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Centers and Institutes

UNCG centers and institutes strengthen and enrich programs around our core missions of research, service, and instruction.  They provide our faculty, staff, and students with greater research opportunities, facilities, and assistance, as well as enhance their involvement in public service and educational activities. Centers and institutes also have a strong positive impact on the economic development of the state by providing job opportunities, supplying technical assistance and training, fostering community development, and enhancing the transfer of new technology.

The campus-wide, interdisciplinary centers listed below are housed within the Office of Research and Economic Development.

Center for Biotechnology, Genomics and Health Research

The mission of the Center for Biotechnology, Genomics and Health Research is to increase knowledge, build capacity, and disseminate information in the health, biomedical, and biotechnological sciences to the Triad community. To fulfill this mission, CBGHR leads and facilitates interdisciplinary projects in order to understand and address important problems in health research and practice.

Center for Geographic Information Science

The Center for Geographic Information Science (CGISc) relies on theories, concepts, and applications to solve, analyze, and model the geographic aspects of human and natural phenomena. CGISc welcomes collaboration and partnerships with government agencies, non-profit organizations and private corporations. Research activities are supported by faculty, staff, students, and partners from various specialized fields such as geographic information systems, remote sensing and image processing, cartography, engineering, and mathematics. The Center is well equipped with computers, specialized hardware, and a full range of geospatial software. CGISc has worked on a wide range of projects of various size and scope with numerous partners.

Center for New North Carolinians

The Center for New North Carolinians (CNNC) is committed to advancing the capacity of immigrants and refugees by building bridges between immigrant populations and existing communities throughout the state of North Carolina. This is done via community-based outreach and advocacy, educational programming, research and evaluation, immigrant and refugee leadership development, cultural brokering, and educational opportunities for faculty and students. The CNNC was established in 2001 and currently serves clients from over 31 countries including but not limited to Bhutan, Burma, Central African Republic, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Mexico, Sudan, Syria, and Vietnam. Several ongoing projects include: AmeriCorps ACCESS Project, Community Centers, Thriving at Three, Immigrant Health ACCESS Project, Interpreter ACCESS Project, Latino Community Coalition, Montagnard Health Professionals Association, and Research Fellows.

Center for Translational Biomedical Research

Scientists at the Center for Translational Biomedical Research
are conducting studies for understanding of the molecular mechanisms of disease pathogenesis and progression, identification of biomarkers for diagnosis, and discovery of novel interventions for disease prevention and treatment. The current research activities of the scientists at the center focus on metabolic diseases, including steatohepatitis and diabetes mellitus. These studies entail molecular biology, metabolomics and proteomics approaches. The UNCG Center is housed in the UNC Nutrition Research Building at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) in Kannapolis, NC, about 70 miles southwest of Greensboro.

Center for Youth, Family & Community Partnerships

The Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships (CYFCP) is dedicated to building the capacity of families, service providers, researchers, teachers, and communities to promote the social, emotional, and cognitive well-being of children. In partnership with colleagues from across the University and the community, the Center carries out basic, applied, and action research; translates research into effective programs and practice; infuses community perspectives into university research and teaching; facilitates strategic problem-solving processes; and promotes programs, practices, and policies that are likely to yield positive outcomes for children and their families.

Institute for Community and Economic Engagement

Collaborators working with the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement (ICEE) focus on infusing community engagement into the strategic goals of the university and issues of importance to communities across the Piedmont Triad, state, nation, and world. ICEE supports, elevates, and amplifies the efforts of faculty, staff, student, and community colleagues from across all sectors as they employ teaching, learning, research, creative activity, and service in pursuit of these goals. The institute serves as a central communication hub for community engagement activities, relationships, resources, scholarship, best practices, and outcomes. ICEE works campus-wide with academic affairs, student affairs, and administrative offices to integrate community engagement into core academic work and systems to advance institutional and community aims.

North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center

The North Carolina Entrepreneurship Center (NCEC) is a campus-wide,
cross-disciplinary center that has community engagement, building student and community connections as its primary focus. Our mission is to help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses, and to serve as a catalyst for the creation of sustainable and globally competitive enterprises in the Piedmont Triad, North Carolina, and beyond. NCEC offers a range of outreach, instructional, and research opportunities including seminars, workshops and conferences featuring entrepreneurship education for students and faculty. It also offers extra-curricular entrepreneurial opportunities including public forums to educate the campus and community about entrepreneurship; lectures by visiting experts in various types of entrepreneurship; and business idea competitions and programs that create diverse opportunities for growing the entrepreneurial mindset.

SERVE

The SERVE Center at UNCG is an educational research and evaluation, and technical assistance, training, and dissemination center. Since 1991, we have worked with educators and policymakers in the Southeast and nationally on educational issues. Our research and evaluation projects have ranged from large-scale experimental designs to small-scale qualitative studies on topics extending from early childhood to high school reform. We have conducted over 200 program evaluations for states, districts, schools, and other organizations. Our work is funded by a variety of sources including contracts (with federal entities, states, districts, schools, and others) and competitive grant awards. Key aspects of current work are services for at-risk students, evaluating high school reform, and program evaluation services.


UNCG is also home to several other prestigious centers and institutes, listed below.

