Article by Chris Davis, Grant Specialist, Office of Sponsored Programs No matter how you did in your anatomy classes, if you participate in regular physical activity, you are probably aware of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament, or ACL. The ACL is vital for activities involving jumping or sudden changes of direction…. Continue reading…
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Victoria Jacobs (Teacher Education and Higher Education) received new funding from The University of Texas-Austin for the project “Theorizing and Advancing Teachers’ Responsive Decision Making in the Domain of Rational Numbers.” “In a collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin and SRI International, this… Continue reading…
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Mary C. Scott-Little (Human Development and Family Studies) received new funding from the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning for the “Georgia Curriculum Review Project.” It will provide information to the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning for the purpose of recommending curricula… Continue reading…
Repost from Campus Weekly Chuck Hilton (UNCG Anthropology), along with co-editors Ben Auerbach (University of Tennessee) and Libby Cowgill (University of Missouri), has a forthcoming edited volume titled “The Foragers of Point Hope: The Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic,” in press with Cambridge… Continue reading…
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Charles Bolton’s book “William F. Winter and the New Mississippi: A Biography” has been published by University Press of Mississippi. It is the first biography of one of Mississippi’s most well-known statesmen. Bolton recently completed a series of readings in Mississippi to promote the book…. Continue reading…
The North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center (NCEC) will host the 3rd Annual UNCG Entrepreneur Day on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 in partnership with Alumni Relations and the Career Services Center. Entrepreneur Day is a great way to enhance external engagement efforts by bringing successful business owners and non-profit directors into classrooms…. Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG Now On a third-floor hallway in Gatewood Studio Arts Building, Stacy Bloom Rexrode sits on a stool in front of her latest creation, carefully looping cranberry-colored yarn though a crochet hook. She’s a second-year MFA student at UNCG, and sculpture is her preferred form of expression. But… Continue reading…
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Arthur Murphy (Anthropology) received a competitive renewal from the NC DHHS Division of Social Services (DSS) for the project “Nutrition Education for New North Carolinians (Recipe for Success in North Carolina)”. Although some immigrants and refugees are able to access certain familiar foods in North… Continue reading…
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Jan Rychtář’s book, “Game-Theoretical Models in Biology,” was published in March 2013 and recently received a very positive review from Martin A. Nowak, Professor of Mathematics and Biology at Harvard University. The review was published in the August 2013 volume of the prestigious journal, Science…. Continue reading…
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Eric Jones (Anthropology) was awarded a one-year National Science Foundation grant titled “Collaborative Research: Cultural Models of Nature Across Cultures: Space, Causality, and Primary Food Producers” for investigating Quichua-speaking agriculturalists’ perceptions of climate change in northern Ecuador. He teamed up with 14 other principal investigators… Continue reading…
