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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
Repost from UNCG NOW Dr. Robert L. Anemone, head of UNCG’s Department of Anthropology, is a 2014 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Fellows are chosen by their peers for lifetime appointments. Anemone, who came to UNCG from Western Michigan University in 2013, has been … Continued
Gabrielle Ocampo is a 2014 design graduate of UNCG. Last semester, she was awarded first place in the category of Visual Arts at the Undergraduate Research Expo for her piece entitled “What It’s Like to Sleep.” The installation was based on a poem of the same name that Ocampo wrote … Continued
Your caffeine habits may help prevent neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. UNCG biology student John McCormick thinks he knows why. McCormick is an undergraduate researcher in UNCG professor Zhenquan Jia’s molecular toxicology lab. Dr. Jia and his students look at natural compounds that cause and inhibit damage at … Continued
Someone you know probably has toxoplasmosis. The Taxoplasmosa gondii protozoan, which reproduces in cats but infects many other animals, resides in nearly 1 out of 4 people over the age of twelve. The good news: UNCG senior David Sykes is working on the logistics for a vaccine to eliminate the … Continued
Dr. Robert Anemone, head of UNCG’s Department of Anthropology, and Anemone’s student Ashley Bryant spoke with North Carolina Science Now’s Frank Graff about their fossil dig this summer in the Wyoming badlands. See the segment online on the UNC-TV website, or tune in to North Carolina Now tonight at 7:30 p.m. … Continued
Nominations for UNCG’s annual Research Excellence Awards are underway for the 2014-2015 year. The campus-wide recognition program was established in 1988 on the principle that creating and diffusing knowledge is a formal obligation of the University. Work by Research Excellence awardees contributes in an exemplary fashion to this end. Each … Continued