In the spring of her sophomore year, after taking courses in basic biology and organic chemistry, Khan found herself intrigued by chemistry’s environmental applications. Although she had yet to declare an official major, Khan was referred to Assistant Professor Betsy Stone's lab by a friend who was aware of her interests.
Some day, not too far in the future, devastating diseases may be treated with drugs built from specialized synthetic molecules, thanks to the research of recent UO graduate Muhammad Khalifa.
For the past 400 million years, chitons have been scooting along the seabed. The small mollusks spend their days grazing for algae and bacteria, and their nights hiding under rocks. Materials science undergraduate Leanne Friedrich admits that chitons don’t seem exciting but says they actually have a lot to offer the research world.
What is more unusual than performing an experiment on NASA’s “Weightless Wonder” reduced gravity aircraft? Performing an experiment on it twice.
A team of four researchers and a professor from Michigan State University - including two undergraduate students -sailed the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to Guam on a National Science Foundation research vessel to determine how and why the North Pole became the South Pole (and vice versa).
A 30-year-old college dropout left his undergraduate career to pursue a music career, after receiving a record deal. Ten years later, the rock & roller enrolled as a chemistry major at Rutgers University-Newark and is now conducting pharmaceutical research in a lab at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Undergraduate students at Indiana University measured palm sweat and its reaction to outside stimuli through a palm sweat sensor. Known as skin conductance, the measurement of this sweat helps indicate psychological states, such as stress.
A poverty-stricken city on the murky shore of Lake Victoria, Kisumu is the third-largest city in Kenya. It also sits in the heart of a region with an alarmingly high HIV-infection rate: More than 18 percent of Kisumu County residents have the life-threatening virus, many of them unaware.
Organisms discovered by Yale undergraduates growing within fungi in the Amazon Rainforest can degrade polyurethane, a findings that may lead to innovative ways to reduce waste in the world's landfills.