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Planetarium Show

UNCG Planetarium photo by David Wilson from 2008.

UNCG Planetarium Public Nights are back! Come join us and learn about the motions of astronomical objects in our wonderful planetarium. There will be time after the show to field questions by one of our Astronomy faculty! Free Admission! Click here to fill the form and reserve your seat!


Lauded Writer and Emeritus Professor Fred Chappell Is Remembered

Fred Chappell

Fred Chappell, one of North Carolina’s most celebrated writers, has died at age 87.   He taught at UNC Greensboro for 40 years, joining in 1964. More than anyone, he made the UNCG MFA in Creative Writing program one of the finest in the nation.  His poetry, essays, and novels … Continued


Chemistry Department, Professor Honored For Military-Friendly Practices

Chemistry Department group shot

UNC Greensboro continues to be recognized for its support of military-affiliated students. Recently, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was honored with the Seven Seals Award by the Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), recognizing their departmental support of members of the U.S. National Guard and Reserve. In … Continued


UNCG’S VIDEOGAMING RESEARCH ENLIGHTENS AT HUMANITIES FORUM

Dr. Gregory Grieve, seated in the UNCG esports arena.

UNC Greensboro’s Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies, Dr. Gregory Grieve, made a significant contribution to the global discourse on the intersection of Asian religions and popular culture at the 7th World Humanities Forum held in Busan, Korea. 


Keeping it safe: privacy-protecting data sharing for AI

Andi Smith speaker headshot.

Join the UNCG Department of Computer Science for this presentation in their colloquium series! Sharing individually contributed data is a cornerstone of modern artificial intelligence.For example, large language models (LLMs) were trained on hundreds of billion tokens scraped from the internet. However, the data generated by individual users contain sensitive … Continued


Computer Science Colloquium By Dr. Jiangwen Sun

Dr. Sun headshot.

Join the Computer Science Department for this presentation in their colloquium series! Dr. Jiangwen Sun will present, “Impact of different loss functions in training DNN for understanding regulatory roles of DNA sequence in DNA methylation.” Functonal genomic events, such as DNA methylation, regulate gene expression by moderating chromatin state, playing … Continued