Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Andrew Willis (Music Performance) has released a new CD of Chopin chamber music for piano and strings, on Albany Records. It is titled “A Prayer for Poland: Chamber Music of Frédéric Chopin.” Willis was joined on the recording by UNC Chapel Hill colleagues Brent Wissick, … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Roy Stine (Geography) received new funding from the Bentonville Battlefield for the project “Geophysical Exploration of the Harper House Landscape.” The battle at Bentonville, North Carolina, was one of the last major battles of the Civil War. Sherman’s Union army defeated the Confederate forces led … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Marcia Rock (Specialized Education Services) received a continuation of funding from the DOED Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for the project UNCG LINK-2-LEAD. The Linking Important Networks of Knowledge to Lead (LINK-2-LEAD) project is a partnership between UNCG, the Center for Creative Leadership, … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Chris Payne (Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships) received funding from the Guilford County Partnership for Children for the project “Promoting Positive Development: Bringing Out the Best.” Social-emotional development and school readiness/success in young children is clearly linked with children who have behavioral or … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Joyendu Bhadury (Bryan School of Business and Economics) received new funding from the NCSU Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) for “Evaluating The Usage of LPAs (License Plate Agencies) by North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (NCDMV)”. “We propose a project whose overarching mission … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Susanne Rinner (Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) received new funding from the German Embassy for “German Weeks 2013: Germany in Europe.” Last year, the UNCG German Program partnered, for the first time, with German Weeks and the participation led to several recognitions on campus and beyond. … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Jonathan Tudge (Human Development and Family Studies) received new funding from the John Templeton Foundation for the project “Gratitude, well-being, and the decline of materialism: A cross-cultural study of character formation in children and adolescents.” This project will provide much-needed data on gratitude and materialism … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Emily Levine (History) has a new book that bridges German history, philosophy, art, economics, and Jewish culture. “Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School” has been published by University of Chicago Press. It tells the story of the emergence of an unlikely … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly With support from Burroughs Welcome Fund, UNCG’s Music Research Institute and UNCG’s Center for New North Carolinians, the Guilford County School System’s McNair Elementary School and the Greensboro Science Center will partner to offer “UBEATS: A BioMusic STEM Intervention for ESL Students in Guilford County.” UBEATS … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly Five more University-School Teacher Education partnership (USTEP) grants in the amount of $3,000 each were recently awarded for the following projects. As part of these grants, UNCG faculty work collaboratively with Piedmont area schools to provide pro bono support for these projects: Dr. Jeanette Alarcon and … Continued