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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College will hold an open house for its graduate degrees and licensing programs from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in Lea Center in Main Building. The event is free; advance registration is requested at adult@greensboro.edu. The program will include information on the college’s master’s degrees and licensing programs. Attendees……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Heather Chacón, an assistant professor of English at Greensboro College, has won a $5,000 research fellowship for a book she is writing. The Curtis Gates Lloyd Research Fellowship, which drew applicants from around the world, allows Chacón to spend July 2018 and July 2019 researching her forthcoming book, “Health Movements: Medicine, Empire,……

March 14, 2018 GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College presents its 55th annual Jean Fortner Ward Lecture on issues of faith and higher education at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in the Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel on campus. The event is free, and the public is invited. The speaker will be Andrew T. Draper, who……

March 7, 2018 GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College will be opening a new student center on campus, including a coffee shop/convenience store, this fall. The facility will be located in what is now the Campbell Athletic Center. A similar facility was located there for decades, until 2003, when the college acquired what is now the……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s Opera and Musical Theatre workshops present their annual “Opera Buffet,” a buffet dinner followed by musical performances, at 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, March 23-24, in Lea Center in Main Building on campus. Tickets are $18 and must be reserved by March 17. To reserve them, call 336-272-7102, ext. 5242.……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – A Greensboro College student’s paper won second prize at the recent 18th Annual Undergraduate Honors Symposium at UNC-Greensboro. 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……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College student K. Austin Nixon has won a $500 scholarship from the N.C. Association of Higher Education and Disabilities, the second straight year a Greensboro College 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……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’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,……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College 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,……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College 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……