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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has named Paul Freeman the winner of the Harold H. Hutson Award, the college’s highest award attainable by a traditional undergraduate student. Freeman, a history major from Winston-Salem, N.C., received the award and his B.A. degree today at Commencement. Freeman was cited for his campus involvement – senior class treasurer,……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has honored two employees with service awards and also recognized three dozen employees for milestones in their service to the college. The Ann P. Lojko Distinguished Staff Award was given to Jenna Ryan in the category of employees who have worked for the college for less than five years and……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Five Greensboro College students have been elected to serve on the college Student Government Association’s executive board for 2017-2018. They are: President: Jalen Pearson, a rising senior psychology major from Wake Forest, N.C. Vice President: Max Jenks-Gilbert, a rising senior business administration/economics major from Colwyn Bay, Wales. Secretary: Abigail Bügger, a rising……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College’s student newspaper, The Collegian, has tied for first place nationally in its college-size category in the American Scholastic Press Association’s general-excellence awards. This is the fourth time in eight years that The Collegian has won or tied for first place nationally in the category of colleges with between 1,001 and……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Sofia Sedergren, a graduating Greensboro College senior from Bromma, Sweden, has received a $4,000 fellowship for graduate study. The Robert W. Sledge Fellowship for 2017-2018 came from the national academic honor society Alpha Chi, of which she is a member. Sedergren is a student in the college’s George Center for Honors Studies.……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Ten Greensboro College students and two faculty members cleared 20 bags of debris from College Branch, the creek that runs along the campus’s eastern edge, during the recent annual Streamwalk. Each spring as part of the city of Greensboro’s Adopt-A-Stream program, members of the college community take part in the clean-up. The……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Benjamin S. Wall, assistant professor of religion and ethics at Greensboro College, has published a book review in a scholarly journal. Wall reviews “Theology of the Body Extended: The Spiritual Signs of Birth, Impairment, and Dying,” by Susan Windley-Daoust (Lectio, 2014) in Volume 21, Issue 1 of the Journal of Disability and……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro College has named 17 rising seniors its student marshals for 2017-2018. They are: Abigail Elizabeth Bügger, a religion and sociology/human services major from Raleigh, N.C. Benedict A. Burgess, a theatre/acting major from Earlysville, Va. Tesla Ann Chapman, a music/performance major from Franklinville, N.C. Hannah Leigh Clayton, an athletic training major from……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Greensboro College Jazz Ensemble will perform its final concert of 2016-2017 at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, in Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in Odell Building on campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited. The performance will feature a special guest, jazz trombonist Rick Simerly, currently associate professor of ……

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Benjamin Wall, assistant professor of religion and ethics at Greensboro College, will be the keynote speaker today at the Pen Symposium on Restorative Justice in Houston. Wall and the symposium, a gathering of high-school students and teachers at Houston’s Summer Creek High School, will examine such questions as: How should societies respond……