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Students Find Personal and Professional Answers in AADS

In October of 2023, UNC Greensboro was awarded a Mellon Grant to fund student interns for community outreach projects. The grant description outlined efforts to develop curriculum for educators and community leaders that would address gaps in Black history education and fill needs that UNCG can provide to “Grow the World We Want.”

This semester, the student intern projects are underway. Together, they illustrate the significance of UNCG’s African American and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) to its students and their future careers.

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Lab Specialists Smooth Out the Learning Curve at UNCG

Top-of-the-line lab equipment at UNC Greensboro takes students’ skills to the next level. This technology, and the labs where they’re stored, are carefully managed by experienced research specialists. It’s thanks to them that students and faculty can trust that equipment works the way it should, so that they gain meaningful knowledge each time they step into the lab.

Students Explore Daily Life in Ancient Rome

In Dr. Robyn Le Blanc’s “Archaeology of Roman Daily Life” class, UNCG students took a hands-on journey through history at the foundry, casting ancient Roman coins using traditional methods.

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UNCG’s ‘Humanities At Work’ Leads The Way in Internship Innovation

In April 2024, it was announced that UNCG’s College of Arts & Sciences had received a historic $5 million grant to launch Humanities at Work, a program that will provide paid internships and supportive coursework to students in UNCG’s nine humanities disciplines. Here, we provide an update on this important initiative, which launches with its first cohort of students in spring semester 2025. The following story is adapted from the UNCG Magazine story, “Paid Internships. Professional Success.”

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UNCG Professors Help Moms Guide Girls’ Body Image Development

Drs. Janet Boseovski and Ashleigh Gallagher are experts in psychology, but their most recent book makes scientific concepts easy to digest for moms and girls of all ages, so they can cultivate healthy body image development before they’re even teenagers.

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Queer Feminist Leadership Convergence Recruits Students

SCHEME: A Queer Feminist Leadership Convergence, hosted by UNC Greensboro’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program, is currently recruiting local undergraduate students and recent college graduates for their spring program. The spring 2025 convergence will take place April 3-6, 2025.