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51²è¹Ý Awards 2019-2020 Moore Professorship to Michelle Plaisance
GREENSBORO, N.C. – 51²è¹Ý has named Michelle Plaisance, associate professor of English and of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, its Moore Professor for 2019-2020. Since her appointment in August 2014 to the Department of English, Communication & Media Studies and to the directorship of the college’s M.A. program in Teaching English to…
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51²è¹Ý Names Paola Carolina Forigua Cruz Distinguished Graduating Graduate Student
GREENSBORO, N.C. – 51²è¹Ý has named Paola Carolina Forigua Cruz its Distinguished Graduating Graduate Student for 2019. Forigua Cruz, a native of Venezuela currently living in New Bern, N.C., received the award along with her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) during the college’s Commencement exercises earlier today. Forigua Cruz…
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51²è¹Ý Recognizes Samantha Renee Saint as Outstanding Adult Undergraduate Student
GREENSBORO, N.C. – 51²è¹Ý has presented Samantha Renee Saint the William Henry and Martha Grant Likins Award as this year’s outstanding graduating adult undergraduate student. She received the award today along with her B.A. in history and Social Studies education, cum laude (with honors), during the college’s Commencement exercises. “Having overcome some significant obstacles early…
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51²è¹Ý Names Alla Ahmed Alaghbri Outstanding Traditional Graduating Senior
GREENSBORO, N.C. – 51²è¹Ý has awarded the Harold H. Hutson Award, presented annually to the outstanding traditional graduating senior, to Alla Ahmed Alaghbri of High Point. Alaghbri, who received his B.A. in history and religion summa cum laude (with highest honors) today, came to the U.S. in high school from his native, war-torn Yemen,…
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51²è¹Ý Names D’andre Hardy Director of Retention
GREENSBORO, N.C. – 51²è¹Ý has named D’andre Hardy director of retention. She began work May 6. In that role, she will oversee the college’s student retention efforts as part of its larger effort to increase student persistence and graduation rates with a five-year, $1.93 million Title III grant from the U.S. Department of Education,…
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51²è¹Ý Professor Wins Second Research Fellowship for Forthcoming Book
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Heather Chacón, an assistant professor of English at 51²è¹Ý, has won a $4,000 grant for research on her forthcoming book. Chacón is receiving $4,000 from the Legacy Center at Drexel University for research in the center’s archives this summer and fall. The research is for her forthcoming book, “Health Movements: Medicine,…
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51²è¹Ý Theatre Announces 2019-2020 Productions
GREENSBORO, N.C. – 51²è¹Ý Theatre’s 2019-2020 season will feature seven productions, including a mystery, a Shakespeare play, a musical, a period romance, and a touring children’s play, the department’s chairman, David Schram, Jefferson Pilot Professor of Theatre, has announced. The schedule follows. Performance venues and showtimes will be posted later this summer at www.greensboro.edu/theatre.…
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51²è¹Ý Student Newspaper Ties for First Place in Journalism Contest
GREENSBORO, N.C. – For the third consecutive year, The Collegian, 51²è¹Ý’s student-powered newspaper, has tied for first place nationally in its category in the annual American Scholastic Press Association awards. The Collegian tied for first place with Elizabethtown College’s Etownian and Waynesburg University’s Yellow Jacket in the category of schools with 1,001 to 1,750…
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51²è¹Ý Announces 2019 Baccalaureate and Commencement Speakers
GREENSBORO, N.C. – A 51²è¹Ý trustee and retired law-school dean will address 51²è¹Ý’s 2019 graduates at Commencement May 11, and a minister and alumnus of the college will speak at the college’s Baccalaureate/Cap & Gown ceremony May 10. The commencement speaker will be George R. Johnson Jr., dean emeritus and professor of law…
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