The Stuff of Legends: UNCG Undergraduate Explores Myths in Gaming
Classical Studies Major Ethan Divon is focused on how myths from around the world are reimagined in popular games.
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A Force for Youth and Families
UNCG’s Center for Youth, Family and Community Partnerships has improved lives across North Carolina for 28 years. Interventions make a deep impact thanks to a commitment to evidence-based research, strong partnerships, and guidance from community members with lived experiences with the issues CYFCP programs tackle.
Seed Grants Kickstart UNCG’s Video Game-Related Research
UNCG’s dedication to eSports education is not only for students. From English to psychology to religious studies, faculty can get in on the fun and games and advance their research with help from the Network for the Cultural Study of Videogaming.
UNCG Showcased in National Report on Advancing Publicly Engaged Scholarship
UNC Greensboro is showcased in an Association of Public and Land-grant Universities report on accelerating publicly engaged research to help tackle vexing challenges facing communities across the globe.
Economic Hardships Common Among Gig and Frontline Workers During Pandemic
UNC Greensbioro’s Mathieu Despard brings his background as a social worker to financial wellness research. Two of his recent studies found high financial insecurity among frontline health care workers and gig workers during the pandemic.
UNCG Fine Art and Entrepreneurship Major is a National Finalist
Zaire Miles-Moultrie says choosing UNCG allowed him to be “who I wanted to be.” In one year, he’s launched an exhibit, taken first at the undergrad expo, and become an AXA Art Prize finalist.
UNCG Professor’s ‘The World IT Project’ Lifts the Veil on Workplace Cultures
Conducted over the last ten years, the research of Bryan School Professor Prashant Palvia and his team should improve the lives of IT workers around the world.
Parsons Traces U.S. History of Treating Mental Illness
An NIH exhibit curated by Dr. Anne Parsons explores the treatment of people with mental illness throughout American history – bringing to light the tension that exists between care and incarceration.
Former Olympian Redefining Life After Competition at UNCG
YJ Seo spent most of his childhood playing ice hockey – even playing on the South Korean national team in the 2018 Olympics. But now his challenge is a kinesiology doctoral program at UNC Greensboro and helping other former athletes make the tough transition out of their sports.
UNCG biologist studies chiggers, sand flies, and the diseases they carry
Biology professor Gideon Wasserberg and his collaborators study disease-carrying parasites locally and across the world. They recently identified bacteria in NC chiggers that may cause a disease previously unseen in the U.S.