Grad student tutor high fiving a student while others watch

Social Innovation

It starts with a desire to solve acute community problems. It’s facilitated by critical partnerships. It grows out of creativity and cross-disciplinary savvy. As UNCG builds a culture of social innovation and entrepreneurship, NC communities reap the benefits.

Collection of eight book covers from CAS faculty

Read A Book by A UNCG Professor This Summer

Each summer, the College of Arts & Sciences at UNCG shares a list of books published by its professors over the past year. The following lineup of 14 books (plus a couple of bonus publications!) explore a range of topics, from innovations spurred by the grocery chain Piggly Wiggly, to the rhetoric surrounding reproductive rights.

Horizontal cover of 2024 research magazine which features image of tick on sides of photo

2024 UNCG Research Magazine is Now Available Online

An ambitious obesity study following kids from the womb to preschool, the art of Disney, social entrepreneurship improving lives across NC, cosmodernism, and chiggers and ticks and sand flies (oh my!). Explore our wide-ranging impact in the 2024 issue of UNCG Research magazine.

Emilia Phillips reading from their new poetry book "Nonbinary Bird of Paradise"

Pride and Poetry, According to Emilia Phillips

Emilia Phillips, professor of creative writing in the English department, published their fifth collection of poems this year and unveiled it at a book reading that celebrated the community of students and artists who inspire their work.

UNCG member and aphasia horse camp participants

Camp Helps Build Communication Through Horses

UNCG’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders recently had their two-week camp for adults with aphasia at HorsePower Therapeutic Learning Center in High Point.

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Undergraduate Researchers Show Their Work At UNCG Expo

Before the end of the academic year, UNCG students put their research out in front of the community at the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo, presenting what they’d learned in the humanities, arts, and STEM fields.