Undergraduate Research Stories

Hundreds of general education students embarked on integrative undergraduate research that resulted in student-produced short documentary films that were highlighted in an innovative student film festival during December 2020.

Six Georgia College students were selected to present their scholarly work at the Third Annual Posters at the Georgia Capitol event. This is the second year in a row that music therapy students have represented Georgia College during this prestigious statewide event.

Smantha Good discovered the fossil, one of the best-preserved Paranthropus robustus specimens known to science. The excavation site was at the Drimolen Palaeocave System within the Cradle of Humankind, located northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.

When the health and safety response to the COVID-19 pandemic caused the Department of Theatre’s entire 2020-2021 production season to be canceled, a group of Michigan State University Department of Theatre students created a series of new audio plays, each connected to themes of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

A project to help us to conduct our scientific research in an ethically acceptable manner and to determine how well informed our student population is regarding the use of CRISPR to study genetic disorders and its application to treat these fatal conditions.

Whether it’s the shifting of shadows around a sundial, the tick-tock of clock gears or the beep of a digital watch, we use man-made devices to tell time. But how do we perceive time? That was the question graduating senior Tristan Aft set out to better quantify with research that looks at how rats process time..

Two Maryville College students have been granted a total of more than $9,000 through the Appalachian College Association’s (ACA) Ledford Scholarship to fund summer research projects.

Two fisheries and wildlife undergraduate students from Michigan State University designed and built a box that allows bird banding to be performed safely during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Genevieve van der Voort is graduating from Vancouver Island University (VIU) with a significant accomplishment under her belt – she is the lead author on a research paper published in The Canadian Entomologist.​

By the time Anastasia Kerr-German was a senior in 2014, she had already presented independent research at various conferences, delved into the rigor that goes into designing a research study and worked with three different Georgia College faculty in their research labs. It was those experiences in faculty research labs, that led her to pursue research in her own career—and she’s not alone.