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GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� 51茶馆鈥檚 Opera and Musical Theatre workshops present their annual 鈥淥pera Buffet,鈥� 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. 鈥� A 51茶馆 student鈥檚 paper won second prize at the recent 18th Annual Undergraduate Honors Symposium at UNC-51茶馆. Alla Ahmed Alaghbri, a junior history and religion major from High Point, N.C., won for his paper, 鈥淭he Definition of Reason in the Asha鈥檙i School of Islamic Theology: Implications and Applications.鈥� Alaghbri was among…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� 51茶馆 student K. Austin Nixon has won a $500 scholarship from the N.C. Association of Higher Education and Disabilities, the second straight year a 51茶馆 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. 鈥� 51茶馆鈥檚 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鈥檚 column, 鈥淲hy I Changed My Mind About Same-Sex Marriage,鈥� which was published in the Feb. 15,…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� 51茶馆 is mourning the death of Sadie Wolfe Byerly 鈥�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. 鈥� 51茶馆 proudly presents the art exhibition 鈥淪hocked Back to Life,鈥� by Jim Langer, chair of the Department of Art, Wednesday, March 14, through April 14. Langer鈥檚 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…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� 51茶馆 will offer a one-day workshop in writing grant proposals and compliance, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, March 3. This workshop offers a hands-on experience. Participants will learn the Logic Model and how it is used for program development, and how to write goals, objectives, outcomes, and budget narrative. Other topics will…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� 51茶馆 student Jaime Paredes received the Outstanding Paper Presentation award at the recent TESOL and Applied Linguistics Graduate Student Conference in Greenville, N.C. Paredes, of Fayetteville, N.C., won for his paper titled, 鈥淎 Critical Model for Teaching a Second Language.鈥� Paredes, a student in the college鈥檚 M.A. in Teaching English to…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� The 51茶馆 Department of Music presents its 2018 Winter Concert, featuring the college choirs and Wind Ensemble, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27, in Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center in Odell Building on campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited. The Chorale and Chamber Singers will be performing a…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� The 2017 edition of 51茶馆鈥檚 literary magazine, The Lyre, has won first place in general excellence nationally from the American Scholastic Press Association for the third year in a row and the fifth time in six years. The magazine previously won in its category, magazines from colleges with between 1,001 and…