Repost from UNCG NOW Celia Hooper, dean of the UNCG School of Health and Human Sciences and a professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, was interviewed by Boston radio station WBUR for a segment on an app designed to help transgender people change their voices. The EVA… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW. A city girl from Metro Detroit, Ashley Bryant had never even slept in a tent, so hunting for fossils in the punishing summer sun of the Wyoming badlands was not on her to-do list. Not until this summer, when one professor challenged her to expand her… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW North Carolina’s wine and grape industry has experienced exponential growth in the past decade, employing more than 7,600 people. Now the industry has a five-year roadmap for continued growth and economic impact. Researchers from the UNCG Bryan School of Business and Economics have developed the first… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW. UNCG students with intellectual and developmental disabilities can now apply for federal student aid. UNCG’s Beyond Academics program is now one of only 34 similar programs in the country approved to participate in federal student aid programs. The approval came July 1 when Beyond Academics was… Continue reading…
On the weekend of October 23rd, Dr. Ratnasingham Shivaji was joined by his students and colleagues from around the world to attend the 10th annual Mississippi State University Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations. Here at UNCG, Dr. Shivaji serves as the head of the Mathematics and Statistics Department,… Continue reading…
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder are eligible for a new scholarship. UNCG is one of only 11 organizations nationwide now accepting applications for the Autism Speaks Family Services Brian and Patricia Kelly Postsecondary Education Scholarship. Students seeking a degree OR seeking a certificate in Integrative Community Studies may apply. Awards of… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW UNCG’s Department of Economics, housed in the Bryan School of Business and Economics, has been ranked as one of the nation’s best for faculty-published economic research. The department is ranked No. 7 in the nation for research on innovation, securing the top spot among economics departments at… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW Paleontologist Robert Anemone’s wrong turn turned out to be a happy accident that led him to a rich cache of 50 million-year-old fossil mammals. That was back in 2009 as he and his team from Western Michigan University explored a remote, 10,000-square-kilometer region of badlands in… Continue reading…
“Early College” high school students in North Carolina are experiencing higher levels of success than many of their peers at traditional high schools, according to research conducted by Dr. Julie Edmunds at UNCG. “While the U.S. economy increasingly demands workers educated beyond the high school level, many of our teenagers… Continue reading…
UNCG biology professor and botanist Bruce Kirchoff has spent nearly four decades identifying plants in the field and teaching his students to do the same. In the process, he has developed some revolutionary ideas about visual learning. The researcher and teacher has noticed patterns in how his high-achieving students study challenging… Continue reading…
