Dr. Hewan Girma, a professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) at UNC Greensboro, has received a prestigious Career Enhancement Fellowship from The Institute for Citizens and Scholars. The award includes a $15,000 stipend for a six-month research sabbatical; a research, travel, or publication stipend (up to $1,500);… Continue reading…
Researchers at UNC Greensboro and Rutgers University-Camden have released a report that sheds new light on how student loan debt affects the lives of college graduates over time. The researchers have been following students’ experiences with college debt since 2017, through a combination of extensive survey data and in-person interviews… Continue reading…
In January 2021, Dr. John Z. Kiss, a space biologist and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, was awarded a prestigious International Cooperation Medal from the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) at their meeting in Sydney, Australia. The medal recognizes two decades worth of international research with NASA,… Continue reading…
UNC Greensboro’s African American and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) program invites students, faculty, staff, and community members to its annual Conference on African-American & African Diasporic Cultures & Experience (CACE). This year’s theme is “The Year of the Black Woman.” Hear presenters across a variety of disciplines and community partnerships… 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…
A children’s psychology lab at UNC Greensboro is seeking participants aged 5 to 10 to join two virtual studies. The projects focus on children’s perceptions of people who are smart, wealthy or powerful, and are conducted by doctoral students in UNCG’s Development and Understanding of Children’s Knowledge (DUCK) Lab. These… Continue reading…
Working-class Whites surprised everyone in the 2016 election, right? News programs touted the unexpected proportion who voted for then-candidate Trump, making the difference in states like Pennsylvania and Michigan. But if you go back to 2000 as the Clinton era ended, says professor of political science Charles Prysby, a shift… Continue reading…
Dr. Alicia Aarnio, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is one of the authors of a new article in Science Magazine, on “A triple-star system with a misaligned and warped circumstellar disk shaped by disk tearing.” Aarnio was part of a large collaboration of stellar object researchers who… Continue reading…
Dr. Nicholas Oberlies describes himself as “pretty passionate” about fungi. That may be an understatement. “I could geek out about fungi for hours,” said the UNC Greensboro professor of chemistry and biochemistry. “You could argue that half of us wouldn’t be alive today if it weren’t for fungi.” Fungal cultures… Continue reading…
“Is feminism dead?” That’s the question that Time magazine posed to its readers on a June 1998 cover. The controversial cover story ultimately concluded that the feminist movement had become largely irrelevant in the 1990s. UNC Greensboro’s Dr. Lisa Levenstein refutes that claim with her new book, “They Didn’t… Continue reading…
