This CollaboraStory is a captivating journey of reciprocity in action. The UNCG IARc (Interior Architecture) and Computer Science departments join forces with the historic Magnolia Inn in South Greensboro to use virtual reality technology to portray the profound importance of African American history and the role of design in addressing… Continue reading…
This CollaboraStory highlights a current partnership between Guilford County Schools’ Dudley High School and UNCG departments of Kineseology and Peace and Conflict Studies. The Dudley High School Restorative Sport and Health Program has been going 5 years strong and seeks to reform 9th grade physical education and health to include an explicit focus on restorative justice practices, which prioritizes helping students develop conflict… Continue reading…
The Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering (JSNN) is catalyzing a dynamic shift in the educational landscape with their ‘Aspire to Nano’ program. Designed to make the intricate world of nanotechnology accessible to students from K-12 in the Triad region, this initiative seeks to bring science and engineering into the… Continue reading…
ICEE welcomes Dr. Kristy Howell to the team as the new Associate Director. Dr. Howell comes to UNCG from Johnson County Community College in Kansas, where she served as the Education and Engagement Coordinator in the Center for Sustainability. We are thrilled to have Kristy on the team and we hope… Continue reading…
UNCG Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement Terri L. Shelton has received the Engagement Scholarship Consortium’s 2022 Distinguished Engaged Scholar Award. The highly competitive awards program recognizes exemplary contributions to community-engaged scholarship at public and private higher education institutions. “These projects require a great deal of effort, negotiation, and thought… Continue reading…
Dr. Emily Janke, director of UNCG’s Institute for Community and Economic Engagement, has been elected to membership in the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship. Janke, who is also a peace and conflict studies faculty member, is one of 38 scholars in the United States and Canada formally inducted as an academy scholar… Continue reading…
UNC Greensboro was named a regional winner of the 2021 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) As a regional winner, UNCG was able to compete for and win the national C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award! The C. Peter… Continue reading…
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities named UNC Greensboro the winner of the 2021 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award for its multipronged approach to increasing access to culturally responsive scholarship and community engagement. Through initiatives such as the Immigrant Health ACCESS Project (IHAP), part of the UNCG Center for… Continue reading…
We are celebrating the newest cohort of the Community-Engaged Pathways and Partnerships (P2): A Collective Scholarship Fellows Program! Community and UNCG partners will be collaborating on the following initiatives over the next three years: A Community Comes Together: Supporting Integration of Newly Arrived Congolese Refugees through Empowerment and Facilitating Young… Continue reading…
The Center for New North Carolinians has received the 2021 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award for its work towards transforming refugee and immigrant services as well as its scholarship about issues facing these communities. “This is an exciting opportunity for the CNNC’s work to be nationally recognized and… Continue reading…