UNCG Alumni Magazine - UNC Greensboro

Students at three High Point schools will be getting more than your average science lessons in the coming year, thanks to a $2.8 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant.

Taking our boughs

Our university loves our trees. So does the Arbor Day Foundation. It honored UNCG as a 2009 Tree Campus USA University.

Worldly images

Nearly 500 UNCG students travel abroad each year. Part of what a select few of these students saw and experienced was on view last semester in the Study Abroad Photography Exhibition in Elliott University Center. Now you can see them too.

The stuff dreams are made of

Many therapists analyze dreams, but Dr. Roy Hamilton decided to take a closer look at nightmares. Nightmares of the Elm Street variety.

Model students

Looking at the numbers can't begin to describe the experience. 1,950 students. From 49 universities. Representing 42 countries. It doesn't get more global than that. In March, seven students traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, to participate in the World Model United Nations Conference.

Looking back

The 2009-2010 academic year might be over, but what a year it was. Take a look at some of the highlights in the Chancellor's Report.

Grant to ENRICH future teachers and students
Almost 500 future teachers — and their future students — will benefit from a five-year, $6.9-million federal grant to the School of Education.
Distinguished company
A missionary. Two educators. A philanthropist. A businessman. A breast cancer survivor. An artist. All volunteers who have given of themselves to make a difference in their communities and around the world. These people received UNCG's top awards for service May 11.
State of a city
When geography professor Dr. Keith Debbage, along with graduate student Suzanne Gallaway, was commissioned by the Greensboro Partnership to write the 2010 State of the City report, he knew the economy was sluggish. But though the bear market ended in 2009, Greensboro continues to be a “Goldilocks” economy. Not too hot. Not too cold.
High praise indeed
The Bryan School operations management program has been named among the top 15 programs nationwide in The Princeton Review's second annual “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools.”
Have walking shoes, will travel
The idea was simple. Faculty and staff could sign up in the spring and after 100 days, see who'd walked or jogged the farthest.
Ethics in the real world
What better way is there for college students to learn how to manage an ethical business than to immerse themselves in one? That's the experience dozens of local college students had this spring as they worked with Triad businesses on applications for the Piedmont Business Ethics Award.

“It's messy. Really funny and sad at the same time. Life, if we're lucky, is like that.”

Theatre professor Christine Morris on UNCG Theatre's spring play “The Seagull”

“I never dreamed I'd become an entrepreneur, so I didn't take any business classes. My advice? Take the swimming lessons before you find yourself in the middle of the ocean with no float.”

Amanda Smith '03, owner of Core Integrity Pilates

“I thought I was an actor. But I wasn't an actor. I was a dude who worked in a hotel.”

Chris Chalk '01 to UNCG theatre students in April to only going on four auditions in 2 1/2 years. This spring he was in the Broadway play “Fences,” along with Denzel Washington.

“I want them to say ‘I had a blast — and I learned something.’”

Women's soccer coach Eddie Radwanski '97 on the school-age girls at UNCG's summer soccer camp.

“Always bite off more than you can chew. It's a moral imperative.”

Robert Charest, professor of interior architecture, at the My Sister's House dedication. (Can we link to a story here? If so, here's the link: http://www.uncg.edu/ure/news/stories/2010/feb/mssh021710.htm)

1974

On a streak

In the early spring of 1974, the streaking craze hit UNCG, resulting in a record-breaking co-ed streak that included more than 250 students.