Volleying Research and Life
From pickleball to LEGO, Carolina researchers engage in a variety of hobbies to escape stressors that come with a career in academia.
biology
RUNC: Toshihide Hige
Toshihide Hige wants to unlock the brain’s secrets for learning and memory.
Wild Things Make Their Hearts Sing
While studying small mammals in the Blue Ridge Mountains, juniors Marie Young and Cole Prezant discover a love for field work.
Hunting for Hemlocks
Ken Donny-Clark spent his last semester at UNC-Chapel Hill in the woods searching for a dwindling population of trees that local wildlife depends on: Carolina hemlocks.
All Creatures Great and Small
Rada Petric's love for nature has led her to study how human presence affects the behavior of small mammals like bats and mice.
Surveying the Smalls
Local biologists team up to study how wetland mitigation affects small mammals.
Algal Rhythms
Isabel Silva-Romero studies how ocean temperatures affect the food web on rocky reefs around the Galápagos Islands.
RUNC: Christian Chung
Christian Chung researches how to remove “forever chemicals” from drinking water.
Crouching Researcher, Hidden Sparrow
Four students spent their summer in Colorado stalking Lincoln’s sparrows in search of answers to fundamental biological questions.
Bewitched by Invertebrates
Jared Richards studies bizarre and beautiful sea creatures over 480 million years old.