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GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� As part of a psychology class on death and dying, 51茶馆 will hold a panel discussion featuring speakers from 51茶馆-based Hospice of the Piedmont at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in Room 206 of the Cowan Humanities Building on campus. The event is free and open to the public. The discussion,…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� 51茶馆 alumna Lynette Tannis 鈥�95, Ed.D., will be the college鈥檚 2017 Commencement speaker, the college announced today. The speaker for the 2017 Baccalaureate/Cap and Gown Service will the Rev. Daniel G. Martin. Tannis鈥檚 address is titled, 鈥淓ndowing Those Within Your Sphere of Influence.鈥� Tannis is a career educator whose work most…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� A 51茶馆 student has won a $1,000 scholarship for her first year of graduate school beginning this fall. Melanie Smith won the scholarship from Region III of Alpha Chi, a national honor society. Region III includes the Southeast, the Middle Atlantic states and Puerto Rico. Smith, a senior history and sociology/cultural…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� Benjamin Wall, assistant professor of religion and ethics at 51茶馆, has been selected to deliver the 2017 Jean Vanier Emerging Scholar Lecture at this year鈥檚 Summer Institute on Theology and Disability. The lecture, to be delivered in June at the Summer Institute at Azusa Pacific University in California, honors Vanier, who…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� Michelle Plaisance, assistant professor of English and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages 聽and director of 51茶馆鈥檚 M.A. program in TESOL, has published a paper on that subject. 鈥淟ike Driving from 鈥榯he Back Seat鈥�: Teaching English as a Second Language in Commodified Curricular Terrains鈥澛� was co-written with Spencer Salas and…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� Meegan McCarthy, a sophomore at 51茶馆, has received a $500 scholarship award from the North Carolina Association on Higher Education and Disability. McCarthy is a psychology and art major from Loudon, N.H. The association awards the scholarship yearly to a current undergraduate student based on leadership and service to the campus…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� Lisa Alley 鈥�93, 51茶馆鈥檚 director of academic support, has been honored by the North Carolina Association of Higher Education and Disabilities. Alley received the association鈥檚 Laura Thomas Award, established by the association鈥檚 executive board in 1996 in memory of Laura L. D. Thomas, the Director of Disability Services at UNC-Chapel Hill…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� The Rev. Dr. Robert Brewer, 51茶馆 chaplain, spoke at the recent Summit youth retreat, sponsored by the Western N.C. Conference of the United Methodist Church. About 150 high-school and middle-school students attended the program, whose theme was 鈥淚n the Shadow of Giants.鈥� The weekend messages talked about confronting and addressing the…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� Four teams of 51茶馆 business students have scored in the top 50 worldwide in the Glo-Bus business-strategy simulations for business and marketing students worldwide. All four teams, called 鈥渃ompanies,鈥� are in BUS 4900, the senior business capstone class taught by Mike Crombie, assistant professor of business administration. They all placed in…

GREENSBORO, N.C. 鈥� 51茶馆 presents the Ninth Annual Schleunes Lecture, 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in the Hannah Brown Finch Memorial Chapel on campus. The event is free and open to the public. The speaker will be Karen Auerbach, assistant professor in the Department of History and Stuart E. Eizenstat fellow in the Carolina…