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Faculty and students research Internet of Things
Students Justus Whitmire and Grayson Smith, seated, and faculty members Dr. Mingyuan Yan and Dr. Jianjun Yang have partnered on Internet of Things research.
People interact often with the Internet of Things (IoT), but they know it by a different name. Voice-activated technology used to control lights and other functions in a home is a prime example.
A pair of faculty members in the University of North Georgia s (UNG) Mike Cottrell College of Business are taking advantage of a Presidential Incentive Award to expose students to the workings of internet-connected devices. Dr. Mingyuan Yan and Dr. Jianjun Yang, associate professors of computer science, have incorporated IoT research into their teaching and partnered with two student researchers.
Dr. Ramneet Kaur knows about trial and error.
Ever since she conducted her postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School in Boston and Emory University in Atlanta, Kaur has examined ways to treat prostate cancer and breast cancer cells. Cancer cells are very smart, said the lecturer of biology at the University of North Georgia (UNG). You can target one pathway to kill them, and they activate another pathway.
Once she arrived at UNG in 2017, Kaur has developed a few undergraduate research projects that combat drug-resistant cancer cells. The research has landed her internal grants.
Kaur received a Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (CURCA) mini-grant in 2017 to explore the use of natural products to treat triple-negative breast cancer cells. A year later, she received a professional development grant to check the effects of natural products on cancer cells that were resistant to the chemotherapy drug docetaxel. Then in 2020, she received Presidential