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The Health Equity Scholars for Action program supports academic researchers from historically underrepresented backgrounds as they expand research designed to dismantle systemic and structural barriers to health and well-being.

The research collaboration with Duke University’s Center for WaSH-AID, Oldcastle Infrastructure, a CRH Company, and Triangle Environmental Health Initiative is being piloted on Elon’s campus through 2024.

Blending math, biology, computer science and engineering, four undergraduates and their mentor, Hwayeon Ryu, are developing a mathematical model in a three-year, $300,000 project funded by the National Science Foundation. In the process, they’re finding their future paths.

Lucia and her co-researcher, Mila Padgett of USC Aiken, are examining the gaps of how men and women perceive allyship in the workplace.

The event was planned by Elon's leadership team overseeing a six-year, $377,800 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to transform first-year STEM experiences and promote belonging in STEM programs among historically underrepresented groups.

Twenty-two middle schoolers spent the week identifying invertebrates and building insect collections, getting a hands-on glimpse into what scientists do daily.

Allocco will study in Tamil Nadu, India, beginning in summer 2023, documenting the songs, traditions and art forms created by a family of intergenerational pampaikkārar, drummer-priests. The pampaikkārar are unstudied Hindu musicians and ritual specialists.

The regional STEM conference for undergraduate students, called Integrating Research in Science (IRIS), was held at Elon campus for the first time on April 22, Saturday with more than 60 attendees from 15 different nearby colleges/universities.

Elon was one of nine higher education institutions in the state to receive a grant for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services in January.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Justin Clar will work with undergraduate researchers to assist the Consumer Product Safety Commission in standardizing methods used to characterize the release of nanoparticle-based coatings from various coated surfaces.