Dr. Robert Anemone, head of UNCG’s Department of Anthropology, and Anemone’s student Ashley Bryant spoke with North Carolina Science Now’s Frank Graff about their fossil dig this summer in the Wyoming badlands. See the segment online on the UNC-TV website, or tune in to North Carolina Now tonight at 7:30 p.m…. Continue reading…
On Wednesday, Oct. 22, Greensboro entrepreneur Alan Neely will tell community members the story of how he successfully founded, developed, and sold his two companies, New River Innovation and InvoiceLink. The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of the UNCG Entrepreneurial Journeys series. Neely is an experienced… Continue reading…
Staton Noel, the Director of the UNCG Office of Innovation Commercialization, sent us this great informational video from the AUTM network:
Nominations for UNCG’s annual Research Excellence Awards are underway for the 2014-2015 year. The campus-wide recognition program was established in 1988 on the principle that creating and diffusing knowledge is a formal obligation of the University. Work by Research Excellence awardees contributes in an exemplary fashion to this end. Each… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW Professionals who work with children ages five and under have a new professional development resource that will equip them to continue providing high-quality early childhood education. The Guilford County Partnership for Children has awarded a Smart Start grant to UNCG’s Education, Quality Improvement and Professional Development… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW UNCG’s School of Education has been awarded a five-year, $7.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant will further UNCG’s efforts to emphasize technology integration across all teaching fields as well as recruit, train and support more Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)… Continue reading…
Some enterprising college student in Greensboro is going to earn $1,000 in two minutes. This fall, the North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center (NCEC) at UNCG is holding its fourth annual “2 Minutes to Win It” business idea contest, open to full-time students at UNCG, NC A&T, Greensboro College, Guilford College, Bennett College,… Continue reading…
Dr. Qibin Zhang has joined UNCG as co-director of the Center for Translational Biomedical Research (CTBR). Zhang, an expert in bioanalytical chemistry, comes to UNCG after nearly a decade at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences Division. “Our goal is to build a first-class research… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW The Bard and the Father of Modern Science. They were the superstars of their day. Literal Renaissance men whose words and ideas continue to shape our views on art and the universe. Join UNCG for a year-long celebration of William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei on the… Continue reading…
Repost from NC Research Campus August 28, 2014 Zhanxiang Zhou, PhD, with the UNC Greensboro Center for Translational Biomedical Research at the NC Research Campus in Kannapolis, published new findings in the July 2014 edition of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research that established a connection between niacin supplementation and lowering lipid… Continue reading…
