BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:227@researchweek.unc.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241023T140000 DTSTAMP:20250709T135236Z URL:https://researchweek.unc.edu/events/research-discovery-fair/ SUMMARY:UNC Research &\; Discovery Fair DESCRIPTION:Hey undergrads\, stop by the student union to get involved in C arolina’s research community!\n\nThe fair will feature over 25 UNC resea rch labs and projects from marine biology to robotics to drones to music. UNC-Chapel Hill has a type of research that will pique your interest.\n\nV isit the Great Hall to get an up-close look at what some of our researcher s do and see how you can get involved. Join us for an afternoon of demonst rations\, interactive experiments\, and a look behind the scenes at how di scoveries are made in the lab and beyond.\n\nThis is an in-person\, CLE Cr edit event.\n\nClick Here to Register on Heellife\n\nParticipating Project s & Labs:\n\n Applied Engineering Lab: Featuring Spot the Robot Dog\nThe A pplied Engineering Laboratory provides facilities and expertise for buildi ng prototypes of a variety of microtechnology-based systems.\n\n Physical Mathematics Laboratory\nThe Physical Mathematics Laboratory uses theory\, simulations\, and experiments to uncover new phenomena relevant to the fie lds of physics and engineering.\n\n Cardiovascular Modeling and Simulation \nBoyce Griffith and his research group use methods of computational and a pplied mathematics\, computer science\, and bioengineering to develop phys iological models of cardiac and cardiovascular function in health and dise ase. \n\n NC Pure\nThe North Carolina PFAS University Research Alliance (N C Pure) aims to evaluate commercial and emerging technologies for PFAS rem ediation from North Carolina waters. Thjey are an interdisciplinary group of chemists and engineers developing new\, selective\, PFAS remediation ma terials\, testing a wide range of waters from the state\, and designing an d implementing pilot-scale water remediation systems to test remediation t echnologies at water treatment plants. \n\n Morehead Science on Stage\nSin ce the planetarium opened in 1949\, millions of North Carolina students\, teachers\, and families\, as well as visitors from around the world\, have benefited from Morehead science programs. Science on Stage captivates par ticipants with interactive experiments and demonstrations performed by a M orehead educator.\n\n Bai Lab: Fundamental and Applied Study of Soft Mater ials and Nanomaterials\nThe Bai lab focuses on both fundamental and applie d study of soft materials and nanomaterials\, including assembly and manuf acturing approaches to enable hybrid integration of multimaterials towards high-performance electronic and photonic systems\, the development of new technology that can intelligently immerse electronics and photonics into biological systems\, and the creation of new tools and devices to address unmet clinical needs and improve human healthcare and sustainability.\n\n BeAM: Be A Maker\nBeAM@CAROLINA is a network of makerspaces where you can join the UNC maker community in the design and making of physical objects for education\, research\, entrepreneurship and recreation.\nUNC-Chapel Hi ll is a premier research university\, conducting over a billion dollars of sponsored research each year. BeAM@Carolina is here to help researchers a chieve their objectives by providing resources and educational opportuniti es to expand their skillset and prototype\, all at little to no cost to yo u.\n\n Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Event Sponsor)\nThe Burroughs Wellcome Fun d’s grantmaking strategies support biomedical scientists at the beginnin g of their careers and areas of science that are poised for significant ad vancement but are currently undervalued and underfunded.\nBWF has programs which support primary and secondary students\, science and mathematics te achers\, institutions\, and academic scientists: postdoctoral-faculty brid ging awards and faculty awards.\n\n\n Carolina Drone Lab\nThe Carolina Dro ne Lab (CARDNL) serves as a collaborative space and knowledge hub that fac ilitates the innovative use of drones and sensors to solve environmental a nd societal challenges. CARDNL is a continuously-evolving resource for col laborators both within the UNC community and beyond.\n\n Center for Galapa gos Studies\nThe Center for Galapagos Studies coordinates UNC’s Galapago s-related research\, teaching\, and outreach activities in Chapel Hill wit h the joint UNC/USFQ Galapagos Science Center located on San Cristobal Isl and in the Galapagos Archipelago.\n\n CIRCLE Lab: Child Imaging Research o n Cognition and Life Experiences\nThe Child Imaging Research on Cognition and Life Experiences (CIRCLE) Lab is a research group in the Psychology an d Neuroscience Department at UNC studying the impact of different life exp eriences on behavior and the developing brain.