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Tipoffs for Greensboro, North Carolina (State) Newsletter for Saturday March 23, 2024 ( 3 items )  

UNC-Greensboro: Dr. Nancy White - Minerva's First Ph.D.
GREENSBORO, North Carolina, March 22 -- The University of North Carolina Greensboro campus issued the following news: By Christine Garton One - and only one - PhD was awarded at UNC Greensboro between its founding in 1891 and the end of the Woman's College era in 1963, a span of about 70 years. That honor belongs to the late Dr. J. Nancy White '46 - making her the first woman to earn a PhD at what would become UNCG. The Statesville, North Carolina, native was eight years old when her father   more

UNC-Greensboro: Gupta Wins Thomas Undergrad Research Mentor Award
GREENSBORO, North Carolina, March 23 -- The University of North Carolina Greensboro campus issued the following news: Professor Sat Gupta, a statistician whose research interests include survey sampling and biostatistics, has received the 2024 UNCG Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award in the tenured category. Dr. Gupta has mentored 9 UNCG undergraduate students on individual projects. As the principal investigator on a current 3-year NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant  more

UNCG Alumna Forges Her Own Path in Dementia Care
GREENSBORO, North Carolina, March 23 -- The University of North Carolina Greensboro campus issued the following news: By Avery Craine Powell Finding her way into dementia care consulting wasn't always a clear path for UNC Greensboro alumna Rachael Wonderlin '13 M.S. Some in the healthcare industry even told her it couldn't be done. "During my first internship in graduate school, I had to interview a doctor and I told her I wanted to go around the country to help redesign dementia care communi  more