On November 3rd, UNC Greensboro will host the 6th Annual North Carolina Infant/Young Child Mental Health Association (NCIMHA) Conference and Annual Meeting. This year’s conference is titled “Promises to Keep: Caring for Every Child’s Mental Health.” The conference will review North Carolina’s progress towards the goals of ensuring nurturing relationships, … Continued
Repost from Campus Weekly The School of Education’s Coalition for Diverse Language Communities will host the first-annual Diversity in Language & Culture Conference Saturday, Sept. 23 in the Education Building. The conference will explore what it means to teach today’s evolving youth in ways that foster their diverse languages, literacies and … Continued
Joan Johnson has received the Higher Education Leadership Award from the Helen A. Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities. The award was bestowed at the institute’s 2016 State of the Art Conference on Postsecondary Education and Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities, held December 1-2 in Fairfax, VA. It honors an administrator, program director, or staff member within an institution … Continued
Repost from PRWeb Praeclarus Press proudly announces the release of Advancing Breastfeeding: Forging Partnerships for a Better Tomorrow edited by Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, IBCLC and Paige Hall Smith, MSPH, PhD. The publication represents the best of recent scholarship in breastfeeding, with papers from the 2014 Breastfeeding and Feminism International … Continued
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
Writer and PhD candidate Taylor Mabe works with his faculty mentor Dr. Jianjun Wei in the UNCG Department of Nanoscience, part of the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering. His poster, “Development and fabrication of a handheld point-of-care sensor for disease diagnosis,” took 1st place in Natural, Physical and Mathematical … Continued
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
This past weekend, Associate Professor of Music Studies Revell Carr was awarded the Alan P. Merriam Prize at the annual Society for Ethnomusicology Conference. The Merriam prize is the most prestigious prize in the society and is awarded for “the most distinguished, published, English-language monograph in the field of ethnomusicology.” Dr. Carr received … Continued
Artists and creative professionals will share secrets to success in the arts at the Southern Entrepreneurship in the Arts Conference (SEA) on Feb. 21. Through presentations and workshops, the event invites artists, art organizations, creative producers and students to connect and collaborate around opportunities and strategies for making a living … Continued
On the weekend of October 23rd, Dr. Ratnasingham Shivaji was joined by his students and colleagues from around the world to attend the 10th annual Mississippi State University Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations. Here at UNCG, Dr. Shivaji serves as the head of the Mathematics and Statistics Department, … Continued