Nadja Cech, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and her research were the subject of a Feb. 8 article in the Triangle's News & Observer about how and why plants such as echinacea work as medicine in the body.
During the fall semester, some UNCG students studying to be special education teachers partnered with students in Beyond Academics, a college experiential program for adults with intellectual disabilities, for a unique class at Horsepower.
“Everyone is learning from one another,” said Stephanie Kurtts, an associate professor in the Department of Specialized Education Services. “The UNCG students and the Beyond Academics students are peers.”
Dr. Joseph Telfair
UNCG has created a center devoted to applied research and evaluation in health, human and community services.
The Center for Social, Community and Health Research and Evaluation (CSCHRE) will be led by Dr. Joseph Telfair, a professor in the Department of Public Health Education in the School of Health and Human Performance, and will be located in the Moore Humanities and Research Administration Building.
By strengthening the capacity of the university to conduct evaluative research, consultation and service, the center will reduce the need for UNCG researchers to go outside the university for evaluation services - keeping a larger share of research funding on campus - and allow UNCG to increase its collaborative partnerships with community agencies and programs.
“This new center expands UNCG’s research infrastructure and will house a critical mass of expertise in this rapidly growing field,” says Dr. Terri Shelton, interim vice chancellor for research and economic development.
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Bettye Tillman (left) and JoAnne Drane
UNCG is creating a new distinguished professorship in the performing arts to honor the first two African-American students to attend the institution.
The professorship is being named for JoAnne Smart Drane of Raleigh and the late Bettye Ann Davis Tillman Sanders, who came to Woman’s College (now UNCG) in 1956 and graduated in 1960.
The faculty position will be called the Smart-Tillman Distinguished Professorship in the School of Music, Theatre and Dance.
It has an endowment of $1 million and is being created with funds from the C.D. Spangler Foundation, the N.C. Distinguished Professorship Endowment and the anonymous donor who gave $6 million to UNCG in February 2009.
UNCG kicks off the spring semester of Science on Tap events Feb. 9 when Dr. Amy Adamson will speak about swine flu and the science of viruses. The talks take place 7:30-9 p.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at the Green Bean, a coffee house at 321 S. Elm Street in downtown Greensboro.
Originally planned for Feb. 2, the event has been rescheduled for Feb. 9 due to the weather.
Adamson, an associate professor in the UNCG Department of Biology, plans to focus primarily on where the H1N1 virus came from, what happened with the virus in 2009, what’s happening now and what to expect in the future.
More than a month of activities is scheduled at UNCG to commemorate the legacy, history and heritage of African Americans during Black History Month.
Fifty years ago, students from Woman’s College stood for change by sitting with peers from N.C. A&T State University and Bennett College to protest segregation at Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Greensboro.
Their contributions to the Woolworth sit-ins – a nonviolent protest begun by four N.C. A&T freshman on Feb. 1, 1960, and acknowledged as a watershed moment in the civil rights movement – will be celebrated by two events at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Both are free and open to the public.
UNCG students protest on behalf of campus food service workers in 1968.
UNCG, in conjunction with the 50-year anniversary of the Greensboro Sit-ins, has launched Civil Rights Greensboro, an online portal to information about the people and events that have helped define Greensboro’s history.
The digital archive covers such subjects as desegregation of local schools, the historic February 1960 sit-ins at Woolworth’s and the Black Power movement in Greensboro. Audio clips, transcribed oral histories and photos are available on the site.
