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  • 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……


  • ĢƵ Student Wins $500 Scholarship from Statewide Association (4/6/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – Meegan McCarthy, a sophomore at ĢƵ, has received a $500 scholarship award from the North Carolina Association on Higher Education and Disability. McCarthy is a psychology and art major from Loudon, N.H. The association awards the scholarship yearly to a current undergraduate student based on leadership and service to the campus……


  • ĢƵ Staff Member Honored by State Organization for Support of Students with Disabilities (4/6/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – Lisa Alley ’93, ĢƵ’s director of academic support, has been honored by the North Carolina Association of Higher Education and Disabilities. Alley received the association’s Laura Thomas Award, established by the association’s executive board in 1996 in memory of Laura L. D. Thomas, the Director of Disability Services at UNC-Chapel Hill……


  • ĢƵ Chaplain Speaks at Youth Religious Conference (4/6/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Rev. Dr. Robert Brewer, ĢƵ chaplain, spoke at the recent Summit youth retreat, sponsored by the Western N.C. Conference of the United Methodist Church. About 150 high-school and middle-school students attended the program, whose theme was “In the Shadow of Giants.” The weekend messages talked about confronting and addressing the……


  • Four ĢƵ Business-Student Teams Score in Top 50 in Global Business Competition (4/6/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – Four teams of ĢƵ business students have scored in the top 50 worldwide in the Glo-Bus business-strategy simulations for business and marketing students worldwide. All four teams, called “companies,” are in BUS 4900, the senior business capstone class taught by Mike Crombie, assistant professor of business administration. They all placed in……


  • ĢƵ Presents Ninth Annual Schleunes Lecture April 18 (4/4/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – ĢƵ presents the Ninth Annual Schleunes Lecture, 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in the Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel on campus. The event is free and open to the public. The speaker will be Karen Auerbach, assistant professor in the Department of History and Stuart E. Eizenstat fellow in the Carolina……


  • ĢƵ Presents Spring Wind Ensemble Concert April 11 (3/30/2017)

    GREENSBORO, N.C. – The ĢƵ Music Department presents its Spring Wind Ensemble Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, on campus in the Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in the Odell Building. This event is free and open to the public. For information about the concert contact Jane McKinney at 336-272-7102, ext. 5281, or……


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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.