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UNCG’s Avorgbedor studies pregnancy and heart health
Dr. Forgive Avorgbedor knows that keeping families healthy extends well beyond preventing childhood obesity. The UNCG Nursing professor has joined forces with Dr. Esther Leerkes and Dr. Laura Wideman to use UNCG’s iGrow data to better understand how structural racism influences the health of childbearing parents, particularly during and after
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Healthy habits, healthy children
A multidisciplinary team at UNC Greensboro is combatting childhood obesity, which affects 14.7 million children and adolescents across the nation, according to the CDC. “Once a child becomes overweight or obese, it’s very difficult to reverse that trajectory,” says Jefferson-Pilot Excellence Professor Esther Leerkes. “There’s more attention now on what
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Girls on the Go, in empowering UNCG camp
For two days last March, 50 fourth- through sixth-grade girls tried new physical activities and games in an empowering environment at UNCG. They were part of the inaugural Active Girls–Healthy Girls Spring Break Camp, held by UNCG’s Center for Women’s Health and Wellness in the School of Health and Human
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Spartan’s photo takes Smithsonian Magazine’s top prize
From the medical lab to the photo studio, Sharlie Brown ’05 is exceptional. Her main career is as a human tissue compatibility specialist at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, helping ensure cell and tissue transplants are successful. Most patients don’t know this: She took top prize in this year’s Smithsonian
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BONUS! Bryan Online Non-traditional Undergraduate Student initiative
The Bryan School of Business and Economics is focused on recruiting and advising more adult learners. Through the new Bryan Online Non-traditional Undergraduate Student (BONUS!) initiative, the school’s reaching out to students in the 25-45 (and older) demographic with some college but no degree. Building on its history of providing
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UNCG’s Light the Way: Faculty and staff at the fore
Of all the segments of our UNCG community supporting the Light the Way campaign, one stands out for its high level of participation in giving: faculty and staff. In fact, 3,368 of the campaign’s donors are current or former employees of the University, an August 2024 Advancement report shows. Their
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UNCG receives $2.4 million to address nursing shortage
North Carolina needs more nurses. In Summer 2024, UNCG’s School of Nursing received more than $2.4 million to enroll more nursing students. UNCG Nursing anticipates expanding enrollment in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program by more than 50% in two years. In addition to increases in the pre-licensure BSN
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At Weatherspoon, artists engage with disability
The year’s most anticipated Weatherspoon Art Museum exhibition presents contemporary artists engaging with experiences and understandings of disability. Some artists in the exhibition “Crip” identify as disabled and some do not, but each has a relationship to at least one identity that is not perceived as normal. Too often, organizers
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Record-breaking summer for Campus Greensboro internships
When you celebrate the interns of Campus Greensboro – and all of Guilford County – on National Intern Day, you do it big. The year’s biggest news for the Campus Greensboro Fellows? The number of interns this summer skyrocketed by 80 percent. A year ago there were 98, says UNCG