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Research Expo winners

Repost from UNCG NOW Each spring, UNCG celebrates student research by hosting both a graduate and an undergraduate research expo highlighting UNCG students’ cutting edge research. This year’s Carolyn and Norwood Thomas Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo was March 29, and included a presentation from Jennifer Blackmer, 2015 winner of … Continued


Innovation in Aging Services

Repost from UNCG NOW What do a virtual grocery store, an online interpretation service, and an outdoor adventure program have in common? According to UNCG students, all three business models are sustainable, high-impact solutions that can meet the needs of an aging population. UNCG students recently shared these ideas and … Continued


ACL Injury – female hormones at fault?

excerpt, Fall 2015 UNCG Research Magazine Researchers have known for decades that women are more likely than men to suffer injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) — the ligament responsible for stabilizing the knee during jumping, landing, pivoting, and changing speeds. But the reasons behind this difference are still … Continued


Band of Scholars

What’s next door to the Library of Congress, kitty-corner from the Supreme Court, and two blocks from the Capitol Dome? It’s the Folger Shakespeare Library, America’s great research Bard-O-Mecca, housing the world’s largest collection of Shakespeareana (including 82 “First Folios” of the Complete Works from 1623), plus half a million rare … Continued


Video: On race and power

“‘Race’ is a function of power. Power is created through performances. Every moment is a choice. We can choose to act deliberately, intentionally, or not. “So I ask you. What is your performance? What is our performance? How can we become more powerful?” Ranging from Afrocentrism to linguistics and play, … Continued


Revisiting the great war

Image: UNCG graduate student Jason Baum handcrafted 1,634 poppies to serve as the centerpiece of his museum studies capstone project, “Battlefield to Ball Field.” The poppies represent the individuals from Greensboro who served in WWI. Repost from UNCG NOW On April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I, an … Continued


FY16 Second & Third 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 $113,000 – Andersen, Martin – 2014 ACA PhRMA Project – Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation (PhRMA) $50,000 – Bray, Jeremy – Screening, Briefing, Intervention, Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) … Continued


A Healthy Collaboration

More than a dozen UNCG undergraduates have made a big impact in the Greensboro Montagnard community in the last two years. The Montagnards (also known as Dega) supported U.S. forces during the Vietnam War, and have suffered political persecution and violence in the region ever since. Since the 1980s, Guilford … Continued


Whitaker takes prestigious prize in poetry

Redacted from Campus Weekly  University Writing Center Director Jennifer Whitaker has won the 2016 Brittingham Prize in Poetry for her manuscript “The Blue Hour.” Since 1985 the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of English has awarded the Brittingham Prize annually to the best book-length manuscripts of poetry, as selected by nationally recognized poets. Denise Duhamel chose the 2016 winner. … Continued


Unlocking new medicines

excerpt, Fall 2015 UNCG Research Magazine UNCG scientists are the first in the world to create a compound that targets just one signaling mechanism in cannabinoid receptors (cellular-level structures that influence all sorts of neurological and physical functions). The discovery could lead to new medicines for treating a wide range … Continued