Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities
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Kaur expands breast cancer research to prostate cancer researchTo help breast cancer patients, Dr. Ramneet Kaur received a Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (CURCA) mini-grant in 2017 to explore the use of natural products to treat triple
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AAC&U highlights research by English associate professor and studentsUniversity of North Georgia (UNG) students Emily Pridgen and Samantha Velasquez and faculty member Dr. J. Michael Rifenburg's research assessment of the redesign of an English composition class recent
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Assistant professor of sociology to examine students' social tiesIn spring 2021, Dr. Diogo Pinheiro will study the impact of social networks on undergraduate students across all five UNG campuses as part of a semester-long research project. Pinheiro earned a semest
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Three students and two faculty publish paper in chemistry journalUNG faculty members Dr. Eric Huddleston and Dr. Jim Konzelman and students Ashley Allred, Joseph S. Holland and Avery G. Shupert penned a paper about a lab experiment, which published in the American
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Construction complete on state-of-the-art observatory near Dahlonega CampusDr. Bonita Jacobs and a small group of UNG faculty, staff and students toured the freshly completed North Georgia Astronomical Observatory as part of its ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 25.
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.