{"id":19296,"date":"2017-04-28T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=19296"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:36:00","slug":"research-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=19296","title":{"rendered":"A true research university"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 18th annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research was held on April 27 at the Frank Porter Graham Student Union. Held annually, the celebration showcases research in all disciplines by undergraduates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the past 12 months, Kyle Wallace has been examining reconstructed ACLs in the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory to better understand how damage done during the reconstruction could lead to knee osteoarthritis.<\/p>\n

As he stood in the middle of the Great Hall in the Student Union to present his year of work, he felt a great sense of relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing here with a poster and having people come up to you and ask questions, it generates quite a bit of interest in the actual research itself as opposed to just the data,\u201d said Wallace, a senior. \u201cSomething like this actually draws interest in everything from the research to the methods to the hard work that goes into these projects.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wallace\u2019s poster was just one of the nearly 200 projects showcased at the 18th<\/sup> annual Celebration of Undergraduate Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on April 27. The three-hour event provided an opportunity for Carolina\u2019s undergraduates to share the research they\u2019ve done throughout the year.<\/p>\n

Hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research, the celebration consisted of two poster sessions inside the Great Hall and dozens of 10-minute panel sessions moderated by faculty members.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur undergraduates\u2019 research and scholarship is absolutely incredible,\u201d said Troy Blackburn, the associate dean and director of Office for Undergraduate Research<\/p>\n

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The three-hour event provided an opportunity for Carolina\u2019s undergraduates to showcase the research they\u2019ve done throughout the year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Students from nearly all departments were represented at the celebration. Research topics included health and well being; diversity and equity; environment; fine arts; education; and United States and foreign relations.<\/p>\n

With the help of faculty advisors and graduate students, the undergraduates spent months analyzing, interviewing, researching and performing experiments on their projects.<\/p>\n

Projects ranged from deeper understandings of concussions in sports and quantifying the mislabeling of seafood to analyzing genes and projecting tropospheric ozone load change over the next three decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis truly is a research university,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cIt is definitely helpful as a student, as a person and as somebody who\u2019s about to enter the science field. Whatever field you\u2019re in, research definitely plays a role in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For many of the students, the event was the first time they were able to present their research to a large audience outside the classroom \u2014\u00a0an ability Kate Townsend said is key for any researcher.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal is to educate people about the research \u2014 that\u2019s the ultimate goal,\u201d said Townsend, a public policy junior who was presenting her analysis of a visa program for victims of domestic violence. \u201cBeing able to have a poster and pull out the basics of your work and see what kind of questions people have is good for improving your research and also for educating the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Story by Brandon Bieltz and photos by Melanie Busbee, University Communications<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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