Kevin Real of Papillion receives summer stipend from UNL for undergraduate research

2014 Apr 4

Kevin Real of Papillion was one of 44 undergraduates at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln awarded stipends to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer.

Real is a biological systems engineering major and will pursue a research project titled "The Search for a Biological Marker of Concussion."

UNL's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Undergraduate students receive stipends of $2,400 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 20 hours per week. The students' projects span across academic disciplines, including engineering, chemistry, modern languages and literatures, psychology, art and art history, economics, architecture, special education, and fisheries and wildlife.

The students also will have opportunities to participate in mentoring workshops and activities with undergraduates from other institutions who are participating in UNL's Summer Research Program. In August, both groups of students will present posters on their research and creative activities at a campus research symposium. For more about undergraduate research at UNL, go to http://www.unl.edu/ucare.