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Undergraduate Research Stories

From biology to engineering, from physics to history, from chemistry to literature, research by undergraduates at AAU universities is making a difference in their education and in our lives.

Ayumi Pottenger

Q&A: Ayumi Pottenger's Got Research on the Brain

Get to know Ayumi Pottenger, a senior studying molecular and cellular biology in the hopes of developing treatments for those with Parkinson’s disease while elucidating some of the mysteries of the brain.
Lysandra Perez
Lydia Myers

Lydia Myers ’20 Digs Into the Past

Stony Brook University undergraduate Lydia Myers spent the summer on a dig near Lake Turkana, Kenya.

Scared by Artificial Intelligence? Fear Not, Tech-savvy USC Grad Says

Eric Deng found USC to be the perfect home for his interests in robotics, design and human behavior.
Maja Matarić and Eric Deng

Math Major Emphasizes the Value of Undergraduate Research

Daley McMahon, the URECA researcher of the month for February, is a mathematics major who will be among the few students in her year to have completed the full set of seven graduate core courses, which are intended for first-year doctoral students.
Stony Brook University - The State University of New York

University of Missouri Launches Residential Program for Students With Developmental Disabilities

This fall, the University of Missouri College of Education and Human Development will launch PAWS — Preparing Adults for Work and Society — a residential program for post-secondary students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
University of Missouri, Columbia

Senior at Stony Brook Recognized for Undergraduate Research

Nadine Areikat, an undergraduate at Stony Brook University, was awarded the URECA Researcher of the Month while currently double majoring in biology and psychology and conducting research for her honors thesis. She aspires to be a physician specializing in emergency medicine.
Stony Brook University - The State University of New York

Undergrad Publishes His Biomedical Engineering Research

Christopher Moore is a biomedical engineering major in the Honors College whose research under the mentorship of Wei Lin, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, was funded by URECA in Summer 2021
Stony Brook University - The State University of New York

Pushy plants? Student discovery 'adds new dimension to plant biology'

A new University of Florida study has found that a local plant, the tall elephant’s foot, can be pushy — which wasn’t previously known.
Biology | University of Florida