Keivan Ettefagh ’12 PhD focused on lab testing innovations
Keivan Ettefagh was working with James Patrick Healy ’14 PhD and others at Select Laboratory Partners on an innovative COVID test, when we checked in during the first months of the pandemic. They have continued to do COVID testing using the process the company developed at the onset of the pandemic. “My focus (very recently) has been on health management through advanced laboratory testing,” Keivan said. They have begun making presentations on this. The goal? To not only reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome (eg, diabetes) but save significantly in health care costs by reversing the progression of disease, Keivan explained.
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Vivid visuals of Kyle Webster
Kyle Webster ’99 has served as illustrator for several issues of UNCG Magazine, including two covers. And he has furthered the artist’s age-old tradition of making his own tools: “I ended up building my career on bringing my training in natural media into the digital world,” he says. After starting a business developing digital brushes […] -
A nurse’s life in LA
You may know Amber Gagliano ’17 as the student nursing intern on the cover of the Spring 2017 issue, the one celebrating UNCG Nursing’s 50th anniversary. After graduation she worked as a traveling emergency/trauma nurse, which brought her to LA. Since 2020 she has shifted to a company that provides at-home doctor visits and IV […] -
Anne Prince Cuddy: Trailblazer in SGA, IBM, and more
Anne Prince Cuddy ‘64 has been a trailblazer in her career and in retirement. In breaking norms, she got her start at Woman’s College. As a freshman, “I was the nerdiest nerd,” she recalls. “I was tall and clumsy.” By the time she was a junior, she won the race for Student Government president, running […] -
Nancy Adams: NC’s first genetic counselor
Nancy James Adams ’60, ’77 MS has worked longer as a genetic counselor than anyone else in this state. That’s because this UNC Greensboro alumna was the very first. Dr. Bruce Eberhart, then the Department Head of Biology, and Dr. Laura Anderton advised Adams on her master’s degree in genetic counseling during the 1970s. It was […] -
Writer, publisher, entrepreneur: Alex Albright ’75 MFA
Alex Albright ’75 MFA has elevated the literary and artistic vibrancy of North Carolina for several decades. And though retired as a professor, his impactful work carries on. The Graham native makes an appearance in the Gate City at the 2022 Greensboro Bound festival on May 21, 3:30 p.m., as he joins other panelists in […] -
Oscar nominee Emily V. Gordon: Hollywood projects in works
Emily V. Gordon ’01, ’03 MS/EdS had received an Oscar nomination for “The Big Sick” when she was featured in the Fall 2018 UNCG Magazine The screenplay was based on her own unconventional courtship with (now-husband) Kumail Nanjiani, her co-writer. Their recent pandemic-era/relationship podcast “Staying in with Emily and Kumail,” part self-help and part real-life […]
