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.
Erica Payton Foh was named the first permanent faculty fellow of UNCG’s Center for Housing and Community Studies.
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.
With the help of fellowships, grants, and pre-professional advising, UNCG students and alumni like Catlin Torres ’23 connect with communities where the need for healthcare is greatest.
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, 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.
School of Art students hosted an iron pour and steamroller press demonstration during a daylong event, turning the public into artistic collaborators at the Gatewood Art Studio.
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.
Since earning her PhD in human development and family studies, Dr. Tyla Ricks ’23 has invested in nurturing systems of care, becoming an advocate for children and families and a partner to organizations with the tools for their success.
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.
