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Month: April 2017

  • ĢƵ Theatre Presents Student Cabaret April 19

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ Theatre presents an evening of student-written and –performed cabaret, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 19, in Lea Center in Main Building on campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited. The program consists of four cabaret pieces, each written and performed by a student in the Theatre Department’s cabaret class.……


  • ĢƵ Theatre Presents “Tonin’,” Based on Music of the Manhattan Transfer, April 28-30 (4/12/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ Theatre presents “Tonin’,” a dance production based on the music of the Manhattan Transfer, Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, in the Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in Odell Building on campus. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 28-29, and 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, April 29-30. Tickets are $10 adults; $8 seniors and……


  • ĢƵ Presents Dominique Pemberton’s Senior Art Show, With Opening Reception April 26

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ art major Dominique Pemberton’s senior exhibit, “4 the Culture,” is up through May 13 in the Anne Rudd Galyon Gallery in the Cowan Humanities Building on campus. A reception will be held 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, in the gallery. Pemberton, from ĢƵ, will speak about her work at 6:30……


  • ĢƵ to Host Admissions Open House April 22 (4/12/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – The ĢƵ Admissions Office will host an open house for prospective college students 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, April 22. Participants can tour campus, learn about the admissions process and financial aid options, and meet people who can show students how to get involved once they enroll. The event is free, but advance……


  • ĢƵ Annual Spring Streamwalk to Be Held April 21

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ’s annual Spring Streamwalk will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 21. Participants should meet at the north (Market Street) end of the parking lot behind James Addison Jones Library on campus. Members of the public are invited to take part. Participants should wear pants and shoes that can get……


  • ĢƵ To Hold Panel Discussion on Death and Dying April 18 (4/12/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – As part of a psychology class on death and dying, ĢƵ will hold a panel discussion featuring speakers from ĢƵ-based Hospice of the Piedmont at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in Room 206 of the Cowan Humanities Building on campus. The event is free and open to the public. The discussion,……


  • ĢƵ Names 2017 Commencement and Baccalaureate Speakers (4/12/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ alumna Lynette Tannis ’95, Ed.D., will be the college’s 2017 Commencement speaker, the college announced today. The speaker for the 2017 Baccalaureate/Cap and Gown Service will the Rev. Daniel G. Martin. Tannis’s address is titled, “Endowing Those Within Your Sphere of Influence.” Tannis is a career educator whose work most……


  • ĢƵ History Major Wins Graduate School Scholarship (4/7/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – A ĢƵ student has won a $1,000 scholarship for her first year of graduate school beginning this fall. Melanie Smith won the scholarship from Region III of Alpha Chi, a national honor society. Region III includes the Southeast, the Middle Atlantic states and Puerto Rico. Smith, a senior history and sociology/cultural……


  • ĢƵ Professor Will Speak on Theology and Disability (4/7/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – Benjamin Wall, assistant professor of religion and ethics at ĢƵ, has been selected to deliver the 2017 Jean Vanier Emerging Scholar Lecture at this year’s Summer Institute on Theology and Disability. The lecture, to be delivered in June at the Summer Institute at Azusa Pacific University in California, honors Vanier, who……


  • ĢƵ Professor Co-Authors Paper on Teaching English as a Second Language (4/6/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – Michelle Plaisance, assistant professor of English and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages  and director of ĢƵ’s M.A. program in TESOL, has published a paper on that subject. “Like Driving from ‘the Back Seat’: Teaching English as a Second Language in Commodified Curricular Terrains”  was co-written with Spencer Salas and……


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Dr. Josh Fitzgerald, ĢƵ class of 2019

“I loved the GC Honors program and ĢƵ. I felt safe and a sense of genuine belonging at the college. I worked closely with my thesis advisor and professors who helped inspire me to define my path and passion of interest. That path has led me to complete my doctoral studies in Engineering Mechanics.”

- Dr. Josh Fitzgerald, Class of ’19, Mathematics Major

Dr. Josh Fitzgerald earned his master's from Virginia Tech University (studied astrodynamics) as well as earning an Engineering Mechanics Ph.D. He joined the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX as an Advanced Mission Design Engineer, optimizing trajectories for the Artemis II and III missions to return humans to the moon.