Max Poteat News Today

Last month, some of UNC’s very own had the unique opportunity to attend the COP 27 climate conference in Egypt.

Aaron chats with UNC student Max Poteat, who was part of a delegation of students that attended the COP27 climate change summit in Egypt.

As a first-generation college student, Carmen Huerta-Bapat knew that she wanted to be involved in research, but she didn’t know how to connect with professors and begin a research career as an undergrad. “I was raised with the idea that you don’t just bother people,” she said. “And why would I go to an office hour and waste someone’s time unless I had some sort of Earth-shattering discovery, which to this day has not happened?” Now a teaching assistant professor in the College of ...