Dr. John Z. Kiss (Biology) has been selected as a 2020 Fellow by the Governing Board of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR). Kiss was awarded the distinction of Fellow by the ASGSR board in recognition of his distinguished scientific and social contributions to the advancement of… Continue reading…
Dr. Sonja Frison (The Center for Youth, Family and Community Partnerships) received new funding from Sandhills Center, LME, for the project “The Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Partnerships.” The Juvenile Justice Behavioral Health Partnerships (JJBH) is a statewide initiative designed to provide a continuum of care for juvenile justice involved youth… Continue reading…
Dr. Tsz-Ki Martin Tsui (Biology) received new funding from the Department of Energy for the project “How does mercury methylation respond to intensive forest management and the creation of anoxia in floodplain soils?” Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant due to long-range atmospheric transport and deposition. Forest ecosystems have been… Continue reading…
Dr. Kimberly Kappler-Hewitt (School of Education) received new funding from the NC Alliance for School Leadership Development for the project “Principal Preparation for Excellence and Equity in Rural Schools (PPEERS).” Dr. Carl Lashley is co-principal investigator on the project. Rural schools face disadvantages when recruiting prospective principals, and rural schools… Continue reading…
Dr. Maia Popova (Chemistry & Biochemistry) received new funding from the National Science Foundation for the project “BCSER: Developing expertise in educational testing to support characterizing the impact of organic chemistry instruction on students’ ability to reason with representations.” Learning and communicating with representations is an essential component of chemistry… Continue reading…
Dr. Prashanti Manda (Computer Science) received new funding from the National Science Foundation for the project “CAREER: Ontology-Powered Named Entity Recognition and Robust Semantic Similarity Metrics.” Ontologies have been used for data representation in biology since 2006 and have powered an array of computational applications. However, the process of translating… Continue reading…
Dr. Keith Cushman (English) was awarded the Jane Harris Armfield Award this summer from the Greensboro Opera, in honor of his significant contributions throughout the years. Read more about this award, and the Greensboro Opera here.
Dr. Stephen Sills (Center for Housing and Community Studies) received new funding from The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research for the project “Health Equity Assessment and Report 2020-2021 for the Health Collaborative of the Dan River Region.” This proposal was developed by the UNCG Center for Housing and Community… Continue reading…
Dr. Malcolm Schug (Biology) received new funding from the National Science Foundation for the project “Preparing College Students who Enter from High School or Transfer from Community Colleges for STEM Careers and Graduate School” The overall goal of STAMPS 3.0 (Science, Technology and Math Preparation Scholarships) is to develop a… Continue reading…
Dr. Christopher Kepley (Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering) received new funding from the National Institutes of Health for the project “Studies Examining Quantitative in Vivo Imaging of Breast Cancer-Targeted, Therapeutic Human Mast Cells.” Breast cancer (BC) continues to be a serious health problem in the United States. The oncogene… Continue reading…
