Capstone, The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship is an interdisciplinary space where students at the University of North Carolina Asheville can publish and share their scholarly work. Most articles constitute the authors' undergraduate thesis or capstone project required for degree completion. The journal considers submissions in any discipline, and articles must embody original research and must contribute new data and/or insights to their field. The University of North Carolina Asheville and its Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Program, which publishes the journal, value authentic research and scholarship experiences for undergraduates and promote discipline-relevant opportunities for professional development through the advancement of this publication. For the submission calendar and information about the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Program, please visit our website.

The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Research was established in 1988. Each publication was printed and bound in a book up until 2013, when the University moved to digitally host all publications going forward. In 2025, we moved all digital issues to UNC Press and renamed the journal Capstone. Before being accepted, all articles are subject to peer review by members of the UNC Asheville campus community and are accepted based on discipline-specific standards for scholarly work at the undergraduate level. The founding editors believed that publication is a vitally important part of the research process from which undergraduate researchers should not be excluded. Publication of significant, new results is the natural concluding stage of any successful project and it also serves as a reward for the student scholar. By completing the whole cycle of a project, from the initial identification of a problem and the preparation of a research strategy to the final publication of results, students achieve a much fuller understanding of the process by which knowledge is generated and disseminated. Moreover, publication of the best student papers also makes original, significant work available to the scholarly community. The editors also hoped that publication here would provide incentive for student scholars to continue to develop their projects and, after further refinement, to republish their work in nationally circulated publications.