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…
A recent study from UNC Greensboro finds students learn more, gain confidence when ‘authentic’ research is part of the class design. Researchers at UNC Greensboro have released a study that finds college students learn more and gain more confidence when they perform authentic biological research, compared to traditional laboratory… Continue reading…
Classes are well underway in UNC Greensboro’s new facility, The Nursing and Instructional Building, also known as “the NIB.” As its name suggests, the building enhances and consolidates UNCG’s School of Nursing under one roof. Yet more than benefiting nursing, the NIB also serves as a hub of science and… Continue reading…
UNCG Senior Lecturer in biology Ann Berry Somers is well-known figure in North Carolina herpetology and public service. She is a past recipient of the Governor’s Award for Public Service, the Thomas L. Quay Wildlife Diversity Award in Raleigh, the North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research (NCBAR) Distinguished Teaching Award… Continue reading…
Ellis Torrance, a Biology doctoral candidate in Dr. Louis-Marie Bobay’s research group at UNC Greensboro, has received a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) to support her research. She is among five percent of applicants chosen for the fellowship this year. “It feels pretty surreal to win,… Continue reading…
UNC Greensboro Biology alumna (1991) Dr. Tricia Dickens decided to leave her family farm in Idaho to offer her emergency medicine expertise on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The physician is currently working night shifts at a pop-up hospital on Roosevelt Island. “I knew I… Continue reading…
The biology department’s Alyssa Young has been awarded a $7,500 Smithsonian Institution Fellowship. The funding will support her project “Legume-rhizobia symbiosis as a tool to enhance restoration success in a fire-prone ecosystem.” Young (above left) will spend ten weeks at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland, in Dr. Kimberly Komatsu’s Ecosystem… Continue reading…
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It’s an unsettling phrase. Even when filling a prescription, we understand that illness-causing bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics, leading to the reduction of success in infectious disease treatment. Many perceive those risks to human health, as well as the societal and economic costs. But the way that… Continue reading…
Anita Warfford is the instructional technology consultant for UNC Greensboro’s College of Arts & Sciences, the largest academic unit at the university, accounting for more than half of its fundable credit hours. So when the news came that UNCG would be shifting nearly all classes online to prevent the spread… Continue reading…
Researchers in UNC Greensboro’s Adamson Lab are exploring whether Epstein-Barr virus—a strain of herpes that infects 95 percent of American adults—can trigger neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s later in life. Never heard of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)? Well, you probably have it. EBV is associated with mononucleosis, more commonly known… Continue reading…
