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News Items from UNC Greensboro

UNCGNews

News Items from UNC Greensboro

Aliyah Lynch, a student in the Bryan School, was recently named as one of the United Negro College Fund’s (UNCF) Disney Corporate Scholars — a program that provides students from four-year universities across the country, including Historically Black Colleges and Unversities (HBCUs), with a $5,000 annual scholarship and a paid internship with the Walt Disney Company.

The College of Arts and Sciences lists 24 books by faculty members that will test your knowledge, challenge your perspective, or introduce you to beautiful poetry and prose. The subjects run the gamut from nuclear power to short stories to Native writing to crimes of the powerful.

woman in her living room, books in the foreground

Emily V. Gordon ’01, ’03 MS/EdS had received an Oscar nomination for “The Big Sick” when she was featured in the Fall 2018 UNCG Magazine. The therapist-turned-screenwriter now has projects underway with Apple TV and Hulu.

This year, UNCG’s Dr. Anne Parsons learned her Jewish ancestors were part of one small village’s show of resistance against the Nazi’s in World War II. That knowledge became the basis of a digital and physical installation completed by master’s students in History and Museum Studies that now fills an educational need in North Carolina schools.

UNCG has a long history of preparing educators to work with multilingual students, thanks to the School of Education’s TESOL program. With a recent grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Project Ignite will support these educators and the families of multilingual learners through 2026.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, staff have hand-picked 50 of their favorite historically-significant documents and objects from their collection, alongside some seldom-seen treasures.

two women giving flyer to another woman in a park

How does democracy thrive, and specifically at a local level? One essential piece is productive community dialogue. Over the past two years, Department of Communications Studies faculty members Dr. Jenni Simon, Dr. Christopher Poulos, Dr. Jovanovic, and their students hosted a series of structured city-wide public conversations through the Greensboro History Museum.

Dr. Hemali Rathnayake is a UNCG associate professor in the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

Nanoscience could make a big difference when it comes to increasing access to clean water. Dr. Hemali Rathnayake, a UNCG associate professor in the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, leads research to make water purification cheaper and more efficient.

UNCG is committed to an inclusive campus community. It offers programming around gender and sexuality and opportunities for LGBTQ+ and allied students to engage and connect. Learn more about the resources provided on and off-campus.

STEM Teacher Leader Collaborative Coach Dearing Blankmann with a School of Education doctoral student and first grade student looking at flowers

A Guilford County Schools’ Women in Education Tea at UNCG highlighted the impact of women educators. The event celebrated women who are helping lead the region and UNCG’s Institute for Partnership in Education (IPiE) which strengthens education across the state.

UNC Greensboro landed a major enrollment coup thanks to one of the top employers in the world! We are the first institution in the Piedmont Triad to form this unique partnership – Amazon Career Choice. Hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees can take advantage of free tuition for more than 175 majors and concentrations for undergraduates as well as 13 fully online courses.

UNCG's Madeleine Meinhold is the team nutritionist for the Greensboro Grasshoppers this baseball season.

The UNCG alumna and assistant professor of nutrition makes sure Spartans are healthy on and off the field. This baseball season, she brings her skills as team nutritionist to the Greensboro Grasshoppers. Read more about how she builds trust and bonds with athletes.