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  • ĢƵ Student’s Paper Wins Second Prize at Honors Symposium

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – A ĢƵ student’s paper won second prize at the recent 18th Annual Undergraduate Honors Symposium at UNC-ĢƵ. Alla Ahmed Alaghbri, a junior history and religion major from High Point, N.C., won for his paper, “The Definition of Reason in the Asha’ri School of Islamic Theology: Implications and Applications.” Alaghbri was among……


  • ĢƵ Student Wins Scholarship from Statewide Education Group

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ student K. Austin Nixon has won a $500 scholarship from the N.C. Association of Higher Education and Disabilities, the second straight year a ĢƵ student has won that scholarship. Candidates for the scholarship are assessed on: leadership and service to campus and/or community. academic achievement. well-articulated goals. Nixon is……


  • ĢƵ Student Newspaper, Literary Magazine Each Win Prize in State Media Competition

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ’s student newspaper, The Collegian, and its literary magazine, The Lyre, each won an award at the recent North Carolina College Media Conference. The paper received an honorable mention in opinion writing for Timothy Crowell’s column, “Why I Changed My Mind About Same-Sex Marriage,” which was published in the Feb. 15,……


  • ĢƵ Community Mourns the Loss of Sadie Wolfe Byerly ’42

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ is mourning the death of Sadie Wolfe Byerly ’42, who passed away Feb. 27 at her Charlotte home. She was 96. Byerly received her B.A. in Home Economics in 1942. While an undergraduate, she served as student body president and was a member of the Art Club, the German Club,……


  • ĢƵ Presents Art Chair Jim Langer’s Exhibition, “Shocked Back to Life,” Opening March 14th

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ proudly presents the art exhibition “Shocked Back to Life,” by Jim Langer, chair of the Department of Art, Wednesday, March 14, through April 14. Langer’s exhibition will feature nudes, portraits, and intense figurative work of satire. It will showcase multiple techniques and a deep understanding of breathing in life again……


  • ĢƵ Offers Grant-Writing Workshop March 3

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ will offer a one-day workshop in writing grant proposals and compliance, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, March 3. This workshop offers a hands-on experience. Participants will learn the Logic Model and how it is used for program development, and how to write goals, objectives, outcomes, and budget narrative. Other topics will……


  • ĢƵ Graduate Student Wins Outstanding-Paper Award at Conference

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ student Jaime Paredes received the Outstanding Paper Presentation award at the recent TESOL and Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Conference in Greenville, N.C. Paredes, of Fayetteville, N.C., won for his paper titled, “A Critical Model for Teaching a Second Language.” Paredes, a student in the college’s M.A. in Teaching English to……


  • ĢƵ Music Department Presents Its 2018 Winter Concert Feb. 27

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – The ĢƵ Department of Music presents its 2018 Winter Concert, featuring the college choirs and Wind Ensemble, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27, in Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in Odell Building on campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited. The Chorale and Chamber Singers will be performing a……


  • ĢƵ Literary Magazine Wins Top Prize for Fifth Time in Six Years

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – The 2017 edition of ĢƵ’s literary magazine, The Lyre, has won first place in general excellence nationally from the American Scholastic Press Association for the third year in a row and the fifth time in six years. The magazine previously won in its category, magazines from colleges with between 1,001 and……


  • ĢƵ’s Tannenbaum-Sternberger Colloquium Examines Globalization March 1

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ’s Tannenbaum-Sternberger Colloquium Series continues with “The Challenges and Opportunities of Economic Globalization,” 3 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in the Campbell Lyceum, 109 Proctor Hall West on campus. The event is free and open to the public. The speaker will be Mike Crombie, assistant professor of business administration at the college.……


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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.