From the Spring 2018 issue of UNCG Research magazine For more than a decade, parents have worried about the dangers of disease due to first-person exposure to Bisphenol A, or BPA, an industrial chemical used in plastics and epoxy since the 1960s. But few know that the impacts of exposure… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG Now UNC Greensboro’s Dr. Qibin Zhang, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry and co-director for the Center for Translational Biomedical Research, has been awarded $496,303 to study biomarkers of cardiovascular complications in Type 1 diabetes. This is the first-ever grant awarded by the American Heart Association (AHA) in Guilford… Continue reading…
From the Spring 2018 issue of UNCG Research Magazine When John Z. Kiss was nine years old he stayed up late to watch Neil Armstrong take those first steps onto the surface of the moon and tell the world, “That’s one small step for man, one giant step for mankind.”… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG Now UNC Greensboro and Guilford County have announced a joint agreement as the newest members of the innovative MetroLab Network, a network of 37 regional city/county-university partnerships focused on bringing data, analytics and innovation to local government. UNCG and Guilford County are one of only five county-university… Continue reading…
From the Spring 2018 issue of UNCG Research magazine It was an uncommon scene in a small classroom in Randolph County: Four headmasters from rural China seated with a group of enrapt middle-school students, discussing education policy and Southern barbecue. These Chinese educators, and 14 of their counterparts, spent eight… Continue reading…
The spring of edition of UNCG Research Magazine – our semiannual publication exploring some of the most impactful scholarship across campus – is now available in print and online. This issue’s feature stories cover plant growth experiments on the International Space Station, the local impact of the Center for Community-Engaged Design, and… Continue reading…
From the fall 2017 issue of UNCG Research magazine He just wanted to go to the grocery store. But for Gai Riak, who immigrated to the United States from Kenya in 2001, it wasn’t as easy as you’d think. For starters, Riak didn’t have a car. He studied maps and… Continue reading…
ICEE Faculty Fellow Learning Communities The Institute for Community and Economic Engagement Faculty Fellows are facilitating learning communities around four community-engaged topics: local and global community issues with Dr. Rachel Boit (HDFS), culturally responsive research and evaluation with Dr. Jill Chouinard (ERM), community-engaged writing with Dr. Michael Hemphill (KIN), and… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG Now UNC Greensboro graduate student researchers play a multi-facted role on campus. Throughout the Graduate School’s many departments and disciplines, they not only do the crucial work of research assistance within their mentors’ labs, but also undertake entirely original, individualized research. They pursue projects from the idea phase… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG Now UNC Greensboro has been awarded a $22,500 Inter-Institutional Planning Grant (IPG) by the UNC System to study the use of virtual reality (VR) technology to solve major human health challenges. Directing the grant work are Dr. Christopher Rhea, lead principal investigator (PI) in the Department of Kinesiology at… Continue reading…
