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![[title_1]](https://biology.charlotte.edu/sites/biology.charlotte.edu/files/styles/news_image/public/fields/news/field_news_landscape_image/Megan%20M2.png?itok=j8GasDoW "[title_1]")
Congratulations to Megan Mitchum Ph.D. student working with Dr. Andrew Truman. She has been named a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellow. To add to her accomplishments, Megan also received Honorable Mention from the 2023 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship selection committee.
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My research will investigate how changes in microbial communities influence larval settlement decisions that ultimately determine population structure and impact community dynamics in benthic marine communities. I will examine the economically costly biofouling marine cnidarian Ectopleura crocea and its actinula larva. To do this, I will take an integrative approach that combines...
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A new high-tech research program is coming to the campus of UNC Charlotte.
Three years ago, the topic of health and medicinal research probably wouldn’t have drawn your attention. But now, after COVID, we’re all interested because no one wants to be surprised by an outbreak again.
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A first-generation, divorced college student, Mitchem — who was an adult when she met her first scientist — believes it's important to be visible as a woman in science.
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The UNCC Trash Taggers led by Professor Andrew Goff have been a part of the Adopt-A-Stream program since 2018. Andrew and several dedicated students have pulled out about 9,300 pounds of trash just over the past year from all over the City of Charlotte!
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An antibody that was invented at UNC Charlotte could be used to curb pancreatic cancer relapse and metastasis, a new UNC Charlotte study has found.
Pancreatic cancer is the 10th most common type of cancer, but it is the fourth-leading cause of cancer death among men and women in the United States.
Each November, Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month calls attention to this silent...
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Congratulations to our students who were awarded all expenses to attend the National SACNAS STEM conference in Puerto Rico....
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