Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Iowa State University undergraduate students have persevered in their research. Sixty ISU students, including Carmel native Toni Sleugh, will share their research and scholarship with their peers from across the nation in April.
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Sleugh will share her research on Restoration of the Three-ridge Mussel, Amblema plicata, to the Cedar River.
The 34th annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research takes place online April 12-14. About 4,000 undergraduate students from across the U.S. present their research at this annual conference, the largest undergraduate research conference in the country.
“Despite the challenges that student and faculty mentors faced during the last year due to the pandemic, the high number of 2021 NCUR participants tells us that ISU faculty and program coordinators did an excellent job of encouraging students to continue their research involvement and provided them with a safe environment to do so,” said Svitlana Zbarska, coordinator of the Undergraduate Research Program. “NCUR empowers students as scientists and gives them an opportunity to represent ISU undergraduate research at the national level.”