\n\n Computer Vision and Gra phics\nRoni Sengupta is an assistant professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sengupta’s research interes t lies at the intersection of computer vision and computer graphics\, with a focus on solving inverse graphics problems for democratizing high-quali ty video production and editing. Her work on background matting received B est Student Paper Honorable Mention at CVPR 2021 (Top 7 papers out of 1600 accepted) and has been adopted by various companies\, e.g.\, Microsoft\, Inter State Studio\, etc.\n\n Pégard Lab: Advanced Optical Instrumentatio n for Applications in Biology\, Neuroscience\, and Medicine\nThe Pégard L aboratory develops advanced optical instrumentation for applications in bi ology\, neuroscience\, and medicine. The lab's research strategy moves awa y from traditional microscopy and the reconstruction of visual images.\n\n Data-Driven EnviroLab\nThe Data-Driven EnviroLab (DDL) is an interdiscipl inary and international group of researchers\, scientists\, programmers\, and visual designers. The DDL uses innovative data analytics to distill si gnals from large-scale and unconventional datasets and develop policy solu tions to contemporary environmental problems. \n\n Digital Literacy and Co mmunications Lab\nThe Digital Literacy and Communications Lab serves as a hub for innovation in the humanities with a focus on digital humanities\, critical games studies\, digital literacy\, and communications.\n\n School of Education: Education Policy Research\, from a Sociological Lens\nA soc iologist by training\, Thad Domina works with educational practitioners to better understand the relationship between education and social inequalit y in the contemporary U.S.\n\n Environmental Protection Agency (Event Spon sor)\nThe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency o f the United States government tasked with environmental protection matter s. Their mission is to protect human health and the environment.\nEvery ye ar\, EPA awards more than $4 billion in funding for grants and other assis tance agreements. From small non-profit organizations to large state gover nments\, EPA works to help many visionary organizations achieve their envi ronmental goals. A number of UNC research projects have been awarded these grants.\n\n Freeman Lab: Biomaterials Design\nThe Freeman Lab is an inter disciplinary team seeking to develop novel designer materials using self-a ssembling biological components.\n\nGraduate Costume Production Program\nR esearch plays a huge role in creating the costumes for a production\, espe cially when the show takes place in a different era. PlayMakers Repertory Company\, a professional Equity theatre and member of the League of Reside nt Theatres\, is affiliated with the Department of Dramatic Art. The oppor tunity to work in a professional costume shop provides an integral part of the teaching process. Invaluable production training is gained by committ ing to the creation of costumes meeting exceptionally high standards requi red in the professional theatre.\n\n Institute for Risk Management and Ins urance Innovation\nDr. Characklis serves as William R. Kenan\, Jr. Disting uished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, wher e he holds appointments in both the Department of Environmental Sciences a nd Engineering and the UNC Institute for the Environment. His primary rese arch interests involve developing solutions to water resource challenges t hrough systems-based approaches that integrate consideration of both engin eering and economic principles\, with a particular focus on evaluating and managing environmental financial risk.\n\n HHIVE Lab: Health and Humaniti es\nHoused in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC- Chapel Hill\, the HHIVE Lab and affiliated curricula extend beyond departm ental boundaries to harnesses the energy\, talent\, and knowledge of Carol ina faculty\, staff\, and students working at the intersection of the huma nities\, the arts\, and the health sciences. The HHIVE Lab is a space for innovative research\, curricular\, and programming.\n\n Institute for the Environment: Field Site Opportunities\nA network of field sites in North C arolina and abroad advance UNC’s missions in undergraduate education\, e nvironmental research and community engagement. The Institute for the Envi ronment\, in partnership with the Environment\, Ecology and Energy Program and the UNC Study Abroad Office\, has established site locations that off er ecosystem settings ranging from mountains to coasts to urban environmen ts and tropical rain forests. Students experience a combination of indoor and outdoor classroom time and fieldwork at all the field sites.\n\n Marin e Life Sciences\nDr. Fodrie is an estuarine ecologist who studies the popu lation dynamics of fishes and shellfish. His research studies have occured along all three major U.S. coastlines\, and broadly examines linkages bet ween habitat and fisheries production\, movement ecology (landscape to pop ulation connectivity scales)\, coastal marine food-web interactions and tr ophic energy flows\, and long-term population and community responses to n atural and human-influenced stressors.