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NEH summer stipends go to UNCG researchers

Dr. Joan Titus and Dr. Linda Rupert have both received 2016 summer stipends from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Universities may only submit two applications per year for these highly competitive awards, and less than 10% of all applicants secure funding. The funding of not one but both applications … Continued


Undergrad presents research on Capitol Hill

Repost from UNCG Now UNCG junior psychology major Amanda Baeten recently presented her research project, “How Rumination Affects Emotions,” at the 20th annual Posters on the Hill event sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). The event took place April 19-21 in Washington, D.C., and featured 60 undergraduate research … Continued


2015-16 Research Excellence Awards

UNCG Research congratulates Dr. Michael Zimmerman and Dr. Rebecca MacLeod, our 2015-2016 Research Excellence Award winners. Dr. Michael Zimmerman receives the Senior Research Excellence Award for his scholarship in philosophy. Zimmerman, who specializes in theoretical ethics, has published prolifically, and his work has had a major impact on his discipline. He has written nine books – an extremely high output … Continued


Human Rights Paradox in U.S. History

Writer and PhD candidate Joseph A. Ross works with his faculty mentor, Dr. Mark E. Elliott, in the UNCG Department of History. His poster, “Remembering Nuremberg: The Paradox of Human Rights in American History,” took 1st place in Humanities at the 2016 Graduate Research and Creativity Expo. From 1945 to 1946, … Continued


Hi-tech fossil finding

In the news On September 6th, 2015, the Charlotte Observer covered the growing use of geological technology by paleontologists like UNCG’s Dr. Robert Anenome in order to find fossils. The newspaper article follows the growth of hi-tech gadgets in paleontology and how these can enable people working in the field … Continued


FY15 Fourth Quarter Awards and Submissions

Awards Awards separated by school/college. Listings by award amount, name of lead PI, title, and sponsor.  Bryan School of Business and Economics Awards $44,000.00 – Welsh, Dianne – Coleman Entrepreneurship Fellows – Coleman Foundation $25,613.00 – Van Hasselt, Martyn – Evaluation of the Multi-Payer Advanced Primary Care Practice Demonstration – Research Triangle Institute … Continued


A Whole New World [Undergraduate]

Repost from UNCG NOW. A city girl from Metro Detroit, Ashley Bryant had never even slept in a tent, so hunting for fossils in the punishing summer sun of the Wyoming badlands was not on her to-do list. Not until this summer, when one professor challenged her to expand her … Continued


Johnston elected president of Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences

Reposted from Campus Weekly Dr. Timothy D. Johnston recently was elected to serve as president of the Council of Colleges of Arts & Sciences in 2015. CCAS is a national association of baccalaureate degree-granting colleges of arts and sciences whose purpose is to sustain the arts and sciences as a … Continued