Home Department: Biology
Mentor: Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine)
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: 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
Awarded in 2025
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Guosong Hong (Materials Science & Engineering) and Xiaoke Chen (Biology)
Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Manu Prakash
Talk Title: Self-propulsion of a freely-suspended, rotationally-symmetric swimmer enabled by viscoelastic normal stresses
Event: American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 2021
Home Department: undeclared
Mentor: Stephen Quake (Bioengineering and Applied Physics)
Dr. Laura Seeholzer did her PhD at Rockefeller University with Dr. Vanessa Ruta and post-doctoral studies at UCSF with Dr. David Julius.