\n\n Joint Fluids Lab\nThe Joint App lied Mathematics and Marine Sciences Fluids Lab is an interdisciplinary re search lab in the Carolina Center of Interdisciplinary and Applied Mathema tics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The lab is a coll aborative effort between professors\, postdoctoral research associates\, g raduate students\, undergraduate students and high school students in the Departments of Mathematics\, Marine Sciences\, Biology\, and Physics.\n\n K. Pfenning Lab: Spadefoot Toad Research - Later Life\nUsing spadefoot toa ds as their study system\, the K. Pfenning Lab integrates behavior\, ecolo gy\, and evolution to understand behavior’s role in the origins and dist ribution of biodiversity. They combine work in natural populations with la b-based experiments and genetic analyses. They primarily study the evoluti on of mate choice behavior\, because it is both subject to strong selectio n and is itself a potent selective force.\n\n Office of Undergraduate Rese arch\nAt the Office for Undergraduate Research\, we believe that students who engage in research during their college careers are better prepared to collaborate with others to improve our world and to become tomorrow’s l eaders. We help undergraduates get connected to the larger Carolina resear ch community\, find research funding\, and share their research with other s.\n\n Physical Mathematics Laboratory\nAt the Physical Mathematics Lab\, they're interested in fundamental problems that find motivation in physics and engineering. Their projects are interdisciplinary\; combining theory\ , simulations & experiments to unveil and rationalize new natural phenomen a. \n\n Research Labs of Archaeology\nThe Research Laboratories of Archaeo logy (RLA) was founded in 1939 as a center for the study of Native America n culture in North Carolina and nearby states. Since then\, its activities have grown to include research throughout the Americas. Currently\, the R LA’s mission has four facets: to expand knowledge of native peoples in t he Americas\, with particular emphasis on North Carolina and the South\; t o train graduate and undergraduate students in the methods of archaeology\ ; to inform the public about Indian culture and archaeology\; and to serve as a repository of archaeological collections.\n\n Southern Folklife Coll ection\nThe Southern Folklife Collection is an archival resource dedicated to collecting\, preserving and disseminating traditional and vernacular m usic\, art\, and culture related to the American South. \n\n The NC Pure P roject\nThe North Carolina PFAS University Research Alliance (NC Pure) aim s to evaluate commercial and emerging technologies for PFAS remediation fr om North Carolina waters. They are an interdisciplinary group of chemists and engineers developing new\, selective\, PFAS remediation materials (sor bents)\, testing a wide range of waters from N.C. drinking water and waste water treatment plants and wells\, and designing and implementing pilot-sc ale water remediation systems to test remediation technologies at water tr eatment plants.\n\n UNC Department of Music: Juan Álamo & His Marimba\nFo r most of his life\, Juan Álamo has used music to connect to and communic ate with others. As a skilled marimba player\, he uses his talent and pass ion to teach the next generation of musicians to do the same.\n\n UNC Rese arch\nServing North Carolina\, Changing the World\nThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the 12th largest research university in the Un ited States\, ranking 11th in the nation for federal research expenditures . More than 150 Carolina faculty are members of the National Academies and other prestigious learned societies. A highly collaborative culture among researchers of all disciplines drives our $1.36 billion in annual researc h activity.\n\n University Libraries\nThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s library system is consistently ranked among the top univer sity libraries in North America and is one of the premier libraries in the South. The University Libraries provides a range of research support serv ices for UNC students\, staff\, and faculty\, including research consultat ions\, library data services\, and access to both digital and physical mat erials.\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://researchweek.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/ 2024/08/Fair-web-r3.jpg CATEGORIES:CLE Credit Event,Featured Event,In-person Event,Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research,Office of Undergraduate Research LOCATION:FPG Carolina Student Union\, Great Hall\, 209 South Rd\, Chapel Hi ll\, North Carolina\, 27599\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=209 South Rd\, Chapel Hill\ , North Carolina\, 27599\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=FPG Ca rolina Student Union\, Great Hall:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR