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HHS faculty join with faith community for health outreach
November 1, 2013
Repost from UNCG Now Article by Lanita Withers Goins Faculty from the UNCG School of Health and Human Services will partner with Odell Cleveland, the chief administrative officer of Mount Zion Baptist Church, for the Healthcare Faith Community Summit Thursday, Nov. 14. The event, which will start at 7:45 a.m., will to bring … Continued
Interior Architecture launches MFA program
October 30, 2013
Repost from UNCG Now Article by Michelle Hines UNCG has launched a new Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Interior Architecture program, offering students a venue for advanced investigations of the interior environment in close collaboration with faculty mentors. Students pursuing an MFA in Interior Architecture develop their own intellectual interests in design … Continued
Nemati funded by New Breed Logistics, Inc.
October 30, 2013
Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Hamid Nemati (Information Systems and Supply Chain Management) received a continuation of funding from New Breed Logistics, Inc. for an Extended Agreement for Collaboration between UNCG and New Breed Logistics.
Dancing around injury: Pye compares neuromuscular training in dancers versus athletes
October 29, 2013
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. … Continued
Jacobs funded to explore teachers’ responsive decision making
October 29, 2013
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 … Continued
Dr. Mary C. Scott-Little received new funding for the “Georgia Curriculum Review Project”
October 29, 2013
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 … Continued
Hilton co-edits “Foragers of Point Hope: The Biology and Archaeology of Humans on the Edge of the Alaskan Arctic”
October 29, 2013
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 … Continued
Bolton pens biography of Mississippi statesman William F. Winter
October 29, 2013
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. … Continued