Assistant Professor Robert Wiley has received the 2025 UNCG Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award in the pre-tenure category. The psychologist, who examines the cognition of reading and writing, has mentored 35 undergraduate students in his Cognitive and Neural Science of Learning (CNSL) lab since he arrived at UNCG in 2019, through the PSY433 Research Experience course.
Celebrate the season at the Annual CAS Holiday Party, open to the public, with delicious food, fun games, and festive cheer!
Learn about the AY’ 25-26 Faculty Fellow positions for Humanities at Work in this private information session featuring program updates and future plans.
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.
On a research trip to the Middle East in the summer of 2023, students and faculty uncovered remains of a Bosnian refugee village – and tracked down their descendants. This year, undergraduate researchers continue to analyze findings from that dig in the lab.
Philosophy professor Dr. Jeffrey Kaplan has been awarded the highest honor a state employee can receive, a 2024 North Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence. The award recognizes the impact of Kaplan’s philosophy videos on YouTube and his development of the UNCG Prison Education Program.
Dr. Minjeong Kim, an Associate Professor and Interim Chair of the Computer Science department, has received a $13,000 for an NIH grant led by UNC Chapel Hill for the proposal “Summer Research Education Program for Promoting Computational Neuroimaging Technology in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias (ADRD).” The project is… Continue reading…
Hosted by the Department of Psychology, the 2024-25 Harriet Elliott Lecture Series (HELS) will highlight the insidious ways that life stress, sometimes under different monikers, impacts our lives, our communities, and our health – and what we can do about it.
Dr. Jonathan Chekan, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has received a new LEAP grant from the National Science Foundation for his proposal “LEAPS-MPS: Engineering and Evolution of Copper-Dependent Enzymes for Targeted Peptide Cyclization.” LEAP-MPS stands for Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical… Continue reading…
Dr. Anne Parsons, an Associate Professor in the Department of History, has received a new $17,000 grant from the NC Department of Cultural and Natural Resources for her proposal, Limits of Freedom. The grant is part of the America 250 NC program which aims to support statewide projects in 2026… Continue reading…
