JoVE, an online platform that aims to make research and learning in the STEM fields more accessible by creating videos of peer-reviewed experiments, celebrated their 10th anniversary by hosting an international Film Your Research Contest for early-career scientists. Taylor Mabe, a PhD student at the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, … Continued
Nominations for the 2017-2018 Research Excellence Awards are due December 1, 2017. In 1988, the Research Excellence Awards were established in recognition of the following principle: “Given that creating and diffusing knowledge is a formal obligation of the University, the Research Excellence Award will be given to a full-time member … Continued
Adapted from a Collaborative Cottage Grove press release Collaborative Cottage Grove has been selected for a prestigious national health award that provides over $250,000 in funding to reduce the rates of preventable diabetes and asthma in the Cottage Grove neighborhood in Greensboro, NC. On September 12, 2017, the national BUILD Health Challenge announced … Continued
Adapted from North Carolina Sea Grant News Releases UNCG PhD student Austin Gray is one of five graduate students to receive a fellowship funded by the North Carolina Sea Grant and the Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina system. The students are beginning research projects that focus on … Continued
Adapted from Campus Weekly Announcement from Dean Kiss and Provost Dunn: We are pleased to announce that Dr. Nadja Cech and Dr. Nicholas Oberlies have been selected as the inaugural Patricia A. Sullivan Distinguished Professors. They are both outstanding professors and teacher-scholars in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The … Continued
Adapted from UNCG University Libraries University Libraries and the Office of Research and Engagement provide an Open Access Publishing Fund to support faculty who want to have their article published in an open access format. By making their articles open access, price and permission barriers are removed so that everyone can review … Continued
Dr. Liuyi Hao, a postdoctoral researcher at UNCG’s Center for Translational Biomedical Research, has received a 2017 Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the American Liver Foundation. The fellowship is highly competitive, with no more than 10 awarded each year, and represents a significant achievement for Hao and UNCG. The award will … Continued
Repost from UNCG Now It is with great excitement the School of Education announces Dr. Heidi Carlone as the first recipient of the Jennifer Smith Hooks ’76 and Jacob T. Hooks Distinguished Professorship in STEM Education. The professorship, announced in the fall of 2016, is a pivotal component of the … Continued
UNCG Research congratulates Dr. Sat Gupta and Dr. Amanda Tanner, our 2016-2017 Research Excellence Award winners. Dr. Sat Gupta receives the Senior Research Excellence Award for his scholarship in statistics. Gupta’s primary interest is sampling theory and applications, and he has made significant contributions in this area, particularly around the topics of randomized response … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly What does it take to make a greater impact? For Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development Terri Shelton, it comes from collaboration, working as a team and supporting many others at UNCG and in the community. “I’m much more comfortable working behind the scenes,” she … Continued