NSF I-Corps Helps UNCG Community Bring Their Research to Life
You may not realize that UNC Greensboro is a National Science Foundation I-Corps designated university. This brings great potential value to UNCG students and faculty. What is the purpose NSF I-Corps? The National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps™) is a federally funded program to help prepare researchers to extend their focus beyond the university and […]
Dr. DiAnne Borders (CED) Speaks about the Clinical Supervision Research Collaborative on ITI Podcast
Dr. DiAnne Borders, a faculty member in the Department of Counseling and Educational Development, has worked on an innovation project called the Clinical Supervision Research Collaborative (CSRC) for the last two years. Her goal was to enhance the quality and quantity of research being produced about clinical supervision as a method of training helping professionals. […]
Dr. Laura Gonzalez (TEHE) is Helping Latinx Youth Navigate College Admissions
Dr. Laura Gonzalez in the Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education has a passion for helping Latinx youth make it to college. This led her to develop the So Much Potential: Tools for College Planning initiative. Her goal was to create supports for school counselors and other school personnel so that they could quickly […]
ITI Kickbox: An Innovation Toolkit for SOE Students
Impact Through Innovation (ITI) seeks to make SOE faculty and students change agents by promoting inventive solutions to the practical challenges faced by educational institutions, the individuals they serve, and the organizations with which they partner. The student innovation branch of this initiative, ITI Kickbox, is an innovation toolkit that was designed by Adobe to […]
Impact Through Innovation Turns Research Into Action Through Thoughtful, Sustainable Investment
This story was originally published in the 2019-2020 issue of Transform magazine. Read more stories from Transform here. There’s a reason universities are often referred to as “the ivory tower.” Too often, the real-life stories, people, and problems that inspire our research questions fall out of focus in the isolation of the archives, laptops, and […]