The search is over
Dr. Linda P. Brady, who is senior vice president and provost at the University of Oregon and a former dean at NC State, became our campus' 10th chancellor Aug. 1.
Sign of respect
Since its opening in 2003, the new landmark on the corner of North Drive and McIver Street has been called the “Science Building.” But no longer. Now the state-of-the-art facility has a new name — the Patricia A. Sullivan Science Building.
Goin' Greene
Sculptor James Barnhill MFA '82 rose to the challenge. The Joseph M. Bryan Foundation commissioned Barnhill to create the 11½-foot bronze statue of General Nathanael Greene — “The Fighting Quaker” — that graces the Greene Street roundabout in downtown Greensboro. The job wasn't easy. How does one capture the essence of a man who was a walking contradiction, and something of a saint?
Alumna named Health and Human Performance dean
You can remove interim from Dr. Celia Hooper's title. The UNCG alumna and professor of communication sciences and disorders became dean of the School of Health and Human Performance (HHP) on July 1.
- A million thanks
- How much do people admire retired Chancellor Patricia A. Sullivan? At least a million dollars worth. Since Sullivan announced her retirement in December, more than $1.5 million dollars have been given in her name to honor her extraordinary legacy.
- Crashing the Party
- The second week in May marked a virtually unheard of event in North Carolina, a presidential primary with the nominee still in doubt, at least for one party.
- All politics is local
- It was a natural fit: An election year. A community that was once the site of the South's first civil rights sit-ins. Six colleges and universities, along with a dozen community members, willing to take on the challenge of working together.
- Talkin' bout that generation
- We know from talking with alumni and from scraps of evidence here and there that WC/UNCG students were very active in protests, sit-ins and other “extra-curricular” activities of the 1960s. Very little of this shows up in the official records of the university.
- Ready to master a disaster
- No one wants to imagine a disturbance to the peace and safety of the campus, but planning teams have done just that for the past 18 months.
- Saving paper: Coble, Weatherford archives added to library collection
- Those little scraps of paper — memos, letters, doodles — can sometimes hold the key to something so much larger. For University Archives and Manuscripts, it means a treasure trove of information from U.S. Congressman Howard Coble and children's writer Carole Boston Weatherford.
- Time passages
- Do you know when the first master's degree was awarded at this university and to whom? You can find the answer to this and other tidbits about UNCG at http://library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/universityrecords/timeline/pages/.
- A signing sensation
- Laverne Francis let her fingers tell the story, taking her audience on a tropical journey “Under the Sea.” And her hard work paid off.
- Big CEO on campus
- Getting students excited about entrepreneurship is the easy part. Getting them to follow through with creating a sound business plan — that's the challenge.
- Song of the SimMan
- One lung has a crackle, the other a wheeze. And it's Kimberly Ream's job to interpret what she hears through her stethoscope.
- Love stories
- Sometimes the library houses more stories than you realize. Amid the stacks of books and tucked away in study carrels, students meet, study, sleep and sometimes fall in love.
- Rules of engagement
- The wedding season is in full swing and, if she could, Dr. Christine Murray would give couples about to say “I do” two bits of guidance.
