research Spotlight
Amanda has been involved in research with UNG since summer 2018 when she participated in CURCA's FUSE program. She worked under Dr. Gregory Feiden investigating starspots - cool spots on the surface of stars. She worked to quantify what starspot properties were required for theoretical predictions of a star's properties to agree with observed properties. She hopes to be able to publish her results in the coming months. This summer, she is working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a part of the NSF REU program. Here she is continuing to study and research stellar astronomy, specifically low mass stars. Through her research, Amanda has had the opportunity to present in poster session at various conferences including the Georgia Regional Astronomy Meeting, and Cool Stars 20. She expects to continue presenting research and attending conferences and will be presenting her current research at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Hawaii in January.