excerpt, Fall 2015 UNCG Research Magazine UNCG scientists are the first in the world to create a compound that targets just one signaling mechanism in cannabinoid receptors (cellular-level structures that influence all sorts of neurological and physical functions). The discovery could lead to new medicines for treating a wide range… Continue reading…
In the news On February 13, 2016, ABC 11 reported on UNCG Assistant Professor of Sociology Dr. Arielle Kuperberg’s research on dating and hook-up culture. Her recently co-authored study is entitled “The Date’s Not Dead After All: New Findings on Hooking Up, Dating and Romantic Relationships in College.” “‘What it says… Continue reading…
Repost from UNCG NOW For nearly a decade, researchers have studied how single genes contribute to an individual’s risk for depression. A new study, however, looks at how five different common genetic variations related to the serotonin system, combined with interpersonal stress, might be able to predict depression. “It has… Continue reading…
Repost UNCG NOW UNCG’s Dr. Aaron Allen, co-editor and contributing author of the new book “Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature,” has always had an interest in music and the environment. As an undergraduate at Tulane University, Allen walked into his dean’s office to apply for two degree programs:… Continue reading…
Repost, UNCG NOW As a junior in high school, Tyra Callaway began her college search with one non-negotiable requirement in mind: undergraduate research. She didn’t just want to work in a lab as a junior or senior. She wanted real-world, hands-on research experience as soon as she stepped foot on campus…. Continue reading…
repost from UNCG NOW Only 30 percent of individuals using natural products, such as dietary supplements or herbal remedies, tell their doctors, yet when those products are combined with conventional medicine, they can trigger potentially detrimental interactions. Over the next five years, chemists from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro will… Continue reading…
redacted excerpt, Fall 2015 UNCG Research Magazine What do California field mice, delphacid planthoppers, and honeybee queens have in common? UNCG mathematicians. At UNCG, an emerging cluster of mathematicians and their students are collaborating with biologists here and at other universities. The field is called math biology or biomathematics. They… Continue reading…
excerpt, Fall 2015 UNCG Research Magazine Seventy-five years ago, a 6-year-old African-American boy named Clay McCauley Jr. asked a simple question about the books he read: “Why don’t any of the people look like me?” The woman to whom he posed this question was Stella Gentry Sharpe, a neighbor and… Continue reading…
Professor Christopher Hodgkins has received a $250,000 National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions grant. The funding will support Hodgkins and Robert Whalen of Northern Michigan University (NMU) as co-editors in producing George Herbert: Complete Prose, with Latin and Greek Verse over the course of three years. The researchers will collect high-resolution digital captures of… Continue reading…
The debate over ‘fracking’ Public discussion of hydraulic fracturing is extremely polarized, and people seeking “just the facts” often find themselves sifting through heated rhetoric, unable to distinguish between bias and balance. Advocates claim that hydraulic fracturing creates jobs, fosters energy independence, and actually has environmental benefits. Critics say that fracking contaminates… Continue reading…