Students, faculty, and community members across Greensboro are invited to FOODSTORM – a local brainstorm about Greensboro’s food needs. On March 27th, 2015, UNCG will host the FOODSTORM event from 12-3 PM at the Gatewood Studio Arts Building [3rd Floor studios]. The purpose of the event is to host interdisciplinary conversations about local food needs and then to catalyze action just in time to… Continue reading…
Save the Date! The 2015 Behavioral Health Faith Summit will take place on Thursday, April 16, 2015 from 8:30am-2:45pm at Greensboro College (815 West Market Street, Greensboro NC). A day of Community Education around the spectrum of Mental Health Concerns, the Summit hopes to bring together the behavioral health, faith,… Continue reading…
Join the UNCG Institute for Community and Economic Engagement and the United Way of Greater Greensboro on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 from 8:30am-10:30am for a viewing party of the webinar recording “Building Collaborative Skills for Collective Impact.” Details What: Webinar: “Building Collaborative Skills for Collective Impact” When: Tuesday, March 31, 2015. 8:30-10:30am Where: United Way of Greater Greensboro (1500 Yanceyville… Continue reading…
There are almost a billion reasons UNCG is essential to the Triad economy. $988.6 million to be exact. The first-ever statewide study documenting the economic impact of North Carolina’s higher education institutions was released last week, Chancellor Linda P. Brady told the UNCG Board of Trustees Feb. 19. For students,… Continue reading…
The 2015 Novem Mason Symposium on Community-Engaged Design will focus on housing the homeless and will feature Brent Brown, of bcWORKSHOP and Dallas CityDesign Studio. The UNCG symposium will be March 5-7. Register online here. Registration to the symposium is free. In lieu of a registration fee, please make a donation… Continue reading…
UNCG faculty and staff make a wide range of contributions to the Greensboro community. Bruce Pomeroy, Director of the Office of Accessibility Resources and Services (OARS) was recently recognized for his “distinguished service” to the Greensboro Mayor’s Committee for Persons with Disabilities by Mayor Nancy Vaughan and the committee. Bruce… Continue reading…
The Center for Community-Engaged Design has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign for Graffiti Garden through The Spartan Project at UNCG. Graffiti Garden is a one-year old urban-community project that focuses on providing transitional, homeless, and unaccompanied youth with an educational garden plot in which to cultivate skills for a lifetime of healthful… Continue reading…
Conference theme; America Will Be! The Art and Power of “Weaving our We” Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life 2015 National Conference September 30 – October 3, 2015 Hosted by UMBC Baltimore MD The members of Imagining America advance a vision of the world in which publicly engaged… Continue reading…
The second annual “Writers Meet Readers” O.Henry Book Fair will be held at the O.Henry Hotel from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 21. It will feature 20 local writers, all with recently published books. Many will be UNCG alumni and faculty. Presented by the O. Henry Hotel, the UNCG MFA… Continue reading…
The Jerry McGuire Student Entrepreneur Award is an annual $1,000 award going to UNCG’s most entrepreneurial student or student team. This fund was established in honor of Jerry’s retirement in 2014. The 2015 recipient will be announced at UNCG Entrepreneur Day on March 31, 2015. Nominations are due by March 1st,… Continue reading…
