Posts Tagged ‘awards and honors’
Campus News, College of Arts & Sciences, Press Releases, Research - Monday, May 7, 2012 11:55 am
UNCG faculty member receives NIH grant to study echinacea
Dr. Nadja Cech, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UNCG, has received a grant of $444,658 from the National Institutes of Health for a study that will focus on “Unraveling Immunostimulatory and Immunosuppressive Effects of Echinacea purpurea.”
Echinacea constitutes a greater percentage of the multibillion dollar US dietary supplements industry than any other herbal medicines, with annual sales of more than $100 million, the study’s abstract notes: “A major goal of this project is to develop methods to produce Echinacea extracts with consistent, high anti-inflammatory activity. In so doing, we also seek to address a confounding factor in Echinacea research, which is that some immunostimulatory compounds may be produced by bacterial endophytes – microbes living asymptomatically within the Echinacea plant.”
Read more about the study on the Office of Research and Economic Development Office website.
- UNCG student going to Greece for Noyce summer science education program
- UNCG Art Professor Gets San Diego Airport Commission
- UNCG professor awarded NEH Fellowship for study at Newberry Library
- Phi Beta Kappa chapter inducts 38 new members
- UNCG students selected for Goldwater Scholarship honors
- Triple grad is 2012 School of Nursing Distinguished Alumna
- 33 inducted into Business Honor Society
- Bryan School names Boyd Rogers 2012 Distinguished Alumnus
- Roskelly to receive BOG Teaching Excellence Award
- Designing women: CARS students visit NYC, return with fashion scholarships
- Education alumna among finalists for National Superintendent of the Year
- Entrepreneurship Cross-Disciplinary Program earns national honor
- Business Honor Society inducts 38
- Friends Helping Friends suicide prevention program wins national award
- Grant expands entrepreneurship across the curriculum
- Beta Gamma Sigma chapter named Premier Chapter
- School of Education honors 2011 Distinguished Alumni
- Princeton Review lists UNCG among Best 376 Colleges for 2012
- UNCG presents top service awards
- UNCG Announces Student Excellence Honors
- Nursing grad featured in News and Record
- UNCG professor awarded NEH Fellowship for study at Newberry Library
- WFMY reports on sophomore Nathan Baker’s inspiring story
- Go Triad interviews John Gamble for ‘Meet An Artist’ feature
- Interior architecture students design new exhibit for Greensboro Children’s Museum
- NSF-funded music exhibit in Danville through Sept. 3
- McElveen-Hunter to UNCG grads: We keep what we give away
- UNCG Beyond Academics graduation is May 1
- More than 2,500 will graduate at spring commencement May 4
- Bryan School names Boyd Rogers 2012 Distinguished Alumnus
- More than 2,500 will graduate at spring commencement May 4
- 33 inducted into Business Honor Society
- UNCG professors selected for fellowships in Princeton for 2012-13
- Phi Beta Kappa chapter inducts 38 new members
- JSNN building receives top award from state construction group
- UNCG faculty member receives NIH grant to study echinacea
- McElveen-Hunter to UNCG grads: We keep what we give away
- UNCG leading major ADHD study; funded by $3 million NIH grant
- Dean Brown will retire
- NSF-funded music exhibit in Danville through Sept. 3
- Deal will step down as dean
