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Planning Week marks the start of the academic year and provides an opportunity for faculty receiving funding from the Faculty Research and Development Committee to present their work.  

Grace Carter '20, a Lumen Scholar, offers incoming first-year students advice about beginning their journeys at Â鶹ÊÓƵ. 

Wednesday's poster session offered nearly 40 Â鶹ÊÓƵ students the opportunity to share the progress they made on a range of research topics through the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, one of Â鶹ÊÓƵ's signature program. 

Bloxom, who majored in biology and public health studies, will pursue a master’s degree in global health at National Taiwan University.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ hosted middle school students from the Alamance-Burlington School System for a five-day science camp focused on citizen science projects and summer enrichment. 

The poster summarized three years of ethnobotanical work by Bush, assistant professor of biology and research fellow at the Center for New North Carolinians at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Hamel and co-author from the University of Missouri published an empirical study in a special issue of the journal.

Nick Ciolkowski ’19 is among the recipients of the Lumen Prize, which provides selected students with a scholarship and celebrates their academic and creative accomplishments.

The university's top undergraduate research award comes with $20,000 to support and celebrate academic and creative achivements. 

Catherine M. Bush, assistant professor of biology at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, and colleagues published an analysis of low-copy nuclear genes in the current issue of the Nordic Journal of Botany.