Diversity in STEM
The daylong Diversity in STEM Conference, the first of its kind at Carolina, was the first opportunity for faculty and staff to have a University-wide dialogue.
Academics
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Nihar Vaidya
Nihar Vaidya, who is a computer science major with a minor in neuroscience, has earned a place on the Dean’s List every semester and was named a CSS Distinguished Scholar. He also founded a Carolina chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, a global organization dedicated to supporting students and professionals in computer sciences and computing fields. He contributed to the work of researchers who are bridging the fields of computer science and neuroscience within Carolina’s Department of Computer Science.
Noah Legall ’18
Noah Legall spent his college years looking for ways to combine his interests in biology and computer science. He landed on quantitative biology, and spent four years exploring research topics with Dr. Bill Marzluff in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. He's now pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Georgia’s Institute of Bioinformatics, where he uses computer science, math and statistics to analyze biological data—specifically, bacteria.
Documenting Southern culinary cultures and histories
Professor Elizabeth Engelhardt finds that Southern food — everything from grits to gravy, moonshine to mustard greens — makes for great academic fodder.