CAS is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026-27 Ignite Transdisciplinary Research Fund (IRF) recipients. The inaugural call for proposals seeking collaborative research projects received 28 proposals from across UNCG academic units.
UNCG’s 2025-26 Teaching Excellence Awardees include CAS Faculty Dr. Faye Stewart, Associate Professor of German and German Studies, and Dr. Insa Lawler, Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Stewart received the Mary Settle Sharpe Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, while Lawler received the James Y. Joyner Alumni Teaching Excellence Award.
Knapp receives the senior award for research advancing the frontiers of biogeography and climatology, while Adams receives the early career award for groundbreaking scholarship in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies.
“Goats walking down College Ave wasn’t on our bingo card when we first discussed plans for this day,” joked Kim Sousa Peoples, senior director of First Year Student Engagement and Experience, “But the positive student reaction to this and other events across campus was exactly what our committee was hoping to achieve with the Wellness Takeover Day.”
Fox Brown has never been a traditional student, but his life experiences and academic choices make him a passionate student leader with ambitions for politics.
A senior majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry, Jonah Tatsapaugh has spent the last three semesters developing an innovative method to analyze the microstructural growth of thigh bones of individuals aged 3 months to 18 years.
Dr. Jessica Caporaso in the Department of Psychology has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award in the professional track faculty category.
It is with great sadness we share that Dr. Naurice Frank Woods, Jr., professor emeritus of African American and African Diaspora Studies, passed away on March 8, 2026.
Woods grew up in Greensboro, N.C., raised by educator parents who were dedicated to truth, justice, and the sharing of knowledge.
An old, unused building on a busy street can mean something different to each person who passes by. Where some might experience a burst of nostalgia, others might see a dilapidated relic from a fading point in time.
Students in UNC Greensboro’s Department of Interior Architecture (IARc) see the potential to give these old buildings new purpose.
And thanks to that mindset, they also saw a clean sweep. Three proposals by IARc students to revitalize historic properties snagged every student category in the 2025 AIA Winston-Salem Design Awards.
With funding from NASA, UNCG chemistry professor Dr. Nicholas Oberlies investigates possibilities for supporting construction in places other than Earth.
