Funding Friday
It’s new funding Friday! Check out some of the grants that recently came through our Office of Sponsored Programs.
UNC Greensboro
Blockchains and Bitcoin: The Financial Frontier
UNCG School of Business Professor studying the Metaverse and its relationship with crypto currencies and what the future holds for it.
Popular conservation method damages ecosystem
UNCG’s Dr. Akira Terui has found that large-scale fish releases negatively impact ecosystems as a whole, while offering little benefit and some harm to the species the releases seek to support. His team’s findings were published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ashby Dialogues Explore Gender In “Zelda” Video Games
The College of Arts and Sciences is exploring the link to queerness in “Zelda” with their recurring Ashby Dialogue series.
A need for legal aid
UNCG’s Center for Housing and Community Studies released an assessment of South Carolina’s civil legal needs and the extent to which the state’s providers meet them. The SC study and a similar 2021 NC assessment found wide gaps between the needs of residents and the availability of legal aid.
Doctoral student disrupts the narrative
UNCG Doctoral student studies how black adolescents and emerging adults can be empowered to experience a full range of emotions by giving them the proper tools.
Personal Experiences Lead Garland McKinney (CED) to Research Grant
Garland McKinney’s studies and personal experiences led her to research the mental health impacts of race-related stressors that are specific to Black women during all perinatal stages.
NC Rankin Award for mathematics education goes to Wilson
Associate professor in the UNC Greensboro School of Education’s Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education, honored with the prestigious W.W. Rankin Award.
Wachter Morris Secures $5.6 Million Grant to Address School Mental Health
The grant, to be used over five years, is a training grant to directly address the large, unmet need for the preparation of mental health professionals in public schools.
Aiding children with exercise-induced “asthma”
One of McGovern’s main goals is to develop interventions that can help children with asthma and exercise-induced bronchoconstriction understand their condition and breathe easier.