Awarded in 2025
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Guosong Hong (Materials Science & Engineering) and Xiaoke Chen (Biology)
Home Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Alexandria Boehm
Talk Title: Soil-transmitted helminth contamination of soil in rural Kenyan households
Event: 2015 UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy
Dr. Lauren Goins is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology. The Goins Lab aims to understand how cells make decisions. Their research focuses on how young, immature blood stem cells, with the potential to become many different cell types, choose between these cell fates by studying the fundamental molecular and cellular mechanisms that control the decision-making process.
Home Department: Biology
Mentor: Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine)
Home Department: Biology
Faculty Advisor: Chris Lowe and Bo Wang
Talk Title: Modulations depending on life history: Wnt signaling in posterior patterning of hemichordate embryos
Event: Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Other Marine Invertebrates 2025
