Outtake

Written by Matt Bryant on September 23, 2019. Posted in Community Outreach, Fall 2019.

ROUND AND ROUND All the sights and sounds of the annual UNCG International Festival can be wonderfully dizzying. With more than 30 countries from across the globe represented at the welcoming, inclusive...

Big picture: A note from the chancellor

Written by Michael David Harris on September 23, 2019. Posted in Community Outreach, Fall 2019.

We face an important question together at UNCG: How will we transform ourselves and realize our full potential as a great public university? To help answer this, I have used metaphors, like “Giant Steps”...

Banking on mother’s milk

Written by Susan C Kirby-Smith on September 20, 2019. Posted in Fall 2019, News Front.

Best-case scenario, says Dr. Maryanne Perrin, a baby drinks its mother’s milk. But that’s not always possible, especially for preemies, because the mother’s mammary glands don’t fully develop until...

Insight on cardiac care

Written by Susan C Kirby-Smith on September 20, 2019. Posted in Fall 2019, News Front.

Kayla Martin’s mother told her as a child that she was born with a hole in her heart. Neither of them fully understood what that meant at the time. “I kind of thought it was cool, and I would tell my...

Spartan dogs have their day

Written by Susan C Kirby-Smith on September 20, 2019. Posted in Fall 2019, News Front.

What could be more lovable than a Spartan pup? How about dozens of them posing in favorite spots all over UNCG’s beautiful campus? Enjoy these great photos and video. And watch for more photos on social...

Watch that frog

Written by Susan C Kirby-Smith on September 20, 2019. Posted in Fall 2019, News Front.

This year, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission unveiled a newly designed wildlife conservation license plate, and UNCG faculty and alumni are the initiators behind the design. In 2014, Ann Somers...

Zadie Smith’s other lives

Written by Susan C Kirby-Smith on September 20, 2019. Posted in Fall 2019, News Front.

In May, UNCG University Libraries hosted bestselling author Zadie Smith for a reading and public conversation. The event in Cone Ballroom, attended by 500 community members, was one of the two largest...

‘To the Hoop’ at Weatherspoon

Written by Matt Bryant on September 20, 2019. Posted in Fall 2019, The Studio.

Among the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s extensive lineup of exhibitions and events this year, the “To the Hoop: Basketball and Contemporary Art” exhibition looks to be a slam dunk. Coinciding with the NCAA...

What’s in a name? Exhibit at UNCG Auditorium

Written by Matt Bryant on September 20, 2019. Posted in Fall 2019, News Front.

“OUR HEROES CHANGE.” That simple statement opens “Etched in Stone? Governor Charles Aycock and the Power of Commemoration,” a permanent exhibition in UNCG Auditorium. Opened in 2018, it examines Aycock’s...

Dive in! Ann Berry Somers’ scuba adventure

Written by Susan C Kirby-Smith on September 19, 2019. Posted in Fall 2019, News Front.

“Fresh out of the swimming pool, into the ocean we go,” says Ann Berry Somers in describing her 2019 summer study abroad course – the first at UNCG that has involved scuba diving. A passionate conservationist...

Soaring sounds for UNCG’s choral groups

Written by mcbiles on July 31, 2019. Posted in Community Outreach, Fall 2019, The Studio.

Choral music lovers consider Greensboro’s First Presbyterian Church a uniquely ambient space. Good news: UNCG’s choral program this year will host more concerts there than ever before. Dr. Welborn Young...

Visit from Opera Royalty

Written by mcbiles on July 31, 2019. Posted in Fall 2019, The Studio.

Renée Fleming is the only classical artist to sing the national anthem at the SuperBowl. She is the first woman in Metropolitan Opera history to solo headline an opening night gala. The National Medal...

Pam Murphy sharing love of song and dance

Written by mcbiles on July 31, 2019. Posted in Alumni Success, Fall 2019, Generosity.

Alumna Pam Murphy’s first public singing performance was at the age of eight, and the musical maven is still going strong, most recently as part of Greensboro’s 2019 production “An O.Henry Celebration:...

The Duncan And Marsha Munn ’73 Beyond Academics Endowed Scholarship

Written by mcbiles on July 31, 2019. Posted in Fall 2019, Generosity.

Duncan Munn attributes his 45-year career coordinating services for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) to a part-time job his senior year in college. At the...

A Salute to Inspirational Educators

Written by mcbiles on July 31, 2019. Posted in Alumni Success, Fall 2019, Generosity.

For Amber Doniere ’11, it was a chance to honor her late grandmother, Carol Doniere, media specialist in the Cumberland County Schools for more than 40 years, for the values and life lessons passed...