A woman and young girl kneel by a vanity while the girl plays with rings on her fingers

UNCG Professors Help Moms Guide Girls’ Body Image Development

Drs. Janet Boseovski and Ashleigh Gallagher are experts in psychology, but their most recent book makes scientific concepts easy to digest for moms and girls of all ages, so they can cultivate healthy body image development before they’re even teenagers.

Maggie Cooper and Chad Holley Alumni Fiction Reading

Don’t miss an alumni fiction doubleheader as UNCG MFA graduates Maggie Cooper and Chad Holley return to Greensboro to read from their debut collections, followed by a book signing. Free and open to the public.

Dr. Emily J. Levine and the modern research university

Repost from Campus Weekly Dr. Emily J. Levine’s article “Baltimore Teaches, Göttingen Learns: Cooperation, Competition, and the Research University” was published in the June issue of The American Historical Review. In the article, she argues that the modern research university was co-created through mutual transatlantic exchange and reveals the historical… Continue reading…

Old-school scholarship

One of the first things a young English major will learn is that the discipline is about far more than reading books, poems, and plays. Although we still call them “texts,” a scholar can study a huge variety of materials: movies, advertisements, tweets, and even works with no words at… Continue reading…

Undergrad presents research on Capitol Hill

Repost from UNCG Now UNCG junior psychology major Amanda Baeten recently presented her research project, “How Rumination Affects Emotions,” at the 20th annual Posters on the Hill event sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR). The event took place April 19-21 in Washington, D.C., and featured 60 undergraduate research… Continue reading…