Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities
Fall 2019 Upcoming Deadlines and Events
- CURCA’s Fall Travel Grants for undergraduate researchers are due September 20, 2019. Apply now or learn more.
- Abstracts for the Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (to be held November 1-2) are due September 18, 2019. Register and learn more here.
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Faculty, student, alumna study rock outcrops at ElacheeThis summer, two UNG professors were awarded a Presidential Incentive Award to investigate the geology of Elachee Nature Science Center through geochemical and petrographic analyses of rock outcrops.
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Bee hotels lead UNG to participate in pollinator censusA collaboration between a UNG student and two faculty members snowballed from building bee hotels at the Historic Vickery House to the university participating in Georgia's first-ever Great Pollinator
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Research grants fund summer projects by faculty and studentsFaculty Undergraduate Summer Engagement (FUSE) and American Psychological Association's (APA) Summer Undergraduate Psychology Research Experience (SUPRE) grants were granted to nearly a dozen Universi
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Record number of students attend research conferenceThe University of North Georgia (UNG) had a record 65 current and former students attend the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) from April 11-13 at Kennesaw State University.
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Biology and IESA faculty members create a snake appJessica Patterson, lecturer of biology, collaborated with Dr. Allison Bailey, associate professor of geography and environmental studies in the Lewis F. Rogers Institute for Environmental and Spatial
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.