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  • ĢƵ Names Paola Carolina Forigua Cruz Distinguished Graduating Graduate Student

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ has named Paola Carolina Forigua Cruz its Distinguished Graduating Graduate Student for 2019. Forigua Cruz, a native of Venezuela currently living in New Bern, N.C., received the award along with her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) during the college’s Commencement exercises earlier today. Forigua Cruz……


  • ĢƵ Recognizes Samantha Renee Saint as Outstanding Adult Undergraduate Student

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ has presented Samantha Renee Saint the William Henry and Martha Grant Likins Award as this year’s outstanding graduating adult undergraduate student. She received the award today along with her B.A. in history and Social Studies education, cum laude (with honors), during the college’s Commencement exercises. “Having overcome some significant obstacles early……


  • ĢƵ Names Alla Ahmed Alaghbri Outstanding Traditional Graduating Senior

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ has awarded the Harold H. Hutson Award, presented annually to the outstanding traditional graduating senior, to Alla Ahmed Alaghbri of High Point. Alaghbri, who received his B.A. in history and religion summa cum laude (with highest honors) today, came to the U.S. in high school from his native, war-torn Yemen,……


  • ĢƵ Names D’andre Hardy Director of Retention

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ has named D’andre Hardy director of retention. She began work May 6. In that role, she will oversee the college’s student retention efforts as part of its larger effort to increase student persistence and graduation rates with a five-year, $1.93 million Title III grant from the U.S. Department of Education,……


  • ĢƵ Professor Wins Second Research Fellowship for Forthcoming Book

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – Heather Chacón, an assistant professor of English at ĢƵ, has won a $4,000 grant for research on her forthcoming book. Chacón is receiving $4,000 from the Legacy Center at Drexel University for research in the center’s archives this summer and fall. The research is for her forthcoming book, “Health Movements: Medicine,……


  • ĢƵ Theatre Announces 2019-2020 Productions

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ Theatre’s 2019-2020 season will feature seven productions, including a mystery, a Shakespeare play, a musical, a period romance, and a touring children’s play, the department’s chairman, David Schram, Jefferson Pilot Professor of Theatre, has announced. The schedule follows. Performance venues and showtimes will be posted later this summer at www.greensboro.edu/theatre.……


  • ĢƵ Board of Trustees Promotes, Grants Tenure to Several Professors

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – The ĢƵ Board of Trustees today approved several faculty promotions, granted tenure to a professor, and granted emerita status to another. Those affected are: Natasha Veale: promoted from associate professor to full professor of special education. Veale, who holds B.S. degrees from both the University of North Carolina at ĢƵ and……


  • ĢƵ Student Newspaper Ties for First Place in Journalism Contest

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – For the third consecutive year, The Collegian, ĢƵ’s student-powered newspaper, has tied for first place nationally in its category in the annual American Scholastic Press Association awards. The Collegian tied for first place with Elizabethtown College’s Etownian and Waynesburg University’s Yellow Jacket in the category of schools with 1,001 to 1,750……


  • ĢƵ Announces 2019 Baccalaureate and Commencement Speakers

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – A ĢƵ trustee and retired law-school dean will address ĢƵ’s 2019 graduates at Commencement May 11, and a minister and alumnus of the college will speak at the college’s Baccalaureate/Cap & Gown ceremony May 10. The commencement speaker will be George R. Johnson Jr., dean emeritus and professor of law……


  • ĢƵ Names New Athletic Training Center for Former Trustee and Alumnus’s Parents

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ will name its new athletic training center after a former trustee and his wife in recognition of their major capital-campaign gift. The Willie and Lisa Bullock Athletic Training Center was completed in December. Through it, the college’s athletic training program delivers traditional athletic training and sports medicine services to student……


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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.