Natural Sciences & Mathematics
View a list of departments in natural sciences & mathematics.
Meet a Tar Heel: Julianne Davis, geological sciences researcher
Doctoral student Julianne Davis studies the movement of mud and sand through subarctic rivers and lakes, including water systems in Alberta, Canada, and interior Alaska.
Meet a Tar Heel: Conor Kerr, undergraduate sport statistician
Kerr founded the Sports Analysis Intelligence Laboratory to connect undergraduate students with a passion for statistics with opportunities through Carolina Athletics.
Tar Heels first to check satellite data on small rivers
The first-year students’ measurements of a California river revealed new capabilities of NASA’s topography satellite.
The Science of Swimming
A new collaboration between the Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Exercise and Sport Science and USA Swimming seeks to tackle fundamental questions on swimmer performance and leverage those answers in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
UNC junior researches childhood food insecurity’s effects on structural brain development
With a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Ria Patel is analyzing data and MRI scans to explore possible anatomical changes in adolescents’ brains — and the behavioral changes that could follow.
Student’s research to help endangered corals
Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Rachel Geyer is learning how corals survive environmental stress.
UNC senior researches cicadas’ impact on food web dynamics
Alexander Smith used his Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to explore how the bugs’ cyclical emergence changed some animals’ feeding habits around the Triangle.