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Head shots of 2025 Smiley Award recipients Lelia Jane Lovell (left), Haeju Lee (center), and Parishi Gandhi (right)

Trio of Students Recognized with UNCG SOE’s Smiley Award

The Smiley Award, which supports global educational opportunities for current School of Education (SOE) undergraduate and graduate students, has been presented to undergraduate student Leila Jane Lovell (Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education) and graduate students Haeju Lee (Department of Information, Library, and Research Sciences) and Parishi Gandhi (Department of Counseling and Educational Development). These students will represent the SOE as Global Education Ambassadors through international or local engagement.  

Alex Cammarano mans a booth at the NC Folk Festival

Accessible Wellness 

Vacc Counseling and Consulting Clinic director Alex Cammarano on training counselors and providing accessible mental health services to the UNC Greensboro community

Dr. Rebecca Mathews presents at a training sesion

UNCG Trains to Help Prevent Suicides

Working in the UNCG School of Education’s Department of Counseling and Educational Development, Dr. Rebecca Mathews trains future and current counseling practitioners, teachers, and community leaders in suicide prevention, teaching them to recognize warning signs and how to intervene.

Dr. Rebecca Mathews presents at a training sesion

Meet the Researcher: Dr. Rebecca Mathews

Dr. Rebecca Mathews, a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Educational Development, spent 18 years as a counselor, supervisor, consultant, and educator in the community and hospitals. She then decided that she wanted to help train the next generation of counselors and joined the faculty of the nation’s third-rated program at UNCG in 2020. 

A group of women meet around a table

Bridging Gaps: Empowering Trauma-Informed Counseling in Underserved Communities

In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, the urgency to address mental health needs in underserved communities has never been more critical. The Extending the Trauma-Informed Professional Pipeline (ETIPP) project is not just a program; it’s a transformative initiative that’s changing lives, one trained counselor at a time. Dr. Jennifer Deaton (Principle Investigator) and Dr. L. DiAnne Borders, faculty within the Department of Counseling and Educational Development developed ETIPP to tackle the pressing challenges of mental health care in high-need areas and fostering a new generation of trauma-informed professionals.