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Education Honors Fellow and Lumen Prize recipient presents research at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Conference
April 3, 2019
Kearns' research titled "Implications for elementary educators' abilities to accurately self-evaluate their mathematics teaching practices in relation to math anxiety levels" discusses the correlation and effects between high levels of female elementary school teachers and the fact that women tend to have higher anxiety levels when it comes to math.
Phi Beta Kappa inducts new members
April 2, 2019
An April 1 dinner and ceremony included an address by Paula Stephan, a professor of economics at Georgia Southern University who is a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar.
Education Honors Fellow presents research at N.C. Reading Association
April 1, 2019
Kristen O'Neill's research titled, "Reading to Succeed: An examination of Interests and Motivations of Struggling Pre-Adolescent Readers," has been presented twice at the North Carolina Reading Association Conference, SURE at Elon, and most notably, at the Hawaii International Conference on Education.
Lumen Scholar researches local grassroots community organizing through the new Poor People’s Campaign
March 18, 2019
Lindsey Jordan ’19, and Honors Fellow, is among the recipients of the Lumen Prize, which provides selected students with a scholarship and celebrates their academic and creative accomplishments.
Lumen Scholar’s research part of effort to create lifesaving sanitation solution worldwide
February 5, 2019
Honors Fellow Michael Dryzer ’19 is among the recipients of the Lumen Prize, which provides selected students with a scholarship and celebrates their academic and creative accomplishments.
Buffie Longmire-Avital and Jennifer Finkelstein '19 present poster at National Multicultural Counseling Summit
January 22, 2019
Associate Professor of Psychology Buffie Longmire-Avital and Honors Fellow Jennifer Finkelstein ‘19 presented research on eating disorders among black collegiate women at the national conference held Jan. 16-18 in Denver, Colorado.
Public health performance: Lumen Scholar uses creative arts to help students in Ghana learn about malaria
December 20, 2018
Stephanie Ntim ‘19 is among the recipients of the Lumen Prize, which provides selected students with a scholarship and celebrates their academic and creative accomplishments.
Sophomore Honors Fellow publishes article on U.S.-Argentina relations during the Cold War
November 29, 2018
The article by Angela Myers '21 appeared in the journal Revista Brumario.
Adding it up: Lumen Scholar examines how math anxiety can impact elementary school teachers
November 15, 2018
Molly Kearns ’19 is among the recipients of the Lumen Prize, which provides selected students with a scholarship and celebrates their academic and creative accomplishments.
Paper authored and recently published by Barbara Miller Gaither, Morgan Collins ’20 earns top prize award
October 31, 2018
In collaboration with UNC professor Lucinda Austin, the School of Communications faculty member and strategic communications major examined corporate social advocacy and political activism through the case of DICK’s Sporting Goods and the company’s recent stance on gun control reform.