The School of Nursing, in partnership with Cone Health, was awarded a four-year grant that will make it easier for students to provide care to underserved populations in the Piedmont region, with the use of mobile health units, telehealth, and pop-up clinics.
It was a record-breaking year for researchers who, using UNC Greensboro’s resources, have made scientific advances that benefit communities worldwide. Award funding climbed to the highest level in the University’s history.
Food access is a social justice matter and tied to ecojustice through sustainable land cultivation. Dr. Etsuko Kinefuchi and her students helped break ground on a site in Southeast Greensboro and are continuing research within the community. Read more at UNCG Research.
Dr. Jiyong Park, an assistant professor of information systems at the Bryan School of Business and Economics, debunks the myths that machines are replacing human labor in the workforce in his recently published research, “A Data-Driven Exploration of the Race Between Human Labor and Machines in the 21st Century.”
Dr. Heather Brook Adams has published a new, groundbreaking book that includes the interviews and personal stories of unmarried pregnant women of the 1960s and 70s who went to live in secrecy in maternity homes. Her work examines reproductive justice in a myriad of ways and looks at the role of shame in reproductive history.
NASA has released the most startling images we’ve ever seen of deep space. UNCG faculty and students learned the details of this project eight years ago, when its senior project scientist, Dr. John C. Mather, came to speak with students and give a public lecture.
Last year, a UNCG faculty group won the “Not Your Average Folk Contest.” This year, several UNCG students, faculty, and alumni fill out two groups who are in the running. Listen to the Spartans’ music and pick your favorite!
The College of Arts and Sciences lists 24 books by faculty members that will test your knowledge, challenge your perspective, or introduce you to beautiful poetry and prose. The subjects run the gamut from nuclear power to short stories to Native writing to crimes of the powerful.
Dr. Jennifer Etnier received UNCG’s 2021 Senior Research Excellence Award for her scholarship on physical activity and cognition. Her current NIH clinical trial explores the potential of physical activity to delay or prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
This year, UNCG’s Dr. Anne Parsons learned her Jewish ancestors were part of one small village’s show of resistance against the Nazi’s in World War II. That knowledge became the basis of a digital and physical installation completed by master’s students in History and Museum Studies that now fills an educational need in North Carolina schools.