Entering the sustainable materials library at UNCG’s Interior Architecture (IARc) Program feels like stepping into a professional architecture firm. While most interior architecture departments have sample rooms stocked with discards and cast off donations from manufacturers, IARc has done something different. Their ever-expanding resource does not simply house materials. It tells… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW Dr. Robert L. Anemone, head of UNCG’s Department of Anthropology, is a 2014 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Fellows are chosen by their peers for lifetime appointments. Anemone, who came to UNCG from Western Michigan University in 2013, has been… Continue reading…
The UNCG Office of Research and Economic Development is once more accepting applications for new faculty research grants and regular faculty research grants. Faculty can apply for these internal grants by submitting an application with supporting budget forms by January 12, 2015, at 5pm. The awards funding period is March 2015 – June 2016. Faculty… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW A UNCG music professor contributed a chapter to a book that has won the American Musicological Society’s 2014 Ruth Solie Award. “Music and Protest in 1968,” edited by Beate Kutschke and Barley Norton and published by Cambridge University Press, was honored with the Solie Award, given… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW The graduate program in the UNCG Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) has earned a Top 10 ranking in The HDFS Report, an inaugural ranking of programs in the field. UNCG’s graduate program tied for seventh place and was first in North Carolina in… Continue reading…
UNCG’s Lloyd International Honors College is searching for undergraduate student submissions for next year’s annual Honors Symposium. Any undergraduate can submit an original paper, whether written for a class or created independently. Students whose papers are accepted will present their work in a conference setting before an audience of all… Continue reading…
Gabrielle Ocampo is a 2014 design graduate of UNCG. Last semester, she was awarded first place in the category of Visual Arts at the Undergraduate Research Expo for her piece entitled “What It’s Like to Sleep.” The installation was based on a poem of the same name that Ocampo wrote… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW The Berlin Wall evokes lots of memories. UNCG art professor Sheryl Oring has been in Berlin this fall capturing many of them. She calls her performance art project “Maueramt.” At her small table, she listens. She types on her manual typewriter. A unique document is created…. Continue reading…
Your caffeine habits may help prevent neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. UNCG biology student John McCormick thinks he knows why. McCormick is an undergraduate researcher in UNCG professor Zhenquan Jia’s molecular toxicology lab. Dr. Jia and his students look at natural compounds that cause and inhibit damage at… Continue reading…
Someone you know probably has toxoplasmosis. The Taxoplasmosa gondii protozoan, which reproduces in cats but infects many other animals, resides in nearly 1 out of 4 people over the age of twelve. The good news: UNCG senior David Sykes is working on the logistics for a vaccine to eliminate the… Continue reading…
