The College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) is pleased to share that its Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has received the 2024 CAS Dean’s Award for the Promotion of Diversity and Inclusiveness. The Department is recognized due to their remarkable, comprehensive efforts to foster an inclusive environment. Not only does … Continued
It’s a time of transition in the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS). Students will see this transition reflected in two department name changes and several academic program reorganizations. This academic year, we are also excited to introduce two new bachelor degree options for undergraduates. A new wall mural brightens the hallways of the Curry Building, and students in the natural and mathematical sciences have a new opportunity to receive funding for their research.
Nearly four dozen UNC Greensboro students will start their Fall 2024 semester walking the red carpet. They get their own premiere for short films they’ve created around the theme “the Future.” The Sanarchy Student Film Screening is being held in the Weatherspoon Art Museum on August 29 at 5:30 p.m. Students in UNCG’s Department of Media Studies and the animation concentration directed, edited, animated, and acted in their own productions. They’ll present 39 works in a show that is open to their peers and the community.
Five UNC Greensboro students are living and working in Washington, D.C. this summer, thanks to an exciting new partnership with The Washington Center.
The Washington Center (TWC) provides educational programs, internships, and networking opportunities for college students and recent graduates. This year, Career & Professional Development (CPD) connected 28 UNCG students with experiences at TWC, the latest being a summer “Academic Internship Program” that offers real-world work experience, course credit hours, and housing accommodations in our nation’s capital.
With a $1.5 million state grant, UNCG faculty are leading a unique research effort to explore how complex molecules found in living organisms, such as fungi, could be used to engineer more environmentally friendly energy systems.
“People have been looking at natural products for centuries for medicinal applications,” said Dr. Shabnam Hematian, Bernard-Glickman Dean’s Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. “We believe that can be done for energy, too.”
After a thorough search, the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) at UNC Greensboro has appointed Dr. Jing Deng to the position of associate dean in the CAS Dean’s Office.
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.
In rural areas, people often lack access to quality, timely health care.
It’s a troubling trend that UNCG Biology alum Catlin Torres ’23 is helping to address in her AmeriCorps Medserve fellowship at Belmont Medical Associates.
“I’ve always just been interested in becoming a primary care provider, and I would like to serve in areas where they are needed,” says Torres, who comes from a rural
community in North Carolina herself.
“My writing is definitely informed by my own worldview, experience, gender journey, and sexuality,” says Emilia Phillips, a poet and teacher in the MFA in Creative Writing program.
Phillips’ latest collection, “Nonbinary Bird of Paradise,” revises cultural, religious, and mythological narratives that support heterosexuality as “the norm.” They unveiled the book at a reading this spring with students and artists that inspired the work.
Four students from UNC Greensboro were named fellows in the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
The oldest fellowship of its kind, the NSF GFRP is awarded to only 16 percent of applicants and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high-achieving scientists and engineers.