Locating grant funding opportunities

Repost from Campus Weekly The workshop “Show Me the Money! Locating Grant Funding Opportunities” will be held Wednesday, Oct. 25, 9-11 a.m., in 304 Curry Building. Faculty and graduate students often require external funding for research, scholarship, and creative activity. This workshop will explore how to get the most from grant… Continue reading…

Three UNCG students receive Fulbright awards

Repost from UNCG Now Three students from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) have been awarded prestigious Fulbright Scholarships to study, research and teach abroad for the 2017-18 academic year. Nathan Martin, Carmen Calhoun and Marya Fancey were selected by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational… Continue reading…

Winners of Graduate Research & Creativity Expo

Repost from Campus Weekly More than 100 graduate students revealed the breadth and depth of research at UNCG at the 2017 UNCG Graduate Research and Creativity Expo: “Scholarship That Matters.” “I truly enjoyed the questions and feedback I received at the expo,” said economics graduate student Justin Larson. “If the goal… Continue reading…

Students win national nano film contest

UNCG students Taylor Mabe and Jenna Schad have been named winners of the National Nanotechnology Initiative’s “Nano Film” video contest. Mabe, a nanoscience PhD candidate, and Schad, a senior majoring in biology and media studies, teamed up to produce a video about Mabe’s dissertation research, which focuses on making portable… Continue reading…

Register for Graduate Research & Creativity Expo

Registration for the https://grs.uncg.edu/enrolled/showcase/ is open. The expo is an opportunity for UNCG to showcase our graduate students, programs and departments. Join us in encouraging students to register now for this event. Deadline to Register: February 6, 2017 at 8:00 a.m. https://uncg.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cYNyOdeYqVXufNX https://grs.uncg.edu/enrolled/showcase/ Sponsored by The Graduate School, Graduate Student Association and… Continue reading…

UNCG hosts national traveling exhibit on mass incarceration

Repost from UNCGNow UNCG will host States of Incarceration, the first national traveling multimedia exhibition and coordinated public dialogue on mass incarceration, from Nov. 8 through Dec. 15 at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in downtown Greensboro. The exhibition is organized and produced by The New School’s Humanities… Continue reading…

Riding high at therapy camp

Repost from UNCG NOW At first glance, UNCG’s Horsepower Experience looks like any other horseback riding camp, but it’s much more. Over the past 13 summers, graduate students in UNCG’s Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) program have spent two weeks at HORSEPOWER Therapeutic Learning Center in Colfax. They use horses… 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…