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Expert Q&A: Domestic violence during the pandemic
“A pandemic within a pandemic.” That’s how some have described domestic violence in the times of COVID-19. Stay-at-home orders have left many victims trapped inside with their abusers. Confusion about whether agencies are open and operating has likely played a role in decreased calls to domestic violence hotlines. While it will take time to sift […]
Ann Somers publishes groundbreaking paper on eastern box turtles
UNC Greensboro’s Ann Berry Somers, senior lecturer in biology, with John H. Roe, professor at UNC Pembroke, recently announced the release of a new paper on eastern box turtles, the North Carolina state reptile. “State-wide population characteristics and long-term trends for Eastern Box Turtles in North Carolina” was accepted by the Ecological Society of America’s Ecosphere journal. […]
Debt of a lifetime
Social scientists, politicians, and others have long held that higher education has the power to overcome inequities – and to lay the foundation for everyone to achieve the American Dream. But what happens when you are 18 and have to take out the equivalent of a home mortgage to pay for a four-year degree? Or […]
Hands-on history
Most people see only the obvious at 442 Gorrell Street – a handsome, two-story frame house accented with lime green trim and encircled by a low wall of rough-hewn Mount Airy granite. Torren Gatson, an assistant professor of history, sees more. When he lays eyes on Greensboro’s historic Magnolia House, he sees “a community vessel.”
Small leap for frogs, giant leap for mankind
The brains of bullfrogs hold secrets that could, someday, help fighter pilots perform better and protect stroke patients. That’s why two federal agencies – the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense – have awarded Assistant Professor of Biology Joseph Santin nearly $1 million to study how the brain circuit responsible for breathing […]
Eviction mediation project expands to High Point
UNC Greensboro and the Foundation for a Healthy High Point (FHHP) are bringing the Eviction Mediation Project to High Point, to address a wave of evictions resulting from the pandemic as well as the city’s higher than average eviction rates in previous years. “Our comprehensive program will provide relief to an overburdened court system and […]
What are my choices?
Dr. Jared McGuirt thinks we should pay more attention to billboards. “Advertisements in our environment have simple messaging; the graphics are very intentional. These companies know what they’re doing,” says the assistant professor of nutrition. “We should take our cues from the business sector.” His research focuses on our food environment and interventions to nudge […]
Can we afford to fly?
When airplanes first caught Keith Debbage’s fancy, the term “carbon footprint” didn’t exist. It was the 1960s, and he was a kid happy to accompany his father to air shows on weekends. Never mind that watching planes was what his dad, a Royal Air Force radar operator, did at his day job. People who love […]
Pivot point
We’re in the biggest public health emergency most living people have faced, and UNCG researchers are finding ways to carry out new research in this new world. Since March, campus researchers have pivoted toward questions generated by the pandemic: Do nutrients play a role in COVID-19? Can we develop faster tests? How do we serve […]
UNCG professor named 2020 AAAS Fellow
UNC Greensboro today announced that Dr. Edna Tan, professor of science education in the School of Education, was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is the first woman to receive this honor. Fellows are selected each year by their peers for “efforts on behalf of the […]
Centering Black voices
It was as if no one had ever asked him to tell his story. Jocelyn R. Smith Lee, now an assistant professor of human development and family studies at UNC Greensboro, was interviewing a young man in Baltimore. It was part of her work as a doctoral research assistant, examining how young Black men transition […]
Graduate students impress at Virtual Three Minute Thesis competition
UNC Greensboro students showcased the breadth and depth of graduate research on campus at this year’s Virtual Three Minute Thesis competition. Twenty-five graduate students from across academic disciplines created three-minute, jargon-free presentations – with just one PowerPoint slide – about their thesis or dissertation research. With a pandemic and the shift to online, this year’s […]
