Saturday, May 9, was the perfect day to bring kids to the Greensboro Science Center. In addition to enjoying the Center’s regular outstanding offerings, guests participated in the Wild Music Festival. The festival is an offshoot of the UBEATS program, which gives students in elementary, middle, and high school informal, fun… Continue reading…
Professor Christopher Hodgkins has received a $250,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions grant. The funding will support Hodgkins and Robert Whalen of Northern Michigan University (NMU) as co-editors in producing George Herbert: Complete Prose, with Latin and Greek Verse over the course of three years. The researchers will collect high-resolution digital captures of… Continue reading…
In the news On August 25th, 2015, The Temple News covered the collaborative project of researchers from institutions including Temple University, UNC Greensboro, and East Carolina University. The researchers, funded by a $1 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, are creating a program to effectively teach students in… Continue reading…
Repost from North Carolina Research Campus Many people may not link type 1 diabetes (T1D) and Crohn’s Disease (CD). Qibin Zhang, PhD, co-director of the UNC Greensboro Center for Translational Biomedical Research at the NC Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis, NC, believes the two autoimmune diseases have more in common… Continue reading…
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… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG Now A new international economic engine, the Global Opportunities Center, may soon be a part of Greensboro thanks to the hard work of a group from local organizations and a $500,000 award from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The idea, a downtown center that will link a… Continue reading…
In the news On August 4, 2015, CNBC covered the release of “A Quiet Revolution: The Early Success of California’s Top Two Nonpartisan Primary,” a report created by UNCG’s Dr. Omar H. Ali and Jason Olson, president of TheIndependentVoice.org. The publication, which came out this month, examined the changes that have occurred in California since the “Top Two”… Continue reading…
Repost from Campus Weekly UNCG Assistant Professor of History Anne Parsons has received a 2015 Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations. The fellowship will allow her to write a book about how the deinstitutionalization of mental hospitals has coincided with the rise of mass incarceration, replacing one form… Continue reading…
“I would much rather spend my summer looking at math than on a beach somewhere. It’s just more exciting,” says undergraduate MaLyn Lawhorn, without a hint of sarcasm. She’s in luck, thanks to the landlocked math-bio program at UNCG. MaLyn, who hails from Winthrop University, is partnered with Rachel Schomaker,… Continue reading…
Repost from Campus Weekly This month marks a horrible anniversary. Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. In recognition of the ruin the hurricane precipitated, The World Meteorological Organization retired the moniker “Katrina,” never to be used again for a storm. In late August… Continue reading…
