NCG will mark this Veterans Day — 11-11-11, the tenth anniversary of post-9/11 combat — with a remembrance ceremony and roll call of the 6,300-plus men and women who have lost their lives in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The ceremony begins at 6 a.m. on the Elliott University Center West Lawn. Roll call begins […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.  – U.S. Senator Kay R. Hagan (NC) will today introduce the Violence Against Women Health Initiative to raise awareness of domestic violence for health care providers allowing them to better assess and treat survivors of domestic violence. “October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, but this is a problem that demands attention 365 days a year,” […]

On September 26, Congressman Brad Miller took a tour of Jefferson Suites and visited an ENT/ECO 100 class taught by Dr. Jeff Sarbaum, Professor of Economics. The visit highlighted UNCG’s newest living-learning community, Sustainable Entrepreneurship, which is on the 6th floor of Jefferson Suites. Chancellor Linda Brady, along with Dr. Mac Banks, Dr. Dianne Welsh, Dr. Lisa Tolbert, Bryan Toney, Laura Pipe, and Bryan Botts accompanied the Congressman […]

On July 31, Congressional Leaders and President Obama reached agreement on a bill that will avoid government default on its obligated payments and reduce the deficit by at least $2.1 trillion dollars over the next 10 years. The House passed the bill by a vote of 269 to 161 and the Senate passed it by vote of 74 […]

by Council on Governmental Affairs, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, August 24, 2011 On August 23, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued thefinal rule on management of financial conflicts of interest of extramural research investigators, which includes NIH funded researchers. According to the NIH, the revised regulations institute a more rigorous approach […]

Written by UNCG University News When members of President Barack Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness came to North Carolina on June 13 looking for ways to spur job creation, Lisa McDonald, an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, was there. She participated in a 90-minute roundtable discussion at North Carolina Central University and […]

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro is one of only five U.S. colleges serving low-income students well, says the Education Trust, a research and advocacy group. The Education Trust released its report on how most colleges fail low-income students Wednesday. The report, “Priced Out: How the Wrong Financial Aid Policies Hurt Low-Income Students,” looked […]

From the News & Record A UNCG research center has won a $1.9 million federal grant to continue research on early college high schools. UNCG announced the grant won by SERVE Center, which will get money from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. Julie Edmunds is the principal researcher for this project, which […]

Dr. Jacquelyn White, a Professor of Psychology at UNCG and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts and Sciences was a featured speaker at “Media in the Movement: Shattering the Silence of Sexual Violence.” The event was held on March 31, 2011 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. At the event, […]

A recent letter addressed to top congressional officials recognized SERVE’s early literacy work in the Mississippi Delta region. The letter was drafted by the National Board of Education Sciences, the board of directors for the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES). IES funds the Regional Educational Laboratory Program’s 10 regional labs, one of […]