Students who spent their summer doing undergraduate research came together with UNCG faculty and staff to celebrate their achievements and their shared passion for discovery and building a better world.
Why do we like political humor? Does it help us navigate a contentious election season? Does it change minds or reinforce existing views? Can it, in fact, impede positive change? UNCG Political Science professor Patrick Giamario is rounding out our understanding of laughing about politics in what he calls an “age of hilarity.”
Findings offer new information about the childcare needs and experiences of Hispanic and Latine families, and underscore the need for public policies that improve access to affordable, high-quality care for this population, which includes more than 25% of U.S. children.
School of Health and Human Sciences Dean Carl Mattacola is helping standardize protocols that will improve the safety of jockeys and horses. He brings his background in lower extremity, neuromuscular control and concussion standardization research to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority.
UNCG double major in political science and international and global studies volunteers over 300 hours in the Greensboro community, conducts research in political science, and studies abroad in Germany.
New and continued funding going to UNCG researchers will help the advance understanding of topics such as bilingual classrooms and building resilient communities.
UNCG partnered with Old Salem for an archaeology field school to give students hands-on experience collecting material culture from early Moravian settlements.
The Research Magazine interviewed UNCG’s 2023 Senior Research Excellence Award winner Christian Moraru, a scholar recognized internationally as the expert in post-WWII American fiction and postmodernism and one of the most significant 21st century scholars of world literature.
Schools nationwide opened their doors to students following months of learning loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To address those losses, UNCG and Guilford County Schools have partnered to create The Tutoring Collaborative, bringing graduate students from across campus into K-12 as tutors. A $2 million grant supports the program, offering graduate students stipends for 20 hours of tutoring a week.
In the search for new types of environmentally friendly energy systems, the initiative “Nature Inspired Collaborative Energy Research” draws inspiration from the complex molecules found in fungi and other natural organisms.