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News Items from UNC Greensboro

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News Items from UNC Greensboro

As the holiday season approaches and we connect with family and friends, it is important to remember that there are Spartans and community members who struggle with food and housing – and not just during the coldest months of the year. Food insecurity is prevalent on college campuses across the country. Recent studies show that […]

hands holding a lit candle on a black backdrop

Inspired by UNCG’s annual tradition of luminaires throughout campus on Reading Day in December, Giving Tuesday 2021 provides a perfect chance to honor those who were meaningful – or are currently meaningful – in your experience at UNCG. With a donation of any size, alumni, students, and all other members of the UNCG community may […]

Dr. Douglas P. Fry and Dr. Geneviève Souillac study ancient and contemporary peace systems to find the most important factors in sustaining peaceful societies. Read more in UNCG Research magazine.

Whether researchers with timely insights or students with outstanding stories, members of the UNCG community appear in print, web and broadcast media every day. Here is a sampling of UNCG-related stories in the news and media over the week. Dr. Paul Knapp is featured in an article about detecting hurricane history from tree rings, specifically […]

students and faculty harvesting farm crops

Peacehaven Community Farm volunteers An 89-acre farm in Whitsett, North Carolina, Peacehaven provides adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities a place to live, work, and engage with their community. For the past six years, UNCG faculty member Kim Cuny and her students have been helping the residents improve their communication skills. Read more at UNCG […]

Like the rest of us, social scientists Dr. Andrew Engelhardt and Dr. Chris Walheim are wrestling to sort out facts, errors, and fibs – in our world’s 24-hour stream of news, gossip, and social media. Read more at researchmagazine.uncg.edu/fall-2021/in-the-news.

Dear Campus Community, We are pleased to announce that Eric S. Boyce will be UNC Greensboro’s next Chief of Police, succeeding Paul Lester who retired earlier this year. He begins on January 3, 2022. Chief Boyce joins UNCG from UNC Asheville (UNCA), where he has served as Chief of Police for the past 11 years. […]

Group of six students walking down College Avenue in the fall

In a time with so much uncertainty, there’s one aspect of campus life that Spartans can count on: the beauty of fall at UNC Greensboro. Across campus, the vibrant colors of autumn cover the trees and the walkways – a calming counterpoint to the ongoing pandemic – offering solace to students, faculty, and staff alike. […]

Leonette “Lee” Griffin’s lab coat hangs from a hook on the back of her office door in Room 127 of UNC Greensboro’s Sullivan Science Building. It’s a lab coat unlike any worn by her colleagues in the biology department, where she’s worked as a research specialist for the past five years. Griffin’s coat is a […]

Two students a professor wearing face coverings at a table holding freshly picked vegetables inside Spartan Open Pantry

As the holiday season approaches and we connect with family and friends, it’s important to remember that there are Spartans and community members who struggle with food and housing – and not just during the coldest months of the year. To this end, UNC Greensboro will participate in the national Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week […]

UNC Greensboro is one of the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features UNCG in The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2022 Edition. Schools were chosen based on a survey of administrators at 835 colleges in 2020-21 about their institutions’ commitments to the environment and sustainability. […]

Whether researchers with timely insights or students with outstanding stories, members of the UNCG community appear in print, web and broadcast media every day. Here is a sampling of UNCG-related stories in the news and media over the week. Dr. Debra Barksdale is featured in an article about the need for teachers as the demand […]