Isabel Silva-Romero, a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate student, studies how ocean temperatures affect the food web on rocky reefs around the Galápagos Islands. Her field site is located at the Galapagos Science Center — a collaboration between the UNC Center for Galapagos Studies and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito that facilitates research, teaching, and outreach initiatives linked to the Galápagos.
Over the span of 56 days, Emmaus Holder cycled 4,300 miles from Topsail Beach, North Carolina, to Los Angeles in a solo, self-supported ride to raise awareness for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and gather dozens of interviews that he'll turn into a research paper.
Junior Sarah Vickers knew in middle school that physics would be a lifelong passion. In the Gruszko lab, researchers are working to understand why there is significantly more matter than antimatter in the universe by studying neutrinos — miniscule, abundant, neutrally charged particles.
Through The Graduate School's Summer Research Fellowship, Ph.D. student Alayna Mackiewicz is spending the summer in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, studying sensory biology.