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SOCIOLOGY ALUM LEADS GUILFORD COUNTY’S OPIOID RECOVERY EFFORTS
WHY THEM AND NOT ME? For one UNC Greensboro (UNCG) alumna, her education was fueled by a curiosity for how she avoided a dark path. Amanda Clark ’14, ’18 explains: “As a millennial, I went to middle school and high school in the height of the OxyContin era. I grew up in rural Chatham County with
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HARRIET ELLIOTT LECTURE SERIES RETURNS MARCH 23
Dr. Ruha Benjamin, an award-winning author and professor at Princeton University, will on the topic of her latest book, “Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want.”
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ALUMNI AND FACULTY ASSIGN DREAM PROJECTS TO IARC UNDERGRADS
When engaged professors pair up with successful alumni who want to give back to the university that served them, magic happens for students. This semester, that magic is happening now for sixteen lucky students in Travis Hicks’ Interior Architecture (IARc) studio class, who are spending their final semester redesigning restaurants and a VIP suite for a beachfront
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ASHBY DIALOGUES EXPLORE GENDER IN “ZELDA” VIDEO GAMES
In the kingdom of Hyrule – the main setting for “The Legend of Zelda” video game series – the hero Link explores dungeons, mountains, underwater cities, and even gender. The College of Arts and Sciences is exploring the link to queerness in “Zelda” with their recurring Ashby Dialogue series. The dialogues, named after the late Warren Ashby, are
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UNCG BIOLOGY STUDY FINDS POPULAR CONSERVATION METHOD DAMAGES ECOSYSTEM
For over a century, fisheries and natural resource managers have bred native fish in captivity and then released them, en masse, into the wild. It’s a popular method for supporting commercially important or threatened populations: more than 2 billion captive-bred Pacific salmon were released in the U.S. in 2016 alone. Unfortunately, the 150-year-old practice may
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2023 HARRIET ELLIOTT LECTURE SERIES ANNOUNCED
Started in 1948, the Harriet Elliott Lecture Series (HELS) is one of UNC Greensboro’s oldest and most established lecture programs. Each year, HELS brings distinguished speakers to campus to present fresh insights into key issues in the social and behavioral sciences. The series honors the pioneering professor, Harriet Wiseman Elliott, who taught political science and served
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ART REFLECTS BLACK HISTORY IN FRANK WOODS’ LIFE’S WORK
Dr. Frank Woods’ exhibit in the Weatherspoon Art Museum PRESERVING VISUAL MEMORIES Since December, the Weatherspoon Art Museum has been exhibiting artwork by Dr. Frank Woods, emeritus professor of the African American and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) program at UNCG. Woods directed this program from 1994-2008 and was pivotal in its growth. Its current director, Dr. Noelle
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UNCG CELEBRATES CHINESE SPRING FESTIVAL
On Friday, January 27, 2023, UNC Greensboro’s Chinese Studies Program hosted its annual Chinese Spring Festival in the EUC Auditorium. This festival welcomed the Year of the Rabbit, a symbol of longevity, peace, and prosperity in Chinese culture, and paid homage to Lunar New Year traditions across Asia. Performances demonstrated Tibetan dance, Tai Chi, and
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UNCG ADDS NEW ONLINE BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN HISTORY
Students attending UNC Greensboro now have the option of pursuing a fully online bachelor of arts degree in history. The online history B.A. is currently accepting applications for the fall 2023 semester. UNCG’s Department of History already offers a bachelor’s degree in history for on-campus students. The new online option brings the strengths of this
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GAMING NETWORK BOLSTERS COMMUNITY AND SPARKS SCHOLARSHIP
From freshmen to tenured faculty, UNCG gamers bond over shared interests, exchange ideas, and bring scholarship to the broader community, thanks to the new Network for the Cultural Study of Video Gaming. Associate Director Dr. John Borchert says the network, known as the NCSV, was founded in fall 2021 with the goals of fostering scholarly research, education, and
