Research & Projects

Undergraduate Research & Community-Engaged Scholar Projects

Undergraduate Research (UR) is self-directed/designed, faculty-supportive, or collaborative academic work by an individual student or team of students that addresses a research question with the expectation of a scholarly or creative product intended for publication or presentation on or off campus. Students undertake this work with a faculty mentor for at least one academic term or intensive summer, through which students learn and assume their roles as researchers and creators. Students also may earn a distinction as an Undergraduate Research Scholar by presenting and publishing in the UNCA Journal of Undergraduate Research and being nominated by a faculty mentor.  To learn more, please visit the Undergraduate Research Program page. Community-Engaged Scholars also complete a paper for the UNCA Journal of Service Learning and present a poster at a UNCA Symposium, after completing a community-engaged project and service-learning courses.  To learn more, please visit the Key Center for Community Engagement.

Students majoring and minoring in Health and Sciences participate in a wide variety of projects, including original research, writing informative and evidence-based papers, and giving presentations in their classes and in the community. Here are a few examples.

HS Student Presentations Recorded for the Online UNC Asheville Symposia:

 

Spring 2023

  • Nina Finderle – Body Image Dissatisfaction and Discrepancy among D1 Student Athletes
  • Christa Jones – Eating attitudes among student athletes
  • Alexis Walker – The difference between nutrient dense diets versus energy dense diets on self-reported happiness and depression levels
  • Erin Cunningham – How Can Athletic Trainers Help to Reduce Mental Health Issues in Athletes
  • Sophia Hansen – How Ambiguous Data Leads to Definitive Claims through Cherry-Picking
  • Mikaela Fullerton – The Association Between Socioeconomic Status and Mask Wearing Behaviors Among College Students
  • Patrick Alvey – Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Western Healthcare Systems

2022

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Spring 2022

Spring 2021

Fall 2020

Spring 2020


Community Engaged Scholars

UNC Asheville Student Papers Published in the UNC Asheville Journal of Service Learning:

Student presenting a project on a posterboard

2018

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2013

Capstone Projects: Talks

Spring 2019

HWP 459 Capstone Spring 2019: J. Diesel “Trauma Releasing Exercises”

HWP 459 Capstone Spring 2019: S. Stovall “Racial Disparities in Substance Use Treatment”