Center for Business and Economic Research

CBER performs high-quality applied research in economic policy and business practice, drawing on the expertise of the faculty of the Bryan School of Business and Economics. CBER’s goal is to use sound and objective research to serve the Triad community and to assist in the economic development of our region. CBER’s work includes economic-impact analyses, industry studies, regional economic profiles, feasibility studies, opinion surveys, program assessments, and updates of current economic conditions. CBER produces the DHG Triad Business Index, a monthly report on the regional economy, available at dhgtbi.uncg.edu/, as well as the Guilford Business Index available at www.uncg.edu/bae/cber/. In addition, CBER researchers write frequent articles in newspapers and magazines and give numerous speeches in the community.

Center for Community-Engaged Design

The Center for Community-Engaged Design is an interdisciplinary research
center that fosters community/university partnerships for meaningful research and design of the built and natural environments. Housed in the Department of Interior Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, CC-ED collaborates with community partners, non-profit organizations, and municipal departments to address design-related projects in underserved areas and for underrepresented populations in the Piedmont-Triad area. Through community-engaged processes of research, service, visioning, teaching, and learning, CC-ED brings innovative design thinking and methodologies to bear in areas where resources are most limited.

Center for Creative Writing in the Arts

UNCG’s Center for Creative Writing in the Arts provides support for campus and community literacy and creative writer education programs. The Center’s mission is to be a forum for multidisciplinary creative collaboration and to provide networking, assistance and encouragement for artists whose creative work originates with the written word.

Center for Educational Research and Evaluation

The Center for Educational Research and Evaluation (CERE) offers consultation services for faculty and graduate students in the School of Education. CERE provides consultation concerning thesis/dissertation analyses, data collection, data management, univariate and multivariate statistics, structural equation modeling, item response theory, multilevel modeling, educational research and program evaluation.

Center for Health of Vulnerable Populations

The mission of the Center for the Health of Vulnerable Populations
(CHVP) is to improve the knowledge of health disparities and vulnerable populations through research, collaboration and education. This includes initiatives to alleviate those disparities, thus improving the health, access, quality of care and quality of life of vulnerable populations. Strategies are designed to address the NIH Roadmap, Healthy People 2020, and Healthy Carolinians 2020 through partnerships with community stakeholders. To fulfill the mission, the Center 1) promotes and enhances research on aging, culture, disease processes, ethnicity, health care delivery, disparities, health education, health policy and health risks and behaviors; 2) fosters collaborative research within the School, across the University and state, and involving community and international partners; 3) disseminates research information to teachers, researchers, business leaders, health care providers, policy makers, the public and the international community; and 4) develops new knowledge that contributes to better health, fewer health disparities and improved health care for vulnerable populations. The CHVP activities include research training, research studies, grantsmanship, and community partnerships.

Center for Women’s Health and Wellness

The mission of the Center for Women’s Health and Wellness is to help bring about a world where all women and girls live safe, healthy, productive and meaningful lives at home, school, work and in their communities through community engagement, scholarship and education. Our goals are to: (1) develop an interdisciplinary program of research and community-engaged scholarship; and (2) connect research to practice through research dissemination, community education and service. The Center’s work is organized to provide interdisciplinary, community-informed solutions to specific social issues that build on the strengths of our university, faculty, students, and community partners. The Center is currently comprised of programs that focus our work in three areas: preventing and responding to gender-based violence; advancing girls and women in sport and physical activity; and advancing breastfeeding and reproductive health. Administratively the Center is housed within the School of Health and Human Sciences.

Institute to Promote Athlete Health & Wellness

The Institute to Promote Athlete Health & Wellness is at the forefront of excellence in health promotion for athletes of all ages and levels of competition. The Institute’s vision is to improve the health and wellness of athletes through the translation of prevention research to effective policies and practices. Areas of focus include, but are not limited to (a) alcohol and other drug education/prevention, (b) the prevention of interpersonal violence, (c) the promotion of effective stress management, decision making, and communication skills and (d) the promotion of healthy relationships and emotional health. Their mission is to work collaboratively with a variety of organizations to provide educational resources and support through evidence-based programming, training, research, and evaluation to effectively promote athlete health and wellness thereby fostering lifelong athlete development. The Institute accomplishes this by providing valuable technical and research/evaluation support for organizations that serve athletes.

Music Research Institute

The mission of the Music Research Institute within the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance is to conduct research that advances the understanding of music and to share new knowledge for the good of society. Toward that end, more than 40 research projects have been initiated in six areas: biomusic, neuroimaging, music-related hearing loss, music education, music performance, and ethnomusicology-ecocriticism. This cluster of topics, integrated into an overarching institute, provides for a rich array of multi- and interdisciplinary research involving many scholars from within the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance across the university, and from local, regional, national, and international research communities.

Natural Products and Drug Discovery Center

Natural products research examines plants, microorganisms, and other elements of the natural world to identify potentially beneficial chemical entities, such as anticancer agents, antibiotics, and agrochemicals. Studying the activities of these substances allows researchers to optimize their effectiveness and develop similar materials (analogues) with ideal biological properties. Natural products research provides insight into the effectiveness of herbal remedies, basic biological processes, and more. By leveraging expertise across disciplines, the Natural Products and Drug Discovery Center looks at the larger picture and pursues richer and more fruitful discoveries.


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