Browse Stories Written by Students
Over the years, Endeavors has had the pleasure of working with several motivated Carolina students, both undergraduate and graduate. Their backgrounds have ranged from journalism to organic chemistry, but all of them came to us because they wanted to learn to write for a research magazine. Here are the stories they wrote.
2009
- Born to Run: What makes these mice marathoners instead of couch potatoes? (fall 2009)
- Bordering on atrocious. (fall 2009)
- The overweight enzyme. (fall 2009)
- Learning to Bust Drug-Resistant Bugs: How to stop a quick-change artist. (fall 2009)
- The Pharaoh’s Curse: What do King Tut, Johnny Cash, and Bob Dylan have in common? (fall 2009)
- Seeing Light in the Dark: A paradoxical approach to treat a rare disease. (fall 2009)
- Zena’s Arctic Adventure. (spring 2009)
- What’s Stopping Bird Flu’s Big Step? (spring 2009)
- Targeting Tumors. (spring 2009)
- Frogsong. (spring 2009)
- Seeds of Invasion. (winter 2009)
- Digging for Relief. (winter 2009)
- Taking DNA to Court. (winter 2009)
- How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? (winter 2009)
- Can MSG make us F-A-T? (winter 2009)
2008
- Lingering Risks. (fall 2008)
- megaChina. (fall 2008)
- Where will Conflict Strike Next? (fall 2008)
- Return of the Fatal Cough. (fall 2008)
- School Spending. (fall 2008)
- Radiation on the Job. (fall 2008)
- Living in a State of Thirst. (spring 2008)
- The Wizardry of Green. (spring 2008)
- TV Therapy for Schizophrenia. (spring 2008)
- A Virtual Epidemic. (spring 2008)
- Epsom Salts Help Preemies. (spring 2008)
- Housing the Homeless. (spring 2008)
- Rerouting Blood. (spring 2008)
- A Suspect Gene for Faulty Sperm. (spring 2008)
- Weight Loss that Works. (spring 2008)
- A Fight to the Death. (spring 2008)
- What Opened this Gigantic Hole? (spring 2008)
- Meet the Bucket Brigade. (winter 2008)
- The Mouse Mess. (winter 2008)
- The Tangled Roots of OCD. (winter 2008)
- A Mysterious Allergy. (winter 2008)
- The Bug Zappers. (winter 2008)
- Blocking HIV in the Womb. (winter 2008)
- Tiny Steps on a Tightrope. (winter 2008)
2007
- Just say NO. (fall 2007)
- Encoding Reality. (fall 2007)
- Rip the Big Bang. (fall 2007)
- Digital Drug-Hunting. (fall 2007)
- Owning up to a Violent Past. (spring 2007)
- A Renaissance Superstar. (spring 2007)
- Your Virtual Identity. (spring 2007)
- Trip just Once. (spring 2007)
- The Mutant behind CF. (spring 2007)
- Managing a Monster Protein. (spring 2007)
- Picture-perfect Proteins. (spring 2007)
- Bragg’s Butterflies. (spring 2007)
- Words and Kids. (spring 2007)
- Powered by Proteins. (winter 2007)
- Parlor Talk. (winter 2007)
- Life Down Deep. (winter 2007)
- Unbroken Bonds. (winter 2007)
- Cultivating New Scientists. (winter 2007)
- Genes and Deadly Pregnancies. (winter 2007)
- You: Film at Eleven. (winter 2007)
- Jail and HIV Risk. (winter 2007)
2006
- The Sleep Without Rest. (fall 2006)
- Seeing What Others Hear. (spring 2006)
- Getting Past Stickiness. (spring 2006)
- Life in Stormy North Carolina. (winter 2006)
- Jewish With a Drawl. (winter 2006)
- Breathing Easier at Home. (winter 2006)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Lab. (winter 2006)
2005
- Safe Isn’t an Option. (fall 2005)
- Alien and Extreme. (fall 2005)
- Taking Migraines to Heart. (spring 2005)
- Inflammation. (spring 2005)
- An Undergrad in Antarctica. (winter 2005)
- Chasing Proteins. (winter 2005)
- Leaving Well Enough Alone. (winter 2005)
- Her Wicked Pen. (winter 2005)
- The Eye of a Child. (winter 2005)
2004
- A New Angle on CF. (fall 2004)
- Branching Out. (fall 2004)
- A Database of DNA. (spring 2004)
