Dr. Susan Keane, Professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology, has received a continuation award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) as part of the project “Recruiting, Retaining, and Supporting the Training of Clinical Psychologists from Disadvantaged… Continue reading…
Dr. Zachary Levenson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, has been named a Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin for the 2022 – 2023 academic year. Dr. Levenson was selected, according to his award letter, “because of [his] outstanding creative accomplishments and the… Continue reading…
Dr. Kari Eddington, Professor of Psychology and Associate Director of Clinical Training, has received one of four clinical training grants from the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP). Part of the SSCP’s Varda Shoham Clinical Science Training Initiative, the grant will help prepare UNCG clinical psychology students to… Continue reading…
Dr. Xiao Rao, Assistant Professor of Chinese in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, has received the Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowship in China Studies, a joint program of the Henry Luce Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The fellowship will support Dr. Rao’s work on his latest book project during… Continue reading…
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at UNC Greensboro has been awarded the university’s first National Science Foundation (NSF) major research instrumentation (MRI) grant – totaling $642,892 – to install a high-powered micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) machine. The new X-ray based instrument, installed in March, will give scientists at UNCG and across… Continue reading…
Dr. Malcolm Schug, Associate Professor and Head of the Biology Department, has been awarded NSF funding for a collaborative research project called PROSPECT S-STEM (Practices and Research on Student Pathways in Education from Community College and Transfer Students to STEM). Schug is a co-PI on the project; Aileen Reid from… Continue reading…
Dr. Xiaoli Gao, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, has received funding to continue work on the project “Multiparameter persistence: an algebraic topographical framework for analyzing microstructure in porous media.” The project is supported by funds from the Department of Defense Army Research Office through the College… Continue reading…
Dr. Asa Eger, Associate Professor in the Department of History, has received the 2022 Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award for tenured faculty. Given each year by the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creativity Office (URSCO), the award recognizes faculty for outstanding efforts to engage undergraduates in experiential learning through research. The… Continue reading…
Dr. Jeffrey Soles, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classical Studies, has received new grant funding to continue research and conservation efforts as part of the Mochlos Excavation Project. The new proposal, “Mochlos 2020-2023: Publication and Site Conservation of a Minoan Town,” will be supported by nearly $170,000 in funds… Continue reading…
Dr. Louis-Marie Bobay, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology, has received more than $250,000 in continuation funding from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences for the project, “Investigating the impact and patterns of homologous recombination and adaptive evolution on bacterial genomes.” This award… Continue reading…
