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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.”

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.

“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.

Through a new course, UNCG biology professor Dr. Bryan McLean is helping students make sense of biodiversity data.