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Pickin' and Grinnin': Business Student Wins Stock Contest

The stock market may be taking a hit, but Lisa Copeland, a student at the Bryan School, has earned third place in the Barron’s Challenge, an annual contest open to students and teachers who create hypothetical stock portfolios.

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Class of 1958 Gives $1 Million

The Class of 1958 has given the largest reunion gift in the university's history: $1,080,663.


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Trio of Honorary Degrees on Tap

Kay Yow.

Kay Yow.

Three North Carolinians – a basketball coaching legend, a former judge who is now a college president, and the state’s former poet laureate – will receive honorary degrees during UNCG’s 116th commencement at 10 a.m. Friday, May 16, in the Greensboro Coliseum.

The recipients are:

• Sandra Kay Yow, women’s basketball coach at N.C. State University, Doctor of Humane Letters.

• Thomas W. Ross, president of Davidson College, Doctor of Laws.

• Fred D. Chappell, North Carolina poet laureate emeritus and UNCG professor emeritus of English and creative writing, Doctor of Fine Arts.

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Gargeya Wins Teaching Award

Dr. Vidyaranya B. Gargeya

 

Dr. Vidyaranya B. Gargeya, a professor of information systems and operations management, is among 17 faculty members selected by the UNC Board of Governors to receive the 14th Annual Awards for Excellence in Teaching.

Each of the award winners will receive a bronze medallion and a $7,500 cash prize during a luncheon, held in conjunction with the board’s May 9 meeting in Chapel Hill. Presenters will be President Erskine Bowles and BOG Chair Jim Phillips.

Gargeya, who is already an award-winning teacher, engages students with live case studies, interactive guest speakers and written exams that provide students with real-life business experiences in the classroom.

He came to UNCG in 1993 and has created and taught a wide range of courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. In 2006, he received a UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award.

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Counseling, Nurse Anesthesia Programs Shine

Two graduate programs at UNCG - Counselor Education and Nurse Anesthesia - have received top national rankings from U.S. News & World Report.

The Department of Counseling and Educational Development (CED) ranks fourth in the nation, according to US News’ just-released “Best Graduate Schools 2009.” The Nurse Anesthesia program, a partnership between UNCG and two other institutions -- Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and the Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia -- ranks eleventh and sixteenth.

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