UNCG partnered with Old Salem for an archaeology field school to give students hands-on experience collecting material culture from early Moravian settlements.
The Research Magazine interviewed UNCG’s 2023 Senior Research Excellence Award winner Christian Moraru, a scholar recognized internationally as the expert in post-WWII American fiction and postmodernism and one of the most significant 21st century scholars of world literature.
The Office of Research Integrity has several updates for research integrity and compliance, including an example of failed COI disclosure.
Schools nationwide opened their doors to students following months of learning loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To address those losses, UNCG and Guilford County Schools have partnered to create The Tutoring Collaborative, bringing graduate students from across campus into K-12 as tutors. A $2 million grant supports the program, offering graduate students stipends for 20 hours of tutoring a week.
Projects led by UNCG biology’s Dr. Zhenquan Jia, Dr. Sally Koerner, and Dr. Kimberly Komatsu play a major role in new USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) research investments into sustainable agroecosystems and into the relationships between food and human health.
With a $1.5 million state grant, UNCG faculty are exploring how complex molecules found in living organisms, such as fungi, could be used to engineer more environmentally friendly energy systems.
UNCG and the nonprofit Wakaboomee Program provided a day of gaming for middle school and high school students, where they also got a roadmap to future careers.
Meriel Burnett’s award-winning research analyzed the jokes told by hundreds of her fellow students to understand what profanity can say about personality.
Dr. Kimberly Komatsu, an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology, has received two new federal grants.
UNCG’s Institute for Partnerships in Education has launched several initiatives to address shortages of qualified K-12 educators in North Carolina. From offering targeted training for new STEM teachers and library media coordinators and professional development opportunities tailored to counties’ individual needs, IPiE is bridging K-12 pipeline gaps.