Cuny Wins 2025 Research Award, Professional Track Category
Senior Lecturer Kim Cuny has received the 2025 UNCG Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Award in the professional track category. The communication scholar, who examines storytelling and disability activism, has mentored many undergraduates through coursework, independent studies, and internships. She develops strong relationships with each of her students to help them succeed, and her students say her pedagogical approach empowers them to take risks.
Cuny works to challenge her students and individualize each of her undergraduate mentees’ research paths. She works closely with Peacehaven Community Farm, where she gives students the opportunity to work in disability activism.
Cuny’s students emphasize how she continuously encourages them to pursue publication opportunities and assists them with all parts of the process. Her mentees have given 18 conference presentations and produced 24 publications, in outlets including the Communication Center Journal, the national leader for communication center research.
“Working in the Speaking Center has been such a blessing. I see firsthand how this organization that helps student patrons at UNCG provides a supportive culture where student employees like me are mentored while we leverage the center’s experiential education. Since 2003, Kim has nurtured that culture. She believes in all of her undergraduate students.”
– Jacques Gann ‘23
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