- Two Views on Vitamins. (spring 2004)
- Matters of the Heart. (spring 2004)
- Two at the Top. (winter 2004)
- Show-and-Tell. (winter 2004)
- Measuring Up. (winter 2004)
- Battling AIDS in Africa. (winter 2004)
- A Hug a Day. (winter 2004)
- Disease That Invades From the Mouth. (winter 2004)
2003
- Untangling the Web of Addiction. (fall 2003)
- Special Delivery, Destination: The Brain. (fall 2003)
- Stalking SARS. (fall 2003)
- The Tough Case of Fragile X. (spring 2003)
- Her Kind of Science. (winter 2003)
- Having It All. (winter 2003)
2002
- Mapping Disease. (fall 2002)
- An Orchestra of Proteins. (fall 2002)
- Up and Running. (fall 2002)
- Where the Protein Leads. (fall 2002)
- Uncharted Waters. (fall 2002)
- Was the Author a Slave? (fall 2002)
- Cells That Become Us. (spring 2002)
- Competent to Die. (spring 2002)
- Gender and Math. (spring 2002)
2001
- The Mystery of Memory. (fall 2001)
- A Dreaded Bull’s Eye. (spring 2001)
- What Makes Better Care? (spring 2001)
- Anxiety Disorders: What Can the Family Do? (spring 2001)
- Extreme Chemistry. (winter 2001)
- Battle Fatigue. (winter 2001)
- Two Cravings May Be Linked. (winter 2001)
2000
- Cancer, Hit the Brakes. (fall 2000)
- Wanted: Room for Research. (fall 2000)
- Scenic Substance. (fall 2000)
- Caution About E. (spring 2000)
- The Farther the Better. (spring 2000)
- The Coming and Going. (spring 2000)
- KinFood. (spring 2000)
- Out Far, In Deep. (spring 2000)
- Spreading It Around. (spring 2000)
- For All We’re Worth. (winter 2000)
- Floss for the Heart. (winter 2000)
- Just as She Pleased. (winter 2000)
- In Their Words. (winter 2000)
- After the Flood, A Carolina Tide. (winter 2000)
- Race and Repentance. (winter 2000)
- Playing It Safe. (fall 1999)
1999
- Treasures Untold. (fall 1999)
- A Taste of the Woods. (fall 1999)
- In the Business. (fall 1999)
- Women on the Line. (fall 1999)
- Children of the Great Depression. (spring 1999)
- As Bright as the Veins In Your Brain. (spring 1999)
- Mind Reader. (spring 1999)
- Reality Plus. (spring 1999)
- Here There Be Dragons. (spring 1999)
- Common Sense, Communal Action. (spring 1999)
- Axe Murder Echoes. (winter 1999)
- The Money Guy. (winter 1999)
- Why She Sank. (winter 1999)
- The Long Shadows of Growth. (winter 1999)
- Who’s Spilling What? (winter 1999)
- Room for Research. (winter 1999)
1998
- Star Bright, Cell Deep. (fall 1998)
- A Tale of Hype and Hope. (fall 1998)
- Inspire: Market Wise. (fall 1998)
- Breathing Room. (fall 1998)
- Setting the Clock. (fall 1998)
- The Way Across. (fall 1998)
- Rule One: Don’t Bore Him. (spring 1998)
- Zap! (spring 1998)
- When the Heart Stops. (spring 1998)
- Hopping Hydrogen. (spring 1998)
- Adults Say Scouting Outranks Sports. (spring 1998)
- The World According to Sports. (spring 1998)
- General Disagreement. (winter 1998)
- After the Blast. (winter 1998)
- The SENSE in Going Green. (winter 1998)
1997
- Foiling AIDS’ Allies. (fall 1997)
- The Long Road to Rural Health. (fall 1997)
- Marketplace. (fall 1997)
- Genes: Do We Want to Know? (spring 1997)
- Saying It With Skill. (spring 1997)
- Elvis, It’s Me! (spring 1997)
- The Merits of Mutants. (spring 1997)
- In the Beginning, There Was Ur. (spring 1997)
- Seeing Is Believing. (spring 1997)
- The Limits of Love. (winter 1997)
- Vita: Carl Henley. (winter 1997)
- Detecting a Stealthy Genetic Disease. (winter 1997)
1996
- Dialogue. (fall 1996)
- Easing Withdrawal. (fall 1996)
- STRESS: Is it making you sick? (fall 1996)
- A Team Whose Goal Is Women’s Health. (spring 1996)
- A Three-Way Attack on Breast Cancer. (spring 1996)
- Looking for the Causes. (spring 1996)
- Science and the Face of a Child. (spring 1996)
