Rosario Carrie PHE Professor wins Award for Paper

Public Health Education Professor Wins Award for Paper

The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) recognized Public Health Education professor Dr. Carrie Rosario with its Sarah Mazelis Paper of the Year for her paper, “Public Enemy #1: How Many More?” The award recognizes the most outstanding health education paper published during the year. Rosario’s paper explores historical and… Continue reading…

Social work, Irakoze Mierye

Studying abroad changed social work student’s path

Over the past 25 years, UNC Greensboro has produced an impressive 278 Gilman Scholars, the most of any North Carolina university, distinguishing it amongst a select group of high-performing institutions nationwide. The UNCG Gilman Program has directed more than $800,000 to students who are Pell Grant recipients with demonstrated financial need. 

UNCG Students helping athlete

Our School Trains the Teams Behind the Sports Teams

Career fields in sports and health sciences are growing to serve athletes of all ages, from children on recreational teams to collegiate and professional athletes. Building those workforces in our state is the mission of UNCG’s School of Health and Human Sciences (HHS). 

Lexi Kier was recently selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar. She is a doctoral student in public health education with a focus on athlete well-being. She became interested in the topic following an injury she experienced as a high school basketball player.

Doctoral Student Looks to Impact Public Health Policy, Mental Health

For Lexi Kier, sport has always been more than competition — it’s an intersection of joy and loss, community and pressure, and resilience and vulnerability. As a doctoral student in public health education at UNC Greensboro, she is building a research agenda that challenges how institutions understand athletes, particularly Black athletes.