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  • ĢƵ Exceeds Capital Campaign Goal Topping $21 million

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 17, 2020 ĢƵ Exceeds Capital Campaign Goal Topping $21 million GREENSBORO, N.C. — ĢƵ today celebrated the successful completion of its 6-year capital campaign totaling $21,104,963, exceeding by more than $6 million the $15 million campaign goal announced in 2017. The GC20/20: Uniquely Focused capital campaign focused donors’ attention……


  • ĢƵ Professor Says “Laziness” May Hide Creativity

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – A ĢƵ psychology professor has told an Australian science website that apparently laziness in some people can mask productivity. Todd McElroy, associate professor of psychology, told author Kate Raynes-Goldie that laziness frequently masks efficiency and creativity. In 2016, McElroy led a study that found that people with a higher “need for……


  • 2019 ĢƵ Graduate Wins Davidson County Schools’ Teacher of the Year Award

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – Angelica Yepes Velosa, who received her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from ĢƵ in 2019, has been named Teacher of the Year for 2019-2020 by the Davidson County (N.C.) school system. Yepes Velosa teaches kindergarten in the Spanish immersion program at Southwood Elementary School, where she also……


  • ĢƵ Offers Virtual and In-Person Open Houses Regarding Its Upcoming Paralegal Education Program

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ is offering people the opportunity to learn about its fall paralegal certification educational program both online and in person. The college will offer an online open house from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 28, and an in-person open house from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11. Dates are……


  • ĢƵ Extends Eligibility for “Stay Local” Scholarships to North Carolina Students Statewide

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ has extended eligibility for its “Stay Local” scholarships to first-time freshmen students throughout North Carolina. “We know that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused students in many cases to want to attend college closer to home,” said Lindsay Latham ’08, senior director of student financial services. “This is our way of……


  • ĢƵ Recognizes Dozens of Faculty and Staff on Virtual Recognition Day

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ recognized award-winning and long-tenured faculty and staff at its recent Virtual Recognition Day. Anna Peluso Simonson, associate professor of health science, received the Virginia Clarke Gray Award for outstanding teaching by a junior faculty member. Only faculty who have taught full-time at a college or university for five years or……


  • A Statement to the ĢƵ Community from President Lawrence D. Czarda, Ph.D.

    To the ĢƵ Community, Like many of you, we are disturbed and shaken by the recent murder of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer. We are equally disturbed that this is only one in a long line of black lives lost due to systematic racism that plagues our country. We grieve for all……


  • ĢƵ Announces Fall 2020 Schedule, Admissions Resumes In-Person Campus Tours on Limited Schedule

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ will hold in-person fall classes, but classes will end before Thanksgiving and students will not return until the new year, the college said today in announcing its Fall 2020 Schedule. Classes will begin as originally scheduled on Wednesday, Aug. 19. But there will be classes on Labor Day, and there……


  • ĢƵ Awards Its Highest Honor to Retiring Professor and Administrator Paul Leslie

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ has awarded its highest honor, the Nannie Lee Smith Exemplary Service Medal, to Paul L. Leslie, who will retire this summer as Professor of Sociology and Chief Academic Officer emeritus. The award was announced during today’s virtual Commencement by President Lawrence D. Czarda, Ph.D. Czarda cited Leslie, who joined the……


  • Retiring ĢƵ Faculty Dean Awarded Emeritus Status, Will Have New Teaching Award Named After Him

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ has awarded emeritus status to Dr. Richard A. Mayes, who will retire this summer after 35 years with the college. In addition to being Jefferson Pilot Professor of Biology, Mayes also has served as dean of the faculty. He will retire as Jefferson Pilot Professor of Biology emeritus. In citing……


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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.