Jo Ramsey Leimenstoll will receive the UNCG Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. This award acknowledges and honors a person who has enjoyed outstanding success in mentoring graduate students. $1,000 and a plaque will be presented at April’s Excellence Convocation to recognize her outstanding contributions to graduate education. The committee… Continue reading…
Dr. Eric Grebing (SERVE Center) received new funding from RTI International for the project “Tableau Training and Support for RTI Center for Education Services.” SERVE will provide customized professional learning to Research Triangle International Center for Education Services team members on basic data management for and creation of data visualizations in Tableau…. Continue reading…
Dr. Stacy Sechrist (NC Network for Safe Communities) received a continuation of funding from the Lexington Police Department for the project “Support of Lexington Police Department’s Offender Focused Domestic Violence Initiative.” Dr. John Weil is principal co-investigator on the project. North Carolina Network for Safe Communities (NCNSC) has been the training/technical assistance… Continue reading…
Dr. Stephen Sills (Center for Housing and Community Studies) received new funding from the Reinvestment Fund, Inc./Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the project “Invest Health Greensboro Supplemental Funds for Technical Assistance, Site Visits, and Learning Exchanges.” Safe and affordable housing can act as an upstream “prescription” for asthma. Greensboro is presently… Continue reading…
Dr. Paul Knapp (Geography, Environment, and Sustainability) received new funding from UNC Wilmington for the project “Next Generation Optogenetics for Vision Restoration.” This research project will investigate fire history at the Nichols Preserve, a rare, old-growth piedmont longleaf pine ecosystem undergoing restoration. Researchers will examine fire scars in remnant longleaf-pine stumps… Continue reading…
Dr. Deborah Lekan (Nursing) received new funding from the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses for the project “Frailty Risk Using EHR Nursing Data for ICU Transfer and Mortality.” The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of a Frailty Risk Score (FRS) derived from nursing flowsheet data in the electronic health… Continue reading…
Dr. Zhiyong Yang (Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality & Tourism) received new funding from from the North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center for the project “Faculty Liaison Grant.”
Dr. Kenneth Gruber (The Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships) received new funding from the Greensboro Housing Coalition for the project “Build Health Challenge 3.0 Collaborative Cottage Grove. “It is becoming widely recognized that it is important to identify social determinants of health as both causal and ameliorative factors affecting the… Continue reading…
Dr. Sat Gupta (Mathematics and Statistics) received new funding from the National Science Foundation for the project “REU Site at UNC Greensboro in Complex Data Analysis using Statistical and Machine Learning Tools.” The REU project aims to provide 10-week sophisticated training in Complex Data Analysis using statistical and machine learning tools to… Continue reading…
Dr. Spoma Jovanovic (Communication Studies) will moderate the upcoming panel at the Greensboro History Museum: Writers as Witness: Free Speech in a Time of Hate. The panel, part of Scuppernong Books’ and Greensboro Bound’s Writers as Witness series, will discuss the role of language and speech in the current political… Continue reading…
